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AUGUST 1, 1846.

SIR: You will forward all the wagons you have purchased to Philadelphia, from which place a steamer will sail with supplies for Texas in a few days. We can, by steamers, place them at Brazos San Iago in fifteen days. Since writing the above, your telegraphic despatch of this date has been received, in which you state that you have purchased and engaged about two hundred and sixty wagons. This number will suffice for the present. Another steamer will leave Philadelphia about the 12th of August: get as many wagons as possible and send them to Philadelphia by that date.

Captain S. B. DUSENBERY,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Assistant Quartermaster, Baltimore, Md.

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AUGUST 1, 1846.

SIR: I have received yours of yesterday. I wish the wagons to which you refer taken off the ship, if practicable, as they cannot possibly reach the Rio Grande in time if shipped on board her. Sail vessels for the south cannot be depended on at this season of the year. Two steamers have been chartered to sail from Philadelphia direct to Brazos San Iago; one early next week-the other a week later; they will be able to take on board all the wagons, harness, camp equipage, &c., that may be ready, and place them at Brazos in fifteen days.

Major HARTMAN BACHE,

U. S. Army, Philadelphia.

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TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

AUGUST 3, 1846.

SIR: I wish you to attend personally to the receipts of the wagons; see that they are in all respects such as the contracts call for. Should you desire to do so, you can visit this place, but it will be necessary that you return to the north. A set of harness can be obtained in Philadelphia. If you visit this place, you can, on your return, take it with you; if not, it will be sent to you. Get all the wagons you can by the 17th; take none after the

25th.

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Captain H. L. THISTLE,

New York.

AUGUST 3, 1846. SIR: I have a letter to-day from Captain Howard, informing me that no mules or wagons can be obtained at Columbus, except at. an exorbitant rate. You will, therefore, return to Savannah and attend to getting off the boats purchased there, and the wagons. purchased from Mr. Warner. A Mr. Revell offers ten prime wagons and fifty mules. If they are at Columbus or in the neighborhood, it would be well to purchase them, provided they can be sent from Montgomery by water; but if they are at Savannah, neither the mules nor the wagons could be taken in any reasonable time to New Orleans.

Captain H. C. WAYNE,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Assistant Quartermaster, Columbus, Geo.

AUGUST 3, 1816.

SIR: I have received your letter of the 28th ultimo. It was the 'supposed failure to obtain wagons on the western waters that induced me to direct that any that could be obtained at Columbus should be purchased and sent on to Lieutenant Colonel Hunt. You will remain at New Orleans until further orders, and perform such duties as may be assigned to you by Lieutenant Colonel Hunt.

Captain ROBERT R. HOWARD,

Assistant Quartermaster,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Care of Lieutenant Colonel Hunt, New Orleans.

AUGUST, 4, 1846.

SIR: I have just received your letter of the 27th ultimo. The mules will be sent direct to New Orleans, from which place they can be sent to the army by steam. We have not time to drive them through the country from the mouth of Red river. Purchase and send to New Orleans all the second-hand wagons you can procure, and which you deem suitable for service with the army.

Captain A. R. HETZEL,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Assistant Quartermaster, St. Louis, Missouri.

AUGUST 5, 1846.

SIR: Captain Vinton's services being required in the interior of New York, you will proceed to the city of New York and relieve him temporarily in the current duties there. You will collect at that post all the wagons and harness which you contracted for, and all that Captain Thistle contracted for. It is desirable to have as many wagons and sets of harness ready by the 15th instant as will load the Edith, a steam propeller which I have chartered to take them to Brazos San Iago.

Captain M. M. CLARK,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Assistant Quartermaster, Washington city.

AUGUST 5, 1846.

SIR: You will proceed to Pembroke and inspect the wagons of Mr. Tomlinson. You can employ the person whom you recommended as a conductor. Take only such of the wagons as are in every respect completed according to your directions. From Pembroke go on to Buffalo. Take none after the 16th at Buffalo, as those not received there by that day cannot be taken to the army in time. Your conductor can proceed with such as you receive to Cleveland, where he will report to Captain S. H. Webb, of the quartermaster's department. Should that officer not be at Cleveland, he will proceed with the wagons to Cincinnati and deliver them to Major Tompkins. When at Buffalo, you will settle the rent due the owner of the land occupied by the barracks. Captain Clark has been directed to relieve you temporarily at New York, where he will remain until you return from Pembroke and Buffalo.

Captain H. D. VINTON,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Assistant Quartermaster, New York.

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AUGUST 6, 1846.

