The Confederate Raider the Alabama takes the Commonwealth, a merchant ship sailing for SF – on board are the brass gas fittings for streetlights that the town paid for in taxes. This makes the fence sitters pro-Union.
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Orion withstands calls for a special session
Self-serving lawyers and city officials wanted to be a part of the great diplomatic coups that Orion was pulling off and called publicly for a special session of the Territorial Legislature to address the Roop County War. Fearing it would signal Nevada was less than committed to the cause he stuck to his guns. General […]
CA asks Orion to joinly survey the border.
This was Orion’s finest hour MT&OC pg 82