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List of New Mexico Territory Civil War units

List of New Mexico Territory Civil War units

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The New Mexico Territory provided the following units for the Union army during the American Civil War. Not yet a state of the Union, it did not have a required quota of soldiers to raise. However, 6,561 men volunteered their services.[1] They were primarily raised for defenses within the territory.

Infantry

5 regiments were provided for three year terms, while one regiment and 11 companies were raised for three-months service.[2]

Cavalry

Initially 5 three-month companies were raised.

Subsequently one three-year regiment was raised, and then one 6-month regiment.[2]

  • 1st Regiment New Mexico Volunteer Cavalry (org from 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Reg'ts of New Mexico Vol. Inf., May, 1862 - September 30, 1866)
  • 1st Battalion New Mexico Cavalry and Infantry (org from 1st Reg't Cav August 31, 1866 - November 23, 1867)[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Phisterer, p. 10.
  2. [2]
    Phisterer, p. 20.
  3. [3]
    Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908, p.1367
  4. [4]
    Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908, p.1366

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