It is with regret. but I am ab~olutcly obliged to give Doct.
Joit your horse to carry him with this.
Yours most sincerely, Robert Morris.
P.S. To raise funds and provisions, Cos causes each man to give an inventory of all he possesses with valuation of each article on whid1 he demands one per cent, every twenty days, he then sends two men lo make the appraisemcnt over, and if he finds that they make a return higher than the owners, he demands three per cent in liew of 011c; and each family has lo furnish a fancga of corn also, every twenty days and even causes the women to grind it, without respect to station. His soldiers have assassinated many of the most influential citizens, and the wives and daughters are prostituted-the whole country is given up to the troops to induce them forward.
R.M. [lo James W. Fannin, Jr.I
[To James W. Fannin, Jr.]
(2034)
[SANTA ANNA to FILISOLA]
Army of Operations Most Excellent Senor:
Since I have to march in the vanguard on Monday the 8th of this month, it becomes indispensable that your Excellency remain in this place to expedite the leaving of the brigades and of the food supply which must follow the army. Therefore I have to advise your Excellency that the Isl Infantry brigade shall leave here on the same day, the eighth; the second on the 10th, and the third the cavalry brigade, on the 12th. The permanent battalion of Morelos will join the second brigade, your Excellency ordering that this he known in the general orders through the Major General of the Army: the four-pounder which is in that city will he turned over lo the Commander General of Artillery with its share of artillery pieces, ammunition, and mules. Each infantry brigade has to take food supplies for a month, for which purpose the Purveyor General wilJ make up this amount of those supplies which might be lacking because they were used up or lost on the road, and for carrying the supplies,
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