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17,141 lettersSacramento Sacramento, March 30, 1865. CoLONEL: Inclosed herewith you will receive copies of the reports of Captains Wells and Wallace of their expeditions to Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake, with…
TUBAC, ARIZ. TER. TUBAC, ARIZ. TER., February 22, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to inclose report of an attack made on the vedette station at Fort Buchanan, Ariz. Ter.,…
Fort Oraig, N. Mex. Fort Oraig, N. Mex., September 19, 1864. Capt. B. ©. CUTLER, Assistant Adjutant-General, Santa Fé, N. Mex. : CAPTAIN: I have the honor to transmit my…
BOONVILLE BOONVILLE, July 13, 1864. Captain CURREY: DEAR SIR: We are compelled by force of cireumstances to communicate to you a few facts in relation to the depredations committed by…
San Francisco San Francisco, June 20, 1864. Sixth Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Dist. of Humboldt: SIR: The commanding general has perused with much satisfaction the report of Captain Miller of…
San Francisco San Francisco, May 18, 1864. Col. H. M. BLACK, Sixth Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Dist. of Humboldt: Sir: The general commanding is gratified to observe the activity and…
San Francisco San Francisco, May 10, 1864. Col. H. M. BLAcK, Sixth Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Dist. of Humboldt : SIR: The general commanding desires me to say that he…
San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco, Cal., April 23, 1864. Col. H. M. BLACK, i Sixth Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Dist. of Humboldt: SIR: The general commanding has read with much…
San Francisco San Francisco, April 22, 1864. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith a communication* from Col. H. M. Black, Sixth Infantry California Volunteers, dated April 7, 1864,…
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…
FORT GASTON FORT GASTON, May 6, 1863. Lieutenant BARTH, LIEUTENANT: Through inadvertence the foregoing copy of entry in our post records was omitted to be inclosed in my communication of…
DEPUTY QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL’S OFFICE, San Francisco, June 11, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, Present: Camp Wright has hitherto been furnished via Fort Bragg, from which latter post it is distant sixty-five…
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter. Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., November 19, 1863. Col. R. F. Maury, First Oregon Cavalry, commanding expedition against the Snake In ians, Fort Dalles, Oreg.: COLONEL: I…
ORDERS, } 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…
ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS, August 16, 1862. No. 170. $ Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., August 16, 1862. I. Lieut. J. T. Apperson, Company E, First Oregon Cavalry, with fifteen men…
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…
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter. Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 26, 1862. SIR: I herewith transmit for the information of the general commanding the department a copy of the report, dated…
San Francisco 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 of affairs in…
HEADQUARTERS OWEN’S RIVER EXPEDITION, Camp Independence, Cal., September 30, 1862. CoLONEL: Inclosed please find a copy of a letter from the Indian superintendent (or agent) Southern District of California, directed…
HEADQUARTERS OWEN’S RIVER EXPEDITION, September 16, 1862. September 16, 1862. COLONEL: I arrived at this place, twenty-five miles below Camp Independence, on yesterday, where I met the command moving down…