Engagement At Picacho Pass. [Cover Title]

CRAIG RINGER

Publication: Arizona State Parks, 1996, Phoenix

First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, [4], 46 [1] pp., prelude, illustrated, appendices, bibliography, about the author and illustrator. Tells of the skirmish between Union and Confederate forces at Picacho Pass, Arizona in April, 1862. The Battle at Picacho Pass was the westernmost battle of the American Civil War. In February 1862, a band of 120 Confederate Rangers under Capt. Sherod Hunter occupied Tucson, Arizona, as part of an effort to expand the border of the Confederacy westward. In order to thwart this move, a 2,350-strong, pro-Union "Column from California" under Col. James H. Carleton set out toward Tucson. On April 15th, a Union squad under Lt. James Barrett of the 1st California Cavalry met with a patrol of Confederate Rangers led by Sergeant Henry Holmes near Picacho Peak, a rocky spire 50 miles northwest of Tucson on the Overland Stagecoach route. Fearing an ambush and not waiting to attack the Confederates together with the other squads, Barrett's men rode into the Ranger's camp and attacked alone. Barrett was killed, and fierce combat continued for more than an hour before the Rangers retreated back to Tucson. Fine copy.

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