Lippitt to J. A. Hamilton, February 24, 1862
Mr. J. A. HAMILTON, Mendocino City: (Care of L. Woodward, Esq., Postmaster.)
SIR: The colonel commanding the district directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th. Your application for a detachment of twenty men to be stationed at Shelter Cove cannot be acceded with at present. The policy the colonel commanding has found it necessary to adopt throughout the district has compelled him to refuse all similar applications. As soon as practicable he will make a tour of inspection and reconnaissance in your section of the country, and now thinks it highly probable that a new post of an entire company on or near Hel River at no great distance from Shelter Cove. When this is done you may rely on receiving such protection as you may need.
By order of Colonel Lippitt:
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
San Francisco, February 24, 1862.
First Regiment Cavalry:
dated 18th ultimo, to modify the instructions given to you on the 24th
of September last, so as to include only four companies, should I deem
the best interests of the service to require it. Under the authority thus