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509 Series I Volume L-I Serial 105 - Pacific Part I

Page 509 Chapter LXII. CORRESPONDENCE-UNION AND CONFEDERATE.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 7.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. ter., June 10, 1861.

Company F, Fourth Infantry, will be moved without delay to Portland, Oreg., prepared to embark on the next steamer for San Francisco. On arriving at San Francisco, Captain Floyd-Jones will report to the will furnish the necessary transportation.

By order of Colonel Wright:

JNO S. MASON,
First Lieutenant, Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 8.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 10, 1861.

I. Captain Dent with his company (B, Ninth Infantry) will move without delay from Fort Walla to Fort Cascades, and relieve Captain Wallen, Fourth Infantry, in command of that post.

II. Captain Wallen, after being relieved by Captain Dent, will proceed with his company by first steamer to San Francisco and report to the general commanding the department.

III. Captain Archer with his company (I, Ninth Infantry) will march without delay from Fort Colville and take post at Fort Walla Walla.

IV. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary trasnporttion to inssure the promto execution of the movements above ordered. Captain Dent's company will be sent down from Old Fort Walla Walla by water.

By order of Colonel Wright:

JO. S. MASON,

First Lieutenant, Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TH PACIFIC,
San Francisco, June 11, 1861.

EDWIN A. SHERMAN, Esq.,

San Bernardino, Cal.:

SIR: The general commanding the department has received your communication of the 3rd instant. He directs me to reply that the necessary employment of troops eleswhere will prevent him from establishing a company of dregoons at San Bernardino as you sugget, but he hopes that the concertration of a more considerable force at a point not far distant will accomplish the same object.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. C. BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS,
Fort Churchill, Nev., June 11, 1861.

Major D. C. BUELL,

Asst. Adjt. General Hdqrs. Dept. of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.:

MAJOR: I would respectfully report that in carrying out your instruction by telegram of June 6, 1861, Captain Moore, assistant quartermastyer, two directed to proceed to Carson City, accompanied by twenty dragoons, under the command of Lieutenant Baker, and take possession of all such public arms as might be held by citizens of that place or


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