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"The Battle of Picacho Pass: Visiting the Battlefield and Historic Site". The War Times Journal. Retrieved October 19, 2010. Masich, Andrew E., The Civil War in Arizona; the Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–65; University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, 2006). Finch, Boyd (1969). "Sherod Hunter and the Confederates in Arizona".
The westernmost skirmish of the American Civil War, which occurred at Stanwix Station, took place on March 29, 1862, when Capt. William P. Calloway and a vanguard of 272 troops from the California Column discovered a small detachment of Confederate Arizona Volunteers led by 2nd Lt. John W. Swilling burning hay, which had been placed at Stanwix Station for the California Column's animals.
It is often cited as the westernmost battle of the American Civil War, occurring 50 miles northwest of Tucson. May 5: Confederate Sgt. Sam Ford and his men are ambushed by Apache warriors led by Cochise in the Dragoon Mountains, near present-day Benson, Arizona, at the First Battle of Dragoon Springs. May 9
The northernmost battle in the Civil War. July 28, 1863: Battle of Stony Lake: North Dakota (Dakota Territory at the time) D: Union: Dakota War of 1862: Sioux forces escape Union forces in pursuit. August 17 – September 9, 1863: Second Battle of Fort Sumter: South Carolina: B: Confederate: Union's massive bombardment and naval attack fails to ...
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [309]
Assembly (2007), depicts the People's Liberation Army in one of the final battles of the Chinese Civil War as well as the People's Volunteer Army in the Korean War The Founding of a Republic (2009), depicts the major battles and political episodes in the Chinese Civil War from the end of World War II in 1945 to the proclamation of the People's ...
Civil War Combat is a television series hosted by the History Channel from 1999 to 2003. [1] It described battles of the American Civil War in a graphic, realistic level. Veteran voice actor Tony Jay served as narrator. The series included battles such as the Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Shiloh, Battle of ...
The Canfield family finds itself split down the middle after the Civil War breaks out when Confederate forces attack the Union arsenal at Harpers Ferry, now West Virginia. Episode 2: Rebellion at Blazing Rock (broadcast January 30, 1961) Jeff encounters two men, one Confederate and one Yankee, preparing to stage a mock battle.