Civil War in the West-AZ Created-Confed. AZ Stopped, NV 's Hasty Statehood +More

Description: Historically Significant 1864 Original Antique Mitchell Civil War Era Map No. XIX CA,OR,ID AZ,NM & CO The map features:The first map of the Arizona Territory whose configuration would last only to the end of the Civil War. The first map of the State of Nevada that would increase size at the expense of Arizona at the end of the War. An early map of the Territory of Colorado carved from the Dakota Territory The first map of Idaho Territory after creation of Montana Territory All these changes were results of little known intrigues of the Civil War. Here's the story:At the beginning of the Civil War, support for the Confederacy ran high in the southern parts of the New Mexico Territory. The governor of New Mexico requested federal troops to protect the territory, but President James Buchanan refused, leaving the New Mexico government to fend for itself. In response, the New Mexico government formed a volunteer army to defend the territory against Confederate invasion. In 1864, the people of the southern New Mexico Territory formally called for secession, and a convention adopted a secession ordinance on March 16, 1861, with a subsequent ordinance ratified on March 28, establishing the provisional territorial government of the Confederate 'Territory of Arizona'. The Confederate Arizona Territory was officially proclaimed on August 1, 1861 was officially recognized by the government of the Confederacy on February 14, 1862. The territory created a Confederated Arizona Territory (with Mesilla as its capital) carved from the New Mexico Territory with a north-south border to be defined along the 34th parallel (See attached map not part of the sale). The following month, in March 1862, the U.S. House of Representatives, now devoid of the southern delegates and controlled by Republicans, passed a bill to create its own version of the Arizona Territory, using instead the north–south border of the 107th meridian. The use of a north–south border rather than an east–west one had the effect of denying a de facto ratification of the Confederate Arizona Territory. The house bill stipulated that Tucson (not Mesilla) was to be capital. It also stipulated that slavery was to be abolished in the new territory. The Arizona Organic Act passed the Senate in February 1863 without the Tucson-as-capital stipulation, and was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on February 24, which became the date of the official organization of the U.S. Arizona Territory. However, by July 1862, Union forces from California, known as the "California Column" were marching on the territorial capital of Mesilla. Sent to protect California from a possible Confederate incursion, the 'California Column' drove Confederate forces out of the city. The territorial government fled as well and spent the rest of the war in exile. Confederate units from Arizona would fight for the rest of the war, and the delegate from Arizona attended both the First and Second Confederate Congresses.Nevada Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the Congress days before the November 8 presidential election (the largest and costliest transmission ever by telegraph). Statehood was rushed to help ensure three electoral votes for Abraham Lincoln's reelection and add to the Republican congressional majorities. Nevada became the second of two states added to the Union during the Civil War (the first being West Virginia) and became known as the “Battle Born State” as a result of when it achieved statehood.In retaliation for Arizona's involvement in the confederate fight, The United States Congress removed the northwest corner from Arizona Territory, which included parts of both Pah-Ute and Mohave counties, and gave that land to the State of Nevada. Nevada used that land by adding to Lincoln and Nye counties. In 1867, parts of both counties – including the present site of Las Vegas – were attached to Nevada. Colorado TerritoryColorado became a U.S. territory in 1861 shortly before the American Civil War began. William Gilpin, the first territorial governor, supported the Union and quickly raised a regiment. Colorado Territory, however, also produced Confederate sympathizers, and overzealous Native American fighters and making it a target for Confederate invasion.Idaho TerritoryIn 1863, President Abraham Lincoln approved the creation of Idaho Territory, which included all of present-day Idaho and Montana, as well as most of Wyoming. However, there were concerns about Confederate sympathizers in the eastern half of the territory. As a result, in 1864 President Lincoln split the Montana Territory from the Idaho Territory giving Idaho its present-day shape.Utah Territory No battles were waged in the Utah Territory, nor did Utah send troops for either side. But despite its lack of involvement in the Civil War, Utah’s loyalty in that conflict was of major interest to leaders in Washington as part of the larger struggle for control over the western territories. Those who doubted Utah’s loyalty did so because Mormons remained openly bitter about being driven from the United States, and were alienated from mainstream America by polygamy. However, Mormon leader Brigham Young was anxious to affirm Utah’s loyalty to the Union. In 1861 he telegraphed the following message to President Lincoln, "Utah has not seceded, but is firm for the Constitution and laws of our once happy country." The following year, Young attempted to secure Statehood for Utah, believing that the best show of allegiance was trying to get into the Union, while others were trying to get out. **** Sizes:Page: 9.25" x 11.80" Map image: 8.20" x 11.80"Taken carefully from Mitchell's Modern Atlas Drawn and Engraved Expressly to IllustrateMitchell's New School Geography1865Published by E.H. Butler & Company(The atlas cover and title page shown in the photos are not a part of this salebut only for documentation of the map's origin.) Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1790-1868)Samuel Augustus Mitchell was a renown American geographer. Born in Connecticut he worked as a geography teacher but soon realizing there were only poor quality geographical resources available to teachers he turned to publishing. He moved to Philadelphia, a major center for publishing at the time, around 1830 and founded his company. It becoming one of the leading map and atlas publishers of the nineteenth century being one of the first to try out the new technique of engraving on steel plates. He experimented with steel almost 20 years before the rest of the publishing industry. This map His son, S. Augustus Mitchell, became owner in 1860. This historically significant map has strong color and a very rich patina that would frame up with an antique quality. A great addition to any collection ofAntique Civil War Era MapsEspecially of the Southwest The map will be mailed in a flat, secure, ridged package.

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