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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.
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 .
Glorieta Pass (elevation 7500 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico. The pass is at a strategic location near at the southern end of the Sangre de Cristos in east central Santa Fe County southeast of the city of Santa Fe. Historically, the pass provided the most direct route through the mountains ...
The Battle of Glorieta Pass was fought March 26–28, 1862 in the mountain pass west of Pecos Pueblo, along the route of the Old Santa Fe Trail. Confederate forces were en route to take Union-controlled Fort Union, and were fought to a standoff by militia raised in the New Mexico and Colorado Territories. Although parts of the battlefield have ...
Glorieta is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area. The population was 430 at the 2010 census. [4] The community is located in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, along Interstate 25 on the east side of Glorieta Pass.
Jan. 3—Ask a resident what they know about the Civil War in New Mexico, and you might get a response referring to the state's best-known conflict, the Battle of Glorieta Pass. That three-day ...
The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26–28, 1862. University of New Mexico Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8263-1896-7. Giese, Dale, Editor. "My Life with the Army in the West: Memoirs of James E. Farmer." Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1993. Hall, Martin. "Sibley's New Mexico Campaign." University of New Mexico Press, 2000. ISBN 0 ...
Google said Monday it will enforce changes to the U.S. map, including changing the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” following an executive order President Donald Trump passed his ...