Letter
Edwin V. Sumner to His Excellency JOHN G. DOWNEY, October 11, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, October 11, 1861.
His Excellency JOHN G. DOWNEY, Governor State of California, Sacramento, Cal.: GOVERNOR: I have received your letter of the 9th instant. If I can ever get the volunteers I will send enough of them into the Indian country to preserve order. I shall be obliged to send companies of volunteers to Oregon of not more than sixty strong. Is there any way in which the raising of these troops can be hastened?
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. V. SUMNER,
Brigadier-General, U. K. Army, Commanding. :
Brigadier-General, U. K. Army, Commanding. :
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: San Francisco.
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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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