Rob. A. Dallas: Warm Springs Scout. He was shot in the calf of the leg during the Second Battle for the Stronghold. He was the only man on Colonel Mason's side to receive an injury during that engagement.

Drury Davis: Petition signer (i and ii); D. Davis in Odeneal. One of the settlers that presented evidence to Otis against the Modocs in April 1872. Otherwise unknown. At the Otis conference he said that he and William Angle had been outraged by two saucy and impudent Modocs examining goods in their wagon against their will, and by following them to see where they camped. On the basis of that incident he declared the Modocs a menace to both lives and property. At that time he said he lived about ten miles from Modoc country.

Dennis Delany: Corporal, K Battery, Fourth Artillery. Wounded slightly in the left leg during the Second Battle for the Stronghold.

George A. Dennis: Private.

William Dingman: Petitioner. Petition signer (i, as W. Dingman). [James?] Hudson lists him as one of three (Henry Miller and William Berry were the others) who settled with him on Tule Lake sometime before the spring of 1870; they left in July of that year out of fear of the Modocs.

Owen Dooly: Private, K Battery, Fourth Artillery. Received a flesh wound in the right forearm during the Second Battle for the Stronghold.

Presley A. Dorris: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

Dorris' Ranch: Alexander McKay: "Three miles northwest of Mr. Fairchild is the extensive cattle ranch of Presley A. Dorris, on Hot Creek. These creeks are all small, and empty into the south end of Little Klamath Lake."

James Downey: Private. Enlisted as a private in Oregon Company A 12 January 1873 and was discharged 2 February 1873.

Frederick F. Downing: Lieutenant. 2nd lieutenant in Oregon Volunteers, Company B.

Edward Drew: Corporal, G company, Twelfth infantry. Killed during a charge on the first day of the Second Battle for the Stronghold.

Duffey: Modoc warrior. Duffey supported Captain Jack in a vote taken shortly before the First Battle for the Stronghold.

Duffey's Boy: Modoc warrior. Duffey's Boy supported Captain Jack in a vote taken shortly before the First Battle for the Stronghold.

H. Duncan: Petition signer (i).

D. Dusall: Petition signer (ii). May be the same as Davis Duval or Dusal, Laborer from Virginia, in the 1870 census. Or not.

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Charles P. Eagan: 1st Lieutenant (Brevet Captain), Company G, Twelfth Infantry. Wounded in the thigh during a charge on the first day of the Second Battle for the Stronghold.

Ellen's Man George (c1848-1873): Modoc warrior; one of the Hot Creeks. Like the other Hot Creeks, Ellen's Man George got on well with the settlers, and made an effort to stay out of the fighting when it broke out in November 1872. Turned back by a Linkville mob at Whittle's Ferry, the Hot Creeks reassessed their position and joined the insurgents at the lava beds. At the forefront of the fighting, Ellen's Man George was regarded as the Modocs' best strategist. His luck ran out 10 May 1873 when charging a U. S. Army camp near Sorass Lake, and his death precipitated a quarrel among Modoc factions that ended the Modoc War.

Enos: One of two Oregon Indians in Samuel Smith's 1851 expedition against the Modocs. An Oregon Indian named Enos killed Ben Wright in 1856; whether this is the same man I don't know.

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James C. Fairchild: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

John A. Fairchild: Captain. John Fairchild was a rancher who got on well with the Modocs living in the area. He employed some of them on his ranch on Cottonwood Creek. One of the few men the Modocs trusted, he many times attempted to negotiate a peace during the course of the war. In the first battle for the stronghold he served as a captain for the California Volunteer Riflemen.

Fairchild's Ranch: McKay: "Six miles or so west of Van Bremer's is the place of John Fairchild on Cottonwood Creek."

William Fanning: One of the members of Samuel Smith's 1851 expedition against the Modocs. Fanning is responsible for the (partial) list of its members.

Thomas Farris: Private. One of nine recruits that left Jacksonville 8 Ja 1873 with Lt Reams of the Oregon Militia for the front.

Frank Fawset: One of the members of Samuel Smith's 1851 expedition against the Modocs.

