J. H. Kellogg to R. C. Drum, August 18, 1861

Capt. R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal. :

Sir: Herewith inclosed I have the honor to forward Lieutenant Feilner’s report of a scout after Indians. On account of having lost

Dy OPERATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. (Cuap. LXII.

some provisions by the mules falling in while crossing Pitt River, Lieutenant Feilner hađ to return sooner than he desired, and before he had an opportunity of punishing the Indians and hunting up all the cattle, about 350 head out of 850 being all he could find alive, while out. I did, therefore, order him out again, with two non-commissioned s officers and twenty-seven privates of Company F, First Dragoons, on the 15th instant, with instructions to collect all the cattle he could find belonging to the drovers, and to punish the Indians known to have been engaged in the murder and theft. ; I am, sir,

very respectfully, your obedient servant,