Arizona republican., 1906-08-15

Colonel LeRoy Brown, which is as fol
 lows ct will be noted that the Arizona
 contingent still constituted a portion of the Brown" armyO
 Camp of Instruction, near Austin, Tex,
 9th August 1906.
 Colonel LeRoy Brown, Commanding
 Provisional Brigade Brown Army.
 Sir:
 Pursuance to field orders No.
 August Sth. 1906, Provisional Brigade Brown Army. Arizona Battalion left camp on the road on the south bound ary of the -maneuver tract west of the Colorado river, theme northwest on said road to the mouth of Dry Creek following the First New Mexico battalion that distance. In compliance with orders. Company C under Captain Hayden proceeded up the River road about half a mile with instructions to form a line of cOssack posts north east to connect with Captain Parks, | Company B who would extend the line to Ragsfaff. There not being enough men. one section of H Company under Lieutenant Ketcherside was ordered to iIeport to Captain Parks and extend the line to Ragstaf. The line of cossack posts was established with pickets out, concealed and everything in readiness by $50 a. m. The rest of the bat talion was concealed below the brow of the hill behind a grove of cypress between fifty and seventy-tive yards southwest of Ragstaff.
 The First New Mexico cavalry had established patrols along the entire front of the posts two to three hundred yards father towards the front. Cap tain Rankin of the First cavalry sent , an orderly back to report that he had seen the blues some distance to his front in force. Later he reported in person that the blues were too strong for him and that he would be obliged
 to retire He received instructions to retire to the mouth of Dry Creek. The situation was explained to the com manding officer who instructed me to throw out a line of skirmishes under the brow of the hill ready to advance at moments notice. At about 11:15 lit was reported that a number of blues had been seen directly in our front.
 The whole line was then ordered to move forward in the rear of the posts established by Captain Parks, and still tlater to move up on the line. A few minutes later the blues were seen ad vancing not more than one hundred yards away. They continued to ad- vance and as soon as they were near enough to hear, the browns stepped out ! and ordered them to surrender, as they had been observed for some time. The blues refused to do so and began shoot ling. Each side claimed the other as prisoners. It developed that there was | one troop of dismOunted cavalry in the blues and nearly three companies of 1 infantry in the browns. The command 1 ing officer of the blues proceeded claiming the browns as prisoners, and ] left two On-cOmmissioned officers in charge. As there was no umpire pres
 ent, after waiting about twenty min utes l told the non commissioned of ficers that we would wait no longer
 but would consider ourselves out. l formed the battalion and ordered them
 to march to the rear at the mouth of 1 Dry Creek.
 l Captain Hayden in the meantime had held the extreme left of the line. had i reported seeing blues twice and a pa i trol of blue cavalry coming within fifty yards of his extreme left on the River road
 His men were so concealed that they
 were not observed by the cavalry who | Ihesitated a few moments and then re- tired. About that time he received my | instructions to retire to the mouth of | Dry Creek.
 ! As the Arizona battalion has no blank ammunition it was impossible
 for us to do any firing. therefore both
 we and the enemy were at a disadvan-
 tage.