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    The California Column was a force of Union volunteers sent to Arizona and New Mexico during the American Civil War. The command marched over 900 miles...
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    A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. The activities...
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    cavalry patrol from the California Column in the so-called Battle of Picacho Pass again delaying the advance of the California Column to Tucson. By July 1862...
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  • California Column finally left its bivouac at the Pima Villages for its final advance on Tucson. On May 15, Colonel West and his advance California detachment...
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    Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War (category California in the American Civil War)
    maintained in Southern California. In early 1862, the District headquarters was used as the base for the campaign of the California Column into Confederate...
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  • soldiers in the California Column marched east across Arizona in 1862 to expel the Confederates from Arizona and New Mexico. The California Column then spent...
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    Battle of Apache Pass (category Battles of the California Column of the American Civil War)
    between Apache warriors and the Union volunteers of the California Column as it marched from California to capture Confederate Arizona and to reinforce New...
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    Battle of Stanwix Station (category Battles of the California Column of the American Civil War)
    Grinnell's Station. In 1862, Grinnell's was listed on the itinerary of the California Column in the same place as Stanwix Ranch (or Stanwix Station) which became...
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    Battle of Picacho Pass (category Battles of the California Column of the American Civil War)
    volunteers from California, known as the California Column and led by Colonel James Henry Carleton, moved east to Fort Yuma, California, and by May 1862...
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    The post was officially abandoned in 1861, though troops of the California Column occasionally manned the post during the American Civil War. In February...
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    "Washington Column - Yosemite Valley". "Yosemite national Park California". Climbing on Washington Column More on climbing Washington Column Summitpost...
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    230. Josephy, pp. 91–92. Whitlock, pp. 240–241 The California Military Museum; The California Column [1] Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine...
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    others to various posts around Southern California. The regiment was assigned to a force called the California Column, which was commanded by Carleton and...
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  • men in the California Column marched east across Arizona in 1862 to expel the Confederates from Arizona and New Mexico. The California Column then spent...
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    Thorn, commanded by Colonel William Steele. With the advance of the California Column closing in from the west, and General Edward Canby's Army approaching...
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    Mexico Territory by dispatching a column of Californian volunteers under Colonel James Henry Carleton. The California Column, as it was known, followed the...
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    James Henry Carleton (category Military personnel from California)
    the District of Southern California. In 1862 he commanded the so-called California Column during its advance across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and...
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    Anza (1774), the Mormon Battalion (1848) and the California Column (1862). During and after the California Gold Rush to the late 1870s, the Yuma Crossing...
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    main city for the entire region. Recaptured by the Volunteers of the California Column, it then became the headquarters of the Military District of Arizona...
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  • use the sortable tables: click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order...
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  • Mexico and the far west territories. In April, the California Column, Union volunteers from California, pushed the remaining Confederates out of present-day...
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    Column (German: Igeler Säule) is a multi-storeyed Roman sandstone column in the municipality of Igel, Trier, Germany, dated to c. 250 AD. The column is...
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  • sending troops, but they are soon recalled east. Union troops of the California Column, including Peter as a sergeant, return in April 1862 just as Tucson's...
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    of the local guerrillas. The arrival of the advance party of the California Column on the west bank of the Rio Grande on July 4, 1862, prompted the rebel...
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    Great Flood of 1862 (category Floods in California)
    Army's California Column as it pursued the retreating Confederate Army of New Mexico. On July 8, 1862, Lt. Col. Edward E. Eyre, First California Volunteer...
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    rebels who burned Stanwix Station and skirmished with the Union Army's California Column there in March. He was also involved in the noted incident at White's...
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    across Apache country to Fort Yuma, California, where Colonel James Carleton was arriving with the California Column. Since Confederate forces had invaded...
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  • degree in sculpture from the California Institute of the Arts before turning to journalism. According to his own column, Casablanca married Jon Powell...
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    time, Union forces were approaching New Mexico from the west, the California Column. Glorieta Pass has been called the "Gettysburg of the West" by some...
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  • Barrett was a temporary earthwork built by the United States Army's California Column in 1862 during the American Civil War. It was located in the Pima...
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