Tomas Mejia to Citizen Matias Romero , Envoy Extraordinary and, March 6, 1866

[Translation.]

MEXICAN REPUBLIC—COLONEL IN SERVICE.

As I informed you in my note of the 1st instant, when I requested Colonel Brown, commander of the Rio Grande district, to give me the arms, munitions, and artillery brought from Bagdad by Colonel Garza, he told me he had orders from General Wright, commander of the department of Texas, to give up nothing without his order.

Colonel Brown advised me to go to Galveston and see General Wright in person, as the best way to settle all the difficulties.

I went to Galveston, where General Wright informed me verbally that he had received orders from General Sheridan to deliver the arms, munitions, and artillery taken from Bagdad by our forces to General Tomas Mejia, chief of the traitors in Matamoras, and that the orders had been transmitted before my arrival in Galveston.

I was astonished at the proceeding, and, believing all protests useless, I determined to start for Washington in a few days to give you the particulars of the affair, as they are too numerous for the limits of a despatch.

Accept the assurances of my respectful consideration.