SIR: I have your telegraphic note of this morning. Load vessels with oats for the Brazos San Iago, and ship on board them the wagons the bodies of which cannot be taken to pieces. Those the bodies of which can be taken apart will be sent immediately to Philadelphia. Employ, if possible, vessels drawing not more than 7 feet. These can cross the bar at the Brazos.

Captain S. B. DUSENBERY,

sistant Quartermaster, Baltimore

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

AUGUST 6, 1846.

SIR: You will proceed to Philadelphia and attend to the loading of the steamers chartered from Loper and Baird. The acting assistant quartermaster at that city, Major H. Bache, will receive from Colonel Stanton all the tents and other camp and garrison equipage now ready, and will ship them on the first of the steamers that shall be ready, with all the wagons and harness that can be got ready. The other steamer will be loaded with similar articles; and it is desirable that they be despatched with as little delay as possible. On reflection, I think it hardly necessary that you should remain longer in Philadelphia than to see the first steamer loaded; that being done, you will proceed to New York and examine the steam propeller Edith, and see that she is in every respect in the best state for efficient service. If in such a state, she will be loaded with wagons, harness, and any other public. supplies that may be in New York for transportation to the army. Captain M. M. Clark, whom you saw in this office, and with whom I desire you to communicate, will attend to the loading of the vessel. I wish you to cause the Neptune to be put into the best order for efficient service: have her, if possible, ready to take in her cargo by the 17th, at which time several hundred wagons will be ready, as well as other supplies. An efficient captain and crew must be employed. If frames for suitable boats for towing on the Rio Grande can be prepared in time, have three or four of them prepared, and employ suitable persons to go out in the Neptune and put them together on the Rio Grande. Having completed the services with which you are charged, you will return to this city, preparatory to returning to New Orleans.

Major T. B. EASTLAND,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Quartermaster U. S. A., Washington city.

AUGUST 6, 1846.

SIR: Major T. B. Eastland being under orders for Philadelphia and New York, on duty connected with the receiving into service several steamers for the transportation of supplies to Brazos San Iago, I take great pleasure in introducing him to your acquaintance, and recommending him as a gentleman in every way to be relied on. The major has chartered, by my orders, two steam propellers from Loper and Baird, of Philadelphia; both will be ready this week to receive cargoes: they will take the frames of five or six scows, with the tools and materials required to put them up on the Rio Grande, and all the wagons and harness you have ready; in addition to which, all the tents, knapsacks, and canteens Colonel Stanton may have ready, will be put on board, with such other camp equipage as can be taken.

I wish the major to proceed to New York as soon as possible.

It will not be necessary that he remain in Philadelphia longer than to see that the steamers be in a condition to render efficient service, and to obtain proper materials for the scows to be used as tow-boats on the Rio Grande.

I wish the boats to be despatched to their destination with as little delay as possible.

Major H. BACHE,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Acting Assistant Quartermaster, Philadelphia.

AUGUST 6, 18416.

SIR: I have received your letter of the 2d instant. Before seeing it I had written to you to contract for 1,000 tents; the letter was sent under cover to Major Howard. I had a letter from the major to-day he supposes we can get from fifty to one hundred wagons at and about Columbus, and from three to four hundred well broke mules. Fifty wagons will answer our purpose, but I would be glad to get at least three hundred mules. Send them to Mobile if you get them, under the direction of careful persons, to Captain Toulmin, assistant quartermaster at that city, with orders to him to send them to Lieutenant Colonel Hunt. I understand to day that any number of well broke mules we may desire can be had in south Alabama. If you can obtain six hundred there, purchase them and send them to Lieutenant Colonel Hunt. They can be had, I am told, at from seventy-five to ninety dollars; at these rates I would take a thousand. Do the best you can, and all you can.

Get the steamers De Rossett and Summers off as soon as possible. You can, before they are ready, purchase all the mules that can be readily obtained about Columbus and in south Alabama. Employ such agents as you may find necssary. Major Howard, in whom I have great confidence, promises to aid you to the best of his ability. TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General.

Captain H. C. WAYNE,

Assistant Quartermaster, Savannah, Ga.

AUGUST 10, 1846.

SIR: Your letter of the 9th instant is received. You will purchase the "Susan," if, on inspection, she prove to be as good a vessel as you think her, provided you can obtain a competent and trustworthy captain and a proper crew to navigate her; otherwise I would prefer to charter a vessel.

By order:

THEODORE O'HARRA, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army.

Major THOMAS B. EASTLAND,

Quartermaster U. S. A., Philadelphia, Pa.

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