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troops to do more than go into winter quarters. The settlers and the emigration had defended themselves for another year without aid from the government, and the comments afterward made upon their manner of doing it, in the opinion of the volunteers came with a very ill grace from the officers of that government.[1]

  1. Further details of this campaign are given in Lane's Autobiography, MS.; Cardwell's Emigrant Company, MS. ; and the files of the Oregon Statesman.