Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-09-17

Win Odpt. HUNTS company OF Artillery and
Capt. Reeds company of Texas cavalry, will
form the garrison of Camargo and its deuen-
cles, relieving the other troops now on that
duty
2. The Indiana regiment of volunteers will
proceed to Brazos Island and will then, with
the Ohio regiment embark for Vera Cruz. Brig
adler general Lane will take command Of
these regiments at the Brazos and conduct
Them to their destination
3. Six companies of the 18th Regiment, un-
der the colonel, will take ehe line of march
for Monterey, when they will relieve the pre-
sent garrison, composed of six companies of
the Massachusetts reg mtnt. The remaining
four companies. under the lieutenant colonel.
will in like manner relieve the battalion of
the Massachusetts regiment at Cerralvo. The
troops thus relieved will proceed to the Bra
EOS and be there concentrated under the com.
mand of Col. Wright,
4, The 9th Regiment will proceed to the
BraZos as soon as practicable after the CON-
panies of Massachusetts, regiment, now al
CerraIvo, shall have passed down the river.
5. Brig. Gen. Gushing will take up the line
of march, not later than the 23d inst, with
Capt. Deas' light battery, Company B, 4th ar
tillery.) He will proceed TO the Brazos, when
he will bring under his orders the 18th Regi-
ment and Massachusetts Regiment, and thence
conduct his entire command lone battery and
two regiments) to Vera Cruz.
Brig. Gen. Hopping will remain in COM
| mand OF the district of the Upper Rio Grande,
AID will establish his headquarters where be
may select. Should it be found necessary to
retain the general hospital at NIier, sufficient
guard will be furnished for it's protection, and
also sufficient force of medical officers and
attendants must be detailed from the regiments
which leave their sick. Great care will be ia
ken to furnish descriptive rolls of all atten-
dants and patients thus detached Col BeIknap
is specially charged with the rigid enforcement
of this order
7. Col Hays, with his command of Texas
horse, will march for the Brassos, and there
embark for Vera Cruz, in conformity with the
instructions issued to him by the War De-
paitment.
3. The above movements will be executed
with the least possible delay. The quarter
masters and other staff departments will fur
nish the necessary transportation and other
facilities for this purpose
By order of Maj. Gen. TAYLOR.
w. w. S. BLISS, Asst. Ad't Gen.
the Ohio and Indiana regiments, under Gen
|
sets regiment. with Deas' date Westinghouse
to Vera Cruz, and Hays regiment being sent
left on the Rio Grande line
! Gen'l WOODS command at Buena Vista and
Saltillo, will consist of the Virginia, North
Carolina, and I'd Mississippi regiments of VOL
unteers, and Major Chevale's three companies
of Texas Rangers
Gen'l Taylor at Walnut Springs will have
only Lieut.. Col Fauntleroy's squadron of dra-
goons, and Major Bragg's battery.
The 10th Infantry, Col. Tibbatts, and the
10th Infantry, Col. Temple, will garrison
Monterey, CerraIvo, Camargo, Reynosa, and
Matamoras.
The squadron of the 81 Dragons, COL But
Ter, and two companies of volunteer cavalry
from Alabama and Illinois, remain unassigned.
A portion of the dragons are at Mier, and it
for escort of trains and like duties IA cor
respondent of the National thus sums up the
troops who remain between Brassos Island and
Buena Vistal
Distribution of forces on the line Of the Rio
Grande, after the departure of the force nots
under marching orders for Vera Cruz:
! Point Isabel, | company 4th Artillery, 100
Fort Brown, company I'd Artillery, SO
Matamoras, 6 companies, 5 of 10th In
fantry, of Mounted Volunteers, 5ll
Camargo, &C., IL companies, of 10th
Infantry, of 81 Dragons, of 4th
Artillery, of Mounted Volunteers, 1888
CerraIvo, 4 companies 10th Infantry, 4O3
Monterey, companies 18th Infantry, Goa
Camp near Monterey, 5 companies 81
! Artillery, . I'd Dragons, Mounted
! Volunteers, 41a
Buena Vista, Saltllo, &C., AZ companies. 2l9l
Total number of troops, 556s
A few weeks since it was supposed thai
Capt. Baylor and his command had been Gu
off, The Flag gives the following letter from
It's correspondent, which assures us OF Captain
BIS safety:
/ CERRALvo, August Is, 1847.
Editors Flag :-My letter TO you of recen
date, gave information of an attack by a large
body of Mexicans upon a detachment of TWEEN
| ty-seven Texan rangers, commanded by Capt
Baylor, and the probable destruction of TIT
whole party save three, who had effected thei
escape and got back to this place. So posi-
tive were they in their statements that no more
could have escaped, that did not hesitate II
express to you my belief that all the rest hat
been killed. Such was the opinion of every
one here until this morning. Greatly to GU
relief, and much to our establishment, compo
sing part of an escort TO train which arrived
this morning from Monterey, there came Cap
tain Baylor and all but four OF his repore'
dead companions. Their escape was truly mi
raculous.