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  2. New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Civil War in the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. ISBN 0-394-56482-0. Kerby, Robert Lee, The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, Westernlore Press, 1958. ISBN 0-87026-055-3; Masich, Andrew E. The Civil War in Arizona; the Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–65. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

  3. List of battles fought in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Full administrative control of New Mexico was established on February 2, 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican–American War. The Mexican–American War , American Civil War , and Plains Indian Wars all directly affected the region during westward expansion.

  4. New Mexico campaign - Wikipedia

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    The New Mexico campaign was a military operation of the trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War from February to April 1862 in which Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado and the ports of California.

  5. Battle of Valverde - Wikipedia

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    Taylor, John (1995), Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 0-8263-1632-8 Whitlock, Flint (2006), Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico , Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, ISBN 0-87081-835-X

  6. New Mexico Territory - Wikipedia

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    On February 24, 1863, during the Civil War, Congress passed the "Arizona Organic Act", which split off the western portion of the 12-year-old New Mexico Territory, establishing the new Arizona Territory, where it abolished slavery. As in New Mexico, slavery was already extremely limited, due to earlier Mexican traditions, laws, and patterns of ...

  7. List of American Civil War battles - Wikipedia

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    Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed in the Civil War. July 25, 1861: First Battle of Mesilla: New Mexico (New Mexico Territory at the time) Confederate: Confederate victory secures the southern part of the New Mexico Territory for the CSA. August 5, 1861: Battle of Athens: Missouri / Iowa: Union

  8. First Battle of Mesilla - Wikipedia

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    The First Battle of Mesilla was fought on July 25, 1861, at Mesilla in New Mexico Territory, in present-day Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was an engagement between Confederate and Union forces during the American Civil War.

  9. Category:New Mexico in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    New Mexico in the American Civil War. The 1860s people, places, and events associated with the American Civil War in the New Mexico Territory , present day New Mexico and Arizona . The main article for this category is New Mexico in the American Civil War .