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Fort Fillmore, located at 32°13′30″N 106°42′52″W,[2][3] was a United States military fortification established by Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner in September 1851 near Mesilla in what is now New Mexico, primarily for the purpose of protecting settlers and traders traveling to California. Early frontier migrants were under constant threat from attack by local Native Americans, and a network of forts was eventually created by the U.S. government to protect and encourage westward expansion. Fort Fillmore was intended to protect a corridor plagued by hostile Apaches, where several migration routes converged between El Paso and Tucson to take advantage of Apache Pass.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^Doña Ana County G.I.S. Division
^1854 map titled "The Mesilla Valley". Surveyed under the direction of BVT Captain J. Pope, Corps of Engineers.
FortFillmore, located at 32°13′30″N 106°42′52″W, was a United States military fortification established by Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner in September 1851...
the Union forts along the Rio Grande if he thought the situation called for such measures. Convinced that the Union force at FortFillmore would soon...
Elizario were closed, the soldiers moved 40 miles (64 km) north to FortFillmore.: 20–21 On 11 January 1854, Companies B, E, I and K of the 8th Infantry...
Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor assaulted FortFillmore at Mesilla in the eastern part of the territory. After the fort was abandoned by the Union garrison...
were defeated. Major Lynde then abandoned FortFillmore and began a march north to join the troops at Fort Craig under Colonel Edward R. S. Canby. However...
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Baylor forced the surrender of the small Union garrison stationed at FortFillmore, near Mesilla, New Mexico. On August 1, 1861, Baylor declared the creation...
between two companies of the First California Volunteer Cavalry from FortFillmore and a band of Apaches in Dog Canyon near Alamogordo, induced most of...
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assignments on the western frontier at Fort Kearny in the Nebraska Territory and in the New Mexico Territory at FortFillmore, where he became the commander of...
1862, the Army of New Mexico left FortFillmore and headed north towards Fort Craig, but marched well around the fort after the Union Army refused to do...
entering Mesilla and repulsing the attack of the Union garrison of FortFillmore at the First Battle of Mesilla. The victorious Baylor established the...
of the cattle trails, had its first important stop in New Mexico at FortFillmore. It began operations in 1858 and was superseded by railroad operations...
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captain in the 3rd Cavalry, he was captured on July 27, 1861, near FortFillmore, New Mexico, following the First Battle of Mesilla. McNally was paroled...
crossed the river. FortFillmore Station – Located on the east bank of the Rio Grande, 14 miles from Picacho Station, nearby FortFillmore. Cottonwoods Station...
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