Only Union Army Action in California... against Confederates?

[5fish]

The pursuit and the capture of the Showalter Party at Warner's Ranch, in the San Jose Valley, CA, southeast of Los Angeles, 18 Confederates, including their leader, Mr. Daniel Showalter, are captured on Nov 29.

The Affair at Minter's Ranch - San Diego History Center | San Diego, CA | Our City, Our Story

The San Diego History Center tells the diverse story of our region – past, present and future – educating and enriching our community, preserving our history and fostering civic pride.

sandiegohistory.org

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The one lone example of what might be termed contact between the Union and Confederate forces took place in San Diego County, in the Mesa Grande region. This was the capture of the “Showalter Party” by a detachment of the First Cavalry, California Volunteers, from Camp Wright, in the early winter of 1861. In his report to Col. James H. Carleton, commanding the First California Infantry, Maj. Edwin A. Rigg gave the location as “John Winter’s Ranch”; actually it was the Minter Ranch (now the Angel Ranch), about two and a half miles southwesterly, as the hawk flies, from Henshaw Dam.

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So ended The Affair at Minter’s Ranch. Although far from the scene of the main conflict, San Diego County can claim the only action of the Union Army in California during the Civil War.

 

[5fish]

Here is the OR...


Report of Brigadier General George Wright, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Pacific.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,

San Francisco, Cal., December 10, 1861.

GENERAL: For several weeks past small parties have bene organizing in the Southern District of this State, with the avowed purpose of proceeding to Texas to aid the rebels. The enable me to frustate their designs I have seized all the boats and ferries on the Colorado River, and have them strongly guarded. I have re-enforced Fort Yuma with two more companies, one of infantry and one of cavalry; also with two 12-pounder brass canon. Major Rigg, First Caifornia Volunteer Infantry, commnding U. S. troops near Warner's ranch, on the border of the desert between that place and Fort Yuma, has arrested a man by the name of Showalter, a notorious secessionist, and his party of seventeen men. I have ordered the whole party to be taken to Fort Yuma and held securely guarded until further orders. I have given positive orders that no person shall be permitted to pass beyond Yuma or cross

 

[5fish]

The full OR...with a map...

The War of the Rebellion

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for...

books.google.com

 

[5fish]

Here is he bio...

Daniel Showalter - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[diane]

Dan Showalter would have been a free-booter if he could have gotten financial backing.

There were several pro-Confederate dustups in the Gold Country. The barely-there town of Volcano, Ca had a flare-up with secessionist miners who decided to commandeer a shipment of gold coming through - 98 million worth. They were met by Union sympathizers who had obtained a six pound cannon. They showed it to the secessionists, who then marched back to their camps. (The little cannon is still on display at the town - it used to be fired at various celebrations until it became too elderly.)

There was also a fist fight at Solano between Union and Confederates - none in uniform - which ended when somebody found the saloon had real beer in.

The town of Rough-and-Ready Ca declared its independence...and still has not rejoined the Union. (Think they just forgot to...)

 

[5fish]

The town of Rough-and-Ready Ca declared its independence...and still has not rejoined the Union. (Think they just forgot to...)

Rough and Ready, California - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

snip... I think they forgot they rejoin the union...

The town declared its secession from the Union as The Great Republic of Rough and Ready on 7 April 1850, largely to avoid mining taxes, but voted to rejoin the Union less than three months later on 4 July.[6] The old republic is celebrated annually as a way to attract tourism and as a point of local pride.

 

[diane]

Well, they had to rejoin. They went to Nevada City to get the booze for the Independence Day celebration and couldn't buy it because they were foreigners.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

They went to Nevada City to get the booze for the Independence Day celebration and couldn't buy it because they were foreigners.

Here, hold my beer Hoss.

Then everyone goes Hop Sing.

 

[diane]

Beer stopped many a CW battle in California! Hop Sing was busy in a mining town trying not to hang - chop suey was invented on the spot by Chinese cooks who had closed shop but drunk miners wanted to eat and broke in. The cooks just emptied all the plates from previous customers into one kettle and added soy sauce, heated it up and gave it to the miners...who loved it! (That's one version...Nobody in China has ever heard of it...)

The real fortress of California was Alcatraz Island. That contained a big cannon the Spanish left at their most northern outpost on Yerba Buena. The rusty old critter would probably have blown up anybody who tried to fire it, but it looked good!

 

[rittmeister]

Beer stopped many a CW battle in California! Hop Sing was busy in a mining town trying not to hang - chop suey was invented on the spot by Chinese cooks who had closed shop but drunk miners wanted to eat and broke in. The cooks just emptied all the plates from previous customers into one kettle and added soy sauce, heated it up and gave it to the miners...who loved it! (That's one version...Nobody in China has ever heard of it...)

The real fortress of California was Alcatraz Island. That contained a big cannon the Spanish left at their most northern outpost on Yerba Buena. The rusty old critter would probably have blown up anybody who tried to fire it, but it looked good!

another is that the chef at the chinese embassy in paris invented it (vegetarian) to safe his boss from the french chefs' attempts to kill him - that chop suey has nothing to do with yours which is truely american and breaks next to all rules of chinese cuisine

 

[O' Be Joyful]

another is that the chef at the chinese embassy in paris invented it (vegetarian) to safe his boss from the french chefs' attempts to kill him - that chop suey has nothing to do with yours which is truely american and breaks next to all rules of chinese cuisine

No Shit.

Next thing ya' know you'll be telling us the story of Peking duck.

Peking duck | Definition, History, Preparation, & Courses

Peking duck, one of the most celebrated dishes of Beijing, or Mandarin Chinese, cuisine, with a history of more than 400 years. In its classic form, the dish calls for a specific breed of duck, the Imperial Peking. Learn about the history, traditional preparation, and presentation of Peking duck.

www.britannica.com

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Next thing ya' know you'll be telling us the story of Peking duck.

Or General Tso’s Chicken, cluck cluck.

 

[diane]

American Chinese cuisine is way different than Chinese American cuisine!

 

[rittmeister]

American Chinese cuisine is way different than Chinese American cuisine!

the biggest difference is to chinese chinese cuisine, though

 

[O' Be Joyful]

American Chinese cuisine is way different than Chinese American cuisine!

No crap, that shit

used to always make me puke, like liver.