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Wells Fargo Way Bill between Two Generals

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Wells Fargo Way Bill between Two Generals
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This single package with a value of $10 is from General William C Kibbie of Sacramento to Brigadier General R Pacheco at San Louis (sic) Obispo.



Kibbie was a principal at Public School #19 when the Gold Rush sent him to California. William C. Kibbe was appointed by Governor John McDougal as California's third Quartermaster General in June, 1852, and after William H. Richardson resigned, due to the provisions of the Militia Law of 1852 became the Adjutant General of California in charge of the California Militia also.[2] He was elected to the office of Adjutant General in 1854. In 1855, Kibbe wrote a drill manual for the California Militia, The volunteer: containing exercises and movements of infantry, light infantry, riflemen and cavalry, as a drill manual for the California Militia. In 1858, William Kibbe was responsible for organizing the Klamath & Humboldt Expedition led by Captain Isaac G. Messec to fight the Wintoon War of 1858-59 against the Whilkut people. In 1859, he oversaw the State of California's Pitt River Expedition against the Achomawi and Atsugewi tribes in the vicinity the Pit River in Northeastern California. He sent Militia units from California to help the settlers in Nevada during the Paiute War. In May 1861, when the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles absconded with the weapons and equipment of various defunct Militia companies in Southern California, blame came to Kibbe. His records under his long tenure of office got into such confusion that the legislature took a hand and tried to unseat him. Governor Leland Stanford kept him in office.



Romualdo Pacheco was the only Hispanic who has served as Governor of California. He was born in Santa Barbara, California on October 31, 1831, to Ramona Carrillo de Pacheco and Captain Romualdo Pacheco, a prominent Californio family. Captain Pacheco, a native of Guanajuato, went to California in 1825 as an aide-de-camp to Governor Echeandia. Captain Pacheco died when Romualdo was five weeks old. A few years later Romualdo's mother remarried a Scotsman, Captain John D. Wilson. Wilson sent young Romualdo to be educated in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the age of twelve he returned to California and was apprenticed to a trading vessels agent, under whose guidance Pacheco became an excellent seaman. In July 1846, during the Mexican-American War, while he was sailing up the coast to Yerba Buena with a cargo of trade goods, American officials stopped and searched Pacheco's ship. He was held briefly and released at Yerba Buena after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States.



He was active politically as a judge, state treasurer, state senator and United States Congressman. As a senator Pacheco was one of the first Hispanics to denounce slavery. In June 1871 Pacheco received the Republican Party nomination for Lieutenant Governor, and Newton Booth received the nomination for Governor. Both Pacheco and Booth were elected. In 1875, when Newton Booth was elected to the U.S. Senate, Pacheco became Governor of California. An excellent horseman, Pacheco engaged in ranching and his expertise with the lasso made him the only California Governor known to have roped a grizzly bear. He also did some mining during the California Gold Rush.



Governor Leland Stanford appointed Pacheco a brigadier general, with command of the First Brigade of California's "Native Cavalry." In May 1862 Pacheco received orders to take immediate possession of all weapons previously issued to various military companies within Los Angeles County, with the exception of those held by Union loyalists.



This must have something to do with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles and their absconding with California weapons. (Potter Collection)



Date: c1862 Location: Sacramento, California HWAC# 56039