History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington; embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the original territory of Oregon; also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a descripiton of the climate, soil, productions of Oregon and Washington . rely. Upon the breaking out of the war of secession, the regular troops and their officersbeing needed at the East, most of them were ordered to that section
History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington; embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the original territory of Oregon; also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a descripiton of the climate, soil, productions of Oregon and Washington . rely. Upon the breaking out of the war of secession, the regular troops and their officersbeing needed at the East, most of them were ordered to that section ; while the garrisoningof the posts and the protection of the settlers from the Indians were left to the volunteertroops. For this purpose a requisition was made for a regiment of Oregon cavalry, whichwas soon after reduced to six companies. These companies were promptly recruited andmustered in under the command of Colonel T. R. Cornelius. The companies werecommanded as follows: Company A, from Jackson county. Captain T. S. Harris;Company B, from Marion county. Captain E. J. Harding; Company C, from Vancouver,Captain Wm. Kelly; Company D, from Jacksonville, Captain S. Truax; Company E,from The Dalles, Captain G. B. Curry; Company F, from Josephine county. CaptainMatthews. At this time there was of course considerable political excitement over theoccurrences in the East, each man being governed more or less by his party or family. <<V .^V/i ? DYSART, ESQ ELLENSBURGM,W T OREGON VOLUNTEERS AGAIN IN THE FIELD. 649 prejudices; but the allegation that there was any organized effort to take Oregon out ofthe Union, as charged b} some of the newspapers of the day, was as nonsensical as it wasuntrue. The strongest contradiction to such a charge is the fact that three of the sixcompanies of cavalry were raised in Southern Oregon, which was claimed to be the hot-bedof the movement; and all of these were sent to the Columbia river to do service againstthe Indians on the northern
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