Battle at Picacho
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N 32° 38.756 W 111° 24.026
12S E 462444 N 3612107
Dedicated to those Confederate frontiersmen who occupied Arizona Territory, C.S.A., created by President Jefferson Davis, February 14, 1862.
Waymark Code: WM8QD4
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2010
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Battle at Picacho
April 15, 1862
Dedicated to those Confederate frontiersmen who occupied Arizona Territory, C.S.A., created by President Jefferson Davis, February 14, 1862. Just two months later, ten of Capt. Sherod Hunter's Confederate Cavalrymen successfully defended Picacho Pass against thirteen Union soldiers who suffered three killed and three wounded but did manage to capture Confederate Sgt. Henry Holmes and Pvts. William Dwyer and John W. Hill before retreating. This 'westernmost battle of the Civil War' delayed for a month the advance of a 2300-man Union column and hastened establishment of Arizona Territory, U.S.A. on February 24, 1863.
Marker Name: Battle at Picacho
Type of history commemorated: Event
County: Pinal
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker:
Children of the Confederacy United Daughters of the Confederacy and Arizona Historical Society.
Year placed: 1984
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