We had marched about eight or nine miles from the post when we met to R. C. Drum, August 18, 1861
Capt. R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant- General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal. :
Sir: Herewith inclosed I have the honor to forward Lieutenant Feilner’s report of a scout after Indians. On account of having lost
Dy OPERATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. (Cuap. LXII.
some provisions by the mules falling in while crossing Pitt River, Lieutenant Feilner hađ to return sooner than he desired, and before he had an opportunity of punishing the Indians and hunting up all the cattle, about 350 head out of 850 being all he could find alive, while out. I did, therefore, order him out again, with two non-commissioned s officers and twenty-seven privates of Company F, First Dragoons, on the 15th instant, with instructions to collect all the cattle he could find belonging to the drovers, and to punish the Indians known to have been engaged in the murder and theft. ; I am, sir,
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
FORT CROOK, CAL., August 13, 1961.
SIR: I have the honor to report that in accordance with Post Order
No. 19, I left Fort Crook, Cal., on the 3d instant with one non-commissioned officer, one bugler, and twelve men of Company F, First Dragoons, Mr. Pugh, and one Indian as guide, for the purpose of examining
rumor of an attack by Indians on a party of citizens out prospecting.
We had marched about eight or nine miles from the post when we met
two men who had survived a fight which took place on the Ist instant,