I communicate herewith a report of the Secretary of War with accompanying documents, being in addition to a report made on the 27^th of February 1847, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1^st of that month, requesting the President “to communicate to the House of Representatives all the correspondence with General Taylor since the commencement of hostilities with Mexico, which has not yet been published, and the publication of which may not be deemed detrimental to the public service; also the correspondence of the Quartermaster General in relation to transportation for General Taylor’s army; also the reports of Brigadier Generals Hamer and Quitman of the operations of their respective brigades on the 21^st of September last” (1846)