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March 21, 1969. Fort Craig was a U.S. Army fort located along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, near Elephant Butte Lake State Park and the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico. The Fort Craig site was approximately 1,050 feet east-west by 600 feet north-south (320 by 180 m) and covered 40 acres (16 hectares).
Union forces in the Department of New Mexico were led by Colonel Edward Canby, who headquartered at Fort Craig.Under his immediate command at the fort were five regiments of New Mexico volunteer infantry, [6] a company of the 2nd Colorado Infantry, two provisional artillery units, eleven companies of the 5th, 7th, and 10th U.S. Infantry, [7] six companies of the 2nd and 3rd U.S. Cavalry, and ...
The Battle of Valverde, also known as the Battle of Valverde Ford, was fought from February 20 to 21, 1862, near the town of Val Verde [ 5 ] at a ford of the Rio Grande in Union -held New Mexico Territory, in what is today the state of New Mexico. It is considered a major Confederate success in the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War ...
October 15, 1966. Designated NMSRCP. May 23, 1969. Fort Union National Monument is a unit of the United States National Park Service located 7.7 miles north of Watrous in Mora County, New Mexico. The site preserves the remains of three forts that were built starting in the 1850s. Also visible at Fort Union and from the road leading to it are ...
Central District of New Mexico, (1862) District of Western Arizona, (1862–64) District of Arizona, (1862–70) District of Fort Craig, (1863–64) Posts. The following is a list of posts occupied by the U. S. Army and Union Army in the department at various times during the existence of the Department of New Mexico.
3 wounded. The Skirmish near Fort Thorn, New Mexico Territory, also known as the Fight at E Company Grove, was a skirmish of the American Civil War on the morning of September 26, 1861. It followed the Battle of Canada Alamosa one of several small battles that occurred near the border between Confederate Arizona and Union New Mexico Territory.
Its first duty was at Fort Craig, New Mexico Territory, till October, opposing the Confederate forces from Texas that were operating in the southern part of the territory, known as Confederate Arizona. They were in two engagements. The first was at the Skirmish at Canada Alamosa, on September 25, 1861. The second at Alamosa near Fort Craig on ...
He served with his regiment at Fort Craig, New Mexico Territory, from September 29, 1869 to February 19, 1870. He served as an aide to General George Crook in the Apache Wars from 1872 to 1883. As Crook's aide, Bourke had the opportunity to witness every facet of life in the Old West —the battles, wildlife, the internal squabbling among the ...