Of the Gettysburg of the West
By Maggie Magoffin
Six weeks after Colorado became a territory, the Civil war began. The majority of Denver’s citizens, who had emigrated west from northern states, were loyal to the Union.However, Denver’s Mayor, John C. Moore, was a Confederate sympathizer from Pulaski, Tennessee, and when war began, he hightailed it back to where he’d come from.
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