Dispatch
Unknown to Captain Black, August 20, 1861
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 20, 1861.
CAPTAIN: Your two telegraphic dispatches of the 15th instant I have this day received. The articles required will be sent to San Francisco by next steamer. We have but fourteen saddles and twenty bridles. I have telegraphed the number of saddles. We have an alarm again of Indian disturbances at the Cascades. Captain Black will go up to-morrow with a detachment of thirty-four men, and I have ordered Captain
Van Voast, with his company, to proceed from Fort Dalles to the Cascades. By prompt action and summary punishment of the evildisposed I believe that peace can be maintained, but there 1s manifestly a hostile feeling and restlessness amongst the Indians which demands attention.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Colonel Ninth Infantry, Commanding.
San Francisco, Cal, August 20, 1861.
Ninth Regiment Infantry, Comdg. District of Oregon:
SIR: From information which has reached the general commanding
San Francisco, Cal, August 20, 1861.
Ninth Regiment Infantry, Comdg. District of Oregon:
SIR: From information which has reached the general commanding
the department, he is apprehensive that an outbreak is contemplated
by the Indians within the limits of the District of Oregon. Being too
remote from the scene of these threatened disturbances to procure accurate information on the subject, the general desires you to carefully
investigate the condition of Indian affairs in the district where the
by the Indians within the limits of the District of Oregon. Being too
remote from the scene of these threatened disturbances to procure accurate information on the subject, the general desires you to carefully
investigate the condition of Indian affairs in the district where the
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter..
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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