California Military History

Antebellum California

• Military Government of California
  • Colonel Richard Barnes Mason's Report of the Discovery of Gold
  • Early California: California's Constitutional Convention of 1849
    • The California Constitutional Convention of 1849
  • I Heartily Regret That I Ever Touched a Title in California": Henry Wager Halleck, the Californios, and the Clash of Legal Cultures
  • Letter to Brig. Gen. Bennett Riley
• The Navy in California
  • Mare Island: A Ship Yard is Born
  • From Forecastle to Mother Lode: The U.S. Navy in the Gold Fields
  • Cadwalader Ringgold, U. S. Navy: Gold Rush Surveyor of San Francisco Bay and Waters to Sacramento, 1849-1850
• The Army in California
  • The Army as Frontier Policemen: What is the History of the Badillo Affair?
• New York Volunteers in California
  • A New York Regiment in California, 1846-1848
• California Militia
  • First California Guard: Company A, 1st Regiment, Light Artillery
  • Military Units in Southern California, 1853-1862
• Army Posts in Antebellum California
  • Fort Tejon Fort Tejon Historical Association
    • Fort Tejon's Centennial
    • Nation Building on the Frontier: The US Army at Fort Tejon
    • A Soldiers Home: The Structures of For Tejon and their History
    • Native Americans at Fort Tejon
    • Soldiers - Pioneers - Bakers: From "One Pound Daily - Bakers of Fort Tejon"
  • Posts at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
  • Fort Moore (Including Camps Fitzgerald and Latham)
  • Presidio of San Francisco
  • Castillio de San Joaquin and Fort Point
  • The Posts at Benicia
  • The Posts at San Francisco's Point San Jose (Black Point and Fort Mason)
  • Camp Reynolds, Fort McDowell and Angel Island
  • Post at Mission San Diego de Alcalá
• Californians in Antebellum California
  • The Vallejo Family: A Military History of Early California
  • An Army Bride Goes West
  • William Tecumseh Sherman
    • William Tecumseh Sherman and Early California History
    • William Tecumseh Sherman and the Discovery of Gold
    • William T. Sherman and the California Militia
    • Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes: Unpublished Letters of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, California Militia.
  • Major General Edward Otho Cresap Ord:
    • Edward O. C. Ord on Frontier Defense
    • Edward Otho Cresap Ord: Soldier and Surveyor
  • Brigadier General John Bidwell
    • Addresses, Reminiscences, Etc. of General John Bidwell.
    • John Bidwell: A Prince Among Pioneers
    • John Bidwell: Reluctant Indian Fighter, 1850-1855
    • John Bidwell: Civil War Politics and the Indian Crisis of 1862
  • John Bidwell and the Rancho Chico Treaty of 1852:Seduction, Betrayal and Redemption
• Indian Wars in Antebellum California
  • Brigadier General John Bidwell an the California Indian Wars
    • John Bidwell: Reluctant Indian Fighter, 1850-1855
    • John Bidwell: Civil War Politics and the Indian Crisis of 1862
  • John Bidwell and the Rancho Chico Treaty of 1852:Seduction, Betrayal and Redemption
  • Edward Fitzgerald Beale and the Indian Peace Commissioners in California, 1851-1854
  • The Federal Indian Policy in California, 1846-1860
  • The California Indian Treaty Myth
  • The Walla Walla Invasion, 1846
    • Walla Walla Indian Expeditions to the Sacramento Valley
    • California Preparations to Meet the Walla Walla Invasion, 1846
  • Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848
  • Letter to General Bennett Riley
  • The Stone and Kelsey "Massacre" on the Shores of Clear Lake in 1849: The Indian Viewpoint
  • The Yuma War, 1850-1852 Wikipedia
    • Yuma Indian Depredation on the Colorado in 1850
    • The Glanton Massacre, 1850 Wikipedia
    • The Gila Expedition, 1850 Wikipedia
    • The Yuma Depredation and the Glanton War (1903)
    • Reviewed Work(s): Warriors of the Colorado: The Yumans of the Quechan Nation and Their Neighbors
    • Origin of the Trouble between the Yumas and Glanton: Deposition of Jeremiah Hill (1903)
  • The Pitt River Expeditions, 1850, 1857 and 1859 Wikipedia
  • The Bloody Island (or Clear Lake) Massacre, 1850 Wilipedia
  • The El Dorado Expeditions, 1850-1851 Wikipedia
  • The Mariposa War
    • Mariposa Indian War, 1850-1851
    • The Mariposa War
    • The Mariposa War Wilipedia
  • The Garra Uprising: Conflict Between San Diego Indians and Settlers, 1851
    • The Garra Revolt Wikipedia
  • Bridge Gultch (or Hayfork) Massacre, 1852 Wikipedia
  • Yontoket (or Burnt Ranch) Massacre, 1853 Wikipedia
  • The Achulet Massacre, 1854 Wikipedia
  • Asbill Massacre, 1854 Wikipedia
    • California's Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History
  • Kabyai (or Kaibai) Massacre, 1854 Wikipedia
  • Klamath and Salmon River (also known as the Klamath War or Red Cap War) Wikipedia
  • The Tule River War
    • The Indan War of '56
    • Tule River War, 1856 Wikipedia
  • Bret Harte in Union (1857-1860)
  • The Bald Hills War, 1858-1864 Wikipedia
  • The Wintoon War 1858-1859 Wikipedia
  • The Whyot (or Indian Island) Massacre, 1860 Wikipedia
    • Genocide and Extortion: 150 Years Later, the Hidden Motive Behind the Indian Island Massacre
  • The Mendocino War of 1859
    • Mendicino War (1859-1860) Wikipeda
  • The Paiute War (1860)
    • Carleton's Pah-Ute Campaign
  • Battle of Pyramid Lake
  • Bitter Spring Expedition (1860) Wikipeda
• The Camel Experiment
  • Camel Caravans of the American Desert
  • Camels in California
  • The Camel Experiment in California
    

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Updated 1 July 2019