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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, December 20, 1861—2 p.m.. Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. 0.: GENERAL: My reports and returns already made, and…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY OREGON VOLUNTEERS, June 25, 1863. Camp No. 11, on Little Salmon River, June 25, 1863. SIR: I have the honor to report that my command arrived at…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., December 19, 1861. Commanding at San Diego, Cal.: SIR: Have your company got in perfect readiness for important field service connected with the re-establishment…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., September 1, 1853. COLONEL: I have the honor to send you, hereto annexed, copies of reports dated 24th of July, 3d and…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., December 19, 1861. Col. JAMES H. CARLETON, First Infantry California Volunteers, SIR: The general commanding the department directs me to inform you…
Owens River Valley Owens River Valley, May 26, 1863. Col. R. C. DRUM, U.S. Army, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal. : COLONEL: I have the honor to report that the…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., December 19, 1861. Brig. Gen. LORENZO THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: On the 17th instant I had the…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah Ter., April 9, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to inform you that at present all is quiet in this district. The Indians…
Carson City Carson City, December 16, 1861. Capt. EDWIN A. ROWE, Commandant of Fort Churchill, Nev. Ter.: SIR: I am informed there is serious apprehension of an Indian difficulty at…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Bragg, Cal., May 21, 1863. Str: I do myself the honor to report that I proceeded on the 3d instant from this post to Shelter Cove on scout…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Churchill, Nev. Ter., December 18, 1861. Maj. R. C. DRUM, U. S. Army, MAJOR: Again it becomes my duty to inform you that there has been another draft…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, July 10, 1863. COLONEL: Yesterday a private train, which had been transporting Government stores to Fort Gaston, was attacked at Redwood Creek on its…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., December 18, 1861. Lieut. Col. JAMES N. OLNEY, Second Regiment California Volunteer Infantry, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: The position…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, June 3, 1863. June 3, 1863. Respectfully referred to Lieutenant-Colonel Babbitt for his opinion in reference to supplying Camp Wright (Round Valley). By order: k.…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., December 17, 1861. Maj. R. C. DRUM, U.S. Army, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal. : MAJOR: The following articles it will take time to…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, Cal., May 11, 1863. COLONEL: On the 30th of April a Government pack train, in charge of four men belonging to companies at Fort…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, December 17, 1861. rig. Gen. L, THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. 0.: GENERAL: Where the War Department require the officers of…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah Ter., February 6, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that from information received from various sources of the encampment of a…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Hoskins, Oreg., December 16, 1861—4 p. m.. Colonel CADY, Commanding District of Oregon : COLONEL: On receiving the inclosed dispatches from the Indian agent at the Siletz block-house,…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah, December 2, 1862. COLONEL: I have the honor to inclose a letter of instruction to Major McGarry and his report of the expedition…