Letter
Deputy Quartermaster-General to Lieutenant-Colonel DRUM, June 11, 1863
DEPUTY QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL’S OFFICE,
San Francisco, June 11, 1863.
Lieutenant-Colonel DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, Present:
Camp Wright has hitherto been furnished via Fort Bragg, from which latter post it is distant sixty-five miles. I know of no more eligible route. They have forty-nine pack-mules and trappings and one wagon at Camp Wright.
Respectfully,
Deputy Quartermaster-General.
Fort Humboldt, June 11, 1863.
COLONEL: On the 6th instant a citizen pack train of thirty-seven
mules, with a citizen escort of five men, fell into an Indian ambush
Fort Humboldt, June 11, 1863.
COLONEL: On the 6th instant a citizen pack train of thirty-seven
mules, with a citizen escort of five men, fell into an Indian ambush
near Oak Camp, about fifteen miles this side of Fort Gaston. Two of
the men were shot, one killed, and the other escaped wounded, arriving
at Hoopa Valley the same night. The remainder ran back to Fawn
Prairie, the camp of Captain Ousley’s company (B) of mountaineers.
the men were shot, one killed, and the other escaped wounded, arriving
at Hoopa Valley the same night. The remainder ran back to Fawn
Prairie, the camp of Captain Ousley’s company (B) of mountaineers.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: San Francisco.
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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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