Sacramento Sacramento, March 11, 1861. Brig. Gen. ALBERT S. JOHNSTON, U.S. Army, Commanding Pacific Division: SIR: I have received numerous petitions from citizens of the counties of Humboldt and Mendocino…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, March 6, 1861. Capt. ©. S. LOVELL, Sixth Infantry, Commanding Fort Humboldt, Cal. : SIR: The commanding general directs you to send Lieutenant…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, March 4, 1861. No. 25. J San Francisco, March 4, 1861. Companies A and B, Third Artillery, will take post at the…
TREASURY DEPARTMENT TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 28, 1861. Hon. J. HOLT, Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the letter of A. S. Johnston, brevet…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 22, 1861. Capt. G. E. PICKETT, Ninth Infantry, U. S. Army, Commanding on the Island of San Juan, Wash. Ter.: CAPTAIN: The…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 20, 1861. Capt. J. S. ELLIS, Commanding California Guard, San Francisco, CAL. : DEAR SIR: The fort at Fort Point having lately…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 20, 1861. COLONEL: In obedience to the orders of the General-in-Chief received here on the 15th instant, Fort Point was occupied by…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 18, 1861. Lieut. Col. C. S. MERCHANT, Third Artillery, Commanding Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: Brigadier-General Johnston directs me to say…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, New York, March 18, 1861. Respectfully submitted to the General-in-Chief. The reply of General Johnston to Captain Spencer has not been received at Army headquarters.tLieutenant-Colonel and…
ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS, February 9, 1861. No. 5. Fort Dalles, Oreg., February 9, 1861. I. Captain Whittlesey, First Dragoons, with twenty-nine men of his company, mounted and equipped for the field,…