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Page 538 - SIR : I have the honor to report, for the information of the major-general commanding, that the situation here is not improving since my last report.
Page 227 - October 19, 1859. Colonel : I have the honor to report, for the information of the Secretary of War, that on arriving here on the night of the 17th instant, in obedience to Special Orders No.
Page 99 - I am directed by the attorney general to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, and to inform you that he has received and read the depositions in reference to the Shenandoah, and if Mr. Blanchard desires to see him, he will be glad to receive him on Monday next, at twelve o'clock noon, at these offices.
Page 111 - Territory shall enter upon the discharge of their respective duties; and that they will make no resistance to the army of the United States in its march to the valley of Salt Lake or elsewhere. We have their assurance that no resistance will be made to the officers, civil or military, of the United States, in the exercise of their various functions, in the Territory of Utah.
Page 580 - ... glimpse of the river below, so much is it hidden by the precipitous bluffs which at the bends stand at the wateredge. So strongly was I impressed with the fact that the surface drainage could never have been directed along its course so as to have worn out this channel, that I think a portion of it must have originated in a fissure in the rocks which the waters have since enlarged and made more uniform in size, and which the soft nature of the rock would render easy of accomplishment.
Page 96 - The people, including the inhabitants of this city, are removing from every settlement in the northern part of the Territory. The roads are everywhere filled with wagons loaded with provisions and household furniture, the women and children, often without shoes or hats, driving their flocks they know not where. They seem not only resigned but cheerful. "It is the will of the Lord," and they rejoice to exchange the comforts of home for the trials of the wilderness.
Page 576 - Sihasapas and our position, which was sufficiently unpleasant in the presence of such a numerous party of half-avowed enemies, was rendered doubly so by a storm of sleet and snow, which lasted two days and nights, and against which we had but little protection. " A young Indian who had accompanied us from Fort Laramie, considered the danger to us so imminent that he forsook our camp and joined his friends, the Minikanyes. Under these embarrassing circumstances my associates evinced the most resolute...
Page 114 - ... Constitution and government of the United States; they spoke harshly of many of the officials who had held office in the Territory; they spoke of the wrongs and injuries heretofore done them; they said they desired to live in peace under the Constitution of the United States. They denied that they had ever driven any official from Utah, or prevented any civil officers entering the Territory; they admitted that they burnt the army trains and drove off the cattle from the army last fall, and for...
Page 546 - ... practicability of the different routes. Certain maps, drawings, and scientific papers that were still in progress at the date of my communication of November 29, 1855, and which are intended to form part of the reports submitted by the first exploring parties, have been, with one exception, completed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Captain Topographical Engineers, in charge. Hon.
Page 92 - We had reason to congratulate ourselves upon having taken this precaution, as we subsequently ascertained that the country lying between your outposts and the Yellow is infested by hostile renegades and outlaws from various tribes. I was escorted from ' ' Bear River valley " to the western end of Echo canon; the journey through the canon being performed for the most part after night, it was about 11 o'clock pm when I arrived at Weber station.