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1861 map showing the Confederate Arizona Territory. After the start of the American Civil War, support for the Confederacy was strong in the southern part of the New Mexico Territory. Some residents felt neglected by the United States government. They worried about the lack of sufficient troops to fight the Apache.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Territory of Colorado on February 28, 1861. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Confederate Territory of Arizona on February 24, 1862. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Territory of Arizona on June 19, 1862.
The American Experience: Lost in the Grand Canyon - Companion site to the PBS series about Jown Wesley Powell's Colorado River journey. It includes a timeline, maps, and program information. Stereoviews of Indians and the Colorado River from the J.W. Powell Survey, ca. 1869-1874, The Bancroft Library
The Battle of Picacho Pass, April 15, 1862, was a battle of the Civil War fought in the CSA and one of many battles to occur in Arizona during the war among three sides—Apaches, Confederates and Union forces. In 1863, the U.S. split up New Mexico along a north–south line to create the Arizona Territory.
American Civil War, 1861–1865 Territory of Arizona (Confederate States), 1861–1862; Apache Wars, 1851–1886; Pah-Ute County, "Arizona's Lost County" 1865–1871; Camp Grant Massacre, 1871; Gadsden Purchase, 1853; Governors of the Territory of Arizona; History of Arizona; James Reavis, The "Baron of Arizona" Mexican–American War, 1846–1848
The town was the county seat of Yuma County from 1864 to 1870, and as the largest town in the territory in 1863 was considered for the Arizona territorial capital. The placers were largely exhausted by 1863, but the community hung on as a shipping port for steamboats of the Colorado River and supply base until the Colorado River shifted its ...
Arizona in the American Civil War. The 1860s people, places, and events associated with the American Civil War in the Arizona region (1850−1863) of New Mexico Territory , and the Arizona Territory (1863−1912), in present day Arizona state.
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. Governor Baylor later gathered soldiers in his own regiments to form an Arizona Ranger Company, one of three planned.