Back معركة فالفيردي(1862) Arabic Slaget ved Valverde Danish Bataille de Valverde French Battaglia di Valverde Italian ヴァルヴァードの戦い Japanese Slag bij Valverde Dutch Bitwa pod Valverde Polish Battle of Valverde SIMPLE
| Battle of Valverde | |||||||
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| Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Confederate States | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Edward Canby Alexander McRae † |
Henry Hopkins Sibley Thomas Green | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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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 | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Department of New Mexico: 3,000[1] | Army of New Mexico: 2,590[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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68 killed 160 wounded 204 captured or missing (mostly deserters) 6 artillery pieces captured Total: 432[3] |
36 killed 150 wounded 1 missing Total: 187[4] | ||||||
The Battle of Valverde, also known as the Battle of Valverde Ford, was fought from February 20 to 21, 1862, near the town of Val Verde[5] at a ford of the Rio Grande in Union-held New Mexico Territory, in what is today the state of New Mexico. It is considered a major Confederate success in the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War, despite the invading force abandoning the field. 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 Territory and the Colorado Territory.
- ^ Taylor 1995, p. 127.
- ^ Taylor 1995, p. 124.
- ^ Taylor 1995, p. 142.
- ^ Taylor 1995, p. 136.
- ^ The region and the town of Valverde was actually named Val Verde (Green Valley) in Spanish. It was subsequently Americanized into Valverde by non-Spanish speakers who wrote the history of the battle.