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Operations Of The Secessionists In Texas

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
August
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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Independeuoe, Mo, Aug. 19. The Sant Fo mail and Oawnn Uty Express arrived here Jii8tevening,-ttaree aheud oftime.bringing dates froni Santa Fe to thu 5ih instant and Curson City ti the 9th. A report reatshéd Santa Fe two áñye befoTe the mail left, that Mfejor'Lynd, ol thu Ttli Iniantty V. S. Aimy, in comtnand oi ubout -iOl) Federul troop?, surrendured to tlj Toxas troops, 8,000 in number, withouï firin a sbot. Major Lynd abaiidned Fort Fillrriore on the !26th uit. and murohed towards Fort Btaunton, 18 tnilcs froaa Fort Fillmoro. Hu snrronclerod lus wbole command to the Tesas troop. It is bolievod in Santa Ke that tho ' Texans have also taken ihe stock of cooches belopging to ihe Santa Pb and El Paso mail compaBy-, as the coach failed to arrivc at S;intri Fo 00 thu 3d inst. An oriLC:íCMTiont tonk Jarico at Mesilla bctween a body of ifedoral ti-oops and: 700 Confeclenites, underthe oomronnd of Capt Bnylor Gapt. MoNealy and ; T. L. Brooks, of tho Federa) arniy, were woundwl n the eng-agoment and V i the Oonfedorates were killed. Nijrbt put an end to tho onanient tho Texana remaining in Mewla and the Federal torees goiog lo Fort Fill moro, about 100 miles dietant. Considcryblo fears are entertaincd for :i!ctv f Fort Union, and the cnmmanding officers of that post woro haviog it fortificad ;md iotrenched. C 1 Ijoring formvrly of tha Unitoi Stütos iniiy. a .;ii) to in commnnd oi ;i body oi' Texas Rungera.

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