Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-10

From the Houston Telegraph
! FORT BLISS, Texas, july 6-0ae company
of Steele's regiment is now at this post Che rest
ars-on their way from Fer, Fillmore. Company
| Z, Capt. Knksey, WiI leave this evening for
san Antonio Col Steele, with the rest Of bis
command, wil start in q few days.
Since / iirss wrote you fcom ID ma Als. things
have assumed quite diff rent aspect in Arzans.
Col. Sseee has 0eeu forced 70 s5sGdon the Ter
ritory on account Of scarcity OF provisions. We
| have beeu living on drg brsaf alone for thrts
moaths, and how the men have managed 10 live
under this diet is q wonder to n1e. We sjsrt TO
| San Antonio with nothing 10 ca. but bread
There is nothing else 10 be had here al any rate.
We have no transportation Of any kind and are
forced to leave nearly everything we possess be-
hind-Sibley having taken al the wagons and
mules of with him.
Iastesd Of fighting the Yankees since Sibley
left, we have to fght the Msxicans, both ia ATi-
z1us and near this pest. They refused 10 let Us
have transportation, and W5 went to press them
into service, thereby creating civil wal with
theH. Tley refused TO take cur pspar, which
you know IS all the current funds HOw In circu.
latiou in Texas. a fight ensued near Mesilla,
on the % instant, between one Company Of
Sseele's command and some Of BAyIor's men
and the Mexicsns, in which we lost seven men,
the enemy losing some forty. 1 was q desper-
ate fight 4 lieutenant Of Colonel Baylor
killed three Mezicans with his bowie knife
] Captain Oliver, Of Angelina cJaniy, lazl.fouF Of
his men, were killed in the fight. no more dam
age was done to cur side. The Mexicans then
Gaved in:
On the 10th inst, our company, commanded
by the gallant Captain W. L. Krkssy, had
quite a lively fight with them upon the same
condition, at Score, fifteen miles below here
IN ~ hica we killed tweaty and wounded great
many, besides destroying their church and other
wise damaging the town Two FOUNDER field
pieces, belonging 90 Captain Teers b ttery
were engaged in the fight. Not one of our mes
were either killed OF wounded, but we had two
horses wounded. On tho Sd inst, q dsssil -5f
thirteen men, out of our company, went down
to Soc3Tro, ior lhe purpose Of pressing articles
we needed INFO service, wheu we were surrounded
and charged upon by ffy MaxieaHs, who killed
one of cur men and took all ths rest but Eve pris-
oneTs, myself being among tbo5s who escaped;
but the death of our conrade has been avenged.
Captain Kirksey fought bsavely - always
ahead of his men, where danger was ths great
est, and distinguished himself sigaslly on the
occasion. Tuis was tbs tisst fight our company
has been in, and every man fought Ike heroes,
reAscting great credit upon themselves and their
gallant leader
A few words more, and I must close for the
present. II is not likely We viii have any more
trouble before We leave the Rio Grande valley.
Most of the sick Of Colonel Steeles regiment
have been sent on to San Antonio. There are
some one hundred and fity or two hundred sick
in she hospital here, and what disposition is to
be made Of them, an not able to say. Our
company enjoy pretty good hesth, though iew
have The scurTy- j. A. H.