Office of the Historian

No. 338.
Mr. Hunter to Mr. Nelson.

Department of State,
Washington, August 6, 1872.
No. 274.]

Sir: I transmit a copy of a communication of the 28th of May last, from Major T. M. Anderson to the acting assistant adjutant-general for the Department of Texas, representing that General José Cabellos, commanding the Mexican forces on the line of the Bravo, had returned a drove of cattle driven from this side, and arrested their purchasers on the Mexican side. You will comply with the suggestion of the major by making a suitable acknowledgment to the Mexican government for the sense of the duty of a good neighbor and of justice to the citizens of a friendly state shown by the proceedings of General Cabellos adverted to.

I am, &c,

W. HUNTER,
Acting Secretary.
Headquarters Ringgold Barracks,
Texas. May 28, 1872.

Sir: General José Cabellos, commanding the line of the Bravo, has returned a drove of cattle driven from this side, and arrested the purchaser of the stock on the Mexican side.

General Cortina has been relieved from duty on this line, and ordered to the city of Mexico, and those now in command on the Mexican side seem very anxious to cultivate friendly relations and stop all depredations on our soil.

I respectfully suggest that some official acknowledgment of General Cabellos’s acts would have a very good effect.

I remain, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. M. ANDERSON,
Major, Tenth Infantry, Commanding.

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General,
Department of Texas.