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 Oregon which brought on the war; a charge justly resented by the people of southern Oregon The government, however, declined to yield any further to the demands of Captain Jack or his intercessors.

On the 16th of January, everything being in readiness and the weather foggy, which answered in lieu of a snowstorm to hide the operations of the troops, the army moved upon Jack's stronghold. General orders had been issued on the 12th concerning the disposition of the troops, and the most perfect understanding prevailed as to the duty expected of every division of the forces. The regulars in the field numbered two hundred and twenty-five, and the volunteers about one hundred and fifty. The latter consisted of the Jacksonville company, the Klamath company, and Fairchild's California company of twenty-four sharpshooters who offered their services on the 16th.

At four o'clock in the morning Colonel Green, with Captain Perry's troops, moved up to the bluff on the south-west of Tule lake, to clear it of Modoc pickets and scouts, and cover the movement of the main force to a camp on the bluff three miles west of the Modoc stronghold, located so as not to be observed by the enemy. By three in the afternoon the whole force on the west side of the lake, consisting of Mason's battalion; two companies of infantry under Captain Burton and Lieutenant Moore; a detachment of another company, under sergeant John McNamara; the Oregon volunteers, commanded by General John E. Ross; two companies under captains Hugh Kelly and O. C. Applegate; Lieutenant Miller's howitzer battery; Captain Fairchild's sharpshooters—all but seven of the scouts, dismounted, and provisioned with cooked rations for three days, had been meanwhile encamped in a juniper grove, with a picket line thrown out along the edge of the bluff, and another around the camp.

Captain Bernard's force on the east side of the