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SAN FRANCISCO, October 23, 1861.

Colonel CADY,

Fort Vancouver:

Suspend the enrollment of the cavalry company at The Dalles.

By order:

RICHARD C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., October 23, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel A. CADY,

Seventh Infantry, Commanding District of Oregon:

SIR: The colonel commanding the department desires you to give the necessary orders suspending the raising of the company of mounted volunteers by Captain Whittlesey. The regiment to be organized under Colonel Cornelius will, the colonel thinks, be ample for the whole country. If any men have been raised for this company the colonel desires you to disband them.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 3.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., October 23, 1861.

Pursuant to Special Orders, Numbers 191, current series, from the headquarters of the Department of the Pacific, the undersigned hereby relinquishes to Lieutenant Colonel Albemarle Cady, Seventh Infantry, the command of this district.

B. L. BEALL,

Colonel First Cavalry, U. S. Army, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 4.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., October 23, 1861.

Pursuant of Special Orders, Numbers 191, current series, from the headquarters of the Department of the Pacific, the undersigned hereby assumes command of this district.

A. CADY,

Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh Infantry.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 44.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., October 23, 1861.

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II. Major James F. Curtis, Second Infantry California Volunteers, will, with Companies C and D of same regiment, proceed to Fort Colville, Wash. Ter., via Walla Walla, and relieve Major Lugenbeel, Ninth Infantry, in command of that post. The latter, being relieved, will without delay repair with companies of the Ninth Infantry now under his command to Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter. Surg. I. Parry is assigned


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