Download or read book The Confederate Invasion of the Territory of New Mexico 1861 to 1862 written by Mark Robert Peattie and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona 1861 1862 written by Robert Lee Kerby and published by Westernlore Publications. This book was released on 1958 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent work on the Confederate invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, which if successful, would have led to an attempt to seize the gold mines of Colorado & California.
Download or read book Military History of New Mexico Territory During the Civil War written by Francis Edward Rogan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military history of New Mexico territory during the Civil War is centered around three major problems. The first of these is the uncertainty which existed in 1860 in the minds of many of the senior officers as to their future course of action should their native states secede from the Union. The second problem, confronting the whole army, was the perennial Indian situation which was likely to flare up at any minute throughout the territory. The third problem, and most pressing during 1861-1862, was the Confederate invasion and occupation of a part of the territory which required military force to counter it. Added to these problems were the many normal military needs which had to be satisfied in a country which was incapable of supporting its own inhabitants. These problems, especially the first due to many officers resigning to fight for the Confederacy, caused major reorganization with in the Army as a whole and the Department of New Mexico specifically. Forces needed to solve the Indian problem where taken when the Confederacy invaded and occupied half the territory. Eventually not only were the Confederates defeated but the Native Americans as well.
Download or read book A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia written by Jerry D. Thompson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War in New Mexico began in 1861 with the Confederate invasion and occupation of the Mesilla Valley. At the same time, small villages and towns in New Mexico Territory faced raids from Navajos and Apaches. In response the commander of the Department of New Mexico Colonel Edward Canby and Governor Henry Connelly recruited what became the First and Second New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. In this book leading Civil War historian Jerry Thompson tells their story for the first time, along with the history of a third regiment of Mounted Infantry and several companies in a fourth regiment. Thompson’s focus is on the Confederate invasion of 1861–1862 and its effects, especially the bloody Battle of Valverde. The emphasis is on how the volunteer companies were raised; who led them; how they were organized, armed, and equipped; what they endured off the battlefield; how they adapted to military life; and their interactions with New Mexico citizens and various hostile Indian groups, including raiding by deserters and outlaws. Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen. His thorough accounting will be a gold mine for historians and genealogists, especially the appendix, which lists the names of all volunteers and militia men.
Download or read book New Mexico Territory During the Civil War written by Henry Davies Wallen and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These inspection reports, edited by award-winning Civil War historian Thompson, provide unique insight into the military, cultural, and social life of a territory struggling to maintain law and order during the early Civil War years.
Download or read book New Mexico and the Civil War written by Walter Earl Pittman and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the New Mexico Territory was far distant from the main theaters of war, it was engulfed in the same violence and bloodshed as the rest of the nation. The Civil War in New Mexico was fought in the deserts and mountains of the huge territory, which was mostly wilderness, amid the continuing ancient wars against the wild Indian tribes waged by both sides. The armies were small, but the stakes were high: control of the Southwest. Retired lieutenant colonel and Civil War historian Dr. Walter Earl Pittman presents this concise history of New Mexico during the Civil War years from the Confederate invasion of 1861 to the Battles of Valverde and Glorieta to the end of the war.
Download or read book The Battle of Glorieta written by Don E. Alberts and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full, detailed, and accurate history of the struggle in the Glorieta valley. Includes organization, pproach to the battle, military units organized and where, all known participants' accounts.
Download or read book The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico written by Robert Jones and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, the Confederacy made an incursion into New Mexico, into what had somewhat optimistically been dubbed the Confederate Arizona Territory in 1861. The Territory included parts of Arizona and New Mexico. The Confederate general in charge of the incursion was Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley, who (effectively) had about 2,600 men. Arrayed against him were the forces of Union Colonel (later Major General) Edward Canby, with about 5,000 men. While the number of forces was fairly insignificant by Civil War standards (no Grant or Sherman size armies here), the stakes were remarkably high, especially to have such an obscure General like Sibley leading one side, and an equally obscure colonel leading the other. If the Confederates had been successful in their invasion of New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and California might have been next, with all of the mineral wealth contained therein. If the Confederacy could have seized some of that mineral wealth, they could have financed the War indefinitely. The final deciding battle of the campaign, Glorieta Pass, is sometimes called the "Gettysburg of the West," because it was the high water mark of the Confederate incursion into the southwest. But from a strategic standpoint, it might have been as important as Gettysburg. The Union didn't win the Civil War by winning the Battle of Glorieta, but it could have lost the War by losing this battle. The book includes 33 photos/maps.
Download or read book New Mexico Territory During the Civil War written by Jerry D. Thompson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1862 the Civil War was going badly for the North. The distant New Mexico Territory, however, presented a different situation. After an invading army of zealous Texas Confederates won the field at Valverde near Fort Craig, Colorado Volunteers fell on the Rebels at Glorieta Pass and crushed Confederate dreams of conquering New Mexico and the Far West. The Texans, hungry and disheartened, retreated, leaving uncertainty and social unrest in their wake.By the late summer of 1862, Gen. James Henry Carleton arrived from California, determined to impose federal control on the territory. Major Henry Davies Wallen and Captain Andrew Wallace Evans were appointed inspector general and assistant inspector general, respectively. Fearing a second Confederate invasion, Carleton had Wallen and Evans examine various routes the Rebels might use to invade the territory as well as a variety of logistical and operational issues. Tellingly, their reports repeatedly mention troop drunkenness and poor relations with the locals as primary problems. These inspection reports, edited by award-winning Civil War historl War years.ian Thompson, provide unique insight into the military, cultural, and social life of a territory struggling to maintain law and order.
