Qualla: Battle of Peralta https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Peralta https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta Battle of Peralta: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta/ A dust storm saved the Confederate Army. On the morning of April 14, 1862, Colonel Thomas Green's 5th Texas Mounted Volunteers woke in the small town of Peralta, New Mexico Territory, to the sound of Union cavalry thundering toward their wagon train. They had been retreating for weeks, broken and hungry after the disastrous Battle of Glorieta Pass had shattered Confederate dreams of conquering the American West. Colonel Edward Canby's Union forces had finally caught up. What followed was a day of artillery duels fought across irrigation ditches and crumbling adobe walls - ended not by victory or surrender, but by the desert itself.

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/h/n/battle-of-peralta-wp/9whn-battle-of-peralta-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Peralta: The Confederacy's Western Gamble https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta/ Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley had marched his Army of New Mexico north from Texas with an audacious plan: seize the territory, push through to Colorado's gold fields, and potentially reach the Pacific coast to open Confederate access to western ports. The campaign began ...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/h/n/battle-of-peralta-wp/9whn-battle-of-peralta-the-confederacys-western-gamble.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Peralta: Dawn Assault Among the Adobe https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta/ Canby struck at dawn. Union cavalry charged the Confederate wagon train on the outskirts of town, killing and capturing the guards. Green's Texans scrambled into defensive positions behind Peralta's low adobe houses, turning the town's mud-brick walls and irrigation canals into i...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/h/n/battle-of-peralta-wp/9whn-battle-of-peralta-dawn-assault-among-the-adobe.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Peralta: The Desert Intervenes https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta/ Then the land itself took a hand. A massive dust storm rolled across the Rio Grande valley, blinding both armies in a wall of brown grit. Visibility dropped to almost nothing. Under this curtain of sand, the Confederates slipped out of their battered positions and crossed to the ...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/h/n/battle-of-peralta-wp/9whn-battle-of-peralta-the-desert-intervenes.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Peralta: The Last Confederate Stand in New Mexico https://qualla.com/battle-of-peralta/ Peralta was one of the final engagements of the New Mexico Campaign, a brief but significant chapter of the Civil War that determined the fate of the American Southwest. Had Sibley's gamble succeeded, the Confederacy might have gained access to western gold, Pacific ports, and th...

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