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l'APERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAP.ARTE LAMAR
·No. 2317 [184.7? Feb.?. MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, LAREDO, TEXAS] TO [THOMAS M. LIKENS, LAREDO, TEXAS] On Likens's complaint regarding Lamar's action regarding quarter- master's accounts. A. Df. S. 1 p. Incomplete. No. 2318 1847 Mar. 1 SAM[UE]L R. CURTIS, HEADQUARTERS, CA- MARGO, [MEXICO] TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [LAREDO, TEXAS] News from the front; Santa Anna's and Taylor's plans and move~ ments; conditional orders to Lamar for movement to the front; trans- mitting mail. A. L. S. 2 p. No. 2319 [8147 c. Mar.1 ?, M. B. LAMAR LAREDO, TEXAS] TO [ZACHARY] TAYLOR, [BUENA VISTA MEXICO ?) 80 To Major General Z. Taylor Sir I have the unpleasant intelligence to report that the frontier is not in so quiet a condition as it has hereto- fore been. In all the towns east and north of this place the mexican authority is reviving. We have direct inteligence from Sim Fernando 130 miles north of this. The mexican Government is drawing both men and resources from that & the neighboring Towns; the ameri- cans are expelled and the whole Country is being organized into bands of marauders, who, under sanction of the Govern·ment are preparing to commit depredations whenever oppertunities may offer; the peaceful citizens and those disposed. to favor the americans are overawed by the threats of the authorities and the presence of armed men. The trade which was springing up between this place and the adjacent towns is entirely suspended. This immediate vicinity is entirely tranquil and the utmost good feeling prevails betwen our people and the mexican population. The latter seem to be fully impressed with the benefits they recieve from the presence of the Garrison. No indian depredations have been committed of any kind since that detaled in m:v first communication. But little has occured in my command worthy of note since my last. The Garrii-on has been quite healthy and has not suf- fered by the epidemic which has raged so fatally amongst the inhabi- t a n t [ s] this in part at least, to the be conveniently obtained. the men with[?] a [ ]s could I lost one man on the 1st. of January, who was shot by a party of Comanches from an ambush on the San Antonio road some 75 miles east of this place. He was one of a small detachment that had been sent to San Antonio; he had imprudently gone some distance in ad-
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