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- Fort Weller
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- In response to urgent requests for the
stationing of troops on the Round Valley and Mendocino reservations,
for the purpose of protecting property from Indian depredations
and to protect the Indians from retaliations, 1st Lieutenant
William P. Carlin, 6th Infantry, with Company D, left Benicia
Barracks on December 13, 1858, under orders to establish a post
at or near the Nome Cult Indian Reservation in Round Valley,
Mendocino County. Established on January 3, 1859, on the east
bank of the Russian River, 50 miles from Cloverdale, in the Redwood
Valley, the post was named for John B. Weller, Governor of Califomia.
The post was abandoned in October of the same year.
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