Letter
Edwin M. Stanton to Will you please send instructions to California per pony express for, April 30, 1861
San Francisco, Cal
San Francisco, Cal, April 30, 1861.
Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters Army:
SIR: I have the honor to report that I have found it necessary to withdraw the troops from Fort Mojave and place them at Los Angeles. There is more danger of disaffection at this place than any other in the secessionists, and if we should have any difficulty it will commence there. Fort Mojave is represented as an entirely useless post. There are no hostile Indians near it, and there is no traveling whatever on the road it was intended to protect.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Brigadier- General, U. S. Army, Commanding.
NEw York, April 30, 1861.
SECRETARY OF WAR:
Will you please send instructions to California per pony express for
NEw York, April 30, 1861.
SECRETARY OF WAR:
Will you please send instructions to California per pony express for
the steamers of this company to be furnished with a small guard of
soldiers or marines to go on them between San Francisco and Panama?
It will help to prevent their seizure from parties who may ship or travel
for that purpose, and at the same time enable the captain to organize
soldiers or marines to go on them between San Francisco and Panama?
It will help to prevent their seizure from parties who may ship or travel
for that purpose, and at the same time enable the captain to organize
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: San Francisco, Cal.
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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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