Letter

Mariano Escobedo to Citizen, November 14, 1865

Author

Mariano Escobedo

Recipient

Citizen

Date

November 14, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 1.

[Translation.]

MINISTRY OF WAR AND MARINE—MEXICAN REPUBLIC—CORPS OF THE ARMY OF THE NORTH—GENERAL-IN-CHIEF.

The paper which I have the honor to send you, relating to the operations that took place during the siege of Matamoras, will inform the citizen President of all that occurred during those days, and therefore, in this communication, I will merely say that I am very well pleased with the excellent behavior of the chiefs, officers, and citizens composing the troops under my command. All of them did their duty, and their sufferings from frequent rains and cold winds in the marshes around Matamoras make them worthy of public esteem, and of the gratitude of the supreme magistrate of the republic.

Independence and liberty! Camp on the plain of Realito, November 14, 1865.

M. ESCOBEDO.

Citizen Minister OF War of the Mexican republic, (wherever he may be.)

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.