Life Span
to
Full name
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Place of Birth
Natchitoches, LA
Burial Place
Fredericksburg, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
2
Family
Samuel Hopkins Sibley (father), Margaret I. McDonald (mother), Charlotte Kendall (wife)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Confederate Army
Foreign military
Date Event
Minnesota puts together its new state government in its capital of St. Paul
Confederate Brigadier-General Henry H. Sibley marches from San Antonio to launch his invasion of New Mexico
At Fort Bliss, Confederate Brigadier-General Henry Sibley takes command of the "Army of New Mexico"
Confederate Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley inflicts a heavy defeat on Union forces in New Mexico
The Confederate invasion of New Mexico reaches and occupies the territorial capital of Santa Fe
In New Mexico, Texas and Colorado units clash in the Glorieta Pass at Apache Canyon
Union forces turn back the Confederate invasion of New Mexico at Glorieta Pass
In Arizona, the California Volunteer Cavalry retake Tucson without firing a shot
Mexican War
Chicago Style Entry Link
Thompson, Jerry D. "Henry Hopkins Sibley and the Mexican War." Texana 11, no. 4 (1973): 285-308. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Sibley, Henry Hopkins," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6573.