Category: Battle of Valverde
Categories: United States Civil War Conflicts
- This category contains profiles of units and personnel who participated in this battle.
The Battle of Valverde, or the Battle of Valverde Ford from February 20 to February 21, 1862, was fought near the town of Valverde at a ford of Valverde Creek in Confederate Arizona, in what is today the state of New Mexico. It was a major Confederate success in the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War. The belligerents were Confederate cavalry from Texas and several companies of Arizona militia versus U.S. Army regulars and Union volunteers from northern New Mexico and the Colorado Territory.
- Units involved
- 1st and 3rd U.S. Cavalry
- 5th, 7th and 10th
- U.S. Infantry
- McRae's Battery (Artillery)
- 2nd Colorado Infantry
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th New Mexico Infantry
- Graydon's Independent Cavalry Company
- 1st and 2nd New
- Mexico Militia 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th
- Texas Cavalry
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