The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-23

'S''N' i
nva OF Captain Gillespie, becomes material ~ the re-
port OF the operations OF the next day, IN winch Me
tired mules" that had travelled thousand AMI MY
miles, are made responsible for slow movements Where
were the hundred and ninety fresh horses anu nues
The omission 10 report these acquisitions OF horses Is
serious offence, especially hen laying the blame OF mis-
carriages on the tired mules The mode of taking the
thirty horses at themouth OF the CHA and the seventy
from an emlgraung family in the desert, leaving men,
women and children on foot, (the last especially re-
quires Investigation do not characterize the transac
uon II II had been done by Chief OF the bedouin
Arabs in the deserts of Arabia by Col Dominique IN
the highways OF Mexico should know how 10 call II !
being done by American general, the deed must remain
without name until the law fixes II.
.. On the meeting with Captain Gillespie, This is told
IN way not TO be tolerated either In military or civil
correspondence 1t is told in way TO conceal the TRUTH
to lead TO wrong nierences, and TO deceive the govern
met by small party Of ooiuneers under Captain
Gillespie, sent om by Commodore STOCKTON 10 giue
lohat information they possessed of the enemy" &c
From this manner OF Stating the meeting, II would be
inferred that the party had been sent by Commodore
Stockton of his head for the purpose OF giving
information of the enemy and that General kearny had
not applied for IT, The letter already read, sent in by
Mr. Stokes proves the contrary, and that 1t was upon
kearnys written application, forwarded by express, that
the party sent-the application being urgent-''d
quickly possible" This is the paragraph of the letter
'B you can send party 10 open communications nth
u.s. The route TO as place, and TO inform me OF the state
Of agas ~ A 70" oa 90 So ,o ana 16s
prompt manner in which the request was complied with,
shown by the fact of the speedy arrival OF Gillespie
he distance forty miles,) and fully stated by
Commodore Stockton in his evidence before the court
martial. AT page 1877 this testimony is found
:. The letter received late in the afternoon; imme-
diately ordered Captain Gillespie al! tbs volun
proceed without delay to Gen. Keany's camp Iwroe
letter in reply 10 Gen. kenrny, which present 1t was
then read by the Judge Advocate, fellows,
"HEApQUARTERs SAN DIEGO,
December B. 1876 half past O'Clock, p. M.
"SIRi have ths received your of yester
day, by Mr. Stokes, and have ordered Ca Gillespie with
detachment of mounted rilemen and field piece, 10
"Capt. Gillespie is we'll informed in relation the pres
en state of things in California, and will give all need
ing anything the subject will merely say that have
this evening received information by two deserters from
the rebel camp OF the arrival of additional force in this
neghborhood of one hundred men, which, in addition TO
the force previously here, makes their number about one
hundred and fifty.
81 send with Capt Gillespie, guide, OF the de-
serter that make inquiries of him, and, If
see fit, endeavor TO surprise them.
Faithfully, your ooedeni servant,
"Commander- chief and Governor of the Territory
'of California.
'To Brig. Gen. S. w. KEARNy, U. S. Army.
Commodore Stockton resumed his testimony follows :
"About o'clock Captain Gillespie lett San Diego,
panied by acting Lieut. Beale, of the navy, Passed Mid
Congress- Captain Gibson, of the battalion, with some of
the Volunteers amounting in all to about thirty nine per
and field piece horse capable of in the
Mr.. Gen Kearnv's camp with Captain
Gillespie, and also sent Californian a guide for Gen.
Kearny, that he might show the Gener where the enemy
were sncamped, ii he felt disposed to make attack
Il
ment the part of Commodore Stockton to send aid to
General Kearny, because the strikers employed in the
United States to demolish the reputation of Stockton and
Fremont while three thousand miles distant the shores
of the Pacific, had filled the public papers with the calum
NOUS assertion that Stockton not only refused the solicit
ed aid but sent back insulting and reproachfu replies!
4. Equally deceptive and unaithfu is the report of the
amount OF aid sent He calls it ga small party of uoln
teers"-the term volunteers implying citizens who had
volunteered for the occasions and the word .sma' i'm
plying an Insignificant number. They were not such
volunteers but picked OF the trained California bat
talon, and picked artieriss from the ship, and not
Insignificant in NUMBER for they amounted to forty per
cent. OF the whole of kearny's command. The term
"sma is relatives but an accession OF forty Der cent OF
fresh troops and horses, the of action, is
thousand that receive it. In his official report General
Kearny number On the trial of Fremont,' he
gave vaguely at twenty or thirtya very loose guess
under such circumstances. But. what is worse than all
he makes mention of the superb brass ourpounder
and the ten picked aerists which Stockton sent him,
and of which he made use, and oms all mention 1t
was favore gun-one of forty five taken by Fremont
under the bear flag and turned over to the United States
and the men who took them not yet paid The men
eaa he hs IT, on account Of hsr beauty and the
distance and good for man in every cluster OF three
within five hundred yards That superb gun was not
mentioned by General Kearny nor used by him in the
action.
Iparticularze these instances of neglect and omission
the part of Gen. Kearny, show the aid which he
received from Com. Stockton, because there pur
pose it, AS subsequent events showed and it was the
commencement OF system cautiously began, and grad
ually developing, until ended in the false and raudu
lent pretensons to have been the of
Socktons forces, and the design to make civil
upon hma design frustrated by the honor and frmness
of Fremont.
proceed now 10 read the bulletin of the "batHe' of
San Pasqua and of its sequence the siege of the hill Of
San Bernardo, directed to the Aduant General and still
ambitiously dated from the "Hcddquarters Of the Army
Of the Vest" San Diego, December IL, ls4s
"SrR In my communication you yesterdays date
brought the report of the movements OF my guard the
evening OF the 9th instant in camp the rancho of
Mrs Stokes, (Santa Mara,) about forty miles from San Die
CO. Having learned from Captain Gillespie of the
eers that there was an armed party of Calfonians with
distant on road leading this place, Lieut. Ham
mond, LIST dragons, with few men, to make reconnois.
sance OF them he returned at in the morning Of the
9th instant, reporting that he had party
place mentioned, and that he had been seem though
pursued by them. | then determined that would march
for and attack them by break day accord
ngy were made Tor the purpose My aid dec amp, Cap
tain Johnston, LIST Dragons assigned the command
OF the advanced guard of twelve Dragons
best horses had then followed above fifty dragons
under Captain Moore mounted, with but few exec pons,
Mexico) 1850 miles; then about twenty volunteers OF
Captain Glbsons company under his command and that
OF Captain Gillespie; then followed two mountain
howitzers, with dragons manage them, and under
the command of Lieutenant Davidson, of the regiment
the remainder of the Dragons volunteers and
employed by the officers of the staff, &C., placed
with orders to follow trail with the baggage
to see to its safety As the day December 6tb) dawn.
cd we approached tho enemy San Pasqual, who
already in the saddle, when Capt Johnston made
furious charge upon them with his advanced guard, and
was In short time after supported by the dragons
after which the enemy gave way, having kept up from
beginning continued hre upon us. Upon the retreat of
the enemy, Capt Moore led off rapidly in pursuit accom-
panied by the dragons mounted horses, and
ed though slowly by the on their tired mules The
enemy vel mounted and among the best horsemen in