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Show a 999 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN NEW HISTORY , pep under their horses’ feet. At the cea oo a i Downing’s men and driven up a side canyo . ceived with volleys from the men under Captains 1e3 tne 305 resulting in the surrender of about seventy or sunset and fearing neni now S ene = overtake them in the darkness, and there pens no water in ih o yon, the Union forces fell back to Pigeon’s ranch, a The Union loss in this engagement was five ki ed an camped. The Confederates suffered heavily, losing se teen wounded. ee one prisoners, thirty-five killed, and fovig-thtee Tepe says Hayes. ‘‘This seems to have been a drawn battle,’’ great fight was on the 28th, when the Texans had come up in i and Colonel Slough °°* had arrived with the rest of his regiment, Oura he we could see them. They had two batteries in position. : 0 i tes which I was captain, crossed the front of the batteries and go — Wynton on the right. Companies A and EH, Captains Scott Anthony a pe went in on the left. When Company D got almost to the rag Hepes flank it opened fire, and I gave the signal to Major Ss ae opening the fight and charged down upon the batteries. so ae ordered then to charge, being mounted. Riding down the . SS a road, a ravine on one side and a mountain on the other, it _ . pea yaale the enemy. The Texans made two further stands, but we ae Sia and that closed the battle for the first day, after sien ted up : oo best The whole time covered was probably between four and five ~~ pay fell back to Pigeon’s Ranch because there was water there an ne get it anywhere else in the canyon, and waited for the approac quite a number, and i taking about one hundred and fifty bugler came in sounding the alarm and we marched 4to the aie pes pri isoners. ati iv > gaid es A. A., Unwritten Episode of the Late Mar: | ‘Zat wet + Aoike the excellent M. Valle to the writer, ‘‘he poot ‘is *ead down, an 8 mull’? ag ~ Sane Wyncoop, a prominent citizen of Colorado a ti Bob: . to New Mexico in the eighties and lived at Santa Fé where he i : soldier one time warden of the New Mexico penitentiary. He was a gallan citizen. ae on : eta. P. Slough was the descendant of an English family “—_ os pi America before the Revolution. Matthias Slough, his —— a cee eolonel named by General Washington after the latter ~ Le > Beha commander-in-chief of the colonial troops. His father, General Jo ic oe was a native of Ohio. In 1856, Colonel Slough came to eee a cele engaged in the practice of the law when the Civil War began. jabs e ge of Governor Gilpin he raised the 1st Colorado volunteers and beca a ae After the battles at Apache canyon and Glorieta he was alain oe hae ington by President Lincoln; he was soon named military age for ie andria, Virginia; here he had command of the reserve forces : the walliball protection of the national capital. General Slough was one 0 eto pall-bearers at the funeral obsequies of President Lincoln. ee chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico by Presi - duce the session of the supreme court in 1867 he wrote one of the MEXICO DURING THE CIVIL tae ae WAR 383 howitzer batteries under Captains Ritter and Claflin, and some regular infantry, prominent among the officer s of whom were Captains W. H. Lewis, 5th regiment, and A. B. Carey, 13th regiment. At an early hour in the morning was conceived and put into execution a strategical movement of great merit. A brave New Mexican, Manuel Chaves,°” led a detachment of about four hundred men, commanded by Chivington, and comprising two battalions of regulars and volunteers under Lewis and Carey, up a steep ascent and along a terribly difficult path toward the rear of the Texans, where were their wagons and supplies of all kinds under a guard. ’’ that were rendered and during that year announc ed an important decision in which the Pueblo Indians were declared to be citizens of the United States. On Sunday, Decembe the office of the r 15, 1867, Chief Justice Slough was shot and killed in Fonda (Old Exchange Hotel) at the corner of the plaza in Santa Fé, by Captain torial legislature $07 Colonel from Manuel W. L. Rynerson, the county Chaves was of at that time a member Dofia a lineal Ana. of the terri- descenda nt of General Fernando Duran de Chaves, one of the officers with the re-conquistador, Don Diego de Vargas. The family dates back to the twelfth century. Don Bernardino Duran de Chaves, son of Don Fernando, had a child, Diego Antonio de Chaves, whose Son, Pedro de Chaves, married Dofia Catalina Baca, of Tomé, Valencia county, New Mexico. A sister of Dofia Catalina was the indirect cause of the masSacre of nearly all the inhabitants of the town of Tomé by Comanche Indians. Don Pedro de Chaves had Chaves, a number of children, among whom was Don Julian the father of Don Manuel, whose full name was Manuel Antonio Chaves. Don Manuel was born in the town of Atrisco, opposite the city of Alburquerque on the 18th day of October, 1818. His mother was Dofia Maria de la Luz Garcia de Noriega, a daughter of Captain Francisco Garcia de Noriega. In 1844 he was married to Dofia Vincenta Labadie, a great grand-da ughter of the famous Spanish captain, Don Sebastian Martin. He died at his home, at San Mateo, alencia county, New Mexico, in 1889, leaving a family of eight children, one of whom, Don Amado, was the first superintendent of public instructi on of New Mexico, and who has held many offices of trust in New Mexico. Another son, on Ireneo, was an official translato r also clerk of the court. of the court of private land claims and Colonel Manuel Chaves was an Indian fighter and took Part in a bitter campaign against the Navajés when only sixteen years of age. © was a resident of Santa Fé when General Kearny took possession of city. He held a commission under General Manuel Armijo and was one of the the officers under that general who was in favor of holding the Apache pass against ‘arny and his troops. He was accused of being one of the © uprising of December, 1846. He was placed in prison by Sterling Price, was tried by court martial, defended by Captain Price’s officers, and acquitted. When the revolution broke conspirators for order of General Angney, one of out at Taos in 1847, Colonel Chaves enlisted as a private soldier under Colonel Céran t. Vrain and fought with the American troops in all the battles ending with the J anuary, engagement at Taos. In 1855 he was in command against the Utes and Jicarilla Apaches. In a fight withof troops in a campaign these savages, Apache chief, lance in hand, charged upon Chaves, who killed him with a ayoung shot Tom his rifle, During this campaign he participated in engagements with the ndians at Cochotopa pass, Nepesta, Cerro Blanco and El Rito, 'S troops were victorious. In 1859 he took part in the campaigin all of which n against the ‘eee a ade |