#13 Fort Union NM

Fort Union National Monument stands on a site where three separate forts once stood. The first, of which nothing remains, was a sloppy mud fortification built to protect the early settlers of New Mexico from Indian raids. The second fort also was built with that purpose in mind, but served as a staging ground for the most important battle in the Southwestern theater of Civil War, The Battle of Glorietta Pass. The third fort was an adobe and brick fort, but even it had outlived it's usefulness when it was abandoned in the 1890s in favor of newer and more centrally located defensive posts.

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