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Eric | April 21, 2012
April 21, 1862 (Monday) Nearly a week had passed since General Sibley’s Confederate Army of New Mexico slipped away from the battlefield at Peralta. By this date, they had lost much more than the campaign, abandoning supplies, equipment, guns, clothes and ammunition in a struggle to survive the scorched and dehydrated desert. Following the April [...]
Eric | April 15, 2012
April 15, 1862 (Tuesday) Every great campaign of the war seems to end with a small and hardly-remembered battle following the major one. As we will see, the Antietam Campaign will have Shepherdstown, the Gettysburg Campaign will have Williamsport, and even Bermuda Hundred has its Ware Bottom Church. And so, Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign had [...]
Eric | April 13, 2012
April 13, 1862 (Sunday) Union Col. Edward Canby was poised to take Albuquerque, defended by no more than 200 Rebels. His force, 1,100-strong, could have captured the city, but he was unsure just when the rest of the Confederates, moving south from Santa Fe, under the command of General Henry Sibley, would arrive. When combined, [...]
Eric | April 9, 2012
April 9, 1862 (Wednesday) While the Battle of Shiloh raged for two days in the west, General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac moved not an inch. Four long days has passed since McClellan learned that the Confederates had fortified across the entire Virginia Peninsula. He had expected them to retreat to Yorktown, which he [...]
Eric | April 8, 2012
April 8, 1862 (Tuesday) Since their tactical victory/strategic defeat at Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, the Confederates under General Henry Sibley had been celebrating/lamenting in Santa Fe. By the 4th of April, Sibley’s entire army, which had been scattered before the battle, was finally whole. The problem (and what turned the victory into a defeat) was [...]
Eric | March 30, 2012
March 30, 1862 (Sunday) The defeated army of Stonewall Jackson had retreated all the way back to their original camp, near Mount Jackson following their loss at the Battle of Kernstown. The victorious Union forces followed, but only half-heartedly, refusing to give Jackson battle on ground of his own choosing. Now, without the fear of [...]
Eric | March 28, 2012
March 28, 1862 (Friday) It was not only the Confederates in Apache Canyon, New Mexico who were chomping at the bit to attack. The Federals, too, were devising their next steps. Union Commander, Col. John Slough, far removed from his previous job as a lawyer in Denver, learned that the Rebels, under Major Charles Pyron, [...]
Eric | March 26, 2012
March 26, 1862 (Wednesday) All through the cold night, the 380 Confederates under Major Charles Pyron, unable to sleep, shivered against the biting wind at the western mouth of Apache Canyon. They had few blankets and fewer supplies, but were resolved to hold Santa Fe, New Mexico against the Federals advancing upon it from Fort [...]
Eric | March 25, 2012
March 25, 1862 (Tuesday) The Confederate “High Water Mark” is often seen as the invasion of the north during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. In the West (that is, the far west), however, the “High Water Mark” was the last week in March 1862. Sixty Rebels under Captain Sherod Hunter had captured Tucson, Arizona, already pro-secessionist, [...]
Eric | March 22, 2012
March 22, 1862 (Saturday) After the few days’ reconnaissance and tangling with what he, at first, believed was Stonewall Jackson’s entire force, General Shields could relax. He had taken his division south from Winchester, chasing the retreating Rebels, had exchanged shots with Turner Ashby’s cavalry and had determined that Jackson was staying put near Mount [...]
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