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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 2, 1861. Lieut. Col. GEORGE ANDREWS, Sixth Infantry, Commanding Fort Yuma, Cal.: SIR: I am directed by the general commanding the department…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 2, 1861. COMMANDING OFFICER, Los Angeles, Cal.: Two companies of the Sixth Infantry at Los Angeles will proceed without delay to Fort…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFICO, San Francisco, August 31, 1861. Messrs. B. J. PINGREE, GEORGE H. BELDEN, and others, Eugene City, Lane County, Oreg.: GENTLEMEN: I am directed by the…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., August 31, 1861. Col. B. L. BEALL, First Dragoons, Commanding District of Oregon: SIR: The general commanding the department has reason to…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 31, 1861. CAPTAIN: Circumstances may render it necessary for me to call for a few volunteers, and in order to be…
BENICIA ARSENAL BENICIA ARSENAL, August 31, 1861. Col. JAMES H. CARLETON, Headquarters California Volunteers, San Francisco: SIR: Your telegraph of the 26th instant has been complied with. The ammunition for…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, August 31, 1861. SIR: The general desires me to say, in answer to your letter of the 30th instant, that the proper course…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, August 31, 1861. TRA P. RANKIN, Esq., Collector of the Port, San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: In addition to the requests contained in…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, August 31, 1861. IRA P. RANKIN, Esq., Collector of the Port, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: The general commanding the department desires me to…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Fitzgerald, Cal., August 30, 1861. Capt. R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco : CAPTAIN: My letter of August 24 will explain what kind of sheds have been…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp near San Bernardino, Oal., August 30, 1861. Capt. J. W. DAVIDSON, or COMMANDING OFFICER CAMP FITZGERALD, fl Near Los Angeles, Cal.: SIR: It has been reported to me…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp near San Bernardino, Cal., August 30, 1861. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, U.S. Army, Headquarters Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: From information this day received I have…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., August 30, 1861. Lieut. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have received the General-in-Chief’s dispatch, informing me that I am…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 29, 1861. CAPTAIN: I have received your communication of the 20th instant. The excitement in relation to our Indian affairs at…
HEADQUARTERS, Benicia Barracks, Cal., August 29, 1861. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : Str: In compliance with your order of yesterday and that of to-day from…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, August 28, 1861. ` San Francisco, August 28, 1861, Col. Washington SEAWELL, Sixth Regiment of Infantry, Comdy. Benicia Barracks, Cal. : SIR: The general commanding…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIO, San Francisco, August 28, 1861. Capt. WILLIAM H. GARDNER, Commanding Navy-Yard, Mare Island, Cal. : CAPTAIN: I have received your letter of yesterday.* You are…
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., August 28, 1861. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: DEAR SIR: Since the arrival of the pony express, with Washington dates of August 16,…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, August 27, 1861. Ninth Infty., Comdg. Dist. of Oregon, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter. : SIR: The general commanding the department desires that fifteen…
PIMA VILLAGES PIMA VILLAGES, August 23, 1861. Lieut. Col. GEORGE ANDREWS, Sixth Infantry, Commanding Fort Yuma: SIR: Inclosed please find Mesilla papers, containing full accounts of the proceedings of the…