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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
here had been collisions between the hostile forces on the borders of the Rio Grande. Colonel Theodore H. Barrett, of the Sixty-second United States Colored Infantry, was in command of the National f-Colonel Mor rison, with about two hundred men of the Thirty-fourth Indiana, veterans, when Colonel Barrett assumed command, in person, and ordered an advance in the direction of Palmetto Ranche, whewithout much effect. By a, vigorous charge, the Confederates were driven several miles. Colonel Barrett relinquished the pursuit for the purpose of resting his men, on a hill about a mile from Pa. The attacking force was under the command of General J. E. Slaughter. The Rio Grande was on Barrett's left. He had no artillery; his situation was extremely critical; and he had no alternative bored Infantry, fired the last volley of the war. Written communication to the author, by Colonel Barrett, dated June 16, 1868. His reported loss in this expedition, in killed, wounded and prisone