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To facilitate his historical research, Relander purchased a microfilm reader and personally transcribed thousands of pages of source documents. This collection includes typescripts of notes from historical government documents, books and articles, newspaper clippings, memoirs, letters, journals, diaries, interviews, and field notes.
The source documents Relander selected to transcribe covers a wide range of topics and contains a great deal of material for the scholar of Pacific Northwest history.
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Item Dr. G. B. Kuykendall - manuscript - Transcript (part 4).(UNKNOWN, 1960) Various"Along in 1860 the whole country, east, west north and south was in a ferment of excitement over the slavery question. As this is a matter of common history it is useless for me to speak of it in details. My father had always been a Whit and anti-slavery man and for several years had feared that there would ultimately be war. From the beginning my father was a strong Lincoln man, having unbounded faith in Honest Old Abe. Many were the hot debates we had with the champions of Stephen A. Douglas the Little Giant and with the advocates of Breckenridge and Lane."Item Geographical names - D-F - Transcript (part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1951) Various"Fort Bellingham, on Bellingham Bay near the city of Bellingham, Whatcom county. It was established in 1856 with Capt. George E. Pickett of the Ninth Infantry, U. S. Army in command. He was later transferred to San Juan Island and still later during the Civil War gained fame as a Confederate leader, notably during Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. As the Indian troubles subsided Fort Bellingham was abandoned. (Meany)."Item Letters from J. G. Archer 1861 - 1864.(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-04-14) Archer, J. G.Letters sent from Fort Colville, Fort Yamhill, San Francisco, Nashville, Louisville, Richmond, VA, Dumfries, VA, Headquarters of the 5th Texas Regiment, Camp Neabasco, Clark County, VA, Camp Gregg near Fredericksburg, Fort Sandusky, Military Prison Johnson's Island, and Fort Delaware.Item Newspaper clippings - Pioneers in Yakima County- Transcript (part 5).(UNKNOWN, 1909) Various"Robert S. Morgan, one of the pioneers of this valley died early Monday morning from a complication of disorders, a wound sustained in the Civil War being a contributing cause. Mr. Morgan was born 62 years ago in Philadelphia. At the outbreak of the war he was living in Illinois but enlisted in a Missouri regiment and served three years. He was in the battle of Missionary Ridge and Corinth."Item Newspaper clippings - Transportation - Transcript (part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1926) Various"During his boyhood and early manhood Mr. Carpenter has had his share of the pioneer's hardships and adventures. As a lad he helped his father clear the Carpenter homesite in what is now School Section and later engaged in freighting between Yakima and The Dalles on the old military highway which U. S. Grant as a stripling lieutenant has toiled to construct."Item Newspaper clippings - Veterans - Transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1901) Various"Commissioner Evans estimates that the average age of the [Civil War] veterans who still survive is about 59 years. The last survivor of the war of 1812 died last summer, 75 years after the close of the war. At the same rate there will probably be a few survivors of the civil war still living in 1940."Item Photographic History of the Civil War - transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1911) Unknown"Major-General Christopher Colon Augur...was born in New York July 10, 1821. He served in the Mexican War and the campaign against the Oregon Indians. He entered the Civil War as a major in the infantry and was made brigadier of volunteers in November 1861."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part 1, pgs. 600 - 673).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-09-02) Various"I would now represent to your Excellency that the command of this expedition to Utah is a most important one and will embrace a jurisdiction of some 1,500 miles."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 1 - 156).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-01-15) Various"The Department of California was created by General Orders No. 10, War Department, adjutant-general's office of September 13, 1858 and included the territory west of the Rocky Mountains, south of Oregon except so much of Utah as lay east of the one hundred and seventeenth meridian of west longitude and of New Mexico as lay east of the one hundred and twenty meridian of west longitude. It also included the Rogue River and Umpqua Districts in southwestern Oregon."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 1,043 - 1,154).(UNPUBLISHED, 1862-04-30) Various"Whereas: It having come to the knowledge of the undersigned that there are certain persons, either holding office under the rebel government or aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States and that such person or persons are owners of real estate or personal property within the limits of this military department, it is hereby declared that all such estates or property are subject to confiscation for the use and benefit of the United States."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 1,154 - 1,168).(UNPUBLISHED, 1862-04-30) Various"The ferry-boat on the Snake River has been carried away by highwater, and communication by wagon train cuts off between Forts Walla Walla and Colville. It is found even under ordinary circumstances that to go by steam-boat to the mouth of the Palouse River, thence to Fort Colville, is much the shortest and most economical route."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 432 - 461).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-01-11) Various"'The General in chief desire that you order down from Fort Vancouver two companies of artillery to the posts near San Francisco and that the fort at the entrance of the harbor be occupied by one company with as little delay as practicable."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 461 - 491).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-04-08) Various"The command will be furnished with provisions and clothing and medical stores for sixteen months and 300 pounds of ammunition. The meat ration will consist of one third pork and two thirds cattle on the hoof, a reasonable supply of desiccated vegetables to be taken. Eight months provisions will be taken from Fort Walla Walla and the remainder under arrangements to be made by the chief of the commissary department."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 492 - 515).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-05-29) Various"This post is the proper station of Maj. R. S. Garnett, Ninth Infantry, who is reported on the monthly return as 'absent without leave' and who was assigned to it in August 1859, and is supposed to be on his return to it at this time."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 515 - 521).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-06-14) Various"I have the honor to report that I have this day abandoned this post by instructions received from the headquarters district of Oregon, dated Fort Vancouver, Wash Ter. June 11, 1861. The public property was all duly turned over to the proper departments at Fort Vancouver."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 525 - 592).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-06) Various"Capt. G. E. Pickett, Ninth Infantry on being relieved by Capt. English will move with his company to Fort Steilacoom and turn over his command and public property to Captain Woodruff. Captain Pickett will then be permitted to avail himself of the leave of absence granted in Special Orders 118 current series from department headquarters."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 673 - 738).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-10-22) Various"The steamer which leaves this city on the 20th instant will take to Fort Vancouver five companies of the Fourth Regiment of California Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lee. These companies will, the colonel commanding the department directs, be stationed as follows: One company at Fort Vancouver, one at Steilacoom, one at The Dalles, one at Hoskins and one at Yamhill."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 739 - 813).(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-11-25) Various"Patton, a packer in the Indian agency employe avers that when Mr. Newcomb was going away he distributed to the Indians guns and ammunition and told them to fight for Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confederacy."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 815 - 915).(UNPUBLISHED, 1862-01-23) Various"I have the honor to report to you that Fort Yuma is now an island. The river at this point commenced rising on the 20th instant and at 1 o'clock this morning reached its highest point. The rise yesterday afternoon was so sudden that in three hours it rose from its already high stage nearly six feet overflowing its banks and carrying everything before it."Item US War Department - War of the Rebellion (Series I, Volume L, part I, pgs. 941 - 1,053).(UNPUBLISHED, 1862-03-20) Various"I learn form Lt. J. J. Jackson that the Indians have been in to your post for the purpose of making a treaty. The Congress of the Confederate States has passed a law declaring extermination to all hostile Indians. You will therefore use all means to persuade the Apaches or any tribe to come in for the purpose of making peace and when you get them together, kill all the grown Indians and take the children as prisoners and sell them to defray the expense of killing the Indians. Buy whiskey and such other goods as may be necessary to the Indians and I will order vouchers given to cover the amount expended. Leave nothing undone to insure success and have a sufficient number of men around to allow no Indian to escape."