{"id":89723,"date":"2020-03-12T08:17:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=89723"},"modified":"2020-03-27T06:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:19:35","slug":"difficulties-on-southwestern-frontier-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/difficulties-on-southwestern-frontier-19\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"
[Extract.)<\/p>\n

91. General Orders No. 6.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Headquarters Of The Army,          
\nNew York, March<\/em> 12, 1860.<\/div>\n
          I. The following instructions have been received from the War Department:
\n          1. The following dispositions of the troops will be carried into effect as soon as the season will permit.<\/div>\n
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          9 The 3d infantry will proceed to Texas; five companies to be stationed at Ringgold barracks, and five at Fort Clark.<\/div>\n
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          13. Fort Brown will be garrisoned by one company of artillery, to be relieved every year by a company from the Field Artillery Station, at which the other artillery companies will habitually be concentrated.<\/div>\n
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          By command of Brevet Lieutenant General Scott.<\/div>\n
H. L. Scott,          
\nLieutenant Colonel and A. D. C., Acting Assist. Adj. Gen.<\/div>\n
\n

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":"

[Extract.) 91. General Orders No. 6. Headquarters Of The Army,           New York, March 12, 1860.           I. The following instructions have been received from the War Department:           1. The following dispositions of the troops will be carried into effect as soon as the season will permit. **********           9 The 3d infantry will proceed to Texas; five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":89425,"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-89723","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\/03\/winfield-scott-e1617260611568.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89723","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=89723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}