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The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Visitors from Fredericksburg to Baltimore . (search)
The War in New Mexico.
--A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, who is decidedly of Yankee proclivities, writing under date of Fort Union, New Mexico, April 18th, says:
Colonel Slough, after the battle of Apache Canon, fell back and took a position at Bernal Springs, forty-five miles south of Fort Union.
This was deemed a strategical point, being within supporting distance of Fort Union, in a position to harass the enemy and form a conation with Colonel Canby when be should leave Fort Craig, three hundred miles south.
He had been there one day when Col. Canby sent from Fort Craig his Assistant Adjutant General with peremptory orders to Col. Stough to fall back with his column to Fort Union, which were immediately obeyed.
It would seem that we crippled the enemy in the fight at Apache Canon more than was believed at first.
We have reliable information that we killed over a hundred men, including six officers, and wounded over two hundred.
We have now as pr