1862 - LITTLE KNOWN HISTORY, THE CIVIL WAR IN THE WEST: BATTLE OF GLORIETA PASS, NEW MEXICO This Day In U.S. History March 26, 1862 - The War Between the States - In the Old West: New Mexico Territory - the Battle of La Glorieta Pass (Apache Canyon, Pigeons Ranch) ends. Called the Gettysburg of the West. The Battle of Glorieta Pass, fought from March 26 to 28, 1862 in northern New Mexico Territory, was the decisive battle of the New Mexico Campaign during the American Civil War. Dubbed the Gettysburg of the West (a term that serves the novelist better than the historian) by some authors, it was intended as the killer blow by Confederate forces to break the Union possession of the West along the base of the Rocky Mountains. It was fought at Glorieta Pass in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in what is now New Mexico, and was an important event in the history of the New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War. There was a skirmish on March 26 between advance forces from each army, with the main battle occurring on March 28. Although the Confederates were able to push the Union force back through the pass, they had to retreat when their supply train was destroyed and most of their horses and mules killed or driven off. Eventually, the Confederates had to withdraw entirely from the territory back into Confederate Arizona and then Texas. Glorieta Pass thus represented the peak of the campaign. More en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass National Historic Park nps.gov/peco/historyculture/copy-of-battleofglorietta.htm
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