Letter from the Secretary of War
Subtitle: transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 29, 1889, report of Capt. W.E. Birkhimer.
Contributors: Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908.; Birkhimer, William E. 1848-1914.; United States. War Dept.; United States. Government Printing Office,; Pacific Northwest History Collection.; Historical Map Collection.
Series: Ex. doc. / 51st Congress, 1st session, Senate -- no. 6.; Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 51st Congress, 1st session, no. 6.
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1889
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Hall, Lawrence, -- d. 1867; Oregon. -- Militia. -- Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers, 1st; Governmental investigations -- Oregon; Cayuse Indians -- Wars; Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865; Whitman Massacre, 1847; Oregon -- Militia; Oregon -- Militia -- Registers
Genres: Registers.
Other titles: Captain Hall's Company of Oregon Volunteers.
Notes: Report on resolution to cause the Secretary of War to investigate the organization and service of what was known as Capt. Lawrence Hall's Company of Oregon Volunteers (second company of the 1st Regiment of Oregon Riflemen), which was organized in early 1848 (after the Whitman Massacre) to serve in the Cayuse War in Oregon. Includes names of the officers and privates constituting such company.

Caption title.

"Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War"--p. [1].

"December 9, 1889.--Referred to the Committee on Pensions, and ordered to be printed"--p. [1].

WSU MASC copy is: 002-119883841.