In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted ... As the country expanded westward to Kansas and Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico and California, pushing out Native ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855 ... had been to annex the Republic of Texas in 1845. Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border ...

Over yonder, past Texas. Not here. After all, Arizona wasn't even a state in the 1860s; it was part the New Mexico Territory ... years after the war. So were there ties to the Civil War, and ...

Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri, and New Mexico Dividing the war into three theaters allows for more precise discussions of the Civil War battles and tactics. Most of the battles took place in ...

and rather quickly fled east after the outbreak of the Civil War. Showalter spent some time in Mexico, then upon returning to the U.S. became a prisoner-of-war for a time. He eventually finally ...