Captain Miller will see that his battery is fully equipped, and will take two hundred rounds of ammunition. The staff departments will furnish the necessary transportation and supplies. 3. The commanding officer, Fort Cape Disappointment, will send a detachment of his battery to Fort Stevens to relieve temporarily Battery E, ordered into the field. Until First Lieut. Samuel R. Jones joins, Capt. Smith will be respon sible for the public property at Fort Stevens, and will receipt for it to the officers now in charge. 4. The commanding officer, Vancouver arsenal, will invoice to the ordnance officer, District of the Lakes, for the troops in the field oper ating against the Modoc Indians, the following ordnance stores, and transfer the stores to the commanding officer, Company I, Twenty-first Infantry, for transportation to Linkville, Oreg., or its vicinity, viz: Twenty thousand (20,000) rounds center-primed metallic cartridges caliber .50; five thousand (5,000) rounds cartridges for Spencer carbine, and two thousand (2,000) rounds cartridges, caliber .44, for Remingtea and Colt's revolving pistols. 5. The commanding officer, Vancouver arsenal, will invoice to Capt. Marcus P. Miller, Fourth Artillery, commanding Battery E, Fourth Artillery, the following ordnance stores, and transfer the stores to the Quartermaster's Department for transportation to Portland, Oreg., viz: Twelve thousand (12,000) rounds center-primed metallic cartridges, calber .50. By command of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: H. CLAY WOOD, Assistant Adjutant-General. H. CLAY WOOD, Assistant Adjutant-General. [Special Orders No. 14.-Extract.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, 1. Batteries A and M, Fourth Artillery, and Companies E and G. Twelfth Infantry, ordered via Yreka to the Modoc country in the Department of the Columbia, will report for orders to Lieut. Col. Frank Wheaton, Twenty-first Infantry, commanding officer, District of the Lakes. Supplies required by these companies will be furnished from the division depots. By order of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-Genera WM. M. WHERRY, Acting Assistant Adjutant-Genera'. [Special Orders No. 16.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., January 23, 1873. 1. Colonel Alvan C. Gillem, First Cavalry, is hereby assigned to the command of the troops in the Modoc country, and will proceed without delay to the headquarters of those troops, reporting by letter to the commanding officer of the Department of the Columbia. By order of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. WM. M. WHERRY, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. [Special Orders No. 23.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, 1. First Lieutenant Henry N. Moss, First Cavalry, joining his company in the Modoc country, from leave, will conduct to the command of Colonel Gillem the enlisted men at the Presidio, and at Angel Island, and Benicia Barracks, for Battery E, Fourth Artillery, Companies B and I, Twenty-First Infantry, and Troops B, H, and K, First Cavalry. These men will be armed, equipped, supplied with two hundred rounds of ammunition per man and with shelter-tents, for service in the field. Three days' cooked rations will be furnished from their posts and ten days' from the depot. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation, by rail and stage, as far as Yreka. By order of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. WM. M. WHERRY, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. [General Orders No. 2.] HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA, Portland, Oreg., March 4, 1873. Colonel Alvan C. Gillem, First Cavalry, having reported to the department commander, in compliance with Special Orders No. 16, current series, from division headquarters, is assigned, from the Sth ultimo, to the command of the troops operating in the Modoc country, including the District of the Lakes as extended in paragraph 1, Special Orders, No. 112, series of 1872, and any sub-depots that have been or may be established for the supply of the troops in the field. By command of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: H. CLAY WOOD, Assistant Adjutant-General. LOUIS V. CAZIARC, First Lieutenant Second Artillery, Aid-de-Camp. [Special Orders No. 43.-Extract.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, 3. The commanding officer, Benicia barracks, will arm and equip for field-service the recruits necessary to fill up companies B, F, G, H, and K, of the First Cavalry serving in the Modoc country, and will dispatch them via Sacramento to Redding on the 14th instant, in charge of Second Lieutenant John Simpson, Fourth Artillery. The detachment will be furnished with three days' cooked rations, and ten days' rations in bulk. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transpor tation. By order of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. WILLIAM M. WHERRY, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. ** [Special Orders No. 47.-Extract.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., March 18, 1873. 