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The Arizona Territory, colloquially referred to as Confederate Arizona, was an organized incorporated territory of the Confederate States of America that existed from August 1, 1861, to May 26, 1865, when the Confederate States Army Trans-Mississippi Department, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana.
The disaster inspired several songs, the most famous being the ballad first recorded commercially by Virginia musicians G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter. [6] Vernon Dalhart's version was released in 1924 (Victor Record no. 19427), sometimes cited as the first million-selling country music release in the American record industry, with Carson Robison playing guitar and Dalhart playing harmonica.
In 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor recognized the Arizona Territory and established a provisional Confederate government with Mesilla as the capital. [2] [1] On January 18 1862, the Arizona Territory was officially organized by the Confederate States of America. [3] Two militia companies organized under the Confederate territorial government.
The monument was erected in to honor the 21 soldiers interred in that cemetery who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later fought in Indian wars in Arizona as members of the U.S. Army. [99] [100] Private: 1999: Phoenix: Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument, at Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery; erected by SCV. [99] Public ...
Company A, Arizona Rangers; Active: 1862–1865: Country Confederate States: Allegiance: Arizona Territory: Branch Confederate States Army: Type: Cavalry: Size: Company: Part of: Herbert's Battalion, Arizona Cavalry: Engagements: American Civil War. Battle of Mesilla (1861) Capture of Tucson (1862) First Battle of Dragoon Springs; Second Battle ...
The USS Arizona Civil War Project Fund [1] is a public charity incorporated in 2014 with the mission of supporting and funding the activities necessary to locate, survey and secure the wreck of the Arizona. Additionally, upon the successful identification of the wreck, the organization will work to preserve the history, artifacts and ...
Colonel Reily commanded an escort of twenty men of the Pinos Altos Arizona Guards, another Confederate Arizona militia company. The Arizona Guards were composed primarily of men who left their homes around Tubac and Tucson following the Siege of Tubac in August 1861. About 100 Confederates arrived in Tucson on February 28, 1862, where they ...
Another pre-civil war banjo was made by A.B. Bullock in Rhode Island; the 1854-made fretless banjo has a metal body with bolts to adjust the tension of the skin head. [17] A post-Civil War banjo on display from the 1880s used a wooden hoop tacked to the instrument's body on the outside to adjust the skin-head's tension. [18]