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Valverde, Battle of

Years: 1862 - 1862

The Battle of Valverde, or the Battle of Valverde Ford, is fought from February 20 to 21, 1862, 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 are 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.

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