The Capture
![[ Murderers Surrender, Detail, Detail from the Alexis Map showing the site of the capture of Klatsassin. From map originally drawn by Indians Alexis and Ualas as interpreted by Mr. Ogilvie, Signed W. Cox, Benshee Lake., Alexis and Ualas, Public Record Office, Great Britain MPG 654 1 ]](../../images/site/11011_2.jpg "[ Murderers Surrender, Detail, Detail from the Alexis Map showing the site of the capture of Klatsassin. From map originally drawn by Indians Alexis and Ualas as interpreted by Mr. Ogilvie, Signed W. Cox, Benshee Lake., Alexis and Ualas, Public Record Office, Great Britain MPG 654 1 ]")
Two forces combining over 100 men were sent out in search of Klatsassin and his supporters, one from the west under Chartres Brew and one from the east under William Cox. It was a long campaign, 146 days from the dispatch of the first party to the return of the last. The men were called volunteers but they did not work for free. Each was fed and paid a daily wage by the colony, commensurate with pay rates in the colony. Yet, there was dissension, insubordination, incompetence and a near mutiny.
Finding the Tsilhqot’in in their vast territory proved to be an impossible task. The one man among the colonial forces who knew the territory intimately was the only man killed by the Tsilhqot’in in the whole campaign. Then, one day a messenger arrived…
Colonial Correspondence
- William George Cox, Letter to the Governor of British Columbia, August 15, 1864
- Chartres Brew, Letter to the Governor of British Columbia, August 18, 1864
- Chartres Brew, Letter to the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia, September 8, 1864
- John Boles Gaggin, Letter to Birch, September 13, 1864
Colonial Dispatches
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 22, August 30, 1864
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 25, August 30, 1864
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 37, September 9, 1864
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 49, September 24, 1864
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 56, October 4, 1864
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 58, October 7, 1864
- Frederick Seymour, Letter to Cardwell, No. 10, February 25, 1865
- Edward Cardwell, Letter to Seymour, No. 39, October 29, 1864
- Edward Cardwell, Letter to Seymour, No. 52, December 1, 1864
- Edward Cardwell, Letter to Seymour, No. 53, December 1, 1864
Newspaper or Magazine Articles
- Government Gazette, Notice from Colonial Secretary's Office, Government Gazette (The British Columbian), August 27, 1864
- The British Columbian, The Expedition against the Indians, The British Columbian, September 7, 1864
- J. D. B. Ogilvy, The Chilacoten Expedition, The British Columbian, September 17, 1864
- The British Columbian, Return of the Chilacoten Expedition, The British Columbian, October 8, 1864
- British Colonist, The Chilcoaten Expedition, Diary of a Volunteer, British Colonist, October 14, 1864
- Daily British Colonist, The Chilcoaten Expedition, Diary of a Volunteer (continued), Daily British Colonist, October 15, 1864
- Daily British Colonist, The Chilcoaten Expedition, Diary of a Volunteer (concluded), Daily British Colonist, October 17, 1864
- J. D. B. Ogilvy, News from Bentinck Arm, The Government Gazette Extraordinary, February 27, 1865