Skirmish near Fort Thorn, New Mexico Territory

Skirmish near Fort Thorn, New Mexico Territory
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Date September 26, 1861 Location At E Company Grove, 15 miles upriver from Fort Thorn, New Mexico Territory (USA), Arizona Territory (CSA) Modern Day: Sierra County, New Mexico[1] Result Confederate victory, unsuccessful Union counterattack.
Belligerents
Confederate States	United States
Commanders and leaders
Bethel Coopwood	Robert M. Morris
Strength
112 cavalry	101 cavalry
Casualties and losses
2 killed 8 wounded	3 wounded

The Skirmish near Fort Thorn, New Mexico Territory, also known as the Fight at E Company Grove, was a skirmish of the American Civil War on the morning of September 26, 1861. It followed the Battle of Canada Alamosa one of several small battles that occurred near the border between Confederate Arizona and Union New Mexico Territory. This one being an attempt by detachments of three companies of the Union Regiment of Mounted Rifles to pursue the Confederate cavalry force of Captain Bethel Coopwood's San Elizario Spy Company, and detachments of Company B and E, Second Texas Mounted Rifles, that was retiring from their victory at Canada Alamosa toward their base at Camp Robledo, 12 miles north of Dona Ana, New Mexico.