Letter
Colonel Lippitt to William M. Johns, April 4, 1862
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 district desires that you will keep a strict watch on the Indians in Hoopa Valley, and in the.event of your perceiving any preparations among them to commence hostilities that you will immediately report by express to these headquarters. If the case should be so urgent in your opinion as to require re-enforcements to be immediately forwarded from San Francisco, you will at the same time telegraph by Weaverville to department headquarters.
By order of Colonel Lippitt:
Very resvectfully, your obedient servant,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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