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: 22 During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate troops under Henry Hopkins Sibley captured Albuquerque in March 1862 during the New Mexico Campaign. The Confederates continued on to the north, but were later forced to retreat back to Texas after losing most of their supplies at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
Civil War in Albuquerque. The Civil War opened in April 1861. A number of army officers serving in New Mexico at the time resigned their commissions to join the Confederate Army. One was Col. Henry Hopkins Sibley, who had been stationed at Albuquerque and was then in command at Fort Union, New Mexico. Maj. Edward R. S. Canby was left in charge.
During the Civil War, Confederate troops briefly occupied Albuquerque, and after the war was over, white merchants and tradesmen arrived in numbers. Santa Fe Railroad Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1903.
Battle of Albuquerque. The Battle of Albuquerque was a small engagement of the American Civil War in April 1862 between Confederate Brigadier General [3] Henry Hopkins Sibley's Army of New Mexico and a Union force of the Department of New Mexico under Colonel Edward R. S. Canby. [4]
New Mexico campaign. 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 ...
- February-April 1862
- New Mexico Territory
Often referred to as the "Skirmish at Albuquerque," this confrontation took place in and around this portion of city from April 8-9, 1862. The event was part of the New Mexico campaign to liberate the New Mexico Territory from the Confederacy. In the Mesilla Secession Convention of 1861, the territory of New Mexico left the Union and a Confederate government established, with forces under CSA ...
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During the Mexican-American War (1846–48), American troops under Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny occupied Albuquerque and encountered no resistance. Most of Kearny’s troops moved on to California, but he left a small garrison to protect the area. At the end of the war, after defeating Mexico, the American government made New Mexico an official U ...
