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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
Howard and Mellus. There I learned where Captain Folsom, the quartermaster, was to be found. lie Many naval officers had also invested, and Captain Folsom advised me to buy some, but I felt actuallpose, gave name to the street. I explained to Folsom the object of my visit, and learned from him tlly traveled route for Yerba Buena. There Captain Folsom and two citizens joined our party. The fidifficulty was to cross the bay to Saucelito. Folsom, as quartermaster, had a sort of scow with a ld. Now, some of the chief men of Yerba Buena, Folsom, Howard, Leidesdorf, and others, know ing the Jose; thence to the pueblo of San Jose, where Folsom and those belonging in Yerba Buena went in tha of travel, I advised the colonel to allow Captain Folsom to purchase and send to Washington a largeich it was then received at the custom-house. Folsom was instructed further to contract with some vf the vessel could catch the October steamer. Folsom chartered the bark La Lambayecana, owned and n[5 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
rch we entered the Heads, and anchored off San Francisco, near the United States line-of-battle-ship Ohio, Commodore T. Ap Catesby Jones. As was the universal custom of the day, the crew of the California deserted her; and she lay for months unable to make a trip back to Panama, as was expected of her. As soon as we reached San Francisco, the first thing was to secure an office and a house to live in. The weather was rainy and stormy, and snow even lay on the hills back of the Mission. Captain Folsom, the quartermaster, agreed to surrender for our office the old adobe custom-house, on the upper corner of the plaza, as soon as he could remove his papers and effects down to one of his warehouses on the beach; and he also rented for us as quarters the old Hudson Bay Company house on Montgomery Street, which had been used by Howard & Mellus as a store, and at that very time they were moving their goods into a larger brick building just completed for them. As these changes would take som
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4: California. 1855-1857. (search)
from the rear. I found in the cashier's room Folsom, Parrott, Dewey and Payne, Captain Ritchie, Dofore them, and was going to pass out, when Captain Folsom, who was an officer of the army, a class-mers, for effect. While I was talking with Captain Folsom, Haight came into the room to listen. I aerted or realized; but I naturally inquired of Folsom, Have you personally examined the accounts, as for, thereby you in effect become indorsers. Folsom said they had not, when Haight turned on me runder. But Haight pooh-poohed me, and I left. Folsom followed me out, told me he could not afford tght to arrive at an approximate result. After Folsom had left me, John Parrott also stopped and tal, and I afterward learned that, on Parrott and Folsom demanding an actual count of the money in the fall on the banks alone. Among these were Captain Folsom, who owed us twenty-five thousand dollars,inner, I took my saddle-horse, and rode to Captain Folsom's house, where I found him in great pain a