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the desert by companies one day apart. Within a few days
the march was resumed to the Pima Villages, the troops being
pushed forward as fast as possible, enduring the intense heat
and alkali dust of the desert road."' As they advanced, the
Texans were forced to fall back. On May 20, the advance guard
took possession of Tucson without firing a shot. Upon his
arrival, Carleton proclaimed martial law and made himself
military governor. During the first days of June all of his
troops were in or about Tucson, preparing to move on to the
Rio Grande. No communication had been received from the
Union forces in New Mexico, but there was a prevailing rumor
that Sibley had met with a serious reverse.83
VI
With the Texans in possession of Arizona and southern New
Mexico from the Rio Grande almost to the Colorado River,
Confederate ambitions during the month of March seemed well
on the road to fulfillment. The main force of the Union Army
in New Mexico had been defeated and driven into Fort Craig,
the Texans moving on up the valley to Albuquerque and Santa
Fe, confident that Fort Union, the principal and most impor-
tant post in New Mexico, would soon be in their possession.
They apparently were unaware of the approach of the Colo-
rado volunteers, or of the organization of the California column
to drive them from the country. The Colorado troops were even
then making forced marches over the mountains to New Mex-
ico. By the end of March they were to defeat and send the
Confederate forces in hasty flight down the Rio Grande.
The enlistment and organization of this volunteer regiment
from the mining regions of Colorado and its winter march to
expel the Confederates from New Mexico forms one of the
most interesting phases of the campaign. The majority of the
population of Colorado was Northern in sympathy, but demon-
strations of disloyalty within the territory and the fear of a
Confederate invasion had persuaded the territorial governor to
begin the early enlistment of a regiment of volunteer troops.84
S A complete description of the long march from the Pacific Coast to
the Rio Grande has been left by an officer in Carleton's command. McNulty
to Hammond, October (n. d.), 1862, O. R., S., 1, L, pt. 2, 136-145.
83Carleton to Drum, May 25, 1862, Ibid., 1, L, pt. 2, 89; McNulty to
Hammond, October (n. d.), 1862, Ibid., 1, L, pt. 2, 142.
84Leroy R. Hafen, Colorado: The Story of a Western Commonwealth
(Denver, 1933), 156; Whitford, op. cit., 36-56. The territorial governor,182
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