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Show DORN OE Oe Meee NEW MEXICO DURING THE CIVIL WAR ta cee 385 to fifty killed, forty to eighty wounded, and fifteen to twenty prisoners; that of the Confederates, thirty-six to one hundred and fifty killed, sixty to two hundred wounded, and one hundred prisoners. When Colonel Chivington and his command, led by Colonel Manuel Chaves, reached the Confederate rear, they drove off the enemy’s guard, spiked the cannon, bayonetted eleven hundre d mules, burned sixty-four wagons, and destroyed all of the Confede rate supplies, thus rendering it impossible for the Confederates to continue their offensive operations. ‘“This,’’ says Bancroft, ‘‘virtually ended the campaign; the ‘Pike’s Peakers’ had proved more than a match for the ‘Texan Rangers,’ saving New Mexico for the Union ; and Chivington, presiding elder of the Methodist church in Colorado, had made himself the hero of the war.’’ Colonel Scurry, having received word of the disaster in his rear, Sent in a flag of truce, asking an armistice for the purpose of bury- ing his dead, and Slough. place The was caring for his wounded. Confederates, shortly This was granted by however, retreated and the retreat Slough now abandoned to Santa Fé, which continued down the valley of the Rio Grande. Colonel Canby now sent orders to Slough to protect Fort Union, and, much against the wishes of his troops, the army fell back to the fort, arriving on April 2d. resigned his commis- sion,?°° and new orders having been received, under command of Colonel Paul, the army marched southward. Galisteo was reached on the 10th where a staff officer from Canby met the command. Colonel Canby,*1 leaving Fort Craig garrisoned by volunteers 309 Col, Slough resigned because of his disgust at not being permitted to pursue the Confederates. On the 9th, according to Hayes, Colonel Paul marched from Bernal Spring toward Santa Fé, meeting on the way Major Jackson and party, with a flag of truce, and soon learned that Santa Fé had been evacuated. On the 12th he wrote trom Galisteo that the Union troops had been cheered on entering the capital. 210 Hayes, A. A., Unwritten Episode of the War, p. 170: write the history of this remarkable campaign without mentioni ‘‘One cannot ng the strong "Pinion of some of Carson’s fiery fighters, and even at least one officer of disMetion and experienc e, that victory was within their grasp at Valverde, and lost by mismanagement ; but no suggestion of what ‘might have been’ can be allowed to weigh against the splendid reputation of Canby. Nor can one entertain any animadversions against him for not capturing the whole rebel force after Peralta, inasmuch as it is perfectly well known that he had no desire to take prisoners whom he could not feed; and, inasmuch, also, as his judgment in his regard was more than borne out by the subsequent reduction of his own men to quarter rations. ’? Colonel Canby was massacred by the Modoe Indians, a victim to the results ceeanannneae 2 |