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The Arizona Territory, colloquially referred to as Confederate Arizona, was an organized incorporated territory of the Confederate States of America that existed from August 1, 1861, to May 26, 1865, when the Confederate States Army Trans-Mississippi Department, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana.
Company A, Arizona Rangers; Active: 1862–1865: Country Confederate States: Allegiance: Arizona Territory: Branch Confederate States Army: Type: Cavalry: Size: Company: Part of: Herbert's Battalion, Arizona Cavalry: Engagements: American Civil War. Battle of Mesilla (1861) Capture of Tucson (1862) First Battle of Dragoon Springs; Second Battle ...
In 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor recognized the Arizona Territory and established a provisional Confederate government with Mesilla as the capital. [2] [1] On January 18 1862, the Arizona Territory was officially organized by the Confederate States of America. [3] Two militia companies organized under the Confederate territorial government.
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 Journal of Arizona History. 10 (3): 137– 206. JSTOR 41695524
The Arizona Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal ... 90 days to consider whether it wants to appeal the court’s decision to the US Supreme Court. The Civil War-era ban was first introduced in ...
Southerners wanted an east–west division, whereas Northerners favored a north–south division of the territory. After the war began, the Confederacy established the Arizona Territory in February 1862 using the east–west boundary. Subsequently, the United States created Arizona Territory in 1863 using the current state boundary.
Poston, a Republican, supported the creation of an Arizona Territory separate from New Mexico Territory, which he discussed with President Abraham Lincoln after leaving Tubac. After the Civil War, Tubac was briefly home to a command of United States troops, but no population existed. The town was abandoned into the 1880s.
The Civil War-era law, enacted long before Arizona became a state on Feb. 14, 1912, had been blocked since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. ... of the 1864 ban. Then the state Court of Appeals ...