Thursday, February 24, 2011

From New Mexico

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 17.

The Santa Fe mail, under date of January 31st has arrived.  Gen. Sibley’s command of 3000 Texans and eight field pieces, two being 32 pounders, advanced to Santa Barbara, but for som unaccountable reason, had retired in the direction of El Paso.

Col. Canby, with 1,300 regulars and 2,000 Mexican volunteers, as after him.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 1

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