The burning of the Stanwix Station and others led to a significant delay to the Union advance, preventing the Fall of Tucson, Arizona's western Confederate capital, which housed one of two territorial courts; the other court was in Mesilla.
The burning of the Stanwix Station and others led to a significant delay to the Union advance. The burning of the Stanwix Station and others were preventing the Fall of Tucson, Arizona's western Confederate capital. Arizona's western Confederate capital housed one of two territorial courts. This was Tucson. The other court was in Mesilla.