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Muster roll of Captain L. G. Powell’s Company of minutemen for the relief of Cascades of __________, Oregon volunteers, commanded by Captain L. G. Powell, called into the service of the territory of Oregon by proclamation of the governor, dated __________,185__, from the twenty-seventh day of March, 1856, to the twenty-fifth day of March, 1856.

No	Surname	First name	Rank	Enlisted			Discharge	Period served
No	Surname	First name	Rank	When	Where	By whom	Discharge	Days	Mos
1	Powell	L. G.	Captain	Mar. 27,	Portland	A. P. Dennison	Mar. 29,		3
2	Stewart	A. B.	First lieutenant		Portland				3
1	Perkins	B. S.	First sergeant		Portland				3
1	Buckley	W. S.	Private		Portland				3
2	Brown	C. H.	Private		Portland				3
3	Buchanan	P. W.	Private		Portland				3
4	Cooke	J.	Private		Portland				3
5	Carter	B.	Private		Portland				3
6	Chettenden	H. L.	Private		Portland				3
7	Deardorff	J. G.	Private		Portland				3
8	Fox	C.	Private		Portland				3
9	Ginder	W.	Private		Portland				3
10	Green	W.	Private		Portland				3
11	Grounds	B.	Private		Portland				3
12	Hinsley	I. L.	Private		Portland				3
13	Holcomb	S.	Private		Portland				3
14	Ishester	I. L.	Private		Portland				3
15	Kelum	W.	Private		Portland				3
16	Morgan	S. W.	Private		Portland				3
17	McLaughlin	J.	Private		Portland				3
18	Nelson	J. D.	Private		Portland				3
19	Overman	J. A.	Private		Portland				3
20	Peterson	W. A.	Private		Portland				3
21	Reed	R.	Private		Portland				3
22	Sebring	F. L.	Private		Portland				3
23	Sturdevant	J.	Private		Portland				3
24	Storm	L. A.	Private		Portland				3
25	Thorp	J.	Private		Portland				3
26	Tobey	J. S.	Private		Portland				3
27	Wilber	N. J.	Private		Portland				3
28	Wood	A.	Private		Portland				3
29	Walker	T.	Private		Portland				3
30	Story	F.	Private		Portland				3

[source: Frances Fuller Victor, The Early Indian Wars of Oregon completed From the Oregon Archives and other Original Sources with Muster Rolls (Salem, Oregon: Frank C. Baker, State Printer, 1894).]