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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.
Battle of Glorieta Pass [12] March 26–28, 1862 modern Santa Fe County & San Miguel County: American Civil War New Mexico Campaign 101 United States of America vs Confederate States of America Battle of Albuquerque: April 8–9, 1862 Albuquerque: American Civil War New Mexico Campaign 1 United States of America vs Confederate States of America
The Glorieta Pass Battlefield was the site of an American Civil War battle that ended Confederate ambitions to cut off the West from the Union.The Battle of Glorieta Pass took place on March 26–28, 1862, at Glorieta Pass, on the Santa Fe Trail between the Pecos River and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press), 1998. ISBN 0-89096-825-X; Edrington, Thomas S. & John Taylor. The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26–28, 1862 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press), 1998. ISBN 0-8263-1896-7
(now Cibola County, New Mexico, U.S.) Allegiance: Mexico United States Union: Service / branch: Militia (Mexico) United States Army Union Army: Years of service: 1839–1846 (Mexico) 1847–1848, 1861–1865 (USA) Rank: Lt. Colonel, USV: Battles / wars: Revolt of 1837 Mexican–American War. Taos Revolt; American Civil War. Battle of Valverde ...
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.
The town of Glorieta is located on the eastern side of the pass. The stairwells of the Colorado State Capitol Building display cannonballs from the battle as ornaments. In 1879, the New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad constructed a railroad through the pass, which became part of the second North American transcontinental railroad in
The regiment's most notable service came in the New Mexico Campaign in the spring of 1862, in which they helped repulse the advance of the Army of New Mexico under Henry Hopkins Sibley at the battles of Glorieta Pass and Peralta.