New Mexico Territory
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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.
Establishment
December 1850: As part of the Compromise of 1850, the remaining unorganized territory from the Mexican Cession was added to the New Mexico Territory.
December 1850: The federal government purchased the western claims of Texas from Santa Anna. New Mexico Territory was organized from the part of this land east of the Rio Grande, with James S. Calhoun appointed as the first territorial governor.
Chronology
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Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .
July 1862: Arizona was occupied by Union forces led by General James H. Carleton. The territory was officially transferred to the New Mexico Territory.
1.1.Trans-Mississippi Theatre
Was the theatre of war west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.
1.1.1.Confederate Arizona
Was the conquest of Arizona by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
July 1861: First Battle of Mesilla. Confederate victory secures the southern part of the New Mexico Territory for the CSA.
July 1861: Confederate forces from Texas advance into New Mexico. Federal forces abandon Fort Fillmore.
August 1861: Arizona was officially proclaimed a territory on August 1, 1861, following the Confederate victory at the Battle of Mesilla.
1.1.2.New Mexico campaign (American Civil War)
Was the military invasion of New Mexico by Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley during the American Civil War.
March 1862: The Confederate forces reached Albuquerque.
March 1862: Confederate forces captured Santa Fe on March 13, 1862.
March 1862: Battle of Glorieta Pass. Tactical retreat of Union forces.
April 1862: Battle of Peralta. Union forces defeat the 5th Texas Mounted Volunteers.
1.1.3.California Column
Was a military campaign of Union forces started from California to fight against the Confederates in Arizona.
May 1862: The California Column captures Tucson (1862).
August 1854: The recently obtained Gadsden Purchase was assigned to New Mexico Territory.
October 1859: The Territory of Jefferson was an extralegal and unrecognized United States territory that existed from October 24, 1859.
February 1861: Colorado Territory established on part of the territories of New Mexico and Utah.
October 1861: The U.S. presidents sets apart Uintah valley, Utah, for various bands of Uintah Uta.
February 1863: Arizona Territory was organized from the half of New Mexico Territory west of 32° west from Washington.
May 1868: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
June 1868: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
March 1874: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
June 1880: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
September 1880: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
May 1883: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
November 1884: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
October 1886: The U.S. President establishes a reservation for Chehalis Indians in lieu of reserve set apart by Executive order of July 8, 1864.
February 1887: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
January 1912: New Mexico Territory was admitted as the forty-seventh state, New Mexico.
Disestablishment
January 1912: New Mexico Territory was admitted as the forty-seventh state, New Mexico.
Selected Sources
Colton, Ray Charles (1985). The Civil War in the Western Territories. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 122–123.
Flaherty, M.: California and the Civil War - The California Column and the March to Tucson, 1862. Military Museum. Retrieved on 5 April 2024 on https://www.militarymuseum.org/CaliforniaColumn.html
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.429
List of American Civil War battles. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 31 March 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 824
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 920
SANTA FE NATIONAL CEMETERY. U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Retrieved on 5 April 2024 on https://www.cem.va.gov/pdf/InterpretiveSigns/SantaFeNationalCemetery.pdf
Van Zandt, Franklin K. (1976). Boundaries of the United States and the Several States: With Miscellaneous Geographic Information Concerning Areas, Altitudes, and Geographic Centers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 160-165
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