. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . thecapitulation, and he denies, most emphatically,that such an effect was produced on the HarrietLane and on those seated in her cabin. My belligerent rights were not impaired or sus-pended by the surrender of General Duncan and theflying of a flag of truce, to which I was not a party;and had the effect of the explosion been to destroythe Harriet Lane and the entire Federal force, thelaws of war would have justified it. As to my difference of opinion with GeneralDuncan: naval offi
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . thecapitulation, and he denies, most emphatically,that such an effect was produced on the HarrietLane and on those seated in her cabin. My belligerent rights were not impaired or sus-pended by the surrender of General Duncan and theflying of a flag of truce, to which I was not a party;and had the effect of the explosion been to destroythe Harriet Lane and the entire Federal force, thelaws of war would have justified it. As to my difference of opinion with GeneralDuncan: naval officers ought surely to be consid-ered better judges of how the forces and appliancesat their command should be managed than armyofficers. The conduct of the naval forces, by thefinding of a Confederate court of inquiry, was fullysustained, and the court prolonged its session twomonths, vainly waiting for the appearance ofGeneral Lovell and Higgins, whowere summoned to testify before the court at myinstance, they being the most prominent complain-ants against the Navy, General Duncan having CAVALRY ORDERLY. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. THE CONFEDERATE INVASION OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. BY GEORGE H. PETTIS, BREVET CAPT., U. S. V., LATE LIEUTENANT COMMANDING CO. K 1STCALIFORNIA INFANTRY, AND LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT 1ST NEW MEXICO INFANTRY. rpHE buffalo hunt J of Captain John R. Baylor cul--L urinated on his reaching El Paso (Franklin), Texas,on the border of New Mexico, in the first week inJuly, 1861, with about three hundred men of hisregiment, the 2d Texas Mounted Eifles, C. S. A.,and occupying Fort Bliss, across the river, whichhad been abandoned by the regular troops. Hewas warmly welcomed by the few secessionists inthat neighborhood, prominent among whom wereColonel B. Magoffin, Judge Simeon Hart, and JudgeJ. F. Crosby, who were the wealthiest persons inthat vicinity. On the 23d of July Captain Baylor, with about two hunchedand fifty men, advanced up the Bio Grande
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