Thursday, October 10, 2013

From New Mexico

KANSAS CITY, May 15.

The Santa Fe mail arrived with advices from Ft. Craig to the 23d.  Gen. Canby was at that place with his command.  It was presumed he would move to Messilla in a short time.

The Texans in their retreat down the river abandoned 35 of their wagons, and buried some of their guns.  They then divided into small parties, and fled to the mountains, abandoning their sick, and all who could not travel at the requisite speed.  It is thought the enemy will not make another stand in the territory, but will endeavor to get home.

A hundred teams, with provisions that had been collected at Santa Fe, were sent to Fort Union on the 23d.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 1

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