Joseph Fennig: Petition signer (ii). I am assuming this is the same as Joseph Pannig from the 1870 census, a farmer from Prussia, born about 1826. Possibly Joe Penning, mentioned with John Gleim in HKC 177 as an early settler near Linkville "on opposite sides of the river just south of town".

William Forcythe: Plaintiff. A plaintiff at the Otis conference in April 1872; otherwise unknown. Could be William Forsyth (c1841-1???), Blacksmith from New York (1870 census). He testified at the Otis conference in support of Ivan Applegate's statement that he had heard Henry Miller say he had left the Lost River region through fear of the Modocs.

Adolphus C. Frick: Private. Oregon Volunteers, Company B, for 63 days. On 6 December he bought one pair spurs, one saddle-blanket, one pair of boots, one pair of socks, one pair of duck-pants, one pair of gloves, one overcoat and one stake-rope. On 8 December he purchased one pound of tobacco; on the 9th a butcher knife; on the 11th a half pound of tobacco; on the 18th three quarters of a pound; on the 21st a blanket, on the 25th a half pound of tobacco; on the 31st one quarter pound of tobacco, one pair of drawers, and one undershirt; on 7 January 1873 he bought one overshirt, two pairs of socks, and a quarter pound of tobacco; on the 18th (8th?) a quarter pound of tobacco; on the 10th a half pound of tobacco and an overshirt; on an unspecified day one quarter pound of tobacco; on the 19th a pair of boots; on the 20th a quarter pound of tobacco and on the 24th an eighth of a pound of tobacco.

John F. Fulkerson: Private. Petition signer (i). Born about 1849 in Ohio; married to Ellen -----, one child in 1870. A stock raiser, he is listed next to Isaac Harris in the 1870 census. Enlisted as a private in Oregon Volunteers, Company B (name given as John P. Fulkerson).

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John Gaston: Private. Oregon Company A for sixty-three days. No horse.

Thomas Gaston: Private.

John Gotbrod (c1831 - ? ): Petition signer (i and ii). Born in Wittenberg, he was listed as a farmer in the 1870 census.

Greasy Boots ( ? -1873): Modoc warrior. Killed the day before the battle of January 17th.

Frederick Grobe: Private.

Herman Gude: Sergeant, G company, Twelfth infantry. Wounded during the first day of the Second Battle for the Stronghold.

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Patrick Hagan: Private.

B. Hall: Petition signer (ii).

E. Hall: Petition signer (i).

H. Hall: Petition signer (i); A. Hall in Odeneal.

William Hall: Petition signer (ii). Wm Hall in petition. Unknown.

Willis Hall: Petition signer (i); Unknown.

John G. Hallick: Rifleman; Old Indian Fighter. One of the members of Wright's 1852 expedition against the Modocs. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold. Hallick denied that he was part of Fairchild's company, however, insisting that he only went along to keep his hand in. He was the principal source of information for the Yreka Union's account of the Ben Wright Affair on 26 April 1873.

George W. Hamerick: Private.

Albert Handy (c1819- ? ): Petitioner. Petition signer (ii). Born in Massachusetts, he was listed in 1870 as a Dry Goods Merchant. An early settler near Linkville, Albert Handy started a store with J. P. Roberts in 1870, and in 1876 moved to Bonanza.

Henry C. Harmon: Private, Battery E, 4th Artillery. He received a gunshot wound through the breast on the second day of the Second Battle for the Stronghold and died on the field. The Modocs scalped him.

Isaac N. Harper: Private. Enlisted as a private in Oregon Company A on 7 January 1873 and was discharged 2 February. No horse. One of nine recruits that left Jacksonville 8 Ja 1873 with Lt Reams of the Oregon Militia for the front.

Isaac Harris (c1827- ? ): Petition signer (i); married to Mary -----, six children in 1870. A farmer, born in Tennessee, he lived in Kansas from at least 1857 to at least 1861, in California in 1863, and had come to Oregon by 1865. Listed next to John Fulkerson in the 1870 census.

William P. Harris: Private.

John O. Harrison: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

John Hazelton: Private.

