Wink Ds: Hancock to and Assistant Quartermaster, May 12, 1861

ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER’S OFFICE,
Los Angeles, Cal., May 12, 1861.
Asst. Adjt. Gen., Hdqrs. Dept. of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : MAJOR: There was no trouble here whatever to-day. Having failed to do what they had promised to do, I have no anxiety for the future. Those intending to parade here to-day thought better of it. The fact is, their principal advisers, or those to whom the turbulent spirits looked to for countenance, have found that they were being compromised in an affair for which they were not prepared. The Union men have been quite busy during the last few days in organizing for the purpose of commanding order, and have found their numbers so formidable that, together with the moral effect produced by the reported proximity of troops, they have but little fear for the future. I am, sir,

very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WINK DS: HANCOCK,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
May 12, 1861.
Maj. W. W. MACKALL,

MAJOR: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding the department, that a few days ago a party of eighty
warriors from this reservation returned from the Snake country, where
they had been to recover horses stolen from them by the Snakes at