CHAP. XI.] CAMP ROBLEDO, N. MEX.

SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 7, 1861.-Operations against Indians from Camp Robledo, N. Mex.

Report of Captain P. Hardeman, C. S. Army.

CAMP ROBLEDO, ARIZ., October 8, 1861.

SIR: I have the honor to report to you, in obedience to General Orders, Numbers 16, issued at headquarters, San Antonio, August 21, making it the duty of officers of scouting parties to forward reports of their operations to headquarters through their respective commanding officer, that, in obedience to your order, I, with a detachment of 25 of my men, accompanied by Captain Frazier, took up the line of march on the 30th ultimo en route to the Upper Rio Grande, to see if I could make any discoveries of the enemy in that portion of the country. After passing up the Jornada road some 50 miles I directed my course westward, to intersect the road running up the directed my course westward, to intersect the road running up the river by old Fort Thorn. Before reaching that road I cam across and Indian trail with a large flock of sheep. The trail being fresh, I thought proper to pursued them. After crossing the river and trailing about 10 miles northwest the trail then turned a due west course for 15 miles across a level plain to a very rough, mountainous country. Here the trail turned nearly due north through the chain of mountains. I followed them across the headquarters of the Rio Miembres, and thence to the tributaries of the Gila River. Not being able to overtake them a this point, and some of my horses becoming very tender-footed from traveling over the rocky country without shoes, and having started from camp with only three day's rations, and being entirely out at this time, I thought it prudent to abandon the chase and return to camp, which we did without having the pleasure of capturing the red rascals, and arrived in camp on the 7th instant, having been out four days without any rations or anything to eat except a few wild grapes which we were lucky enough to find in the mountains.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. HARDEMAN, Captain Company A, Commanding Scout.

Lieutenant Colonel J. R. BAYLOR, Commanding Second Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles.

OCTOBER 11-16, 1861.-Operations against Indians from Fort Inge, Tex.

Report of Sergt. W. Barrett, C. S. Cavalry, forwarded by Lieutenant John Bradley, C. S. Infantry.

FORT INGE, TEX., October 17, 1861.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to forward the inclosed report, and respectfully add that I sincerely deplore the loss that has been sustained by the death of three such good soldiers; also my inability to leave the post for the purpose of proceeding to the battle ground in hopes of recovering the bodies of the deceased, and again endeavoring to come up with the same party or finding others in the same neighborhood, for I think there are plenty of them to be found in that section of country.

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