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2nd New Mexico Infantry Regiment

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70:. Canby had succeeded to department command after his predecessor had resigned from the army and gone east to join the Confederacy, and immediately ordered the recruitment of companies that became the 1st and 2nd New Mexico Infantry. The men of the regiment were mainly 117:'s command including Chavez, fell upon the train, defeated its guards and destroyed it, forcing the withdrawal of the Confederate Army from the battle to Santa Fe, where they began a long and dangerous march back into Texas. 245: 255: 250: 120:
Following the defeat of the Confederates at Glorieta Pass, 2nd Regiment was part of the pursuit of the Confederate forces from April 13-22, wherein they fought in the
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and by early fall eight companies had been organized and mustered into service. The regiment, which had several incomplete companies, was still short 400 men.
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Following that campaign the regiment had duty in the Central, Northern and Santa Fe Districts of the Department until May, when it was consolidated with the
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The 2nd New Mexico Infantry Regiment was the second of five regiments raised for the defense of New Mexico under the authority of
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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908, p.1367
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and enlisted for three years of service. Miguel Estanislado Pino, a wealthy farmer and politician from the
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led a detachment of 2nd New Mexican Volunteers whose scouts had detected the Confederate supply train at
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Roster of the 2nd Regiment, New Mexico Infantry, page 2, Submitted by Rob and C. W. Barnum
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Units and formations of the Union Army from New Mexico Territory
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of the regiment. The regiment was intended to concentrate at
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A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia
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from nmahgp.genealogyvillage.com accessed February 9, 2017.
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1862
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Index

2nd Regiment New Mexico Volunteer Infantry
Union Army
Santa Fe
Territory of New Mexico
Department of New Mexico
Edward Canby
Nuevomexicanos
Santa Fe
colonel
Albuquerque
Department of New Mexico
Fort Craig
Battle of Valverde
Manuel Antonio Chaves
Johnson's Ranch
Battle of Glorieta Pass
John M. Chivington
Action at Peralta
action at Socorro
1st New Mexico Infantry
1st New Mexico Cavalry
List of New Mexico Territory Civil War units



Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908, p.1367
Roster of the 2nd Regiment, New Mexico Infantry, page 2, Submitted by Rob and C. W. Barnum
Thompson 2015
ISBN
978-0-8263-5567-6

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