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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE h\MAR
No. 374 .
1836 June 1, T. J. RUSK TO l\L B. LAMAR
Head Quarters La Bahia 1st June 1836
Honl. Mirabeau B. Lamar Secy at War.- Sir
I am now several ·weeks without having received any communi- cation from the Government. I have enquired as to the supplies, muni- tions, and reinforcements which might be expected, and since leaving Harrisburg, I have not received from the Government any, the slighte t information, on any of these subjects. On arriving here I found my Force reduced, as I had anticipated and informed the Government. From what we have lost of sick, and those whose terms of service had expired, and were discharged, In consequence, the Fo.rce under my command of effective !en, number Three Hundred Men. The Division of the fexican Army which was at San Antonio, amounting to upward of 'One Thousand M:en are now passing in sight of our picket guard&.- · I have sent out to demand any property and Pri oners they may have in their posse sion, whi-ch should be delivered under the Articles of A"reement which if they do not do, they will pay toll for the number of skeletons that now lie around us, or the number will be increased We are here in an old delapidated Town, ,vith many unpleasant asso- ciations and have not one days provision. The Cattle are all driven off frcm here and under the Articles of the Armistice which require me to ke_ep Five Leagues in the rear of the Enemy, ·I cannot get up with those who are driving them off, as they are in advance of the Mexican Army.- There is much sicknes prevailing in the small Band that are here, and if I do not hear from the Government soon I shall send back the Regulars, and a portion of the Volunteers to· Victoria and send a Detachment of Cavalry to Bejar. By the time I could now hear from the Government the time of service of One Hundred Men, will have expired-What arangements, the Government have made about raising fund , and recruiting Regulars is a matter desirable to me to know, if I -could get the information. I have the Honor to be with great respect Your obedient Servant
Thomas J Rusk
Brigr. Genl. Comg.
[.Addressed]
[Endorsed] From Genl Rusk
Honl. :Mirabeau B. Lamar Secretary at War Velasco.
Labaca June 1836
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