surrender four or five hostages to be a guarantee or their good faith. J. H. P. Wentworth, Indian Agent for the Southern California District, met with Colonel Wasson and as a result sent messages out to the Indians to gather at Camp Independence. The meeting was held and a treaty was signed. - October 6, 1862 Captain George, Tinemaha, and several others surrendered themselves and their families as hostages. chief of big pine band Joaquin Jim, not a participant in the treaty, continued hostilities. Colonel Evans left Camp Independence to establish Camp Babbitt outside Visalia with Company D and I, 2nd Cavalry. 100 men of Company G, 2nd Cavalry, under Captain Theodore H. Goodman was left behind to garrison and continue building Camp Independence. Captain Goodman resigned his commission, being replaced by Captain Ropes in command of Camp Independence. - January 31, 1863 Owens Valley Indians return to war Captain George disappeared from Camp Independence after receiving his rations. - March 1, 1863 Captain Ropes sent soldiers to various settlements, warning people to stay home and be on their guard. Four miners were attacked at Big Pine Creek, leaving 1 wounded and 1 killed. - March 2, 1863. Captain Jack's band sacked the cabin of a mining company, taking guns and ammunition and destroying everything else not taken. Several other cabins were also sacked and another miner killed in the next few days. At Ida Camp sections of a water pipe was taken for its lead. Later two miners fetching water from the spring for Ida were attacked, killing one, the other saving himself by a ruse. Captain Ropes sent messages to Camp Babbit requesting assistance. Camp Babbitt immediately sent First Lieutenant S. R. Davis with 44 men to reinforce camp Independence. Skirmish at Black Rocks - March 11, 1863 Battle of Alabama Hills - March 19, 1863 Company E, 2nd Cavalry arrived, as reinforcements under the command of Captain Herman Noble. - April 4, 1863 Battle of Big Pine Creek - April 9, 1863 Lt. Col. William Jones, Commander at Camp Babbitt, ordered Captain Moses A. McLaughlin to reinforce Camp Independence with a detachment of 24 men of Company D and 18 men of Company E, 2nd Cavalry, California Volunteers, with one 12-pounder howitzer, and four six-mule government teams, carrying rations, company property, ammunition, and forage. Because settlers of Keyesville had appealed to the Department of the Pacific, orders