April 13, 1862 – Colonel Edward R.S. Canby sought to unite all Federal forces in New Mexico, while Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley’s Confederate Army
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The Battle of Glorieta
March 28, 1862 – The resumption of fighting around Apache Canyon marked a turning point in the New Mexico theater of the war. Following the
The Battle of Apache Canyon
March 26, 1862 – Detachments of the Federal and Confederate armies in the New Mexico Territory clashed east of Santa Fe. Brigadier General Henry Hopkins
Confederates Drive in New Mexico
March 1, 1862 – Federal troops abandoned Albuquerque in the face of Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley’s advancing Confederate Army of New Mexico. With the Confederates