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Texas Confederates whipped in New Mexico
On this day in 1862, Union and Confederate troops fought the key battle of the Civil War in the Far West at Glorieta Pass, New Mexico. When the Texans of Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley's Army of New Mexico were defeated by Union forces, Confederate ambitions in the West were checked. In June 1987 a mass grave containing more than thirty bodies, casualties of the battle of Glorieta, was discovered. Only three bodies were identified, among them that of Ebenezer Hanna, the youngest fatality of the battle. All the bodies were reburied in Santa Fe National Cemetery in 1993. Hanna's journal is now in the Texas State Library.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- GLORIETA, BATTLE OF
- HANNA, EBENEZER
- CIVIL WAR
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- Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Confederate guerilla leader arrested by own side (1864)
- Commander of "Kirby Smith's Confederacy" dies (1893)
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