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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.Phisterer, p. 10. 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.Phisterer, p. 20.

Cavalry

Initially 5 three-month companies were raised.

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

  • 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)[https://archive.org/stream/08697590.3359.emory.edu/08697590_3359#page/n1372/mode/1up Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908, p.1366]

Notes

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References

  • Dyer, Frederick H. (1959). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. New York and London. Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher. {{LCCN|5912963}}.
  • [https://archive.org/stream/08697590.3359.emory.edu/08697590_3359#page/n1371/mode/1up Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908; (Part 3) Regimental Histories, New Mexico Volunteers, pp.1366-1367]
  • Phisterer, Frederick. (1883). Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. p. 343.
  • [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionnm.htm The Civil War Archive]

See also

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