In March 1862, Union troops recaptured the Confederate Territory of Arizona and returned it to the New Mexico Territory. For a time, it appeared Arizona would someday join the Union as part of New ...

That came on Feb. 14, 1862, when President Jefferson Davis admitted Arizona into the Confederate States of America. Arizona didn't become a territory of the United States until the next February ...

The Arizona Territorial bill has been laid over, in the House, until the Tax bill shall be disposed of. In the Senate, the bill is before the Committee on Territories, and will probably be ...

In the next year, 1862, the Congress of the Confederate States passed "an act to organize the Territory of Arizona." The first section of the act prescribed as follows: "The Congress of the ...