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Battle of Peralta

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to surround the Confederates to prevent any forces from reaching Green. The adobe walls and irrigation ditches surrounding the town were stronger than Canby was willing to risk an assault on. Learning of the fighting, Sibley led the 4th and 7th Texas Mounted Rifles across the river. The rival armies
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caught up with Green. At dawn, Union cavalry attacked and captured the Confederate wagon train, killing and capturing the guard. The Confederates used the low adobe houses in the town as natural fortifications. Canby captured a Confederate supply train which was then approaching Peralta, and then
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battered each other in an artillery duel, until a dust storm blew in and allowed the Confederates to withdraw to the west bank of the Rio Grande, leaving behind a town which had been reduced to rubble.
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The Confederates reached Los Lunas at 4 a.m., where they rested for a few hours before continuing their retreat. Canby followed with the Union army, harassing the Confederate column with cavalry.
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and planned to cross a series of irrigation canals the next day. The rest of the Confederate army was encamped on the other side of the
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was a minor engagement near the end of Confederate General
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Trans-Mississippi Theater
American Civil War
Peralta
New Mexico Territory
Valencia County, New Mexico
Union
United States
Confederate States
United States
Edward Canby
Confederate States of America
Thomas Green
2nd New Mexico Infantry
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