Letter
Henry H. Sibley to A. M. Jackson, December 14, 1861
GENERAL “RCRUM HDQRS. ARMY OF NEW MEXICO,
December 14, 1861.
No. 10. Fort Bliss, Tex., December 14, 1861. I. Brig. Gen. H. H. Sibley assumes from this date the command of all the forces of the Confederate States on the Rio Grande at and above Fort Quitman and all in the Territory of New Mexico and Arizona. – II. The forces under the orders of Brigadier-General Sibley will hereafter be known and designated as the “Army of New Mexico.”
ILII. Headquarters of this army are temporarily fixed at Fort Bliss, À $5
whither communications will be forwarded until further orders.
By order of Brig. Gen. H. H. Sibley :
A. M. JACKSON,
Acting Adjutant-General, Army of New Mexico.
OFFICE TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS R. R. Co.,
Acting Adjutant-General, Army of New Mexico.
OFFICE TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS R. R. Co.,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 4
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