ARCHIVE OF MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN OF 6TH CALIFORNIA INFANTRY. Collection of military papers of Capt. Duane M. Greene, Company E, 6th California Volunteers, stationed at Fort Gaston in present day Humboldt County, battling hostile Indians in the area during the spring and summer of 1864. Four of Greene's reports are published in the official Civil War Records, and this archive contains several of his drafts and manuscript notes used to produce those reports, including: 1. Autograph Manuscript of Duane Greene, 8 pp recto and verso, in pencil, 4to, on trek between Fort Gaston and the Klamath river, March 8 to 15, 1864, draft of report submitted after the week's expedition including a day-by-day breakdown of events, incomplete, leaves creased and soiled. With 4 pp incomplete copy of report in Greene's hand, and 8 pp complete copy of report in secretarial hand, both in fine condition. Present also are 3 leaves of manuscript diary notes taken during the trek, in an unknown hand. From March 15, Greene writes: " met an Indian whose right hand was bleeding profusely, and on examination I found it was a rifle shot wound. I asked him how he got hurt, and said it was by the accidental discharge of his piece. He said he belonged to Lieut Middleton's party which he said was within half a mile of me, returning to Fort Gaston. Suspecting that he belonged to the band reported opposing Middleton, and endeavouring to escape, I made prisoner of him and proceeded about half a mile and met Middleton who said the Indian's story was correct." 2. Autograph Manuscript, 4 pp recto and verso, legal folio (conjoining leaves), Camp Iaqua, May 1, 1864, being a report of skirmishes with hostile Indians in the area, with a 7 pp official copy of report in secretarial hand. With additional manuscript notes and loose journal entries by Greene and others documenting the events of the spring and summer of 1864, plus related military documents including a manuscript copy of Special Orders #2, March 14, 1864, by order of Colonel Black: "All Indians 'bucks" captured in open hostility will be hung and none will be shot after capture. Women and children will always be spared...."; and 2 ALSs of Thomas Knight, 3 pp recto and verso, 4to, Fort Gaston, March 8 and 10, 1864, containing orders for Greene's expedition in pursuit of Indians (leaving on March 8) and notice of receipt of Greene's first report. Greene's son (?) 2nd Lt Duane M. Greene, served as an adjutant in Kansas and the Arizona Territory during the Indian Wars, and this lot also features a collection of Special Orders, 1872-1877, written from Fort Hays, Fort Riley, KS and Camp Bowie, Camp Lowell, and Yuma Station, A.T. See illustration.
ARCHIVE OF MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN OF 6TH CALIFORNIA INFANTRY. Collection of military papers of Capt. Duane M. Greene, Company E, 6th California Volunteers, stationed at Fort Gaston in present day Humboldt County, battling hostile Indians in the area during the spring and summer of 1864. Four of Greene's reports are published in the official Civil War Records, and this archive contains several of his drafts and manuscript notes used to produce those reports, including: 1. Autograph Manuscript of Duane Greene, 8 pp recto and verso, in pencil, 4to, on trek between Fort Gaston and the Klamath river, March 8 to 15, 1864, draft of report submitted after the week's expedition including a day-by-day breakdown of events, incomplete, leaves creased and soiled. With 4 pp incomplete copy of report in Greene's hand, and 8 pp complete copy of report in secretarial hand, both in fine condition. Present also are 3 leaves of manuscript diary notes taken during the trek, in an unknown hand. From March 15, Greene writes: " met an Indian whose right hand was bleeding profusely, and on examination I found it was a rifle shot wound. I asked him how he got hurt, and said it was by the accidental discharge of his piece. He said he belonged to Lieut Middleton's party which he said was within half a mile of me, returning to Fort Gaston. Suspecting that he belonged to the band reported opposing Middleton, and endeavouring to escape, I made prisoner of him and proceeded about half a mile and met Middleton who said the Indian's story was correct." 2. Autograph Manuscript, 4 pp recto and verso, legal folio (conjoining leaves), Camp Iaqua, May 1, 1864, being a report of skirmishes with hostile Indians in the area, with a 7 pp official copy of report in secretarial hand. With additional manuscript notes and loose journal entries by Greene and others documenting the events of the spring and summer of 1864, plus related military documents including a manuscript copy of Special Orders #2, March 14, 1864, by order of Colonel Black: "All Indians 'bucks" captured in open hostility will be hung and none will be shot after capture. Women and children will always be spared...."; and 2 ALSs of Thomas Knight, 3 pp recto and verso, 4to, Fort Gaston, March 8 and 10, 1864, containing orders for Greene's expedition in pursuit of Indians (leaving on March 8) and notice of receipt of Greene's first report. Greene's son (?) 2nd Lt Duane M. Greene, served as an adjutant in Kansas and the Arizona Territory during the Indian Wars, and this lot also features a collection of Special Orders, 1872-1877, written from Fort Hays, Fort Riley, KS and Camp Bowie, Camp Lowell, and Yuma Station, A.T. See illustration.
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