Fort Vancouver records [manuscript], 1850-1867.

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Fort Vancouver records [manuscript], 1850-1867.

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Post order book, 1850 July 1 to 1858 June 29, including copies of orders given at Fort Vancouver by the following post commanders: Charles Francis Ruff, William Wing Loring, Philip Kearney, John Samuel Hatheway, Benjamin L. E. Bonneville, Gabriel James Rains, George Wright, and Thompson Morris, and reports of courts martial, 1850 Sept. 10 to 1857 Dec. 10. Microfilm of letters sent, 1857 July to 1865 May, 1866 Jan - Dec., 1867.

.08 cubic feet (1 volume in 1 folder and 1 microfilm)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Ruff, Charles Francis.

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Hatheway, S. G. (Samuel Gilbert), 1780-1867

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Morris, Thompson.

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Wright, George, 1803-1865

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Rains, Gabriel James, 1803-1881

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Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878.

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Kearny, Philip, 1815-1862

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Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886

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Florida legislator and Confederate brigadier general. From the description of Papers, 1861-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903019 Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on December 4, 1818. Member of the Florida legislature. Member of the Mount Rifles, 1846-1848. Colonel in U. S. Army 1856-1861. Resigned from U. S. Army in 1861. Commanded First Division Department of Norfolk, Confederate States of America, 1862, and the Department of Southwestern Virginia...