SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, October 25, 1861

No. 46. § Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., October 25, 1861.

I. Capt. J. O. Schmidt, Second Infantry California Volunteers, will, on taking command at Fort Hoskins, Oreg., detach a subaltern and eighteen enlisted men to proceed to Fort Umpqua as promptiy as possible and relieve the detachment of the Third Artillery now stationed there.

* k * %* * A * 3y order of Lieutenant-Colonel Cady: j A. ’, WILDRICK, First Lieut., Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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