Dispatch
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, March 30, 1865
Sacramento
Sacramento, March 30, 1865.
CoLONEL: Inclosed herewith you will receive copies of the reports of Captains Wells and Wallace of their expeditions to Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake, with details of the affair at Mud Lake between the command of Captain Wells and a body of thirty Indians, and the capture at Walker Lake, by the command of Captain Wallace, of the two Indians who murdered Stewart and Rabe. The murderers have been turned over to the civil authorities for trial. Very respecttully,
your obedient servant,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.
Camp NYE, NEV., March 19, 1865.
SIR: In obedience to instructions from headquarters Military SubDistrict of Nevada, Fort Churchill, Special Orders, No. 15, dated March
11, 1865, I have the honor to report that on the 12th of March, with
Camp NYE, NEV., March 19, 1865.
SIR: In obedience to instructions from headquarters Military SubDistrict of Nevada, Fort Churchill, Special Orders, No. 15, dated March
11, 1865, I have the honor to report that on the 12th of March, with
fifty men, I traveled a distance of ten miles in a northeasterly direction and camped for the night. At 6 o’clock the next morning broke camp
and marched a distance of forty-eight miles in a westerly direction,
arriving at Pyramid Lake at 6 p.m. I immediately ascertained from
good authority that there was a band of Smoke Creek Indians encamped
and marched a distance of forty-eight miles in a westerly direction,
arriving at Pyramid Lake at 6 p.m. I immediately ascertained from
good authority that there was a band of Smoke Creek Indians encamped
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: Sacramento.
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Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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