[or-roots] Indian Wars

[cjp joppe]

BTW many thanks!

--- Leslie Chapman <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Well I now have in my posession, thanks to Heritage
> quest, a complete or
> nearly so roster of the volunteers involved in the
> so called Indian wars of
> abot 1855 in Oregon.
> 
> This appears in:
> 				Illustrated history of Lane County, Oregon
> 				Portland, Or.: A.G. Walling, 1884, 560 pgs.
> 
> Now for the problem, number one the majority of
> names are listed by initial,
> eg.; Geuss' Minute Company.-Mustered at Fort hay,
> Illinois Valley, May 1,
> 1856L discharged June 20, 1856- Captian, John Guess;
> First Lt. Asher Moore;
> 2nd Lt. Stephen coleman; Seargeants, B. Kinchloe,
> W.J. Cross, W. S. Gibbs,
> John McCord; cprporals, Peter McClinchy, F.
> Sebastian, E. s. Fite, Alfred
> Dousitt, Thomas Arnett	.	.	.
> 
> 
> You get the idea, a lot of incomplete names.
> 
> Second problem; there are eleven pages, I am willing
> to do a cursory search,
> and if company is known am pretty confident I can
> find folks, but if all you
> have is a name, I may be inclined to want to run off
> a copy of all eleven
> pages and mail them to folks and let them search for
> kin!
> 
> Les C
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