Download or read book Sibley s New Mexico Campaign written by Martin Hardwick Hall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long out-of-print and hard-to-find classic tells the story of the Texas invasion of New Mexico during the American Civil War.
Download or read book New Mexico and the Civil War written by Walter E. Pittman and published by Civil War. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the New Mexico Territory was far distant from the main theaters of war, it was engulfed in the same violence and bloodshed as the rest of the nation. The Civil War in New Mexico was fought in the deserts and mountains of the huge territory, which was mostly wilderness, amid the continuing ancient wars against the wild Indian tribes waged by both sides. The armies were small, but the stakes were high: control of the Southwest. Retired lieutenant colonel and Civil War historian Dr. Walter Earl Pittman presents this concise history of New Mexico during the Civil War years from the Confederate invasion of 1861 to the Battles of Valverde and Glorieta to the end of the war.
Download or read book The Civil War in New Mexico written by Francis Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona written by Robert Lee Kerby and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War in the Southwest written by Jerry Thompson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861 and 1862, in the vast deserts and rugged mountains of the Southwest, eighteen hundred miles from Washington and Richmond, the Civil War raged in a struggle that could have decided the fate of the nation. In the summer and fall of 1861, Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley raised a brigade of young and zealous Texans to invade New Mexico Territory as a step toward the conquest of Colorado and California and the creation of a Confederate empire in the Southwest. Of the Sibley Brigade's sixteen major battles during the war, their most excruciating experiences came during the ill-fated New Mexico Campaign. Civil War in the Southwest tells the dramatic story of that campaign in the words of some of the actual participants. Noted Civil War scholar Jerry Thompson has edited and annotated eighteen episodes written by William Lott "Old Bill" Davidson and six other members of Sibley's Brigade that were originally published in a small East Texas newspaper, the Overton Sharp Shooter, in 1887-88. Written "to set the record straight," these veterans' stories provide colorful accounts of the bloody battles of Valverde, Glorieta, and Peralta, as well as details of the soldiers' tragic and painful retreat back to Texas in the summer of 1862. With his extensive knowledge of Sibley's campaign, Thompson has provided context for the eyewitness accounts-and corrections where needed-to produce a campaign history that is intimate and passionate, yet accurate in the smallest detail. History readers will find much to ponder in these unique first-person recollections of a campaign that, had it succeeded, would have radically altered the history of the Southern Confederacy and the United States.
Download or read book Civil War Wests written by Adam Arenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume unifies the concerns of Civil War and western history, revealing how Confederate secession created new and shifting borderlands. In the West, both Civil War battlefields and Civil War politics engaged a wider range of ethnic and racial distinctions, raising questions that would arise only later in places farther east. Likewise, the histories of occupation, reincorporation, and expanded citizenship during Reconstruction in the South have ignored the connections to previous as well as subsequent efforts in the West. The stories contained in this volume complicate our understanding of the paths from slavery to freedom for white as well as non-white Americans. By placing the histories of the American West and the Civil War and Reconstruction into one sustained conversation, this volume expands the limits of both by emphasizing how struggles over land, labor, sovereignty, and citizenship shaped the U.S. nation-state in this tumultuous era. This volume highlights significant moments and common concerns of this continuous conflict, as it stretched across the continent and throughout the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Battles for Gold and Glory written by Roberta Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1862, about 2,400 men fought in four battles in New Mexico Territory, which were critical to winning the War. Few know of these battles, but these skirmishes saved the gold and land of the southwest for the Union. Confederate troops from Texas fought with Federal soldiers and volunteers from New Mexico and Colorado for the right to control this part of the United States. Read about their struggles in their own words.
Download or read book The Three Cornered War written by Megan Kate Nelson and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait” (Publishers Weekly). Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation” (Library Journal, starred review), reframing the era as one of national conflict—involving not just the North and South, but also the West. Against the backdrop of this larger series of battles, Nelson introduces nine individuals: John R. Baylor, a Texas legislator who established the Confederate Territory of Arizona; Louisa Hawkins Canby, a Union Army wife who nursed Confederate soldiers back to health in Santa Fe; James Carleton, a professional soldier who engineered campaigns against Navajos and Apaches; Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman who led a regiment of volunteers against the Texans, Navajos, Kiowas, and Comanches; Juanita, a Navajo weaver who resisted Union campaigns against her people; Bill Davidson, a soldier who fought in all of the Confederacy’s major battles in New Mexico; Alonzo Ickis, an Iowa-born gold miner who fought on the side of the Union; John Clark, a friend of Abraham Lincoln’s who embraced the Republican vision for the West as New Mexico’s surveyor-general; and Mangas Coloradas, a revered Chiricahua Apache chief who worked to expand Apache territory in Arizona. As we learn how these nine charismatic individuals fought for self-determination and control of the region, we also see the importance of individual actions in the midst of a larger military conflict. Based on letters and diaries, military records and oral histories, and photographs and maps from the time, “this history of invasions, battles, and forced migration shapes the United States to this day—and has never been told so well” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author T.J. Stiles).
