[Mexico]. [Military]

Sectretaria de Guerra y Marina... "Los Reclamos Que Han Hecho los Gefes de los Cuerpos de Esta Guarnicion para Que Se les Entreguen los Desertores de Ellos, Que Habiendose Aprendido..." [caption title and part of text]

Mexico City: July 22, 1825. Small broadsheet, approximately 8 x 6 inches. Very deep impression. Even tanning; scattered, faint foxing. Very good. Item #3050

A scarce Mexican military order regarding the direction that all recaptured army deserters be sent to the 9th Battalion rather than be returned to their original units. Following requests from the commanders of the deserters' first units, the administration has determined that deserters captured close to their original units may be returned, but those who are captured elsewhere or beyond reasonable march or transit to their units will still be sent to the 9th battalion. This unit was one of the garrisons for Coahuila y Tejas during the mid-1820s; the fact that the Mexican army's own printed orders discuss the necessity of "condemning" deserters to this battalion is a cleaar demonstration of the undesirability of the post and of the difficulty of establishing federal defenses in Texas and the outer provinces of early independent Mexico. We locate only two copies of this scarce order, at Berkeley and BYU.

Price: $600.00