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23 One Jackson Kyle was enlisted soon afterwards and the Company now consisted of 84 enlisted men. Immediately after muster in I recd orders to proceed on the following any to Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory the Head Quarters of this Dept. and at 5 oclock P.M. the men were in readiness, and marched into Salem and were quartered for the night in the Legislature hall, preparatory for an early start down the River on a steamer in the morning.

Saturday March 18 1865 The handsome little Steamer "Enterprise" having been engaged to move the Company below, was ready at an early hour and at 4 oclock in the morning all hands bag & baggage was on board and she was cast loose and steamed down the River, at at 11 oclock we landed on the upper end of the Oregon City Port? where we landed, & the men were marched below the falls an on which Steamer "Senator" and were soon under headway for Portland where, without landing we were transferred to the Steamer "Fannie Troup", and proceeded down the River about 13 miles to its entrance into the broad and