37. [BORDERLANDS]. UNITED STATES. WAR DEPARTMENT.
SECRETARY OF WAR (John B. Floyd). Troubles on Texas
Frontier: Letter from the Secretary of War, Communicating,
in Compliance with a Resolution of the House, Information
in Relation to the Trouble on the Texas Frontier...
Washington: HRED81, 1860. 105 pp. Disbound. Fine copy, laid
in a custom maroon gilt-stamped cloth clamshell box.
First
edition. Pingenot: Contains an extensive report by
Major Heintzelman, 1st Infantry, commanding the Brownsville
expedition against Cortina; letters from Governor Sam
Houston to the Secretary of War; and numerous letters and
reports by departmental commander Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee
concerning military operations in Texas and along the Rio
Grande. Included also are depositions from citizens who
suffered losses from raids by Cortina and his brigands.
Excellent content and a scarce government document. Not in
any bibliography.
($150-300)