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Colonel Lippitt, March 13, 1862
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…
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Letters from Colonel Lippitt
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Colonel Lippitt to Captain, June 23, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt to Thomas E. Ketcham, June 21, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt to William M. Johns, June 13, 1862
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,…
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Colonel Lippitt to Charles G. Hubbard, May 6, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt to Charles Heffernan, May 5, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt to Douglas, April 27, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt to John H. Ketcham, April 21, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt to Johns, April 17, 1862
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…
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Colonel Lippitt, April 9, 1862
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…