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Originally Posted by Richard
Ol' Sibley campaigned in Eastern Confederate Arizona (which is the southern half of New Mexico) from Fort Bliss north to Albuquerque and Glorieta - even he was too clever to be suckered into visiting what is now Arizona .    |
Oh, hell! I can't resist.
But, Sibley did send some "troops" into what is now "The People's Republic of Tucson" to scout out the column of Union troops coming from what is now the "Bankrupt People's Republic of Kalifornia"! They "clashed" at the famous Battle of Picacho Pass, which we gun-loving rednecks in Arizona proudly proclaim as the "Westernmost Batte of the Civil War"! (However, at the time, there were bar fights in more western places with greater casualty counts.)