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OFFICE INDIAN AFFAIRS,
NORTHERN DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA

San Francisco, April 13th 1863

Being called upon by Geo. M. Hanson Suptg. Agent of
Indian Affs. for the Northern District of California,
to make a statement relative to the calamity caused
by the flood in the winter of 1861 and two upon
the Indian Reservation on Klamath River.

This is
to certify that I was in Command of a Company
of troops at "Fort Ter-War" on said Indian Reservation,
during the winter of eighteen hundred and sixty
one and two, and during the whole time of the freshets,
and do of my own personal knowledge know, that
the entire crop of produce on said Indian Reservation,
harvested and unharvested, together with all the fencing,
buildings, farming tools, harness and other valuables,
as well as the hogs poultry and many of the cattle were
entirely lost or destroyed by said freshet, a portion of
one building and one pair of mill stones alone was saved
from the flood.

John H. Lucy
Captain Company C
3d Infty Cal Vol