Order
Carleton, August 27, 1862
GENERAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ARIZONA,
NOIK Franklin, Tex., August 27, 1862.
IL. Captain Roberts’ company (E, First California Volunteer Infantry) and Captain Pishows company (D, First California Volunteer Cavalry) will be ordered by Colonel West to proceed without delay to Franklin, Tex., where Captain Roberts’ company will take post, and whence Captain Pishon’s company will march to Fort Stockton, in Texas, as a guard to some prisouers of the Confederate Army who are to be sent to Texas on parole. Each of these companies will be rationed from the depot at Mesilla to include the 30th proximo. Besides these rations Colonel West will send, escorted by Roberts’ company, 6,000 rations of subsistence stores from the Mesilla depot to Franklin, Tex.
By order of Brigadier-General Carleton:
First Lieut., First California Vol. Infty., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen.
[Inclosure Q.]
Franklin, Tex., September 1, 1862.
COMMANDER OF CONFEDERATE TROOPS, SAN ANTONIO, TEX.:
[Inclosure Q.]
Franklin, Tex., September 1, 1862.
COMMANDER OF CONFEDERATE TROOPS, SAN ANTONIO, TEX.:
SIR: I found on my arrival here some twenty-odd sick and wounded
soldiers of the C.S. Army, whom I was ordered by General Canby,
commanding the Department of New Mexico, to make prisoners of
war. These men, at their earnest solicitation, I sent to San Antonio
soldiers of the C.S. Army, whom I was ordered by General Canby,
commanding the Department of New Mexico, to make prisoners of
war. These men, at their earnest solicitation, I sent to San Antonio
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: NOIK Franklin, Tex..
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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