The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-24
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
Correspondence between the War Department. and
Gen. Taylor.


Correspondence between War Department. and
| Gen. Taylor.
[Continued from Mondays Unionl
MEMORANDA FOR THE CHIEFS OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF
THE ARMY AT WASHINGTON.
An army OF some twenty odd thousand men, regulars
and volunteers, including the troops already in Texas
about 70 be directed against Mexico in several columns.
for me numbers OF troops yet to be sent into Texas
RENDEZVOUS points of departure and the Of
march hlther each chief OF the general staff will obtain
the information, needfnl to his particular department.
from the Secretary OF Wars calls upon the governors of
several States and from the Adutant General.
Arms, requirements, ammunition and camp equi-
page must De thrown In advance upon the several
or points OF departure unless depots arsenas
should De In the routes which may be given TO volunteers
II IS not ioeseen that guns field artillery will be given
TO any boiy OF volunteers other than detachment which
Will narch under Colonel Kearny, from Fort Leaven-
wsrh, See instructions on the subject given to that
ofScex
several rendezvous given, and far practicable on
the several routes thence to be given to both regulars and
volunteers. Hard bread and bacon (side pieces mid
dngs are suggested and recommended for marches both
account OF health and comparative ghness OF trans
portaton On many of the routes it is supposed beef
cattle may be obtained in tolerabe abundance.
With the means OF transportation, by water and land,
according to the several routes to be given to the troops,
and on land, whether wagons pack mules, or both
wheels and packsthe qartermaste general will charge
himself at once, and fast the necessary data be
settled or known lit may, however, be now assumed by
him and the two other chiefs of staff in question: that
Cincinnati and Newport (Kentucky) Madison or Jeaer-
son. lndiana Louisville and Smithland, Kentucky
Quincy Alton Illinois; Memphis and Nashville Ten.
nessee; Washington or Fulton, the Red river, and
Natchez Mississippi will be appointed as places Of rem
be called for by the War Department For marches by
land, proet for the of transportation, by COM
pany battalion OF regiment ZINE according 70 route, Is re-
and beyond the Rio Grande, using for the latter pur
pose those which may accompany the troops, will re-
Quire particular study; but boats for transporting sup
plies on that river should be early provided assuming
the depth OF water to certain height (up the rver at
three three and half feet and another distance,
higher up, at two and half feet.
WINFIELD SCOTT
| HEADQUARTERS THE ARMY, May IS, 1916.
further desirable that the surgeon general should
take early to throw necessary supplies from
his department. upon the places of rendezvous las fast
they be asceraned above) for the different bodies
Of volunteers and regulars to be put IN route for the Rio
Grande and for the augmented forces about to be
WINFIELD SCOTT
| General r. S. JEsup, Quartermaster General.
! General GEORGE GIBSON, COMFY. Gen. Sub.
General N. TowsoN, Paymaster Gen.
! Colonel GEORGE TALcoTT, Ord. Dept.
] DR.. THos. LAWSON, Surg. Gen.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF OCCUPATION,
! Matamoros June Sd, 1916.
SIR: respectfully enclose herewith field return of
the forces and Matamoros both regular and vol
uneer The corps known to have arrived at Point lsa-
bel, of which returns have yet been received, will
carry the entire force under my orders to nearly eight
thousand men.
| am necessarily detained at this point for want OF suit
able transportation to carry offensive operations.
There is not steamboat at my command proper for the
navigation of the Rio Gande and without water trans
poration, consider it useless to attempt any extensive
movement Measures have been taken to procure boats
of suitable daugh and descriptions and two may be
now expected In the mean time, propose to push a
battalion of infantry far Reynosa, and occupy that
Epra in fha nj
it will be necessary to establish large depot at Camar
CO. which shall lose time in doing soon as proper
transports arrive, unless receive counter instructions
from the department
trust the department will see that could not possibly
have anticipated the arrival of such heavy renorcemens
from Louisiana as are now here, and on their way hher
Without large of transportation, this force will
embarrass, rather than facilitate our operations cannot
doubt that the department has already given Instructions
based upon the change in position since my first call
for volunteers.
Our last accounts of Asta represent his force to be
halted at Coma, extensive hacienda on the Monterey
road about one hundred miles from this point He has
pckes covering the loads leading to Maamoros, with
view to cut off all communication with the interior The
departmental authorities have issued decree denouncng
as traitors all who hold intercourse with u.s. or with those
who do So nevertheless disposed to believe that in
some quarters at least presence is not unfavoraby
Viewed We have intelligence from the city OF Mex
leo.
Ordnance stores and other munitions of war are
nually discovered in the town Five pieces OF cannon,
and very large amount OF balls shells, and ammunition
generally have been brought TO light.
| am sir, very respectfully, your obedent servant
| z. TAYLOR,
| Bt Dr. Gen u. S. A. comdg.
The ApJuTANT GENERAL of the army, Washington, d. G..
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION,
| Matamoros June 10, 1916.
SIR beg leave earnestly invite the attention of the
department to the following points;
lst The great influx of volunteers at Point Isabel.
Five regiments certainly from Louisiana, numbering, say
5000 men; two regiments or baalions IRON Louisville
and ST. Louis numbering, say 200 more several com
panies from Alabama, and | know not how many from
Texas, the latter beginning to arrive The voun-
eer troops now under my orders amount TO nearly 1000
men. How far they may be increased without previous
notification to me, il is impossible to tell
ally The entire want of the proper kind OF transpor-
,tion IN push nv opeatons up the river The boats on