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Tag: New Mexico Territory

Introducing: Louisa Hawkins Canby

December 26, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson 1 Comment

I first read about Louisa Hawkins Canby in the records of Confederate Texans. She was married to the Union colonel…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Civil War nurses, Civil War West, civilians during wartime, homefront war, household war, Louisa Hawkins Canby, New Mexico Territory, Santa Fe, women in war

Introducing: Mangas Coloradas

December 19, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson Leave a comment

When John Baylor invaded New Mexico Territory on behalf of the Confederacy in the summer of 1861, the Chiricahua Apache…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Apacheria, Apaches, Arizona Territory, Chiricahuas Apaches, Civil War history, Civil War West, Mangas Coloradas, New Mexico Territory

Introducing: John Robert Baylor

December 10, 2019 Megan Kate Nelson 4 Comments

When I started thinking about this project, I knew I wanted to begin The Three-Cornered War with the Confederate invasion of New…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Civil War history, Civil War West, John Robert Baylor, New Mexico Territory, Texas, Three-Cornered War

Tracking Alonzo

September 12, 2014 Megan Kate Nelson 5 Comments

On a chilly day in December 1861, an Iowa farmer and Colorado gold miner named Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis put on…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: 2nd Colorado Infantry, Acequias, Alonzo Ickis, Colorado Territory, Culebra Range, Fort Marcy, Huerfano River, La Veta Pass, New Mexico Territory, Raton Pass, Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Taos

Lighting out for the Territories

August 18, 2014 Megan Kate Nelson 19 Comments

Why do so few historians talk about the American Civil War in the West? And by “the West” I don’t…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Alonzo Ickis, Apache Canyon, Arizona Territory, California Column, Colorado Territory, Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory, Sibley Brigade, Texas, Valverde

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