CHAP.XI.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

I have only to add that I leave to your good sense and judgment to do as you think best. Don't fail to send corn at once to Quitman and a large supply for Davis. This must be done at once. I will keep you advised of all movements.

Yours, in haste,

JOHN R. BAYLOR.

HEADQUARTERS, Dona Ana, Ariz., October 25,1861.

COMMANDER DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS:

SIR: I hasten to inform you that my spies have returned from New Mexico, bringing the intelligence that Colonel Canby, with 2,500 men and a battery of flying artillery, are en route to this place. I shall be compelled to fall back, as my force is too weak to meet them. I have petitioned time and again for re-enforcements to prevent this disaster, to all of which a deaf ear has been turned. I have only to add that the abandonment of the country will necessarily be attended with a great sacrifice of property, and subject the friends of our cause to persecution and ruin. If it is the wish of the colonel commanding the department that Arizona should be abandoned, and I presume it is, he can congratulate himself upon the consummation of that event.

The colonel commanding the department informs me in his last orders to me that in case of invasion I can make such disposition as I think proper of the troops on my line, &c. This is liberal, when it is remembered that the troops of the enemy are but little over 100 miles from me and my re-enforcements scattered for 500 miles.

It is unnecessary to ask for re-enforcements, as I presume they are not to be had. I shall therefore fall back, and await the arrival of Brigadier-General Sibley.

Respectfully, &c.,

JOHN R. BAYLOR, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Arizona.

STATE OF TEXAS, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Austin, Tex., October 28,1861.

General P.O.HEBERT, C.S.A., Commanding Department of Texas, Galveston, Tex.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose you extracts from a letter addressed to me by Brigadier General D.M. Stapp, of the Texas militia, respecting the defenses of the important pass leading into Matagorda Bay. He is the collector of the port of Indianola; was a member of the late State Convention, and is an old citizen of intelligence and respectability.

Trusting that you will pardon any violation of military rule in my addressing you this communication directly, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

WM. BYRD, Adjutant-General of Texas.

[Inclosure.]

Colonel WM. BYRD, Adjutant-General, Austin, Tex.:

There are two companies [Captains Shea's and Reuss'], say 180 men, at the Pass, with four 24-pounders, furnished by the Government, and two

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