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question, and beg to shy fear no other dan
ger.
My intentions have been, after making all
preliminary arrangements mere to pass down
the Ohio and Mi,sissiI pi, to see, or 10 assure
myself by correspondence, that the volunteers
on whom we are mostly 10 RELY in the prose-
cution of the existing war, are taIhdly assem-
bling for the service; TO learn the probable
! time Of their readiness to advance upon MeXi-
Cos to ascertain if their supplies OF every kind
are in place, or are likely TO be in place in
sufficient time; to hasten one and the other;to
harmonic the movements OF volunteers, and
TO modify their route (f necessary so that
all, or at least sufficient mber, shall ar
rive at the indicated points in the Mexican
frontier at the best periods and is far as prac.
ticaOle, about the sARe time. Al! that have
. but Sketched | deem TO be not oEIy useful 10
success, but indBI eBssbie Az soldier |
make his assertion wiA0ut the fear of con-
| tradlcton from any honest and candid soldier
Against the at copkRldlHn cOndemuh Ron Of
all other persons, whoever may be designated
for the high command in question, there can
be no reliance (in his absence other than the
active, candid and steady support OF bis gov
eminent. If | cannoi have that suR basis 10
rest upon, it will be Infinitely better for the
country (not TO speak of my personal security
that some other commander Of the new army
against Mexico should be selected No mat
ter who he may be, he shall, tleaat, be iudg-
ed and supported by me, IN this Office and eve
rywhere else, as | would desire, PERSONALLY
in that command, to be myself Judged and
supported.
My explicit meaning is, that do not desire
to place myself in the most peClous Of all po-
silons-a fire upon my rear from Washington,
he fire j,l fi.o,Y fba No
1t was distinctly admitted, and laid down as
basis, i'll the interviews had the honor to
hold wit The President and yourself on the
subject, at special army of some thirty
thousand troops, regulars, and twelve months
volunteers, would be necessary for the march
against, aud the conquest OF peace in Next
co. | adhere to that opinion. 1t Is fOreseen,
with toerable certainty, that we shall not
have, In many months, more than seven thou
sand ut quite so many regulars, applicable to
that service. The remaining numbers are TO
be made up in volunteer horse and foot |
suppose Of these, taken together, about IL
900 have been actually called for. There is
yet good time, think, to make the additions
suggested in one Of the tables had the honor
to submit last night.
The question follows By what time can an
army of about 80 900, as above, se brought 10
act from the different points agreed upon in
the interviews alluded 10 upon Mexico;
More than half of the 7 600 regulars remain
10 be recruited. | hope they NAV be obtain
| ed and taken to the Rio Grapde, though raw
or uninstruct,d, by the first of September next
! Can twO-thirds, or even half Of the yolun.
teer horse be got to that river much before
that timer greatly doubt the possibility
without the shadow Of doubt about the p.-
triotlsn or zeal Of the citizens who have been
specially called upon. The foot volunteers,
aided by water transportation (belieTed to be
Impossible with the horse, may, probably,
reach all the points for commencing operations
a week or two early. But If horse be a ne
Glossary element to success, (and twO-thirds,
if not three-fourths, of the Mexican army are
understood to be in the saddle what utility
would there be in forcing the foot much a.
head of the horse. This ought 10 be a matter
of arrangement, left 10 the commander of the
special army, as information may open upon
him in his progress to the Mexican frontier,
near the heads of columns, or thin easy cor
responding distance with most Of them The
particular question here then recurs- can the
horse regiment from Kentucky, the most dis
tant from Mexico) or that from Tennessee
(say IS days nearer reach the Rio Grande
(by land be 1t remembered) much before the
have learned personally from the Jealous and
intelligent Adjutant General Dudley Of Ken
lucky that that most distant aulse regiment
cannot be assembled SAY at Frankfort on the
Bowling-green, earlier than the latter part Of
June.
Thence it will probably be obliged to march
via Memphis, Fulton, on the Red River, San
Antonio de BeXar &c, line Of some 200
miles. The routes of the Tennessee, Arkan-
sas, and Mississippi horse will BE respective
ly, say 400, 600, and 700 miles shorter, but
even the middle or Tennessee hose regiment,
cannot, allowing not day for instruction at
It's rendezvous, or on the route. reach the Rio
Grande, before according 10 all computa-
tions we can make here the middle Of Au-
gust.
think, considering that We cannot hope to
have more than 500 regular cavalry On the
lower Rio Grande, no commander would be
willing TO enter Mexico without beth ktntuC-
ky and Tennessee regiments of hcrse, and all
that have hSen called rom points nearer TO the
field of eXp&ted operations. may now state
fact which seems 10 be conclusive IS 10 the
period best for taking up lines Of operations
from and beyond the lower Rio Giande.
All the information that car De obtained
here represents that the rainy season on, and
south of The Rio GrsDde, begins about June,
and terminates about the lst Of September,
that during that season. the hOor Of the hose
and the mule becomes soileaed Though shod)
and diseased so as 10 disable the animal for
travel and work. Again. it is at the end cf
the rainy season, aud for some weeks later,
that in the northern provinces of Mexico, men
and horses would have the best chance 10 OBJ
tain drinking water; the horses the best graz
ing, and the commissaries the best beef and
mutton for men,
But another reason has hetu mentioned why
| should leave the preliminary work to be
done here, and abandon the tWelye-months
volunteers to find their WAY as they may 10