MARCH 30,
1862:
The Battle of Stanwix Station, Arizona Territory. The
westernmost skirmish of the American Civil War took place when the Union
California Column, a force of 272 men en route from Los Angeles to attack El
Paso, found a Confederate force of ten men burning hay at a stagecoach stop.
This was a common Confederate tactic to disrupt stage communications in the
Arizona and New Mexico Territories, which depended on the baled hay to feed the
horses that ran the routes. The
Confederates, numerically overwhelmed, fled to Tucson, where they advised the
Confederate garrison commander of the approach of the California Column.
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