A. L. Anderson, July 1, 1861

Santa Fé, N. Mex., July 1, 1861.

COMMANDING OFFICER, Fort Stanton, N. Mex. :

SIR: I am instructed by the lieutenant-colonel commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 24th ultimo, and to say in reply to your application for re-enforcements that one company of the Fifth Infantry from Albuquerque has been ordered to proceed at once to your post; that a requisition has been made upon the governor of the Territory for additional companies of volunteers, one of which will be sent to you as soon as it can be organized, and that a company

of your regiment will be ordered from Fort Union to report to you as

soon as a company of mounted volunteers can be organized for service at that post.

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be OPERATIONS IN TEX., N. MEX., AND ARIZ. (Cmar, XL

More definite information from Texas indicates that the people in the neighborhood of Fort Bliss willnot be in a condition to make important demonstrations against New Mexico before the arrival of the Texan troops at that post. These troops are not expected” before the 10th of this month. It is believed that if any demonstrations are made before that time they will be confined to marauding expeditions, for the purpose of stealing your horses or disabling your command by driving off your means of transportation. It is known that movements of this kind are in contemplation, and will be undertaken as soon as the instigators find themselves sufficiently strong to hope for success, and it is believed that Fort Stanton is one of the points at which they will be aimed. The lieutenant-colonel commanding therefore desires that you will at once put your post in the best condition for defense that it is capable of, and that every arrangement that your experience and judgment may suggest should be brought into requisition. It is to be hoped that you may be able to pacify the Apaches without the necessity of making war upon them, as any difficulty of this kind would be- productive of great embarrassment, and at all events they will be of subordinate importance until the arrangements for resisting invasion are complete. It is not intended to withdraw any of the means of transportation at your post. The object of the inquiry was to ascertain the amount of transportation that could be procured in the neighborhood of your post for general purposes.

f you should find it necessary before the arrival of the volunteers —

referred to in my communication of the 26th ultimo, you are authorized to muster into the service any volunteers that ean be obtained in the neighboring country. * >

. Nothing has yet been heard from Colonel Pino, or of the company of mounted volunteers called for your post. It is hoped, however, that they will soon arrive there. The operations of Lieutenant Howland

were executed with such judgment and energy as to entitle his command

and himself to warm eommendation. You are regarded as the commanding officer of the Rifle Regiment, but considerations enumerated in my communication of the 22d instant render it advisable to defer the transfer of the headquarters at present.

Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,