Letter
Gurden Chapin to SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRs. DEPARTMENT OF NEw MEXICO, August 21, 1862
August 21, 1862.
Santa Fé, N. Mex., August 21, 1862. Brig. Gen. JAMES H. CARLETON, Commanding District of Arizona, Fort Bliss, Tex.: GENERAL: The commanding general desires that you will arrange the affairs of your district so that the command may be turned over to 8 R R—VOL L, PT
the officer next in rank as soon as practicable, and hold yourself in readiness to repair to the headquarters of the department.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Captain, Seventh U. S. Infantry, Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen.
[Inclosure O.]
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRs. DEPARTMENT OF NEw MEXICO,
No. 153. f Santa Fé, N. Mex., August 26, 1862.
to Santa Fé, for the purpose of relieving Brigadier-General Canby in
the command of the Department of New Mexico.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Summary: Gurden Chapin orders Brigadier General James H. Carleton to transfer command of the District of Arizona to the next senior officer and proceed promptly to Santa Fé to assume command of the Department of New Mexico.
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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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