The Battle of Glorieta Pass, fought from March 26 -- 28, 1862, in the northern New Mexico Territory, was the decisive battle of the New Mexico Campaign during the American Civil War. Dubbed the "Gettysburg of the West '' (a term that "serves the novelist better than the historian '') by some authors, it was intended as the decisive blow by Confederate forces to break the Union possession of the West along the base of the Rocky Mountains. It was fought at Glorieta Pass in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in what is now New Mexico, and was an important event in the history of the New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War.
where did the battle of glorieta pass take place
at Glorieta Pass in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in what is now New Mexico