First Washington Territory Infantry, Comdg. District to Cuar. Lxii Correspondenceunion And Confederate. 1133, June 11, 1862
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT,
June 11, 1862.
No. 72. Fort Humboldt, June 11, 1862. I. Lieutenant Davis will return to this post forthwith with his detachment. i II. With the remainder of the troops belonging to Fort Humboldt, Captain Akey will take post at such point near Arcata as will best enable him to protect that place and the neighboring settlements from attack, taking care to keep picket guards constantly posted on the trails or other approaches to the town. * * * * * * *
V. On his return to Camp Swasey, Lieutenant Flynn will at once take such measures as he may judge necessary for the protection of Hydesville and the neighboring settlements. He is authorized to use . for this purpose a detachment at Cooper’s Mills, if needed.
VI. The detachments from Companies F and K, Second Infantry California Volunteers, including Lieutenant Dobbins’ command, will report to Captain Douglas, who will continue the operations in the field at his discretion until further orders.
VIT. All Indian prisoners taken will be reserved as hostages for the return of the child captured at Daley’s Ferry.
VII. Every white man found in arms among the Indians will be hanged on the spot. .
Ta * * * * * * 3y order of Colonel Lippitt:
1st Lieut. and Regimental Quartermaster 2d Infty. Cal. Vols., Acting Assistant Adjutant- General, Humboldt Mal. District.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 11, 1862.
Headquarters Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. :
SIR: All the records of the former Department of Oregon up to the 21st January, 1861, and to the time when it was merged into the Department of the Pacific, were ordered to be sent to San Francisco, and I am informed are now at department headquarters. Among them are many reports from officers commanding expeditions to the country east of the Cascade Mountains, and in a district to be occupied during the present summer by the troops of this command, as well as orders directing their movements, Sc. Much valuable information is contained in these records that it will be difficult if not impossible to obtain at the present time here. With the view to secure a correct knowledge of the country along the emigrant trail from Fort Hall to Walla Walla, and the adjacent country, as well as the orders directing their movements, I have the honor respectfully to request that the commanding general will sanction the use temporarily at these headquarters of any reports and orders referred to that will secure the purpose indicated. I have directed the commanding officer at Fort Walla Walla to furnish me with all the information he can collect that may be useful in the movements of troops east of that post for the protection of settlers in the mining country and of the emigration this season to Oregon and Washington Territory; yet I am convinced that the papers and books I refer to will supply data that he cannot procure. If this request is complied with the most reliable and prompt means of transportation will be steamer express.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Colonel First Washington Territory Infantry, Comdg. District.
[JUNE 11, 1862.—For Carleton to Canby, relative to co-operation of
movement in driving rebels from New Mexico, see p. 95, and for appointment of Benjamin Clarke Cutler as secretary of state of the Territory
of Arizona, &c., see Vol. LX, p. 692.] ;
Tucson, Ariz. Ter., June 11, 1862.
First California Volunteer Cavalry, Chief Commissary :