Second Battle of Mesilla
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Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War | |||||||
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Company A, Herbert's Battalion of Arizona Cavalry 7th Texas Infantry | New Mexican guerillas California Column | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
none, lost several horses and their equipment | none known |
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- 1st Mesilla
- San Augustine Spring
- Tubac
- Cookes Canyon
- Florida Mountains
- Gallinas Mountains
- Placito
- Pinos Altos
- Canada Alamosa
- Fort Thorn
- Valverde
- Stanwix Station
- Picacho Pass
- Tucson
- 1st Dragoon Springs
- 2nd Dragoon Springs
- 2nd Mesilla
- Apache Pass
- La Paz
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The Second Battle of Mesilla was an engagement of the American Civil War. It was fought on July 1, 1862, and was the last engagement between Union and Confederate forces in the Arizona Territory.
A skirmish outside of Confederate Arizona's capital of Mesilla between a confederate party and local pro-Union New Mexican guerrillas resisting the Confederate foraging expedition, resulted in a United States victory. Various accounts report from seven to twelve Confederates killed, including their commander Capt. Cleaver of the 7th Texas Infantry and as many as 40 of the local guerrillas.[1]
The arrival of the advance party of the California Column on the west bank of the Rio Grande on July 4, 1862, prompted the rebel army to begin withdrawal to Franklin and then San Antonio three days later, covered by Herbert's Battalion of Arizona Cavalry acting as rearguard.
See also
References
Notes
- ^ Kiser p. 188
Bibliography
- Finch, L. Boyd (1996) Confederate Pathway to the Pacific: Major Sherod Hunter and Arizona Territory, C.S.A., Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Historical Society. pp. 164–66
- Hall, Martin Hardwick (1978)The Confederate Army of New Mexico, Austin, Texas: Presidial Press. pp. 363
- Kiser, William S. (2011)Turmoil on the Rio Grande: History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. pp. 187–88
External links
- The Confederate Arizona Campaign of 1862, Col. Sherrod Hunter Camp 1525, SCV, Phoenix, Arizona.
32°16′N 106°48′W / 32.267°N 106.800°W / 32.267; -106.800
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