Adjutant- General to Francis J. Lippitt, January 3, 1862
His Excellency the GOVERNOR OF OREGON, Salem, Oreg. :
GOVERNOR: The Secretary of War requests that you will forward to this office, at your earliest convenience, a return of the two and three years’ regiments and independent companies of volunteers furnished up to this date under the authority of your State, setting forth the strength of each regiment or independent company, and the respective arms to which they belonged when transferred to the General Government. He further desires that you will forward a similar return (or as complete a one as it may be in your power to render) of all two and three years’ volunteer troops raised within the limits of your State upon what has been termed “independent acceptances.” He also requests that you will report the number of regiments or independent companies now organizing in your State, the present strength thereof, and the time at which they will probably be completed and ready to take the field.
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
San Francisco, Cal., January 6, 1862.
Col. FRANCIS J. LIPPITT,
Second Infantry California Volunteers, San Francisco, Cal. :
letter to the general commanding the department.* You are desired
to carry out as far as possible the suggestions contained therein. As
soon after you have established your headquarters as the weather will