Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

department of state, war, and marine.

Statement of Federal detachments now on the frontier between Paso del Norte, in the State of Chihuahua, and Bagdad, Tamaulipas.

States.	Where stationed.	Corps.	Officers in command.	Superior officers.	Subaltern officers.	Men.	Horses.	Mules.
Chihuahua	Paso del Norte	Ninth battalion	First caption		6	74
Coahuila	Jimenez	Sixth auxiliary corps	Adolfo Fuentes, lieutenant		1	20
	Piedras Negras	Twenty-sixth battalion	Teodoro Hernandez, first captain		3	41
	Do	Twelfth regiment	Miguel Sapien, adjustant		4	52	57	2
	Guerrero	Fifth battalion	Antonio Villanneuva, second caption		3	44
	Do	Sixth corps of auxiliaries	Concepcion Flores, ensign		1	15
	Hidalgo	do	Martiniano Valdez, lieutenant-colonel	1	2	75		14
Tamaulipas	New Laredo	Fifth battalion	Vidal Ceron, colonel		5	99
	Do	Thirteenth regiment	Luis Pacheco, first captian	1	21	214	318	12
	San Ignacio	Fourth corps auxilaries	Ednardo Cerda, second captain (force unknow)
	Guerrero	do	S. Esquivel major	1		10	104	4
	Las Guerras	Fourth regiment	Manuel G. Siordia, second captain		2	25	25
	Do	Auxiliaries from Nuevo Leon	do			10
	Mier	Fourth regiment	Elenterio Rivas, lieutenant		3	49	49
	Do	Fifth corps auxiliaries	Andre’s Michel, general-colonel	3	9	58	64	4
	Do	Sixth battalion	Lorenzo Garcia, general-colonel	3	24	410		32
	Do	Auxiliaries from Nuevo Leon	do			15
	Gloria	do	do			16
	Camargo	Sixth battalion	Gonzalo Luque, first captian		4	50
	Do	Fourth regiment	Ignacio Estrada, lieutenant		2	25	25
	Do	Auxiliaries of Tamaulipas	Luis Izaguirre, major	1		24
	San Miguel	Fourth regiment	Vicente Macias, lieutenant-colonel	1	4	65	67	4
	Do	Auxiliaries of Tamaulipas	do			10
	Reynosa de Diaz	Fourth regiment	Anastasio Hernandez, second captain		2	30	30
	Revnosa	do	Antonio Mamero, colonel	2	10	89	65	3
	Do	Fifth square of battalion	Enrique Moreno, second captain		2	25
	Do	Auxiliaries of Tamaulipas	do			10
	Matamoros	Sixth square of battalion	Fernando Rojas, first captain		4	69
	Do	Fifth square of battalion	Gonzalo Rios, colonel	2	8	82		7
	Do	Third corps of auxiliaries	Donaciano Felix, lieutenant-colonel	1	2	18	19
	Do	Fourth corps of auxiliaries	Rafael Traviño, ensign		3	19	20
Total				16	125	1,743	843	82

Note.—The acting commander of the second zone is Gen. Col. José Ma Raugel. The acting commander of the third zone is (Jen. Col. José del Valle. The commander of the fourth zone is Brig. Gen. Emiliano Lajero. The officer in command of the Laredo line is Col. Luis Ceron, of the cavalry. The officer in command of the line between Mier and Guerrero is Gen. Col. L. Garcia.

Note.—On the night of December 13, 1892, 60 men of the twenty-sixth battalion left Monterey for Laredo by rail, and on the morning of the same day 40 men of the thirteenth regiment marched for the same place by ordinary road. On the 21st of the same month 100 foot soldiers left for the same place by rail.

R. Echenique,
The Colonel Commanding the First Division.

City of Mexico, December 26, 1892.