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The leaders of the Relief and Aid Society made several appeals to Sheridan for protection of
certain places. Left: lawyer and Relief and Aid Society Executive Committee chairman
Wirt Dexter endorses the request of lumber merchant T.W. Harvey for twelve soldiers to
patrol the vicinity of the gas works and the lumber district. Right: with the Army
departing, Society treasurer George Pullman asks Mayor Mason for special police
protection of the relief resources. Such protection was provided. Sheridan also forwarded
to Washington a request from the Relief and Aid Society that regular troops be kept nearby;
over Governor John Palmer's continuing objections, four companies of infantry were
stationed just outside of the city for several months.
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General Sheridan in Command 