505 Series I Volume L-I Serial 105 - Pacific Part I
| Page 505 | Chapter LXII. CORRESPONDENCE-UNION AND CONFEDERATE. |
measures to prevent the execution of any design that may be entertained by the insurgents of seizing Lower California.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 98.
San Franciso, June 8, 1861.* * * *
3. Captain Ord's bttery, Third Artillery, prepared for temporary and active service, will proceed at once by steamer to Sacramento, and thence march to Fort Churchill and report to the commanding officer. The deputy quatermaster-general will have the necessary transportation ready by Monday morning next. Captain Ord will send information to Major Blake of his approach in time to enable the latter to give him instructions at Carson City, if necessary, concerning his further movements.
By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:
D. C. BUELL,
Assistant Adjutant-General.VIRGINIA, June 8, 1851-10. 30 a. m.
Major D. C. BUELL, U. S. Army,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
I have taken fifty stand of arms in Carson and Sliver City. The Union men of this place have formed two companies. The oath is strong. Will I turn over the arms to them? The secession flag was to have been raised again to-day. My arrival put a stop to the movement. Will I take as prisoners those who refuse to turn over public arms?
T. MOORE,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 1861.
Captain T. MOORE,
Assistant Quartermaster, Virginia City, Nev. Ter.:
Issue the arms on receipt of responsible persons. Seize any public arms that are in store. Those who resist, disarm and make prisoners.
By order:
D. C. BUELL,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Franciso, June 8, 1861.Colonel W. SEAWELL,
Sixth Infantry, Commanding Benicia Barracks, Cal.:
SIR: The general commanding the department has been advised that the steamer Diana, now lying at Benicia, has recently been under consideration by certain persons with a view to fit her up with an armament to be employed, as is suspected, for unlawful purposes against the
| Page 505 | Chapter LXII. CORRESPONDENCE-UNION AND CONFEDERATE. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments