twentyeighth

Updated: May 19, 2025

On February 21, 1862, Sibley defeated Colonel E.R.S. Canby at Valverde near Fort Craig. But his further advance was hindered by the barrenness of the country, by the complete destruction of all Union stores likely to fall into his hands, and by the fact that he was between two Federal forts when the battle ended. On the twentyeighth of March there was a desperate fight in Apache Canon.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray

Pope's troops therefore mostly drew east during the twentyeighth, forming by nightfall a long irregular line, facing west, with its right beyond Centreville and its extreme left held by Banks's mauled divisions south of Catlett's Station.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray

Then the Confederate colors waved in triumph on the hard-won crest against the crimson of the setting sun. The victorious Confederates spent the twentyeighth and twenty-ninth in finding the way to McClellan's new base. His absolute control of all the waterways had enabled him to change his base from White House on the Pamunkey to Harrison's Landing on the James.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray