The Civil War in the Southwest: Confederate Tucson, Baylor’s Resignation, & Sibley’s Capture of Santa Fe
This is the seventh episode in the series over the Civil War in the American Southwest.
In this episode the Rebels ride into Tucson and declare it as the westernmost city of the Confederate Empire as Baylor invades Mexico to give the Apaches “hot pursuit”. Meanwhile, Sibley walks north and takes Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The taking of Santa Fe marks the only time the Rebel forces of the Confederate States of America occupy the capitol of a Union Territory in the entire Civil War. The Army of New Mexico then prepares to use a three pronged attack against Fort Union. Captain Sherod Hunter, Baylor’s resignation after an international incident, The Colorado Volunteers, and the hardships of the Rebels long march north are all discussed.
Selected Sources:
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest by Donald Frazier
Jefferson Davis, Napoleon France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology by Jeffrey Zvengrowski
Texan Santa Fe Expedition By H. Bailey Carroll
The Skirmish at Mesilla, Arizona and the West, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Winter, 1959), by Martin Hardwick Hall
The Three Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson
The Civil War in New Mexico by Father Stanley
The First Filibusters, Americans in the Yucatan by Hans Von Stockhausen
The United States Army Camel Corps 1856-66 By John Shapard
The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton
Rebels on the Rio Grande, The Civil War Journal of AB Peticoles by Don E Alberts
Mangas Coloradas by Edwin R Sweeney
The Civil War in the Western Territories by Ray C Colton
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
The Battle of Glorieta Pass by Thomas S Edrington and John Taylor
The War of 1812: Stoking the Fires. Summer 2012, Vol. 44, No. 2 Impressment of Seaman Charles Davis by the U.S. Navy By John P. Deeben
Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition by George Wilkins Kendall
Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. Poston
Mule Bombs at Valverde By Dr. Conrad Crane, U. S. Army Military History Institute, February 9, 2009
Darryl Cooper’s Martyrmade: The Peculiar Institution, Part 14
The Age of Jackson Podcast: 091 Jefferson Davis and the Pro-Bonaparte Democrats with Jeffrey Zvengrowski