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Battle of Glorieta Pass
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Battle of Glorieta Pass
The
Battle of Glorieta Pass
, fought from March 26 to 28, 1862 in northern
New Mexico Territory
, was the decisive
battle
of the
New Mexico Campaign
during the
American Civil War
. Dubbed the "
Gettysburg
of the West" (a term that "serves the novelist better than the historian") by some authors, it was intended as the killer blow by
Confederate
forces to break the
Union
possession of the West along the base of the
Rocky Mountains
. It was fought at
Glorieta Pass
in the
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
in what is now
New Mexico
, and was an important event in the history of the
New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War
.
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