California During Civil War

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California During Civil War
John Hanc, What Did You Do in the Civil War, California? New York Times, Mar 21, 2013 (in the section of Museums).
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/2 ... -the-civil-war.html

Quote:

"When construction of Drum Barracks was complete in 1863, Los Angeles was a town of 4,400

"The outpost [Drum Barracks] owes its existence to a chain of events in the Far West, an often overlooked theater of the Civil War. In summer 1861, a few months into the war, Confederate forces struck out into the Arizona territory from Texas. Their long-range goal was the ports, mineral resources and open lands of the lightly defended California, which was admitted into the Union in 1850.

Note:
(a) Wilmington, Los Angeles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington,_Los_Angeles
(named by Phineas Banning [who in 1858 started building a harbor for the city of Los Angeles] after his Delaware birthplace; "In 1861, when the civil war began, Banning and Benjamin Wilson gave the federal government 60 acres of land to build Drum Barracks to protect the nascent Los Angeles harbor from Confederate attack")

, to be distinguished from
(i) Wilmington, Delaware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware
(the largest city in the state of Delaware; named by Proprietor Thomas Penn [1702-1775; son of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania] after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain)
(ii) Wilmington, North Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington,_North_Carolina
(in 1739/40 renamed in honor of Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington)

(b) Winfield Scott Hancock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott_Hancock
(1824-1886; the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880)
(c) James Henry Carleton
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Carleton
(1814-1873)

* The English surnames Carleton/Carlton is from Old Norse karl [whose English form is Charles] ‘free man’, + Old English tun ‘settlement.'

(d) The report states, "But the Union troops battled the rebels at Picacho Pass, about 50 miles northwest of what is now Tucson."

Battle of Picacho Pass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Picacho_Pass
(Apr 15, 1862; marks the westernmost battle of the American Civil War; Result  onfederate victory, Union cavalry retreats [but the casualties were light])
(e) The report says, "No doubt one of the most astonishing sights was the 36 Levantine camels quartered there. The Army brought them from the Middle East in the 1850s for use in the desert. For the most part, they spent the war munching the grass around Drum Barracks."
(i) Levantine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levantine
(may refer to: Anything pertaining to the Levant)
(ii) Levant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant
(section 1 Etymology)

(f) adjutant general
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjutant_general
(section 3 United States)

* adjutant (n; Latin adjutant-, adjutans, present participle of adjutare to help)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjutant
(g) The report mentions "an 1875 Gatling gun."

Gatling gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun

(h) Siege of Vicksburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg
(May 18-Jul 4, 1863; city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Result  Decisive Union victory)

* By the way, what was the population of San DFrancisco in 1860 (US has conducted every decade since 1790 (included)).
* San Francisco City and County
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty40.htm
(1860 Total population        56,802)
* San Francisco; 1860-1940 Census data. Bay Area Census, California, undated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
(The only consolidated city-county in California)