The Story of the Pony Express An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service E
The Story of the Pony Express An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service E
Bradley Glenn Danford
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Some of the disturbing element in this dis- trict then moved over into Nevada where cooperation was made with the pro-Con- federate men there. The Nevada rebel faction had made considerable headway by assuring unsuspecting persons that it was acting on the authority of the Con- federate Government. On June 5, 1861, THE SECESSION MENACE 87 the rebel flag was unfurled at Virginia City. Again Sumner acted. He immeHiafeTy sent a Federal force to garrison Fort Churchill, and a body of men under Majo...r Blake and Captain Moore seized all arms found in the possession of suspected per- sons. A rebel militia company with four hundred men enrolled and one hundred un- der arms was found and dispersed by the Federals. This decisive action completely stopped any uprisings across the state line, uprisings which might easily have spread into California. In the meantime, under General Sum- ner's direction, soldiers had been enlisted and were being rapidly drilled for any emergency. The War Department, on being advised of this available force, at once sent the following dispatch, which, with those that follow are typical of the correspon- dence which the Pony Express couriers 88 THE PONY EXPRESS were now rushing across the Continent toward and from Washington.
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