Eagle Feather

Description

Arizona Territory The situation faced by the Confederates in their New Territory of Arizona was indeed grim. Upon the outbreak of war in 1861, the United States Government withdrew almost all of its troops from teh region, sending them out to participate in the great battles about to erupt from the region, sending them east to participate in the great battles about to erupt there. As a result, the citizens of the New Mexico Territory, especially the southern and western regions which were to become the Confederate Territory of Arizona, were left virtually undefended against teh raids of the Apache. To make matters worse, the Apache came to believe that they had conquered the American nation (John Ross Browne), and that the soldiers were leaving because the Apaches themselves had driven them out. This block of an Eagle feather represents the ones worn by the Apaches during teh many battles that took place in the Arizona territory.

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