CHAP. XI.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
officer. To the non-commissioned officers and men it will be administered as prescribed by the instructions of 1848, paragraph 104.
As soon as mustered, these companies will be armed and equipped for immediate service. Arms, ammunition, and camp and garrison equipage will be issued upon requisitions approved by you, but no clothing will be issued without further orders. If you have not on hand a sufficiency of camp equipage (tents, axes, spades, camp-kettles, and mess pans), you will make your requisitions upon the department quartermaster at Albuquerque, who will be instructed to fill them without reference to department headquarters.
The mounted company will be armed with rifles and the foot company with muskets. The arms for this purpose and the necessary ammunition have been ordered to be sent you form the depot at Fort Union. If they should not reach you in season, you can probably obtain for temporary use the arms in the possession of the volunteers in received. A list of these will be sent to you herewith.
The action of the State of Texas and of the people of the Mesilla Valley make it necessary that your post should be strengthened, so as to enable you to keep open the communication with the posts in the South. Your own company, the company (F) of the Seventh Infantry, and the two companies of volunteers will probably be sufficient for this purpose.
Your views in relation to this are invited, bearing in mind that strong escorts will be required for all trains going South, and that it is known privately that a movement against New Mexico is being organized at Fort Bliss, and, if not frustrated, will take place soon after the Texan troops reach that post. They are expected about the first of next month.
By direction of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Canby: Very respectfully, &c.,
A. L. ANDERSON, Second Lieutenant, Fifth Infantry, A. A. A. G.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe, N. Mex., June 25, 1861.
Bvt. Major N. B. ROSSELL, Fifth Infantry, Commanding Albuquerque:
SIR: A requisition has been made upon the governor of New Mexico for four companies of foot volunteers, to rendezvous at Albuquerque, where they will be mustered into the service of the United States, and sent, as soon as they are armed and equipped, to relieve the companies of the Fifth Infantry at Fort Fauntleroy. Colonel M. E. Pino, appointed by the President to the command of the Second Regiment of New Mexican Volunteers, will designate the companies that are to assemble at Albuquerque. These companies will form part of the Second Regiment, and they will be mustered into the service for the period of three years, unless sooner discharged, and the organization will be the minimum prescribed by General Orders (War Department), No 15, of 1861.*
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By direction of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Canby: Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
A. L. ANDERSON, Second Lieutenant, Fifth Infantry, A. A. A. G.
*Details omitted.
