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Texan Military Operations Against Mexico, 1843
August 16, 1842, authorized Charles A. Warfield to raise a force
of men. He was given a colonel's commission, and for the pur-
pose of avoiding any possible delay, he was told to commission
such officers as he considered to be necessary, with the assurance
that his appointments would be confirmed. His command was
to be considered as in the service of Texas during the war, or
until further orders, and its work was to levy contribution, cap-
ture Mexican property or places in the name of Texas, and to
deliver to the government one-half of the spoils which might be
taken from the enemy. The other half was to belong to the cap-
tors, and was to be distributed among the men, while an appro-
priation of public lands was also promised for the participants.
Warfield was told to work as directly as possible toward Santa Fe,
which, with such other towns as it was possible to conquer, was
to be taken, and all Mexican property was to be confiscated
Upon his arrival at Santa F' he was to await further instruc-
tions, and later developments indicate that the government had
expected him to act immediately, for the purpose of attracting
the attention of the New Mexicans while another Texan expedi-
tion was to cross the Rio Grande in the fall, and after occupy-
ing Santa F6 his command was to join this force.10
Warfield was well acquainted with the country in which he was
to operate, having been for a number of years a resident of New
Mexico, and having traveled over much of the southern Rocky
Mountain region.1 He at once began the work of raising his
force, with the expectation of mustering between eight hundred
and a thousand men. He apparently took it for granted that at
least three hundred men would respond from Texas, and expected
an equal number from the frontier of Arkansas. Consequently
he went to Missouri, where he succeeded in enlisting a consid-
erable number of frontiersmen. Then after naming May 15, 1843,
as the date when the party was to assemble at the "Point of
Rocks," within a short distance of the easternmost New Mexican
settlements, he set out in the fall for the mountains, where he
Hockley to Warfield, August 16, 1842, in Sen. Ex. Doc. 14, 32nd Cong.,
2nd Sess., 117-118. Ser. No. 660.
10Jones to Van Zandt, June 8, 1843, in Garrison, Diplomatic Corre-
spondence of the Republic of Texas, II, 189.
1Arrangoiz to Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations, May 6, 1843, MSS.
in Bolton Collection, University of California.263
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