The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-05-21

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Mach 20, 1917.
Sir 1.-The forces under NV command
are portion of the Missouri Volu n,eers.
called into service for he purpose of IN
'ad'ng Mexico, under command Of Brig.
General ('hen Col } Kearney. After The
conquest OF New Mexico, and before
Gen. kearney's departure for California,
Information was received that anuu rr
regiment and an extra battalion of Mis-
souri, Volunteers would follow us to Sam,
te The service Of so large a force be.
ing wholly unnecessary in that State.
prevailed on Gen. kearney to order nv
regiment to report to you at this civ
me order was given on he 23d Sep
TENDER, 1876; but after the General ar
rived a. La Joya. in the southern par. Of
HE State, lie issued an order recurring
my regiment to make a campaign into the
country inhabited by the Navajo Indians.
lying between the waters Of the Rio DEF
Norle and the Rio Colorado of the West.
| fhls campaign detained me until the 18th
oi December, before our return to the
Del Nortc. We Immediately common.
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