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Confederate Troops from Texas briefly occupied southern New Mexico Territory . Union Troops re-captured the territory in early 1862. As the war lengthened and Union troops were withdrawn to fight elsewhere, famed explorer and frontiersman Kit Carson helped organize and command the 1st New Mexican Volunteers, a Militia unit, to engage in campaigns against the Apache , Navajo , and Comanche in New Mexico and Texas, as well as participating in the Battle Of Valverde against the Confederates. Confederate troops withdrew after the Battle Of Glorieta Pass , because Union scouts had burned the Confederate supply train. The Union regulars, 1st Colorado Volunteers ("The Pikes Peakers"), and New Mexican Volunteers had lost the battle, but won the campaign, nonetheless the battle was dubbed as the "Gettysburg of the West." Confederate Arizona Territory , split off from New Mexico Territory in 1863, was the first American incarnation of Arizona . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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