Battle of Canada Alamosa

Battle of Canada Alamosa
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the
American Civil War

The Canada Alamosa battlefield
DateSeptember 24–25, 1861
Location
Result Confederate victory, successful Union delaying action.
Belligerents
 Confederate States  United States
Commanders and leaders
Bethel Coopwood John H. Minks
Strength
112 cavalry ~100 cavalry
Casualties and losses
2 killed
7 wounded
4 killed
6 wounded
23 captured

The Battle of Canada Alamosa as it was known to the Union Army, or Alamosa as it was known to the Confederates, was a skirmish of the American Civil War on the late evening of September 24 and the morning of September 25, 1861. It was one of several small battles that occurred in Confederate Arizona near the border with Union held New Mexico Territory, this one being the largest.