Oregon Volunteers (other)

	Oregon Volunteers (other) Oregon Volunteers may refer to: * 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, who served in the U.S. Civil War, 1862–1866 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 1st Oregon Infantry Regiment was an American Civil War era military regiment recruited in Oregon for the Union Army. The regiment was formed in November 1864. At full strength, it was composed of ten companies of foot soldiers. The regimen ... , who served in the U.S. Civil War, 1864–1867 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment, who served in the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, 1898–1899 Oregon Mounted Volunteers, who served in the Rogue River Wars and other conflicts with Native Americans in the American West, active in the 1850s Oregon Rangers, a short-lived militia, active 1844–1846 Oregon Rifles, a short-lived militia, formed in 1847 Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, later known as the 3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States), incorrectly (as they were regular army), when they marched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1st Oregon Cavalry Regiment The First Regiment Oregon volunteer Cavalry was a volunteer regiment in United States service Union army that was formed in response to the American Civil War. With men recruited in Oregon and some recruited in surrounding states, the regiment primarily served to protect the state of Oregon and surrounding territories during the American Civil War. Background In 1861, Colonel George Wright requested permission from Oregon Governor John Whiteaker to form a cavalry company in the state, as Wright was commander of the District of Oregon that included the Washington Territory.Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 84. Wright was motivated by the fact that there were a total of 700 soldiers and 19 officers in the Pacific Northwest at a time when there were often battles with Native Americans. Some volunteers joined up, asked to provide their own horse, but were later discharged when the organization failed before Wright was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1st Oregon Infantry Regiment The 1st Oregon Infantry Regiment was an American Civil War era military regiment recruited in Oregon for the Union Army. The regiment was formed in November 1864. At full strength, it was composed of ten companies of foot soldiers. The regiment was used to guard trade routes and escorted immigrant wagon trains from Fort Boise to the Willamette Valley. Its troops were used to pursue and suppress Native American raiders in eastern Oregon and the Idaho Territory. Several detachments accompanied survey parties and built roads in central and southern Oregon. The regiment's last company was mustered out of service in July 1867. Background Following the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, most regular army troops were withdrawn from the Pacific Northwest for service in the war's eastern theatres. This left Oregon and the Washington and Idaho territories without sufficient troops to guard Native American reservations from trespassing miners, escort immigrant wagon tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a military regiment recruited in the U.S. state of Oregon during the Spanish–American War. As the first foreign war in U.S. history, it was the first time members of the Oregon National Guard had fought on foreign soil. The regiment also served with distinction in the Philippine–American War. At full strength, it was composed of 50 officers and 970 enlisted men. The regiment's last company was mustered out of service in August 1899. History Spanish–American War The regiment was formed after the battleship USS ''Maine'' exploded in Havana Harbor in Cuba on 15 February 1898. Cuba was under Spanish rule at the time and the United States became involved in the Cuban War of Independence when the U.S. Congress declared war on Spain on 21 April 1898, beginning the Spanish–American War. On 25 April 1898, President William McKinley asked Oregon for a regiment of infantry, preferably recruited from the existing National Guard. Oregon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oregon Mounted Volunteers The Oregon Mounted Volunteers was a military regiment recruited in the U.S. state of Oregon during the Yakima War. In November 1855, Major Mark Chinn left The Dalles and assembled 6 companies of Mounted Volunteers to turn against the Walla Walla people. Major Chinn and the Mounted Volunteers set base in Fort Henrietta where they built a stockade. Control of the Mounted Volunteers was given to Lieutenant Colonel James Kelly. Listings Gabriel J. Rains, who had just 350 federal troops under his immediate command, urgently appealed to Acting Governor Charles Mason for military aid, writing that The first company of the regiment was mustered under the command of Colonel James W. Nesmith in October 1855 and included Company "F", "H", and "A". In December 1855 a regiment was mustered under the command of Colonel James E. Kelly and included Company "E" and Company "G". Company "C" was later recruited and commanded by Colonel Thomas R. Cornelius in January 1856. Gear The Oregon M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rogue River Wars The Rogue River Wars were an armed conflict in 1855–1856 between the U.S. Army, local militias and volunteers, and the Native American tribes commonly grouped under the designation of Rogue River Indians, in the Rogue River Valley area of what today is southern Oregon. The conflict designation usually includes only the hostilities that took place during 1855–1856, but there had been numerous previous skirmishes, as early as the 1830s, between European-American settlers and the Native Americans, over territory and resources. Following conclusion of the war, the United States removed the Tolowa people and other tribes to reservations in Oregon and California. In central coastal Oregon, the Tillamook, Siletz and about 20 other tribes were placed with Tolowa people at the Coast Indian Reservation. It is now known as the Siletz Reservation, located on land along the Siletz River in the Central Coastal Range, about 15 miles northeast of Newport, Oregon. While the tribes or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oregon Rangers The Oregon Rangers was the first organized militia of the white settlers located in the Willamette Valley in the contested region of the Oregon Country, later the U.S. state of Oregon. First established in 1844, the force was never called out to service by the Provisional Government of Oregon and was soon dissolved. Later a second militia was formed in 1846 with the same name, which lasted only a few months. An early historian of Oregon, Frances Fuller Victor, gave a negative assessment of the two forces, stating there lacked "any deeds of prowess performed by the rangers..."Victor, Frances Fuller''The early Indian wars of Oregon.''Salem, OR: Frank C. Baker, 1894 Cockstock Incident The Cockstock Incident involved a Wasco named Cockstock was employed on black Winslow Anderson's farm in 1843, with a horse promised as payment.Mcclintock, Thomas C. ''"James Saules, Peter Burnett, and the Oregon Black Exclusion Law of June 1844."'' The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 86, No. 3 (1995), pp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oregon Rifles The Oregon Rifles was the first military force organized for the protection of Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Shortly after the Whitman Massacre, Oregon Governor George Abernethy communicated to the legislature his concern about the seriousness of the conditions, and issued a call for volunteers. A company of 45 men, furnishing their own rifles and equipment, organized in Oregon City and arrived in The Dalles on December 21, 1847. Those who did not have their own rifles were furnished arms by John McLoughlin. H. A. G. Lee Henry A. G. Lee (c. 1818 – 1851) was a soldier and politician in Oregon Country in the 1840s. A member of Virginia's Lee family, he was part of the Fremont Expedition and commanded troops during the Cayuse War in what became the Oregon Ter ... was named captain of the unit. See also * Cayuse War * Oregon Rangers References Military in Oregon History of Oregon Indian wars of the American Old West 1840s in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]