Arizona, formerly part of the Territory of New Mexico, was organized as a separate territory on this day in 1863. The United States had acquired the region under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of ...

That was too far away. Eventually, the Territory of Arizona was created in 1863. Imagine, for a moment, that the Civil War had gone a little differently. Arizona would have ended up with Carlsbad ...

If it is the purpose of the United States Government to send an adequate military force to Arizona to establish law and order therein, we shall soon know what the territory is worth. Great doubt ...

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As a relatively new territory, Arizona was the site of the Civil War's westernmost battles. Confederate sympathizers and invading Texans declared the southern half of New Mexico and Arizona to be ...

1861: Lt. Col. John R. Baylor proclaims the Confederate Territory of Arizona, with the Territorial capitol at Mesilla, and himself as military governor. The new Confederate Territory extends from ...

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About half of that territory was part of what would later be Arizona. In 1854, the United States would buy the southern portion of Arizona, including Tucson, in the Gadsden purchase. Arizona ...

Marshall Trimble, a state historian, said Arizona was briefly a Confederate territory and that a Confederate force occupied Tucson for a few weeks during the Civil War. A small battle took place ...

TONOPAH, AZ, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Old Arizona Territory Museum, a pioneering institution dedicated to preserving and celebrating ...

One hundred and sixty years ago, after Union forces had wrested control of the American Southwest from Confederate troops ... legal code of the newly formed territory of Arizona.

The other is at Picacho Peak State Park, the site of the only Civil War battle in what was then the territory of Arizona, which the Confederacy claimed. It is inscribed as “dedicated to those ...