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Show Pge AS - THE HERALD, Ptoto, Utah, Sunday, December 8, mmmg SHpi 5ts g 15? 8 - Amid a EDITOR'S NOTE Civil the in interest resurgence of is Service National Park the Wir, Mexbattlefield New in a restoring ico known as the Gettysburg of the West. The Battle of Glorieta Pass was significant because it was as far as the Confederates got in their plan to conquer the gold and silver fields of Colorado, Nevada and California. But just who won the battle is still in dispute. The GLORIETA, N.M. (AP) Battle of Glcrieta Pass is still being fmight nearly 130 years after the bloody Civil War encounter. Historians can't agree who won. 'One outcome is clear. The National Park Service is a winner. President Bush authorized a $400,- 000 appropriation to buy the battleground at Pigeon's Ranch, which is privately owned, a year after sfgning the bill creating the Glorie- - ta Unit of the Pecos National Historical Park in northern New Mexico. j Linda Stoll, superintendent of irc park, says that should be acres of the bat- enough to Contlefield from the it servation Fund, plus the adjacent parcels. ! But who won at Glorieta on March 28, 1862, in the Gettysburg of the West? was significant be1 The battle cause it was as far as Confederate troops got in their plan to conquer and silver fields of Colorado, Nevada and California and to sejte the ports of Los Angeles and Sal Diego. heir advance halted that cold daf in a little valley less than 20 mites east of Santa Fe among rolling hills bisected by the Santa Fe Trail, now New Mexico Highway 50. At the time, the land was owned by rancher Alexander buy 10 non-prof- ed d tbe-gol- Valle, a Frenchman nicknamed "Pigeon." Valle's adobe still stands beside the road. !,larc Simmons of Cerrillos, author of 25 books on New Mexico hfjgbry, says the Union forces retreated that day, leaving the battlefield to the Confederates. ''Whoever holds the battlefield afigir the battle is the victor," Sim- mons says. lYes, but," says historian Don Alberts, author of "Rebels on the RiS Grande." : NEW i MEXICO Santa Fe iMWit'in tjf j? 1SS1 mM ffttioiisi &0U f Monument (9 U COLO. Ej back to their camp is that's where their camp was, where their food was," Alberts says. "Certainly the Texans weren't defeated at the main Pigeon's Ranch battle, but it's hardly a victory either. Therefore, it's a drawn engagement as far as I'm concerned." And many believe the Battle of Glorieta Pass was really decided three miles west of Pigeon's Ranch, where a Union flanking force of about 300 men destroyed a Confederate supply convoy of 70 Santa F .. to 80 wagons. "They lost everything they owned," Alberts says. The rebels pulled back to Texas shortly thereafter. "You don't retreat a thousand miles after a great victory. They did well but it wasn't a great victory. It was a draw between two parties that were pretty closely matched," Alberts says. Casualties on each side were 46 to 48 soldiers killed and nearly 100 If Wearing gray that day were four Texas regiments under Maj. Gen. Henry Sibley. In blue were regular Army troops from the Fort Union garrison joined by the 1st Colorado Volunteers under Col. John Slough, who hurried south to cut off the Texans' thrust toward Fort fort 60 Union. The f well-train- tt 6 . I N MEXICO 1 - i I -f i I ii r a E y a fw . Ti. mii-ij- w TEXAS fBOmlkM AWCarl Fox 1 s 1 .1- rieta but because Col. Edward Canby had moved his Union forces north from Fort Craig, N.M., to challenge the Confederates. But Alberts says Sibley had to withdraw when he couldn't resup-pl- as Sibley planned. 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"I don't think giving Glorieta to the federals reflects badly at all on Johnny Reb. They were fighting a foe, better armed very and equipped and fed. " But taking the Pigeons' Ranch battle by itself, he says: "The federals were driven from the field on a dead, bloody run. That phase of the battle was very clearly a Confederate victory." Texas-bor- n Thomas Edrington, a weapons evaluator at Sandia National Laboratories, says even with the loss of the wagon train the Confederates won at Glorieta. About the supply train fiasco, he says, "I suspect it was significant, but it was not a He says Sibley ordered the subsequent retreat not because of Glo- they would have continued the campaign, very likely. ... But New Mexico didn't have those kinds of supplies," he says. 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