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- In 1846, the United States claimed the territory when General Stephen Kearny established an army post. During the Civil War, Confederate troops briefly occupied Albuquerque, and after the war was over, white merchants and tradesmen arrived in numbers.
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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.
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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 .
The Battle of Albuquerque was a small engagement of the American Civil War in April 1862 between Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley's Army of New Mexico and a Union force of the Department of New Mexico under Colonel Edward R. S. Canby.
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 ...
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In the Mesilla Secession Convention of 1861, the territory of New Mexico left the Union and a Confederate government established, with forces under CSA General Henry Hopkins Sibley occupying such towns and cities as Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Mar 16, 2024 · Sibley Occupies Albuquerque. Rather than pressing the conflict, Sibley bypassed Fort Craig and continued to march north along the Rio Grande, leaving Canby isolated from the rest of his department. With little opposition in front of him, Sibley occupied Albuquerque on March 2, 1862, and the territorial capital at Santa Fe on March 10. Fort Union
Albuquerque’s fort and federal garrison came under attack at the outbreak of the American Civil War, when the territory suffered minor Confederate cavalry raids. In the winter of 1862, Confederate soldiers led by Gen. H.H. Sibley captured the town and held it until March, when Union forces arrived.
