Letter

ED. R. S. Canby to Nineteenth Infantry, Commanding Department, September 22, 1861

Author
ED. R. S. Canby
Recipient
Nineteenth Infantry, Commanding Department
Date
September 22, 1861
Type
Letter

September 22, 1861.

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

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Headquarters Western Department, Saint Louis, Mo. :

SIR: I have the honor to report that affairs in this department are progressing favorably. About 650 volunteers have been mustered into the service since my last report, and I think that six companies of the . Fourth Regiment can be raised in this Territory and the remainder can be procured in Colorado. A collision has occurred between the volunteers at Fort Fauntleroy and a party of Navajo Indians. Twelve Indians are reported to have been killed and forty captured. The details . will be reported by the.next mail.

Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,. `

Colonel Nineteenth Infantry, Commanding Department.

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1861. Summary: Colonel Canby reports favorable progress in New Mexico with 650 volunteers mustered, plans to raise additional companies, and a recent violent clash between volunteers and Navajo Indians resulting in casualties and captives.
Topics
1861Civil WarField ReportsMilitary CorrespondenceMilitary Operations
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 4 View original source ↗
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