HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT,
Fort Humboldt, April 4, 1862.

Captain C. D. DOUGLAS,

Second Infantry California Vols., Commanding at Fort Anderson:

CAPTAIN: Your letter of the 1st instant is just received. You are authorized to make such arrangement with respect to your guides as you find to be necessary. The colonel commanding the district desires you to reconnoiter the grounds at Simmons; ranch, about four miles above Minor's, and report whether the site is adapted to a military post. The direct trail from Arcata to Weaverville passes by or near there. This trail has been abandoned only from fear of Indians. It is important to have it protected, and your post would have been established with that view at Simmons's but for the information received at Minor's that there is no level ground there. The colonel commanding is now told that the information was incorrect. He therefore desires from you a report as soon as possible as to the eligibility of the site as a p[ost, particularly in regaard to wood, water, pasturage, and the river crossing.

By order of Colonel Lippitt:

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN HANNA, Jr.,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT,
Fort Humboldt, April 4, 1862.

Captain C. D. DOUGLAS,

Second Infantry California Vols., Commanding at Fort Anderson:

CAPTAIN: Your dispatch of this date is the first official report received of any engagement with the Indians. The particulars will be forwarded to departmetn headquarters by the first steamer. The colonel commanding regrets the he has no men to send you at present. Captain Akey is on a scout with all the men that can be spared form the post. But the eleven men of your command now at Riley's will be relieved immediately be a detachment of Company E, Second Cavalry California Volunteers. Until futrher orders you will furnish escorts form your post to Fort Gaston and to riley's for all trains with Government supplies, all military expresses, all U. S. mail riders, and so far as practicable for private trains. If the Indian killed was positively identified by the hospital steward as a Hoopa Inddian, you will instruct Lieutenant Johnson to prepare his affidavit to the fact, to be signer by him and sworm to before a commmissioned officer, and then forwarded immediately to these headquarters. so far as possible you will take care to keep always one half of your efective men at the post.

By order of Colonel Lippitt:

Very rerspectfully, your obedient servant,

JIHN HANNA, Jr.,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT,
Fort Humboldt, April 4, 1862.

Captain STUARD,

Second Infantry California Vols., Commanding at Fort Ter-Waw:

CAPTAIN: The colone commanding the district desires you to keep as strict a watch as possible upon the Klamath Indians in your vicinity,