FORTS GILLIAM AND LEE. 703
together two others, under captains William Shaw and J.°M. Garrison. 6
The army established, as it passed up the river, a way- nation for supplies at the Cascade portage, which re- ceived the name of Fort Gilliam. The stockade erected at the Dalles by Major Lee was called Fort Lee. The only piece of ordnance at the governor's command was the nine-pounder belonging to Oregon City, which was forwarded to the Dalles, this place being designated as army headquarters. 7
When Colonel Gilliam arrived at Fort Lee there had already been some skirmishing. On the 8th of January some savages were discovered herding the cattle left at the mission by the immigrants preparatory to driving them away ; and when Major Lee and several men advanced on foot with the intention of preventing it they were fired on. There- upon a running fight was kept up for two hours, be- tween seventeen white men, some mounted and others on foot, and twenty-three mounted natives, eight only of whom were Cay uses. The natives succeeded in driving off about three hundred head of cattle, and wounding Sergeant William Berry. Three savages
e Captain Shaw's officers were: David Crawford, 1st lieute nant; Baptiste Dorio, 2d lieutenant; Absalom M. Smith, orderly sergeant; George Laroque, Vatal'l Bergeron, George W. Shaw and Charles McKay, dufa ' sergean U Privates- John H. Bigler, O. Crum, Joseph Despont, William Felix, Xavier PlTnte Eli VUiell F M. Mankis, Antonio Plante, Charles Edwards, Andrew ^te,^Tto^W David Jones, John Pecares, Samuel Kinaey, Joseph Pearson William Towie, Peter Jackson, Alexander Laboram, William McMil- bn B * F Nichols, Hiram Smead, William Marrill, Francis Poiecor, George
'"Captain Garrison's officers were: A. E. Garrison, lst + ^nmt: John C. Herreii, 2d lieutenant; J. B. Kaiser, orderly sergeant; George Ciabtree, George Laroque, and Joseph Colester, duty sergeants Privates: E Bier- naissS, Thomas R. Blair, John C. Cox Joseph Despart, Caleb |J* Gg™. Isaiah Matheny, John Picar 1, William Philip Henry Wen, Sila P. Pugh
1 mac Wood, Penel Fowler, Andrew Hubert, Daniel Herren, Xavier Plante, Vitelle Bergeron. There is a repetition of the same names in two or more companies here given, from which it appears that men an, officers ^ert frequently transferred. But as the rolls were thus published by J. Henry Brown from the originals, I let them stand. Ihey appeared nrft m the ScZn Mercury, and were copied into the Albany State Bights Democrat, Nov.
2 and 9, 1877, and Ashland Tidings, of same date.
7 Or. Archives, MS., 114.