Unknown to Pablo de la Guerra, May 28, 1861
No. 6. f Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., May 28, 1861. 1. Company E, Ninth Infantry, is transferred from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Dalles, and Company G, Ninth Infantry, is transferred from
Fort Dalles to Fort Vancouver. These movements to be made without delay, the quartermaster’s department furnishing the necessary transportation. * * * * * * * By order of Colonel Wright:
First Lieut., 3d Regiment of Artillery, and Actg. Asst, Adjt. Gen.
San Francisco, May 29, 1861. Hon. PABLO DE LA GUERRA, JAMES L. ORD, Esq., and others, Santa Barbara, Cal.:
GENTLEMEN: The general commanding the department has received your communication of the 22d instant. He directs me to reply that – the more pressing necessity for the presence of troops at other points will render the establishment of a post at Santa Barbara at this time impracticable.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Fort Dalles, Oreg., May 29, 1861.
Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.:
SIR: The present would seem to be not an inappropriate time to invite
scattered positions of the Fourth Infantry and to respectfully request
him, if not incompatible with the general interests of the service, to
make such changes therein as will bring them more immediately under