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Show 384 LEADING FACTS OF NEW HISTORY MEXICAN The remainder of Slough’s command,*** seven or eight hundred strong, met the Confederates half a mile beyond Pigeon’s ranch. The Unionists were outnumbered and acted on the defensive, and after a fight lasting about five hours were forced back to a new position half a mile farther east and finally to Kozlosky’s ranch and stage station. The Union loss in this battle is given at from twenty When the Civil War broke out he was Apaches under Mangas Coloradas. offered a commission in the Confederate army by Colonel W. W. Loring, then in command of the department at Santa Fé. He declined with thanks and later became lieutenant-colonel of the 2d regiment, New Mexico volunteers, taking Colonel Chaves was a man part in the battles of Valverde and Apache canyon. In fights with of small stature, but his powers of endurance were remarkable. Indeed, these old wounds Indians he was pierced with arrows many times. were the ultimate causes of his death. Asa B. Carey, brigadier-general, U. S. A. retired, was born in the state of Connecticut; July 1, 1854; from that state, appointed to West Point Military Academy breveted second lieutenant, 6th U. S. Inf., July 1, 1858; appointed second lieutenant, 7th U. 8. Inf., October 22, 1858; first lieutenant, 13th U. 5. Inf., October 24, 1861; appointed major and paymaster, October 5, 1867; lieutenant colonel, department paymaster general, March 27, 1895; colonel, assistant paymaster general, June 10, 1898; brigadier-general, paymaster-general, January 30, 1899; retired, July 12, 1899. In 1860 this officer marched with his regiment from Utah to New Mexico. From April, 1860, to September, 1861, with his company participated in camDuring 1861paign against the Navajés, under command of Colonel Canby. 1862, after return from Navajé campaign, he served as depot quartermaster at Took prominent part in battle of Glorieta, Alburquerque and at Fort Union. Upon the creation helping capture and destroy the Confederate wagon train. — comof eastern district of New Mexico commanded troops in that district prising all of New Mexico east of the Pecos river, with headquarters at Fort Union. In the campaign of 1863 assigned against the Navajés TA to duty as chief quartermaster under the command of Colonel Christopher Carson, and was After close of the Navajé campaig? with Carson’s force until May, 1864. served as chief quartermaster of the department of New Mexico. In 1865 served as mustering officer and mustered all the volunteer troops in New Mexico out of service. General Carey was stationed at Santa Fé as chief paymaster from 1868 to 1874 and thereafter served in the office of the paymaster-general at Washing: He was considered a very able officer and served his country with distineton. tion in New Mexico. ‘‘There is 20 308 Hayes, A. A., Unwritten Episode of the War, p. 169: doubt that the Texans surprised the force left under Slough to fight them ™ front. Sibley was not in command — a fact which, after the fiercest recrimina- tion among his informants, the author only ascertained beyond a doubt by a2 interview with the barber who shaved him that very morning, twenty miles away from the scene of action. purposes!) with whiskey. He seems to have been supplied The actual commander was (perhaps for medic Colonel W. R. Scurry who was not killed, but lived to fight again (a fact which the author commends to the thoughtful consideration of the friends in Santa Fé who proposed “ 5 show him the grave where Scurry was buried in the town cemetery )M. Valle, or Pigeon, Says, “Gooverment manns vas at my ranch, and fill ad cahnteen viz my whiskey (and Gooverment nevaire pay me for zat viskey) 5 and Texas mahns coom oop, and soorprize zem, and zey foight six hour by ™Y vatch, and my vatch vas slow!’ ’’ Builders and Operators of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad ‘. William — B. Strong, President. 2. A. A. Robinson, Chief Engineer and 4. W. R. 3. George B. Lake, Assistant Engineer. Manager. 5. Avery Turner, the conductor Morley, Assistant Engineer. of the first railroad train operated in New Mexico Gen- VO 1e8 S67] be |