a number of his men were killed at Fort Seward. According to the January 23, 1863 Humboldt Times account they were being escorted to the Round Valley Reservation: but "on the way they took cold and died." This, at least, is the way we get the word. But knowing,them as we do, the animosity existing between these Indians and the whites inhabiting the region of the Humboldt mail route, and the numerous depredations supposed to have been committed by them, we suspect the "cold" they died with was mainly cold lead. An official report was made about the incident by Captain, C. D. Douglas, Commander of Fort Wright: Lucy Young's account Many years later a different account of the killings of the forty Wailaki prisoners including Lassic was told by a Wailaki witness and relative of Lassic, Lucy Young: References Year of birth uncertain 1863 deaths Native American people of the Indian Wars People from California Native American leaders Military history of California History of California History of Humboldt County, California Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War Bald Hills War