SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERSD DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 24.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 27, 1862.

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II. Major Rinearson, First Oregon Cavalry, will repair without delay to Camp Clackamas and assume command.

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JUSTUS STEINBERGER,
Colonel First Washington Territory Infantry, Commanding District.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 25.
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 27, 1862.

I. Captain F. Seidenstriker, First Washington Territory Infantry, with his company (D), will proceed without delay to Fort Hoskins, Oreg., and relieve Captain J. C. Schmidt, Second California Infantry. The latter on being relieved will without delay with his company to Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter.

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JUSTUS STEINBERGER,

Clonel First Washington Territory Infantry, Commanding District.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON,
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., June 27, 1862.

Lieutenant Colonel R. F. MAURY,

First Oregon Cavalry, Under Orders for Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter.:

SIR: On arriving at Fort Dalles you will take prompt measures to prosecute your march to Fort Walla Walla with the three companies of cavalry under your command. Transportation, the allowance of two wagons to a company, willbe furnished you by the commanding officer at Fort Dalles, as also ten days' subsistence for the march. Report has been made to these headquarters that a band of thieves are driving a number of Government mules stolen from Fort Walla Walla. It is desired to apprehend them and recover the property, and it has been suggested that by detaching a small portion of your command near John Day's Riverand sending them around by the headwaters of Butter Creek, there is agood prospect of recovery. Mr. Hamason, of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, is fully informed upon the matter and the locality, and I have to request that you will consult him on arriving at The Dalles and use your own judgment as to the necessity of dispatching such a party and its direction. If any apprehension be made take the property and thieves to Fort Walla Walla.

Trusting to hear of the early and safe arrival of your command at Fort Walla Walla, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JUSTUS STEINBERGER,

Colonel First Washington Territory Infantyr, Commanding District.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, June 28, 1862.

Brigadier General L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: On the 26th instant I received and inspected the Third Infantry California Volunteers, commanded by Colonel P. E. Connor,