Your Correspondent
After the skirmish, the remaining Confederates retreated to Tucson to warn their comrades.
Confederate Capt. Sherod Hunter ordered his outnumbered troops
to leave Tucson on May 14, retreating to New Mexico.
The Union troops arrived in Tucson on May 20, 1862
putting an end to Confederate incursions in the Southwest.
June 14, 2009