Sunday, October 9, 2011

NEW YORK, March 27 [1862].

Santa Fe advices of the 10th inst. state that the Texans had taken Santa Fe.

Maj. Donelson, commander of that department, reached Kansas City of the 25th en route for Washington, to urge forward reinforcements for Forts Craig and Union.

All the Government property had been sent to Ft. Union.  All American families had fled thither.

Four hundred troops at Ft. Wise are ordered to reinforce Ft. Union, which will make a strong defense.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 2

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