"As soon as the arrival of Colonel Eyre on the river was known the Texans made a hasty flight. Their army was completely demoralized, and Colonel Eyre's force magnified fourfold. What they could not carry with them they destroyed. One hundred and fifty sick and wounded were left in hospital at Franklin, Tex., and above."
"General Carleton moved the column down the river as far as Las Cruces, La Mesilla, and Franklin [El Paso]. Taking with him two companies of cavalry, he proceeded on down as far as Fort Quitman, Tex.; from there he dispatched a company of the First Cavalry as far as Fort Davis, distant from Fort Quitman - miles. The Texans had abandoned this post. One man, much reduced, was found dead, his body being pierced in many places with arrows. This man had evidently been left behind sick. The sick and wounded Texans left behind at Franklin were sent with an escort to San Antonio."
"General Canby, at this time in command of the Department of New Mexico, had been ordered East, and on the 16th of September, 1862, General Carleton arrived in Santa Fe, and on the 18th assumed command of the department. Before leaving the lower country he published the following general order:
GENERAL ORDERS, Numbers 15.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ARIZONA,
Las Cruces, N. Mex., August 14, 1862.
I. Commanders of towns will at once establish sanitary regulations, and require them to be observed by the inhabitants by the troops, so far as the policing of the streets and the keeping of their dwellings, quarters, stores, corrals, &c., in a state of cleanliness may be necessary to their health and comfort. Frequent inspections will be made by commanding officers or by a medical officer under his direction, to see that in all respects these regulations are followed. II. It is expected that all of the inhabitants living along the Rio Grande southward from the Jornada del Muerto to Fort Bliss, in Texas, will, at the earliest practicable moment, repair their dwellings and clean up their streets. The people may now rest assured that the era of anarchy and misrule - when there was no protection to life or property, when the wealthy were plundered, when the poor were robbed and oppressed, when all were insulted and maltreated, and when there was no respect for age or sex - has passed away; that now, under the sacred banner of our country, all may claim and shall receive their just rights. Therefore let the burden of anxiety be lifted from their hearts, and once let them pursue their avocations with cheerfulness, and with the full confidence that the protection which now shelters them from injustice will always be stronger in proportion as they shall be powerless to protect themselves."
Depends on whose property was to be protected and whose was not. From Kerbey's book:
District Attorney Joab Houghton proved an able ally to Carlton in his campaign to stamp out the effectiveness of rebel sympathizers. Mass-produced indictments were served against twenty-six prominent citizens by the fall of 1962, accusing them of having, "conspired, composed, imagined, and designed to stir up and incite insurrection, rebellion and revolt and to levy war against the government, with Henry H. Sibley and other false traitors." Some of the trials resulting from Houghton's reign of terror dragged on until 1867, though most of the defendants lost their property by confiscation ... long before that date.
Nice try, but its commonplace in civil war dispatches for a lower officer to claim that the other side did X because they're "scared of him" or whatever. Find an account from Sibley's side of things and see how the two mesh.
Also, let me note at this time the internal inconsistency of your orders. You previously claimed that 50 wounded and sick were found in El Paso. This order claimes three times that number in "Franklin," which was another name for El Paso (after the nearby Franklin Mountains). So which is it?