Oregon Cavalry Recruits 100 Volunteers for Three-Year Service
The federal government calls for volunteers to suppress frontier conflict in Washington Territory.
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100 Volunteers Wanted for the First Regiment of Oregon Cavalry to serve three years. The company will consist of one Captain, two Lieutenants, and seventy-eight privates. In addition to bounty and pay, men will be furnished with clothing, subsistence, and medical attendance. The Governor of Oregon, in his proclamation calling for these volunteers, says that they will be needed the coming spring on the frontiers of this State and Washington Territory, and for an expedition against the Snake Indians who have so long been mercilessly engaged in robbing immigrants and murdering our fellow citizens.
“For an expedition against the Snake Indians who have so long been mercilessly engaged in robbing immigrants and murdering our fellow citizens.”
This notice reflects the fraught and violent era of expansionism in the Pacific Northwest. Such recruitment efforts were part of a broader, state-sponsored effort to forcibly displace Indigenous populations to secure trade routes and homesteads.
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