Francis James Lippitt was an American lawyer and veteran of the Mexican-American War, the Bald Hills War and the American Civil War. For the later he was made a brevet brigadier general.
Fort HUMBOLDT Fort HUMBOLDT, February 24, 1862. Mr. J. A. HAMILTON, Mendocino City: (Care of L. Woodward, Esq., Postmaster.) SIR: The colonel commanding the district directs me to acknowledge the…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Port Humboldt, March 8, 1862. CAPTAIN: You are charged by the colonel commanding the Military District of Humboldt with the establishment of a new post on…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 8, 1862. You are charged by the colonel commanding the Military District of Humboldt with the establishment of a new post on the…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS, March 11, 1862. Camp Drum, near New San Pedro, Cal., No. 25. March 11, 1862. I. The undersigned hereby assumes command of this camp. * * *…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 13, 1862. CAPTAIN: The design of Special Orders, No. 33, is to charge you with the protection of the district of country therein…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 13, 1862. CAPTAIN: The design of Special Orders, No. 33, is to charge you with the protection of the district of country therein…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 25, 1862. Capt. C. D. DOUGLAS, Commanding Fort Anderson : SIR: You are directed by the colonel commanding to march with as many…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 25, 1862. Captain HEFFERNAN, Commanding Fort Lyon: SIR: You are directed by the colonel commanding to march with as many men as you…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 26, 1862. Commanding Fort Humboldt: Str: You are directed by the colonel commanding to march with as many men as you can spare…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 26, 1862. ANGEL RANCH: CAPTAIN: It is now certain that the Mad River Indians, by their murderous attack and outrages of the last…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, March 31, 1862. CAPTAIN: You are directed by the colonel commanding the district immediately upon the receipt of this to detail a discreet and…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 1, 1862. Capt. D. B. AKEY, Commanding Fort Humboldt: CAPTAIN: The Indians in Humboldt County having commenced a destructive warfare upon the whiteinhabitants,…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBCLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, April 4, 1862. . Fort Humboldt, April 4, 1862. Capt. WILLIAM M. JOHNS, Third Infantry California Volunteers, Comdg. at Fort Gaston: CAPTAIN: The colonel commanding the…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 4, 1862. Capt. C. D. DOUGLAS, Second Infantry California Vols., Comdg. at Fort Anderson: CAPTAIN: Your dispatch of this date is the first…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 4, 1862. Captain STUART, E Second Infantry California Vols., Comdy. at Fort Ter-Waw : CAPTAIN: The colonel commanding the district desires you to…
ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, April 9, 1862. No.4. $ Fort Humboldt, April 9, 1862. I. Every Indian captured in this district during the present war who has been engaged…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 17, 1862. Captain JOHNS, Third Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Fort Gaston : CAPTAIN: You are directed by the colonel commanding the district to…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 21, 1862. Captain KETCHAM, Third Infantry California Volunteers: A band of hostile Indians is reported to me in a communication,* of which a…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 27, 1862. Captain DOUGLAS, Second Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Fort Anderson: CAPTAIN: In consequence of the weakening of the force at Fort Lyon…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, May 5, 1862. Capt. CHARLES HEFFERNAN, Second Infantry California Volunteers, Comdg. Fort Lyon: -CAPTATN: You are directed immediately on receipt of this to proceed…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, May 6, 1862. Lieut. CHARLES G. HUBBARD, Second Infantry California Volunteers, LIEUTENANT: A band of some thirty Indians, perhaps a great many more, are…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, June 13, 1862. Capt. WILLIAM M. JOHNS, Third Infantry California Volunteers, Comdg. Fort Gaston : CAPTAIN: By an order from department headquarters, Company G,…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, June 21, 1862. Capt. THOMAS E. KETCHAM, Third Infantry California Volunteers, Comdy. Fort Baker : CAPTAIN: Your company will be relieved by the first…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, June 23, 1862. CAPTAIN: The colonel commanding the district has just received information that 200 well-armed Indians are now concentrated near the head (the…