Unknown to Lorenzo Thomas, March 10, 1862

General L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington City, D. C.:

SIR: Your communication of January 4, 1862, in which you request me to forward to your office a “return of the two and three years’ regiments and independent companies of volunteers furnished up to this date under the authority of” the State of Oregon, setting forth their strength and the arm of the service to which they belonged when transferred to the General Government, and in which you also desire “a similar return of all two or three years’ volunteer troops raised within this State upon what has been called “independent acceptances,'” and in which you further request a report of the number of regiments or independent companies now organizing in this State, their present strength, and the time at which they will probably be completed and ready to take the field, is received, and without delay I make the following reply: The authorities of this State have never been called upon for any troops by the President. In September last Colonel Wright made a requisition upon the Governor of this State for one company of mounted volunteers for the Indian service on the frontiers of this State, but before the company was mustered into the service of the United States the order was countermanded and the company disbanded. There has been no two or three years’ volunteers either by regiments or independent companies furnished the General Government by the authorities of this State; nor has this State furnished

A A is meant by this to cover those cases where officers for the command of aregiment have been appointed directly from your office, and authorized to raise such troops within a State without calling upon the local authorities for them. As you must be aware, there is one such case in this State, but as to its present strength I am entirely uninformed.

I am not aware that there are any independent companies now forming in this State.

with great respect, your obedient servant,