The resumption of fighting around Apache Canyon marks a turning point in the New Mexico theater of war.

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The resumption of fighting around Apache Canyon marks a turning point in the New Mexico theater of war.
Detachments of the Federal and Confederate armies in the New Mexico Territory clash east of Santa Fe.
Federal troops abandon Albuquerque in the face of Henry H. Sibley’s advancing Confederate Army of New Mexico.