A. L. Anderson to HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW Mexico, September 10, 1861

September 10, 1861.

Santa Fé, N. Mex., September 10, 1861. Lieut. Col. B. S. ROBERTS, U.S. A., = Comdg. Southern Military Dist., Fort Craig, N. Mex.:

SIR: I am instructed by the colonel commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your communieation of the 7th instant, and to inform you that none of the companies of mounted volunteers that were to have been stationed at the Abo Pass have yet been raised. A party of spies has just returned from the Canadian River. They went a day’s journey beyond the Antelope Hills, and saw no trails nor any other evidence of the presence of the enemy in that quarter. They bring a report, however, from the Comanches, which is corroborated by information from other sources, that a large party had been on the plains some time since and had turned back.

Very respeetfully, sir,

your obedient servant,

Second. Lieutenant, Fifth I. nfantry, A. A. A. G.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW Mexico,

Santa Fé, N. Mex., September 22, 1861.

Capt. I. N. MOORE,

First Cavalry, Commanding Camp near Manzano, N. Mev.:

SIR: I am directed by the colonel commanding the department to

acknowledge the receipt of your two communications from Cerro de la