Difficulties Between the People of Texas and Mexico: Letter from the Secretary of War Furnishing Information in Relation to Difficulties Between the People of Texas and the People of Mexico |
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1st cavalry 8th infantry 8th instant accoutre Adjutant 2d Cavalry animals appendages arms Army artillery ASSISTANT ADJUTANT Austin Bent's Bent's Fort body of troops Brevet Colonel Camp Cooper Colonel Brown Colonel Lee Com'g Brownsville Expedition Comanches command companies of cavalry Cortinas country date Department of Texas depredations diate disturbances enclose five thousand FLOYD force Fort Brown Fort Washita Governor of Texas HEADQUARTERS BROWNSVILLE EXPEDITION herewith honor horses HOUSTON Imme immediate Indian agency interior of Mexico left Lieutenant Lowe lower Rio Major 1st Infantry Major Heintzleman marauders March Matamoras ment Mexican side miles mule yard night of February number obedient servant officer Orleans post President pursue pursuit quiet quota rangers reinforce report respectfully Ringgold barracks river S. P. HEINTZLEMAN SAM HOUSTON San Antonio scout Second Cavalry Secretary of War sent sentinel small parties Stanford University Libraries stolen Telegraphic despatch Texan thieves THOMAS thousand dollars three companies trail Washita whole herd
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Page 4 - I have the honor to report that, in obedience to your instructions, I proceeded to White House on Friday afternoon (20th) and returned yesterday.
Page 3 - animals of residents in the immediate vicinity of Camp Colorado driven off." Night of the 17th, "mule-yard at Camp Cooper, over which a sentinel was posted, was broken ¡u and the whole herd driven off. Twenty-three of the animals were recovered by a party sent at daylight in pursuit, but the remainder, forty mules and three horses, were not overtaken. The force at. the post was so much reduced by scouts then out that the detachment sent under Lieutenant Love, adjutant of the regiment, was principally...
Page 2 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, " JOHN B. FLOYD, Secretary of War.
Page 2 - Beferred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, January 25, 1889.
Page 6 - I have the honor to enclose, herewith, a copy of my letter to Lord Castlereagh on this occasion.
Page 5 - CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report, for the information of the department commander, that on the 15th ultimo I left this post with companies C, D, G, H...
Page 7 - Strong additional re-enforcements will be sent into Texas as soon as the season of the year will render a movement of troops possible.
Page 7 - Texas volunteers. Texas is ready for the emergency, and will act at a moment's warning. Texas needs, to repel invasions both from the Indians and Mexico, an immediate supply of arms.