chastise the Indians at Owen's Lake. - March 13, 1865 Captain Wallace returned to Fort Churchill from Walker Lake with the Indians who murdered Stewart and Rabe. March 19, 1865 End of Owens Valley warfare Captain Kelley of the Nevada Volunteer Infantry was ordered to occupy Camp Independence. - April, 1865 Fort Independence was from this time continuously garrisoned until abandoned in 1877. The company of Nevada Infantry at Fort Independence were relieved by Company E, 2nd Cavalry California Volunteers, from Camp Babbitt under Captain Herman Noble. - December 1865 Company E, 2nd California Cavalry, was relieved by two companies of the 9th Infantry Regiment arrived at Camp Independence in mid May 1866. The Volunteers that were stationed there mustered out of the service, many remained in the Valley. Soon afterward United States Cavalry took the place of the 9th Infantry companies. - May 1866 U. S. Cavalry engages a party of Paiute east of Owens Lake, killing several warriors and capturing others. - August 1866. Raid on the "Spanish mines" by the Panamint Shoshone - March 4, 1867. U. S. Cavalry pursuit of the "Spanish mines" raiders to Coso Hot Springs and then to Rainy Springs Canyon where they defeated them in the Skirmish at Rainy Springs Canyon. - March 12, 1867 References California and the Indian Wars, Indian Troubles in the Owens River District; Extracted from the History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California - History by Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge - Historic Record Company - Los Angeles, California, 1913; Transcribed by Sally Kaleta. Roger D. McGrath, Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier, University of California Press, 1987 pp.17-56 The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, Volume 27, Part 1, CHAPTER LXII. Operations on the Pacific Coast, January 1,1861 — June 30, 1862, United States. War Dept. The War of the Rebellion: Volume 35, Part 1, CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST FROM JULY 1, 1862, TO JUNE 30, 1865. By United States. War Dept, Robert Nicholson Scott, Henry Martyn WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1897 Records of California men in the war of the rebellion 1861 to 1867, by California. Adjutant General's Office, SACRAMENTO: State Office, J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing. 1890. Willie Arthur Chalfant, The story of Inyo, Hammond Press, W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago, 1922