Letter
Edwin M. Stanton to John D. Stevenson, June 13, 1861
WAR DEPARTMENT
WAR DEPARTMENT, June 13, 1861.
Col. J. D. STEVENSON, San Francisco:
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th ultimo, with inclosure, offering to raise a regiment or brigade in California for service in that State. The Department has full confidence in your ability to command such a force, and in your loyalty to the Government, so well attested by your former well-known services, but it cannot at present give the leave asked for to raise the proposed regiment or brigade. Circumstances may hereafter occur to render such a step necessary, but existing circumstances do not seem to warrant it.
Respectfully,
Secretary of War.
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HbDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
No. 102. San Francisco, June 14, 1861.
I. In pursuance of Special Orders, No. 136, from the Adjutant-General’s
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HbDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
No. 102. San Francisco, June 14, 1861.
I. In pursuance of Special Orders, No. 136, from the Adjutant-General’s
Office, the engineer detachment at Alcatraz Island will sail on the
steamer of the 21st for the East. The three men of the detachment
recently ordered on reconnaissance with Lieutenant McPherson will
accompany it.
steamer of the 21st for the East. The three men of the detachment
recently ordered on reconnaissance with Lieutenant McPherson will
accompany it.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: WAR DEPARTMENT.
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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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