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Show ee 890 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY NEW On the 15th day of August, 1862, Mesilla was made the headquarters of the district of Arizona, and had as a garrison Compan B, C, D, and K, 1st infantry, and Company A, 5th infantry, Shinn S Light Battery A, 3d U. S. artillery, Companies A and K, 1st infantry, B, 5th infantry, and the regimental bands of the 1st and 2d cavalry, were sent as a garrison to Fort Fillmore. Company A, Ist infantry, was sent to El Paso, then known as Franklin, to guard a ° a trict of New 6 all returned to their native state, their places being taken in the garrisons by the troops which had accompanied Carleton from California.**5 315 Carleton, James H., Report to A. A. Gen. Drum, Department of Ci ‘‘It was no fault of the troops from California that ¢ e September 20, 1862: It is but just to say that their le Confederate forces fled before them. thus fled is mainly attributed to the gallantry of the troops under co That they were hurried in their flight, by the timely arriva Canby’s command. of the advance guard of the ‘California Column’ under Lieutenant-Colonel mie y The march from the Pacific to the Rio Grande there cannot be a doubt. ce the ‘California Column’ was not accomplished without immense toil and hardships, or without many privations and much suffering from heat and la The march of the ‘Column from California,’ in the wing of water. months, across the great desert in the driest season that has been known a thirty years, is a military achievement creditable to the soldiers of the a army; but it would not be just to attribute the success of this march i van That success was gained only by the high a age ais ability on my part. moral energies of that peculiar class of officers and men who compen ‘California Column.’ With any other troops, I am sure I should have — | : On the 18th of September, 1862, General Carleton assumed the comman the department of New Mexico, General Canby having been ordered east by jee war department. The ‘‘Column’’ was soon distributed throughout the dep CIVIL WAR 391 It has been noted that Henry Connelly **° and Miguel A. Otero succeeded Abraham Rencher and A. M. CIVIL AFFAIRS DURING Jackson in the offices of governor and secTHE WAR PERIOD retary, respectively, having been appointed to these positions by Abraham Lincoln. Theseappointments were made entirely upon the solicitation and rec- house, and tried by a military commission. had been engaged in expeditions against the marauding Indians, had several THE The most incorrigible of this class of persons was Samuel J. J ones, the well known pro-slavery sheriff at Lecompton, Kansas, in 1857 and 1858. Upon the advent of Colonel Baylor’s forces in 1861, he was the post sutler at Fort Fillmore, owning a fine estate at Mesilla, and during the Confederate occupation of the territory, he was constantly in hot water with the Confederates, but not on account political matters, however, as he was an unadulterated fire-eater. After the ‘‘Column’’ arrived in the dis- United States military posts in Arizona, southern New Mexico, and . DURING ment, and active operations commenced against the hostile Indians — the Apaches and the Navajés. Treason was at a discount in New Mexico, and no treasonable utterances were allowed; when anything of this kind was attempted, it resulted in the person being immediately arrested, confined in the guard- flour mill belonging to Judge Simeon Hart, a notorious Confederate, and very influential and wealthy man, and for the purpose of apprehending the ‘‘mail carrier’’ of the Confederates, Captain Skillman, who afterwards was killed by Captain Albert H. French, at Spencer’s ranch, near Presidio del Norte, April 15, 1864, while attempting All of the regular to carry the Confederate mail into Texas. troops were soon relieved and sent north to Fort Craig, while some of the Californians proceeded to Forts Quitman, Bliss, and Davis, in Texas, and raised the flag of the Union. In this manner the Overland mail route was opened and all of the northwestern Texas were re-occupied by troops composing the ‘‘ Cali fornia Column.’’ Before the end of the year the Colorado volunteers, some of whom MEXICO Mexico, Jones was brought up in the guard-house about once a month. 316 Henry Connelly was of Irish descent, his forefathers having been citizens of the county of Armagh, Ireland. About the year 1769 the Connellys came to America and settled where now is built the city of Charleston, South Carolina. His ancestors in America were heroes of the Revolution, fighting in the patriot armies of Washington, Greene, Morgan, Gates, Lincoln, and Pinckney, After the Revolution some of the Connellys moved west into Kentucky, Dr. Henry Connelly’s father settling in Nelson county of that state about the year 1789. Henry Connelly was educated in the county Schools. Afterwards he attended the medical school of the Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, being among the first to graduate from that Institution. He graduated in 1828 and soon left Kentucky for Missouri and Settled in Liberty, Clay county, of that state. In the same year he left the State for Chihuahua, Mexico. Here he was employed as a clerk and later on purchased the establishment ; he was in business in the city of Chihuahua for many years and had for a partner, Edward J. Glasgow who had been in business at Mazatlan. He was married in Mexico in the town of Jesus Maria im the year 1838. There were three children born of this marriage, one of Whom, Peter, is now living in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to the breaking out of the war with Mexico, Dr. Connelly brought his children to Missouri returned and to Chihuahua. His wife died a few years afterward. Dr. Con- nelly was in Santa Fé at the time that General Kearny reached Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas, and acted as agent for Governor Armijo at the time when Prior to Doniphan’s capture of the Captain Cooke arrived in the capital. city of Chihuahua, about the time of the battle of Brazito, Dr. Connelly was arrested by the Mexican authorities and taken to Chihuahua and confined, but Was subsequently released. He remained in Chihuahua until the close of the war, leaving that city for Santa Fé some time in 1848, in which place he resided up to the time of his death. He also had a home at Peralta, Valencia County, where he married Dolores Perea, widow of Mariano Chaves, the father of Colonel J. Francisco Chaves, from whom the author received most of the above information. He was engaged in merchandising in New Mexico from the time that he came from Chihuahua and had houses in several plazas in the territory. He was twice appointed governor of the territory by President icon. He was an intensely loyal] man during the Civil War, and it was |