Thursday, March 19, 2009

Battle in New Mexico

KANSAS CITY, MO., April 14. – The mail from Ft. Union has arrived and brings confirmation of a battle at Apache Pass, the main features of which were given in a dispatch from Denver City. Our forces numbered 1,350, Texans, 1,800. Our loss, killed, wounded and missing, 150, the enemy acknowledged their loss to be 340 to 400 in killed.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862

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