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Among those that early enlisted in it was Mr. A. J. Ballard, a
young man whom Edward had chosen for a business partner, and
I suppose of course that he was anxious Edward should go along,
as it was evident that all must go to the Army. At any rate they both
came down to my house when Edward told me he had determined
to go. I felt it my duty under the circumstances of his being a boy
and my own Cousin whose Mother would expect me to advise him
for the best, to give him my views; which I did. I told him that his
Mother must most naturally be opposed to the cause, whatever views
might be entertained by any of us. I told him that I felt indignant
toward a party that drove the South to desperation from the very
good reason that it afforded a disunion element in our midst, a
plausible pretext to dissolve the Union, but that it was a serious
thing to be annoyed against a government, the glory of whose flag
was our common property and pride. His reply was character-
istic of his generous soul. "George," said he, "I love my country
and you know I love my Mother, but all the boys are going. I shall
not be likely to fight New Jerseymen in New Mexico; besides it is
a healthy country and I hope to have a fine trip and be back again
before a great while." But alas, for human hopes, he sleeps among
the mountains of New Mexico.8'
Sibley's expedition departed from San Antonio in November,
1861, and after a short lay-over at E1l Paso pushed northward along
the Rio Grande. On February 2o and 21 it engaged a Union force
under Colonel E. R. S. Canby at Valverde near Fort Craig, some
one hundred and forty miles from El Paso. The victory went to
the Texans who advanced northward to Santa Fe and thence east-
ward toward Las Vegas. On March 28 at Apache Canyon or
Glorieta Pass, a narrow track in a deep gorge, Sibley's Texans met
a second Union brigade led by Colonel John P. Slough in the
Battle of Glorieta or Pigeon's Ranch. The action in thick covers
of cedars continued from morning to late afternoon, when a Con-
federate flag of truce ended hostilities and permitted the burying
of the dead. Among the casualties was Edward Burrowes. He fell
according to the report of an eye witness, while dismounted and
serving as a gunner. The dead were buried on the field where they
fell. Later they were reburied at Santa Fe. None was identified
as Union or Confederate, all head boards bearing the same inscrip-
tion, "Unknown, Removed from Pigeon's Ranch."
slGeorge W. Walling to Thomas Burrowes, February 5, 1866.366
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