New Mexico

From Turtledove

New Mexico is a state in the southwest region of the United States.

[edit] New Mexico in The Man With the Iron Heart

New Mexico was the home of Bernie Cobb, the American soldier responsible for killing Reinhard Heydrich in 1947.

[edit] New Mexico in Southern Victory

New Mexico's total area made it the largest state in the Union. The state was strategically critical to the U.S. as it bordered the Confederate States states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Texas.

New Mexico saw fighting between U.S. and C.S. forces during the War of Secession (when the C.S. sought to annex the southern half of the state as the Confederate Territory of Arizona), the Second Mexican War, the Great War, and the Second Great War. Jeb Stuart and his Apache allies defeated several American garrisons in 1881, but in 1914-15 the United States Army successfully invaded Sonora and Texas from their bases in New Mexico, carving off sizable chunks of Confederate land.

During the Second Great War, the U.S. 11th Army, under the command of Brigadier General Abner Dowling, assembled in eastern New Mexico and eventually drove the Confederate Army of West Texas out of Houston.