{"id":88998,"date":"2020-02-22T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T22:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=88998"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:49:11","slug":"difficulties-on-southwestern-frontier-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/difficulties-on-southwestern-frontier-12\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Adjutant General
\nto the Commander of Fort Bliss.<\/em>
\n          <\/div>\n
War Department, February <\/em>21, 1860.          <\/div>\n
          Sir: Representations have been made to the War Department to the effect that large bands of armed banditti are marauding upon the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and that the property and lives of American citizens are in imminent danger of destruction by them.
\n          If this be the case, you are authorized by the Secretary of War to march such a force to the relief of the American citizens in the vicinity of your post as will give them protection against the banditti, if, in your judgment, such protection is necessary, and the same may be asked for by the Mexican authorities.
\n          I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/div>\n
E. D. Townsend,          
\nAssistant Adjutant General<\/em>.<\/div>\n
          The Commanding Officer,
\n                    Fort Bliss, Texas<\/em>.<\/div>\n

          
\n          <\/p>\n

\n

A report in Difficulties on Southwestern Border<\/em>, House Documents<\/span><\/span>, Volume 126; Volume 128, <\/span>United States House of Representatives, <\/span>U.S. Government Printing Office<\/span>, 1860<\/p>\n

During the 12 years following the Mexican-American War there were present on the frontiers of Texas and Mexico many factors that tended to create disturbances. The topography of the country, the sparsity and general character of its population, the lack of an extradition treaty and of sufficient national authority, wild Indians of uncertain abode, the Mexican tariff system, all caused friction and gave encouragement to lawlessness which not only retarded the development of the region but often threatened to interrupt friendly relations between the two republics. [<\/span><\/span>Border Troubles along the Rio Grande<\/strong>, 1848-1860, The Southwestern Historical Quarterly<\/em>, Vol. 23, No. 2 (OCTOBER, 1919)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Adjutant General to the Commander of Fort Bliss.            War Department, February 21, 1860.                     Sir: Representations have been made to the War Department to the effect that large bands of armed banditti are marauding upon the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and that the property and lives of American citizens are in imminent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/townsend_e_d.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}