signed him to a life of retirement from which he never emerged.[1]
That a considerable class in Oregon were in favor of secession is undeniable. That there were some who would have fought for the extension of slavery had they been upon southern soil is undoubted. But there were few who cared enough for what they called the rights of the southern states to go to the seat of war and fight for them.[2] On the other hand, there were many who fought for the union.[3] Party lines were
- ↑ For many years Lane lived alone with a single servant upon a mountain farm. In 1878, to gratify his children, he removed to Roseburg, where, being cordially welcomed by society, the old fire was awakened, and he nominated himself for the state senate in 1880 at the age of 79 years. Being rather rudely rejected and reproved, he wept like a child. His death occurred in May 1881. Whatever errors he may have committed, whatever vanity he may have displayed concerning his own achievements, he was ever generous in his estimate of others, and the decline of his life was full of kindness and courtesy.
- ↑ John Lane, son of Joseph Lane, became a colonel in the confederate army. Captain Thomas Jordan, for a time U. S. quartermaster at The Dalles, resigned to take service in the south. He was said to have accepted a colonelcy in the Culpepper cavalry. Major Garnett, for several years stationed in Oregon and Washington, also resigned, and was commissioned brigadier by Jefferson Davis. John Adair of Astoria, Oregon, son of the collector and post master, who graduated from West Point in 1861, was commissioned lieutenant of dragoons and ordered to join his regiment at Walla Walla, and afterward to report at Washington, instead of which he deserted, and went to Victoria, V. I. He was dismissed the service. Or. Statesman, Aug. 25, 1862. The place left vacant by John Lane at West Point was filled by Volney Smith, son of Delazon Smith, who failed in his examination. He was appointed a lieutenant in a New York cavalry regiment, but did not long remain in the service. Adolphus B. Hannah, who had been U. S. marshal in Oreon, offered his services to the confederacy. J. B. Sykes, Indian agent at the Siletz reservation, resigned and went east to serve in the rebel army. He was captured with a portion of Jackson's command, and sent to Columbus, Ohio. John K. Lamerick, once brigadier-general of the Oregon militia, went to Washington to dispose of his Indian war scrip, and joined the rebel army as a commissary. C. H. Mott, who in 1858 was sent to Oregon to examine into the Indian accounts, joined the rebel army and commanded the 19th Mississippi at Bull Run. He was killed in front of Hooker's division May 5, 1862.
- ↑ Notable among whom was Captain Rufus Ingalls, who came to Fort Vancouver in 1849. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel on McClellan's staff, and placed in charge of the quartermaster's department at Yorktown. Colonel Joseph Hooker, then living at Salem, offered his services, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. The other officers who had served in Oregon and were promoted to the rank of major or brigadier-general were Grant, Sheridan, Augur, Ord, Wright, Smith, Casey, Russell,
thought that he had inflicted the wound with murderous intent, fled to the house of Applegate, at Yoncalla, and related what had occurred. Applegate at once went to Lane's relief, taking him to his house, where he remained for several weeks. During this visit Lane revealed to his friend the nature of his scheme concerning Oregon, and was dissuaded from the undertaking.
