Militias operate under a state-run structure and continue to do so unless called up into the federal forces, at which point they are either retained and organized along with the regulars or employed for a temporary period before reverting to state militia commands.
Also, there was no unit officially called the "1st Colorado Volunteer Militia" though there was a "1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry" leading me to believe that you supplanted the word "militia" into their name in yet another attempt to bolster your argument by deception. I suppose now you will pursue a semantical argument in which an obscure nuanced non-standard definition of "militia" that means "infantry" applies rather than the normal one.
New Mexico Territory
New Mexico played a small but significant role in the Civil War. Early in the war, the Confederacy wanted the gold fields of California and Colorado as well as the important commercial route of the Santa Fe Trail. In July, 1861, Confederate forces from Texas captured the southern New Mexico settlement of Mesilla, and in early February, 1862, launched an attack on Fort Craig, south of Socorro. Their plan was to capture critical supplies at the fort, then move north to take Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and most importantly, the military supply depot at Fort Union.
On February 12,1862, Union troops, reinforced by several battalions of New Mexico militia, engaged the Texans at Valverde, north of Fort Craig. When the smoke cleared from the battlefield, the Union forces had withdrawn behind the protective walls of the fort, leaving the Confederates the apparent victors. But the southern troops were unable to mount a siege of the fort, and instead, continued their march north, short of supplies,and with a strong Union force threatening their rear.
As the Confederate forces approached Santa Fe in early March, New Mexico Governor Henry Connelly and the Union troops at Fort Marcy evacuated the capital and relocated the executive offices to Las Vegas. They also moved the military supplies and equipment from Fort Marcy to safety at Fort Union. On March 10, a scouting party of southern troops entered the evacuated capital, and for more than two weeks, the Confederate flag flew over the ancient Palace of the Governors. The pivotal battle of the Civil War in New Mexico began on March 26, 1862, when Union troops from Fort Union, volunteers from Colorado, and New Mexico militia, confronted the Confederate army at Apache Canyon east of Santa Fe. For three days, they vied for control of this strategic pass, until a Union raiding party penetrated to therear of the Confederate positions and destroyed their supply train.
Desperately short of supplies, the Texans were forced to retreat, ending the southern threat to New Mexico. Soon thereafter, the federal government turned its attention to rounding up and forcing New Mexico's Indian tribes onto reservations. The most notable of these actions was the forced relocation of the Navajo to Bosque Redondo in 1863, where they remained until 1868. By 1880, most of New Mexico's Indian tribes had been relegated to reservations.
CANBY'S SERVICES IN THE NEW MEXICAN CAMPAIGN
[Footnote] A remarkable march though the hostile Indian country of Arizona to join Canby was made by eleven companies of infantry, two of cavalry, and two batteries, under Colonel J. H. Carleton, which were dispatched by General George Wright, commanding the Department of the Pacific, overland from Southern California. The column started April 13th, 1862, and arrived at Santa Fe September 20th.--- EDITORS
That is just about as sorry a mealy-mouthed excuse of a post as you have ever made! Let's review what you said in your post #149:
GOPc - "The Texans never even met the californy militia save for a single skirmish outside of Tuscon. They retreated after a couple months of fighting with the federal regulars who had been out their in frontier garrisons all along."
You contend that "federal regulars" were the reason that the Texans were routed. I pointed out that the "regulars" were relatively few compared to the volunteers and militia. Canby commanded all of them, but that does not make them all "regulars." Many of the federal regulars, IIRC, were commanded by Gabriel Paul, who later was severely wounded on the first day of Gettysburg.
New Mexico did provided both volunteers and militia. Colorado did as well. But all of these troops were irregulars with neither the training or the arms as the regulars. It is not simply a "semantic" distinction.
You are a person who willfully distorts any comment. That is not going to help you when you assume a professional career.