4. The guard at the quartermaster's depot, Yerba Buena Island will be reduced to one sergeant, one corporal, and ten men, detailed from the Fourth Artillery. First Lieutenant Albion Howe, Battery A, Fourth Artillery, in command of Battery K, of his regiment, will proceed to the Modoc country without delay, reporting to Colonel Gillem. The battery will be equipped for field-service; shelter-tents and two hundred rounds of ammunition per man, cooked rations for three days, and ten days' rations in bulk, will be issued to the battery. The commanding officer of the Modor expedition is authorized to attach this battery to Battery A, for tem porary duty, if he deems it advisable. Second Lieutenant George M. Harris, Battery K, will join his command so soon as released from court-martial duty. The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transpor tation. By order Brigadier-General Canby: J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. [General Orders No. 2a.] HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA, The orders heretofore given by the commanding officers for procuring supplies required by the troops engaged in operations against the Modoc Indiaus by open purchase are confirmed, and in future when the public. exigencies require such purchase to be made, the order will be given by the senior commander, who will direct the manner and place of purchase. The commanders of the several detachments will see that timely estimates are submitted for the supplies required by their commands. Estimates for funds for subordinate commands will be limited to the monthly current expenses for each, as prescribed by Division Orders, No. 13 of 1871. All other disbursements will be made by the district disbursing officer, to whom the vouchers will be sent after they have been examined and approved by the immediate commander. By command of Brigadier-General Canby: Official: H. R. ANDERSON, Second Lieutenant Fourth Artillery, Aide-d-Camp, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. LOUIS V. CAZIARC, Aid-de-Camp. [Special Orders No. 49.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., March 20, 1873. 1. Acting Assistant-Surgeon B. Semig, United States Army, will report to-day to First Lieut. Albion Howe, Fourth Artillery, as medical officer of his command, which he will accompany to the Modoc country. If the services of this officer are not required by the commanding officer of the Modoc expedition, he will return to these headquarters and report for orders. By order of Brigadier-General Canby : Official: J. C. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. WILLIAM M. WHERRY, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. [Special Orders No. 44.-Extract.] HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, San Francisco, April 13, 1873. 1. Light Battery B, Captain Hasbrouck, Fourth Artillery, now at the Presidio, will be at once put in readiness for immediate field-service against the Modoc Indians. The battery will be mounted and equipped as cavalry, and prepared to move in light marching order, with two hundred rounds of reliable ammunition per man, fifteen days' rations, and shelter-tents-the baggage being arranged for pack-animals. The post commander at the Presidio will see that everything is in readiness for this battery to move, as soon as notified, by rail to Redding, and to march from that place as hereafter instructed. 2. Battery G, Fourth Artillery, Captain Mendenhall, now at Point San José, California, will be at once put in readiness for immediate field service against the Modoc Indians. The battery will be as lightly equipped as is consistent with efficiency, (the baggage being arranged for pack-animals.) taking two hundred rounds of ammunition per man, fifteen days' rations and shelter-tents, and be ready to move, as soon as notified, by rail to Redding, and t› march from that place as hereafter instructed. Light Battery Band battery G will form one command, under the senior officer, and Capta Mendenhall, Fourth Artillery, will designate an officer to perform the duties of acting assistant quartermaster and assistant commissary of subsistence for the command. 3. The chief quartermaster of the department will see that the necessary funds, forage, and transportation, and the chief commissary of subsistence of the department that the necessary funds and subsistence are in readiness to make the above movements as rapidly as possible. By command of Major-General Schofield : Official: SAMUEL BRECK, Assistant Adjutant-Genere!, WILLIAM M. WHERRY, Acting Assistant Adjutant-Genera', [General Orders No. 6.] HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., April 14, 1573. It is with extreme sorrow that the division commander announces the death of one of our most honored and beloved comrades, Brig. Ge Edward R. S. Canby, commanding the Department of the Columbia. General Canby and his associates the peace commissioners were, on the 11th instant, making a last humane effort to avert further hostili: with the Modocs, when they were treacherously assaulted by the India chiefs. General Canby and the Rev. Dr. Thomas were killed, and Mi Meacham dangerously wounded. Lieut. William L. Sherwood, Twea first Infantry, was at the same time treacherously shot and serions į wounded while answering a flag of truce. Upon the arrival of the remains of General Canby in Portland, Oregon, appropriate funeral honors will be paid, under the direction of Bvt. M.. Gen. Robert S. Granger, colonel Twenty-first Infantry. All officers at troops on duty in and near San Francisco will join in the escort of the remains of the illustrious dead when they pass through San Francis to their final resting-place. As a mark of respect to the memory of the Christian patriot, the Re Dr. Thomas, who at the call of the Government lost his life in the cap of peace and humanity in company with our deceased comrade, h's funeral will be attended by all the officers of the division and departme.” staffs. By order of Major General Schofield: J. C. KELTON. Assistant Adjutant-Gene x'. |