Justus Steinberger to R. F. Maury, June 23, 1862

Lieut. Col. R. F. Maury, First Oregon Cavalry, Camp Clackamas, Oreg. :

SIR: Direct Major Rinearson, who goes to The Dalles in compliance with Special Orders, No. 20, to select a suitable place for a temporary camp of a few days, with a view to the accommodation of the four companies of your battalion. The quartermaster’s department will be directed both here and at Fort Dalles to expedite your movement toward Fort Walla Walla, and I have to request that the utmost dispatch and promptness be employed in your march to that post. Owing to the inability of the transportation company between Cascades and The Dalles to supply subsistence, it will be well to direct your men to carry one day’s cooked rations. Let them also take one day’s forage for the horses. For the march from The Dalles to Fort Walla Walla subsistence will be furnished by the commanding officer at Fort Dalles. You will take with you from The Dalles for the march not Jess than ten days’ rations. Two wagons to each company will be furnished for the transportation of your supplies and baggage. A strict adherence is required to the regulation allowance for transportation of troops in the field, and if in the employment of the means furnished a surplus is found, let it be used to convey an increased number of rations. You will be furnished with other instructions from these headquarters for the march from The Dalles before your command leaves that point.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,