OPERATIONS IN TEX., N.MEX.,AND ARIZ. [CHAP.XI.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, Galveston, November 25,1861.

General S.COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector-General C.S.A., Richmond, Va.:

SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith, for the information of the Secretary of War, a communication from Lieutenant Colonel John R.Baylor, First Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles, informing that California is on the eve of a revolution, and recommending that the Southerners in that State be induced to join the Confederate States Army.

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

P.O. HEBERT, Brigadier-General, P.A., Commanding Dep't of Texas.

[Inclosure.]

HEADQUARTERS, Dona Ana, Ariz., November 2,1861.

[Major S.B.DAVIS:]

SIR: I beg to call your attention to some matter of information that may be of service to the Government at this time. California is on the eve of a revolution. There are many Southern men there who would cheerfully join us if they could get to us, and they could come well armed and mounted. I would ask permission to get all such men as choose to join us, and would further ask that some arrangement for the purchase of horses in California be made. I could now buy the best of horses there for less than $50 per head, and there are many Southern men who would sell them for Confederate bonds. Another thing I take the liberty of suggesting is, that a force be placed in Western Arizona, to watch the landing of United States troops at Guaymas, that they may not pass through Sonora to invade us. A party of Californians have just arrived, and report that there are no troops on the road at this time, but that the United States Government was trying to raise them for the purpose of invasion, and I am reliably informed that the Government of Mexico has sent orders to the governor of Sonora to allow the passage of United States troops through that State, and agents are in Sonora buying corn and supplies for the United States troops. I have thought proper to furnish you with this information and leave you to act upon it.

Respectfully,

JOHN R.BAYLOR, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding T.M.R.

HDQRS. THIRD REG'T TEXAS INF., PROV. ARMY, Fort Brown, Tex., November 30,1861.

Major SAMUEL BOYER DAVIS, Asst.Adjt.General ,Dep't of Texas, Galveston, Tex.:

SIR: Information has been given me by Colonel Charles Livenskiold, the Texas State commissioner, that a company of infantry, commanded by Captain -Morgan, was mustered into the Confederate service for the war, as one of the companies designed for this regiment [the Third Texas Infantry, Colonel Luckett], at Corpus Christi. This company, I understand, has received no orders to report at this post, but still remains at Corpus Christi. There is also at that point another company [artillery], both of them well armed. As I conceive that one company