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Memoirs of Gen W T Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. EARLY REOOLLEOTION8 OF CAr.IKoKNIA (CONTINUED). 1849-1850. The department headquarters still remained at Monterey, but, with the few soldiers, we had next to nothing to do. In midwinter we heard of the approach of a battalion of the Second Dragoons, under Major Lawrence Pike Graham, with Captains Rucker, Coutts, Campbell, and others, along. So exhausted were they by their long march from Upper Mexico that we had to Bend relief to meet them as they approached. When this command reached Los Angeles, it was left there as the garrison, and Captain A. J. Smith's company of the First Dragoons was brought up to San Francisco. We were also advised that the Second Infantry, Colonel B. Riley, would be sent out around Cape Horn in sailing-ships; that the Mounted Rifles, under Lieutenant-Colonel Loring, would march overland to Oregon; and that Brigadier-General Persifer F. Smith would come out in chief command on the Pacific coast. It was also known that a contract had been entered into with parties in New York and New Orleans for a monthly line of steamers from those cities to California, via Panama. Lieutenant-Colonel Burton had come up from Lower California, and, as captain of the Third Artil lory, he was assigned to command Company F, Third Artillery, at Monterey. Captain Warner remained at Sacramento, surveying; and Halleck, Murray, Ord, and I, boarded with Dofia Angustias. The season was unusually rainy and severe, but we passed the time with the usual round of dances and parties. The time fixed for the arrival of the mail-steamer was understood to be about January 1, 1840, hut the day came and wentwithout any tidings of her. Orders were given to Captain Bur ton to announce her arrival by firing a national salute, and each morning we listened for the guns from the ...

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General Books LLC
ISBN-10
0217968546
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9780217968546
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Memoirs of Gen w T Sherman
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Trade Paperback
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English
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Historical, Military
Publication Year
2009
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Biography & Autobiography
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324 Pages

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