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Santa Fe Trail bridge from Civil War era nominated for National Register of Historic Places
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal by Tom Sharpe, Santa Fe New Mexican SANTA FE, N.M. — A little-known bridge that carried wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail and figured in the Battle of Apache Canyon during the Civil War has … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Battlefield Preservation, Battles
Tagged Apache Canyon, Apache Creek, bridge, Glorieta Pass, National Register of Historic Places, Native Americans, New Mexico Territory, Pecos National Historical Park, Rio Galisteo, Santa Fe Trail, Silver City Historic District, U.S. Park Service, Valencia
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This Week in the American Civil War – April 9-15, 1862
Information courtesy of the Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force Major Highlights for the week Wednesday April 9, 1862 As news of Federal victories at Shiloh and Island No. 10 spread across the North, relief organizations rushed money, boats, food … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, This Week in the Civil War
Tagged Alabama, Arizona Territory, Charles H. Olmstead, Chesapeake Bay, compensated emancipation, Congress, conscription, Corinth, David Hunter, Decatur, Diamond Grove, emancipation, folklore, Fort Pillow, Fort Pulaski, George B. McClellan, Georgia, Glllett's Farm, Great Locomotive Chase, Island No. 10, James J. Andrews, Lost Creek, Merrimack, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, Monitor, Montevallo, New Mexico Territory, North Carolina, Ormsby Mitchel, Pebbly Run, Peninsula Campaign, Peralta, Picacho Pass, Pittsburg Landing, President Lincoln, Purdy, Rappahannock River, Ringgold, Santa Fe Road, Seabrook Island, Shiloh, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, The General, Tuscon, W.H.L. Wallace
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This Week in the American Civil War – March 26- April 1, 1862
Information courtesy of the Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force Major Highlights for the week Wednesday March 26, 1862 The Confederate campaign in New Mexico was nearing its climax. A Confederate column marched out on the Santa Fe Trail and … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, This Week in the Civil War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Alexandria, Apache Canyon, Army of Central Kentucky, Brackett's Battalion, Braxton Bragg, Chickasaw, Clinton, Dakota Territory, David Hunter, Department of the South, Eastport, Edenburg, Fort Abercrombie, Fort Henry, Fort Monroe, Fort Ridgely, Fort Ripley, Fort Snelling, George B. McClellan, George Bibb Crittenden, George W. Morgan, Georgia, Glorieta Pass, Henry Hopkins Sibley, Hilton Head, Hiram Berdan, Island No. 10, J.M. Chivington, John B. Magruder, John C. Fremont, John P. Slough, John Porter McCown, Johnson's Ranch, Joseph E. Johnston, Kentucky, Leonidas Polk, Louis Blenker, Minnesota, Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force, Missouri, Mountain Department, Nashville, New Madrid, New Mexico Territory, P.G.T. Beauregard, Peninsula Campaign, Pigeon's Ranch, Pittsburg Landing, Richmond, Santa Fe, Savannah, Second Baptist Church Battery, Shenandoah Valley, South Carolina, St. Louis, Strausburg, Tennessee, Thomas J. Jackson, Union City, Virginia, W.R. Scurry, Washington DC, Whitemarsh Island, William J. Hardee, William Rosecrans, William W. Mackall, Wilmington Island, Woodstock
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