The records on file in this office show that J. M. Shively, of St. Louis, Missouri, stated under date of March 25, 1843, that his party would start for Oregon on April 20, 1843; and that he desired a company of troops. The records also show that the communication of Mr. Shively was charged to the Quartermaster General.
Nothing additional has been found bearing on this inquiry.
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Chief, Record and Pension Office.
[Name signed not decipherable.]
Third indorsement.
War Department,
Quartermaster General's Office,
Washington, October 6, 1902.
Respectfully returned, by direction of the Quartermaster General, to Mr. Joseph Schafer, No. 311 Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
No record of any correspondence with Captain E. Steen, 1st Dragoons, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during the year 1843, bearing on the matter of a military escort for emigrants is found, nor is there any record of the communication of J. M. Shively referred to in the second indorsement hereon.
S. F. LONG, (?)
Major and Quartermaster, United States Army.