CHAP. XI.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
Espia, near Manzano, dated, respectively, the 19th and 20th instant.* The colonel wishes you to explore the country in the neighborhood of your present position, with a view of selecting the most eligible position for locating a force of volunteers, which will be directed to relieve you in a few days. The result of your reconnaissance you will report to these headquarters. You will push forward the spies of Barrientes' company to the vicinity of Fort Stanton, and ascertain accurately, if possible, the exact state of affairs there. The information thus obtained you are desired to report. You are directed also to find out the state of feeling among the inhabitants on the Rio Bonito, as some of them were known rebels. They may now affect to claim the protection of the United States troops on the ground of their loyalty. Should you have any prisoners, or should you take any, you will send them to Albuquerque, with such evidence as you may have in the premises.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
GURDEN CHAPIN, Captain, Seventh Infantry, Actg. Asst. Adjt. General
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe, N. Mex., September 22, 1861.
ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Headquarters Western Department, Saint Louis, Mo.:
SIR: I have the honor to report that affairs in this department are progressing favorably. About 650 volunteers have been mustered into the service since my last report, and I think that six companies of the Fourth Regiment can be raised in this Territory and the remainder can be procured in Colorado. A collision has occurred between the volunteers at Fort Fauntleroy and a party of Navajo Indians. Twelve Indians are reported to have been killed and forty captured. The details will be reported by the next mail.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
ED. R. S. CANBY, Colonel Nineteenth Infantry, Commanding Department.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe, N. Mex., September 27, 1861.
Major N. B. ROSSELL, U. S. A., Commanding Albuquerque, N. Mex.:
SIR: The colonel commanding has been informed by the governor of the Territory that some persons at and in the neighborhood of Albuquerque have refused to submit to the laws of the United States directing the enrollment of the militia, and he directs that, upon the application of any of the Territorial officers charged with the duty of enrolling the militia, a guard (to be taken preferably from the mounted volunteers) be sent for the purpose of arresting these individuals, and that they be placed in confinement until they can be brought to trial.
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
GURDEN CHAPIN, Captain, Seventh Infantry, Actg. Asst. Adjt. General
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