New Mexico

New Mexico is a state in the southwest region of the United States.

New Mexico in Southern Victory
New Mexico's total area makes it the largest state in the Union. The state was strategically critical to the U.S. as it bordered the Confederate States states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Texas.

New Mexico saw fighting between U.S. and C.S. forces during the War of Secession (when the C.S. sought to annex the state), the Second Mexican War, the Great War, and the Second Great War. Jeb Stuart and his Apache allies defeated several American garrisons in 1881, but in 1914-15 the United States Army successfully invaded Sonora and Texas from their bases in New Mexico, carving off sizable chunks of Confederate land.

During the Second Great War, the U.S. 11th Army, under the command of Brigadier General Abner Dowling, assembled in eastern New Mexico and eventually drove the Confederate Army of West Texas out of Houston.