A scouting party from Fort Crook, near Glenburn in northern California, under the command of Second Lieutenant Richard H. Brewer, tracked a group of hostile Indians numbering around fifty men that was reported to have murdered a man near Hat Creek Station. After a grueling march, in an action typical of the Army's small operations in the West, Brewer's men caught and engaged the band, killing two. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"The Army and the Indians," New York Times, November 18, 1859, p. 3.