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[Inclosure.]
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS,
San Antonio, February 26, 1861.Statement of the number of troops to be removed from the Department of Texas, in compliance with General Twigg's agreement with the commissioners on the part of the State of Texas.
Number of Medical Field
companies. officers. officers.
To embark at the
Brazos
Third Infantry 10 3 3
Two companies, E and 2 .... ....
G, Second Cavalry
Total 12 3 3
To embark at Indianola
Second Cavalry (8 8 4 2
companies)
First Infantry (5 5 2 2
companies)
Eighth Infantry (9 9 5 1
companies)
Total 22 11 5
Grand total 34 14 8
Company Ordnance Enlisted
officers. sergeants men.
and
hospital
stewards.
To embark at the
Brazos
Third Infantry 25 4 762
Two companies, E and 6 ..... 121
G, Second Cavalry
Total 31 4 883
To embark at Indianola
Second Cavalry (8 17 3 588
companies)
First Infantry (5 13 4 385
companies)
Eighth Infantry (9 19 4 472
companies)
Total 49 11 1,445
Grand total 80 15 2,328
Laundresses Officers' Aggregate.
. servants.
To embark at the
Brazos
Third Infantry 40 34 871
Two companies, E and 8 6 141
G, Second Cavalry
Total 48 40 1,012
To embark at Indianola
Second Cavalry (8 32 25 671
companies)
First Infantry (5 20 17 443
companies)
Eighth Infantry (9 36 21 558
companies)
Total 88 63 1,672
Grand total 136 103 2,684
Besides the officers and enlisted men included in the above list, thee are one doctor and one paymaster stationed at Fort Brown, and one paymaster at Fort Bliss. One ordnance sergeant is stationed at Brazos Santiago, and a hospital steward at Fort Brown.
C. A. WAITE,
Colonel, U. S. Army, Commanding Department.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS,
San Antonio, March 3, 1861.COLONEL: Your letter of the 15th February, containing directions for the movement of the troops out of this Department in case Texas should secede, was handed to me by Lieutenant Putnam on the 1st instant. The several communications forwarded by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Chandler, Third Infantry, which I trust will reach you by the 8th instant, will inform you of the condition of affairs in this department up to the 25th ultimo. Previous to that date the commissioners of the State demanded of me certain statements in elation to the funds in the hands of disbursing officers, the known object of which was to enable them to seize all moneys belonging to the United States for the benefit of Texas. (See paper B.) To this demand I refused compliance. (Paper marked C.) On the morning of the 25th ultimo n armed force, acting under the commissioners of the State, took forcible possession of the offices occupied by Major Vinson, quartermaster; Major McClure, paymaster; Captain Whiteley, Ordnance office; Captain Blair, commissary of subsistence, and Lieutenant Williams, depot commissary; ejected these officers and
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