Jerry Heckathorne: Private. He served in the Oregon Volunteers, Company A, from 2 December to 26 December, 1872. He supplied his own horse. On 5 December he bought one overshirt and one pair of boots; on 14 December he bought half a pound of tobacco.

Frank Hefling: Petitioner. Petition signer (i and ii); Frank Hifling in Odeneal; Frank Helfling in my transcript of the second petition. Unknown.

David Helm: One of the members of Wright's 1852 expedition against the Modocs.

Eliab Hereford: Private.

Max Hi-as-man: Private.

William Hice: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

Lee Hick-ock-it: Private.

W. Hicks: Petitioner. Petition signer (i) (ii?); Unknown. Could be the same as my Wm. Huge (second petition transcript) who in turn might be William Hids of Missouri (1870 census), a farm laborer born around 1834.

Riley Hinkle: Private.

Hooker Jim (c1851-1879): Modoc warrior. The "worst card in the deck," according to H. Wallace Atwell, Hooker Jim was "a dark, moody fiend ... rather sluggish in his movements, with a sinister smile always playing about his rather expressionless face." Hooker Jim seems to have been doing quite well by Modoc standards; he was well-connected, too--his second wife was the daughter of Curley-Headed Doctor, a powerful shaman. Accounts differ on the subject of his attitude towards the settlers, but at least one of them, Henry Miller, is supposed to have been a good friend. When citizen troops under Oliver Applegate attacked his village on the east side of Lost River, Hooker Jim's attitude changed into one of murderous rage; he admitted to killing three of the fourteen or fifteen victims on the east shore of Tule Lake in the massacre that followed. One of his victims was his friend Henry Miller; Hooker Jim later insisted that he didn't recognize him. From this point to the Battle of Sorass Lake Hooker Jim would be an uncompromising supporter of war to the death. But not his own, as it turned out. While Captain Jack and Scarfaced Charley were talking peace with the commissioners from Washington, Hooker Jim was encouraging the Reservation Modocs to join them, and making overtures to other tribes as well. Although he appears to have been a major supporter of the Good Friday Assassination Plot, his part was small in the event; he fired at Dyar and missed. That may have saved his life. When the Modocs split after the Battle of Sorass Lake Hooker Jim surrendered to the military and offered his services to hunt down Captain Jack and the rest. General Davis accepted--reluctantly. Hooker Jim and three others (Bogus Charley, Shacknasty Jim, and Steamboat Frank) led the troops to the other Modocs, and so escaped being indicted altogether. Hooker Jim didn't live long after exile to Oklahoma; he died in 1879.

Harrison Horton: Petitioner. Petition signer (ii). There is a William H. Horton in town, so the family name is there anyway. Harrison could be his middle name too.

Hot Creek: A small creek emptying into the south end of Little Klamath Lake. Dorris' Ranch was located on it, and it was also the home of the Hot Creek Modocs, at the time of the Modoc War under the leadership of Shacknasty Jim.

Thomas J. Howard: Private.

James H. Hudson (c1834- ? ): Petition signer (ii). May well be the same Hudson who was a plaintiff at the Otis conference in April 1872. A cattle herder from Kentucky, he was living in 1870 with a girl named Hannah Hudson (who could be either wife or daughter) and an eleven months old baby boy named James H. Hudson. Both of them were born in California. "Mr. Hudson" testified at the April 1872 Otis conference that he and three others (Henry Miller, William Dingman, and William Berry) settled on Tule Lake sometime before the spring of 1870; they left in July of that year out of fear of the Modocs.

A. J. Hull: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

John Hull: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

Sam Hull: Rifleman. Served in the California Volunteer Riflemen in the first battle for the stronghold.

Humpty Joe: Modoc warrior. Meacham mentions him as being with Captain Jack on the west side of Lost River when the fight broke out.

Humpy Jerry: Modoc warrior. Mrs. Brotherton and Kate Schira mentioned Humpy Jerry as being among the Lost River murderers.

J. T. Hunt: Private.

William Hunter: Private.

Joseph H. Hyzer: Lieutenant. 1st lieutenant in Oregon Volunteers, Company B.

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