History and government of New Mexico . rate supply trainin the rear, drove off* the guard, spiked the cannon,bayonet ted eleven hundred mules, burned sixty-fourwagons, and destroyed all the Confederate Confederates fell back on Santa Fe, and the Federalsreturned to Fort The ConfederateRetreat.—With the failureof the advance on FortUnion, Confederate planswere ruined. Sibley soonevacuated Santa Fe andbegan his retreat downthe Rio Grande. MajorPaul, from Fort Union,immediately occupied thecapital and followed in hotpursuit. Colonel Canbyleft Fort Craig in com-mand of Colo
History and government of New Mexico . rate supply trainin the rear, drove off* the guard, spiked the cannon,bayonet ted eleven hundred mules, burned sixty-fourwagons, and destroyed all the Confederate Confederates fell back on Santa Fe, and the Federalsreturned to Fort The ConfederateRetreat.—With the failureof the advance on FortUnion, Confederate planswere ruined. Sibley soonevacuated Santa Fe andbegan his retreat downthe Rio Grande. MajorPaul, from Fort Union,immediately occupied thecapital and followed in hotpursuit. Colonel Canbyleft Fort Craig in com-mand of Colonel KitCarson and hastenednorthward. At Albuquerque he met Sibleys men andexchanged shots with them for most of one day, but inattempting to unite with Major Paul, allowed Sibley toescape down the river. On April 15 the united forcesof Canby and Paul overtook the Confederates at Pe-ralta and engaged them for another day. That nightthe Southerners crossed to the west side of the two days the two armies moved slowly down op-. Civil War Cannon Buried at Albu-querque by the Confederates 176 THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO posite sides of the river in sight of each other. Buton the morning of the eighteenth the Confederateswere gone. They had packed seven days rations onmules, abandoned their wagons, burned such supplies ascould not be carried, and gone by trail across the moun-tains to the west of Fort Craig. The Union forces crossedthe river near Socorro, marched to Fort Craig, and gaveup the pursuit. Early in May Sibley appeared in theMesilla Valley and soon moved on to Fort Bliss. His NewMexico campaign had cost him nearly half his originalforce and had profited him nothing. All danger from theConfederacy was passed. When the California Column came in from the westin July and August, 1862, the Civil War in New Mexico wasover, and the last of the Confederates were gone. Itscommander, General Carleton, became commander of theDepartment of New Mexico; Colonel Canby went east;
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