Battle

New Mexico Campaign

Apr 1862 · 35.00° N, 105.00° W

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When
Apr 1862
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
35.00° N, 105.00° W
Description
1862 military operation of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

New Mexico campaign

Military operation of the trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War

The New Mexico campaign was a military operation of the trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War from February to April 1862 in which Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado and the ports of California.

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