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46,149 lettersORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS, August 9, 1862. No. 161. Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., August 9, 1862. I. Capt. George B. Currey, First Oregon Cavalry, with two sergeants, four corporals, and…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., December 14, 1861. Col. J. H. CARLETON, First Infantry California Volunteers, SIR: I am directed by the general commanding the department to…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., August 9, 1862. Capt. GEORGE B. CURREY, First Oregon Cavalry, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter.: SiR: Representations have been made by the Indian agent…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., December 13, 1861. Maj. E. A. RIGG, First Infty. California Vols., Commanding Fort Yuma, Cal. : MAJOR: Inclosed please find an official copy of…
UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION, August 4, 1862. Col. J. STEINBERGER, U. S. Army, Commanding Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter.: COLONEL: I have respectfully to request that you will…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., December 13, 1861. Maj. DAvID FERGUSSON, First Cavalry California Volunteers, Comdy. Camp Wright: MAJOR: If the company of infantry which has been ordered from…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., December 13, 1861. Maj. R. ©. DRUM, U. S. Army, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal. : MAJOR: I have ordered the prisoners at Camp…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, October 16, 1863. COLONEL: Inclosed herewith you will receive a communication from the operations of troops in that district and the general condition…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., December 13, 1861. Lieut. Col. EDWARD E. EYRE, First Cavalry California Volunteers: COLONEL: You will proceed without delay to San Bernardino, and from the…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIO, San Francisco, September 29, 1862. Respectfully referred to Colonel Babbitt and Captain Kellogg, who will see that the troops at Owen’s River and Visalia are…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Wright, Cal., December 12, 1861. {Capt. EMIL FRITZ:] CAPTAIN: I have just received your letter of yesterday in regard to the threatened attack on this camp. We are…
Camp Latham, near Los Angeles, Cal. Camp Latham, near Los Angeles, Cal., December 11, 1861. Capt. EMIL FRITZ, Commanding Camp Carleton, near San Bernardino : SIR: Yours of the 10th…
Camp Latham Camp Latham, July 14, 1862. Maj. R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General: MAJOR: I have the honor to inclose a copy of a report of LieutenantColonel Evans in relation…
Camp Latham, near Los Angeles Camp Latham, near Los Angeles, December 12, 1861. Maj. R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal. : =- MAJOR: I have the honor to…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, December 12, 1861. No. 233. San Francisco, Cal., December 12, 1861. The counties of Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Trinity, Humboldt, Klamath, and Del Norte,…
Albuquerque, N. Mex. Albuquerque, N. Mex., September 14, 1862. Col. JOSEPH R. WEST, Commanding District of Arizona, Mesilla, Ariz.: COLONEL: It is presumed, from advices lately received from Maj. David…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., December 12, 1861. Col. RENÉ E. DE Russy, Chief Engineer Pacific Coast, San Francisco, Cal. : COLONEL: In view of the possibility…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., December 11, 1861. MAJOR: Companies C and E, First Cavalry, under the command of Captain Magruder, will leave this place this evening…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, December 10, 1861. No. 231. San Francisco, Cal., December 10, 1861. * * * * * * * 2. Having complied with orders…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO, August 21, 1862. Santa Fé, N. Mex., August 21, 1862. Commanding District of Arizona, Fort Bliss, Tex.: GENERAL: The commanding general desires that you will…