Benjamin Clark Cutler

Capt. & Adj.-Gen. Benjamin Clark Cutler was engaged in military activities in the Arizona and New Mexico Territories in the 1860s.

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The following is a document he wrote from the records of the Department of New Mexico:

HEAD-QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO,
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, December 15, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 103.
On the 26th of August, 1862, Second Lieutenant G. L. Shoup, of Company C, Second Colorado Volunteers, was detached from Fort Union, New Mexico, with forty-five five men of that company, to overtake and chastise the Indians for robbing a train on the Cimarron Route of over one hundred mules and horses, and to recover the animals. He was gone on this service forty-one days, twenty days of which time his men were on half-rations. He went into the heart of the Comanche and Kiowa country, forced the Indians to give up ninety-two of the stolen animals, and to promise not again to depredate upon our trains. Lieutenant Shoup marched several hundred miles while on this duty.
In November, 1862, Lieutenant Shoup pursued a party of men on their way to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and captured them three hundred and fifty miles on the plains east of the settlements east of New Mexico, and in the heart of the Comanche country.
The zeal, energy, perseverance, and self-denial shown by this young gentleman deserve this public notice, and is worthy the emulation of every officer and soldier in this department.
By order of Brigadier-General Carlton.
(Signed) BEN. C. CUTLER, Captain and Acting Adjutant-General

Source: Downloaded May 2011 from http://all-biographies.com/soldiers/george_l_shoup.htm

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There is an official report written by "Assistant Adjurant-General Benjamin C. Cutler" which "practically covers the operations of the military in Arizona during the year 1864," particularly against Apache Indians, published online at http://southwest.library.arizona.edu/hav3/body.1_div.11.html

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