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The first known burial in the cemetery occurred in 1868 prior to the formal establishment of the land as a national cemetery. [3] Though New Mexico only played a small part in the American Civil War, the cemetery was created after the war to inter the Union soldiers who died fighting there, primarily at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
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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.
In 1866, after complaints that Union graves were being robbed in New Mexico's Civil War battlefields, [34] the 1866–1867 territorial legislature passed an act to fund the care of Union soldiers' graves and to build a monument to memorialize dead Union soldiers from New Mexico. [35] [36]
Burial monuments and structures in New Mexico (1 C, 2 P) S. Burials at Santa Fe National Cemetery (34 P) This page was last edited on 27 June 2024, at 12:22 ...
In July 1861, he became a lieutenant colonel in the Fourth Texas Cavalry, part of the Sibley Brigade which launched the New Mexico Campaign at the outset of 1862. He distinguished himself as an officer at the Battle of Valverde , February 21–22, 1862, and as well by commanding the Confederate forces in the Battle of Glorieta Pass , March 26 ...
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 .
The Battle of Glorieta Pass was fought March 26–28, 1862 in the northern New Mexico Territory, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.While not the largest battle of the New Mexico campaign, the Battle of Glorieta Pass ended the Confederacy's efforts to capture the territory and other parts of the western United States.