Dr.  Ord  was  in  the  mines  awhile  in  '49,
and  Sherman,  and  Mason,  and  Colton,  came
to  his  camp  at  Jamestown,  and  stayed  over
night.
Dr.  Ord  relates  this  curious  incident:  The
officers  of  Company  F  gave  a  party,  or  baile,
with  supper  and  champagne,  etc.,  at  Mr.
Hartnell's  house  on  the  hill,  on  the  6th  of
July,  1847;  and,  although  the  Calitbrnians
were  very  friendly,  they  got  the  idea  errone-
ously that  the  ball  was  purposely  given  on
the  anniversary  of  the  taking  of  California,
and  they  would  not  come.  Nevertheless  the
officers  had  a  good  time:  Sherman,  Halleck,
Ord,  etc.,  were  there;  also  Mr.  Hartnell's
family  and  a  few  others.
In  The  Monterey  New  Era  of  July  28,
1892,  Dr.  Ord  furnishes  the  following  cor-
rection of  history:


FORT    HALLECK.
We  were  favored  with  a  very  pleasant  call
yesterday  from  Dr.  James  L.  Ord,   the  only


MONTEREY    COUNTY.
surviving  officer  of  the  company  of  Third  Ar-
tillery (of  which  he  was  surgeon)  that  came
in  '47  with  tlie  expedition  of  American  occu-
pation. From  his  interesting  reminiscences  of
early  days  in  Monterey,  we  learn  that  the  old
fort  on  the  Government  reservation  is  mis-
named in  the  Southern  Pacific  maps,  being
designated  Fort  Fremont.  It  is  really  Fort
Halleck,  so  named  in  honor  of  Lieutenant
(afterward  Major-General)  H.  W.  Halleck,  of
the  corps  of  engineers,  by  whom  it  was  laid
out.  The  fort  was  built  by  Lieutenant  E.  O.
C.  Ord  and  Lieutenant  W.  T.  Sherman,  in
1847,  and  the  earthworks  were  thrown  up  by
Colonel  J.  D.  Stevenson's  command,  the  New
York  Volunteers  and  the  regulars  then  sta-
tioned on  the  hill.  How  the  error  of  attrib-
uting the  erection  of  the  fort  to  Fremont
came  to  be  made  it  is  hard  to  determine.
