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that order. The services of these companies will be needed immediately, and it is respectfully recommended that they be raised in San Miguel County, or as near Fort Union as possible, and be ordered to rendezvous at that post at as nearly a period as may be practicable. Instructions will be given to the commanding officer at Fort Union to muster these companies into the service of the United States, to arm them fully, and to equip them, as far as the means in the department will permit.

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

ED. R. S. CANBY, Major Tenth Infantry, &c.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe, N. Mex., June 22, 1861.

His Excellency Governor RENCHER, Santa Fe, N. Mex.:

SIR: In addition to my requisition of yesterday, I have the honor to call for four companies of foot volunteers, to rendezvous at Albuquerque, N. Mex.; one company of foot and one of mounted volunteers, to rendezvous at Fort Craig; and one company of foot and one of mounted volunteers, to rendezvous at Fort Stanton; the whole to assemble at the points indicated as soon as possible, and to be mustered into the service of the United States in conformity with the regulations prescribed in War Department General Orders, Numbers 15, of 1861.

Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

ED. R. S. CANBY, Major Tenth Infantry, Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel , Commanding

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe, N. Mex., June 23, 1861.

His Excellency GOVERNOR OF CHIHUAHUA, Chihuahua, N. Mex.:

SIR: The bearer of this communication, First Lieutenant Donald C. Stith, of the U. S. Army, has been commissioned by me to visit your excellency, for the purpose of asking your assistance in effecting the restoration of a train of wagons and a large quantity of stores, the property of the Government of the United States, which were carried into the State of Chihuahua in the month of March last, by William D. Kirk, then a wagon-master in the U. S. Army. This flagrant robbery and breach of faith will be fully reprobated by your excellency,a nd I have the fullest confidence that you will at once, in the exercise of your powers, direct the restoration of the public property and the delivery of the robber (Kirk) into the hands of the accredited agent of the United States. Lieutenant Stith takes with him, for the information of your excellency, a full statement of the circumstances connected with this robbery, so that you can see at once the true history and merits of the case. He will also take inventories of the stolen property, in order that everything may be verified. When this property is restored to Lieutenant Stith I have the honor to request that your excellency will cause him to be furnished with any assistance that may be necessary to facilitate his return to this department, and if it should be needed that you will direct the train to be escorted tot he frontier of Chihuahua, where an escort from the troops of this department will meet it. I beg to assure your excellency that the action that you may take in this matter will be fully recognized and appreciated by the Government of the United States.