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Battle of Valverde

When
February 1862
Where
New Mexico Territory
Part of
Battle of Glorieta Pass ends the Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory

Confederate forces under Sibley defeated Canby's troops in February 1862, an early setback for the Union in the New Mexico campaign.

In February 1862, Sibley's Army of New Mexico defeated Canby and his troops at the Battle of Valverde. The supplied passages state the defeat and its month but do not specify the battle's location or the exact day, so no site is asserted.

Sources

  1. Edward Canby Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.