California in the Civil War - Battles

Eastern Theatre Action

Gettysburg

• SECOND ARMY CORPS (Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock)
  Second Division
  Second Brigade
  71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Col. Richard Penn Smith)

Ball's Bluff

• 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Antietam

• 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

West Woods

• 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Western Theatre Action

Arizona

Stanwix Station, near Phoenix, (Captain McCleave), March 15, 1862

• Civil War in Arizona Territory

Picacho Peak (Lt. Barrett), April 15, 1862

http://www.pr.state.az.us/parkhtml/picacho.html

When the Civil War began in 1861, the present state of Arizona was a part of the New Mexico Territory, which was declared part of the Confederacy. The w esternmost battle of the Civil War (and the only one fought in present Arizona) was the battle of Pichaco Pass (1862), in which Union troops defeated the Confederates. Settlement was abandoned when Confederate troops were routed and Union soldiers went ea st to fight in the Civil War. Organized as a territory on February 4, 1864. This region was sometimes called Arizona before 1863, although it was still in the Territory of New Mexico.

• California Column

To be completed