D. C. Buell, June 10, 1861
No. 8. f Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 10, 1861.
I. Captain Dent with his company (B, Ninth Infantry) will move without delay from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Cascades, and relieve Captain Wallen, Fourth Infantry, in command of that post.
II. Captain Wallen, after being relieved by Captain Dent, will proceed with his company by first steamer to San Francisco and report to the general commanding the department.
III. Captain Archer with his company (I, Ninth Infantry) will march without delay from Fort Colville and take post at Fort Walla Walla.
IV. The quartermaster’s department will furnish the necessary transportation to insure the prompt execution of the movements above ordered. Captain Dent’s company will be sent down from Old Fort Walia Walla by water.
By order of Colonel Wright:
JNO. 8. MASON, First Lieut., Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
San Francisco, June 11, 1861. EDWIN A. SHERMAN, Esq., San Bernardino, Cal.:
SIR: The general commanding the department has received your communication of the 3d instant. He directs me to reply that the necessary employment of troops elsewhere will prevent him from establishing a company of dragoons at San Bernardino as you suggest, but he hopes that the concer tration of a more considerable force at a point not far distant will accomplish the same object.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Fort Churchill, Nev., June 11, 1861.
Maj. D. C. BUELL, i i i
Asst. Adjt. Gen., Hdqrs. Dept. of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. :
dragoons, under the command of Lieutenant Baker, and take possession
of all such public arms as might be held by citizens of that place or vicinity. Inclosed you will find the report of his action and the success with which he carried out his instructions from these headquarters. Captain Moore reports that the rumor that the secession organization in Virginia did intend to surprise this post and secure the
arms here had a foundation in fact, and that the secession flag raised