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City declared that reports of powder leaving the State for the
rebels originated in malice and were emphatically false.29 Trade
in other articles than arms and ammunition did continue, how-
ever.30
Relations with Ta-maulipas.-Free and friendly intercourse with
the State of Tamaulipas was very important to, the Confederacy,
because the Port of Matamoras furnished the best, and almost the
only, means of communication with the outside world. Mata-
moras was to the South what New York was to the North.31
Arms, ammunition, and supplies of every description from Europe
were landed here, and then conveyed across the Rio Grande.
Moreover, a small quantity of supplies could be purchased from
the population of the State, and it was found convenient to con-
vey goods bought from the district further north down the right
bank of the Rio Bravo to Fort Brown. To handle this impor-
tant and somewhat delicate situation, therefore, a. ma.n of consid-
erable tact and knowledge of Mexican character was needed, and
Hamilton P. Bee was chosen for the task. It is not the purpose
of this monograph to, enter into a detailed discussion of the quan-
tity and value of the trade passing through this region, but rather
to show how Confederate-Mexican relations affected it.
Before Bee assumed command of the "Sub.-Military District
of the Rio Crande" in April, 18632, Colonel John S. Ford and
Lieutenant-Colonel A. Buchel had already made some efforts. At
the very outset, they found matters complicated by contending
chieftains in the State. P. N. Luckett, who as a member of the
Vigilance Committee of Texas reported on the Rio Grande situa-
tion at the close of 1861, declared that the hostile forces in
Tamaulipas were seizing, confiscating, and consuming nearly
everything so that it was very difficult for the Confederate troops
stationed at Fort Brown to get supplies.32 A year later, Buchel
reported to his superior otlicer that Albino Lopez, at that time
Governor of the State, had refused to allow the Confederate agent
to pass corn purchased in Nuevo Le6n through this territory.
February 25, 1863, Bee said that he feared a decree of non-inter-
I9bid., I, XXVI, i, 919, I, L, ii, 245.
"3Ibid., I, L, ii, 4215-426.
3"Ibid., I, XLVIII, i, 512-513.
32Ibid., I, IV, 97, 149-150, 152-153, 165.302
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