CANSAS CITY, May 10. – The Santa Fe mail has arrived with advices from Fort Craig to the 23d of April. Gen. Canby was at that place with his command. It was presumed he would soon move forward to Messailla.
The Texans on their retreat down the river abandoned 35 of their wagons and buried some of their guns. When they crossed the Purcio river at its junction with the Rio Grande, they then separated into small parties and fled to the mountains abandoning their sick and those who could not travel at the requisite speed.
It is thought that the enemy will not make another stand in the Territory, but endeavor to get home.
One hundred wagons of provisions that had been collected at Santa Fe, were sent to Fort Union on the 23rd.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3
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