Around 20 June 1866, General Henry Halleck, commander of the Military Division of the Pacific, arrived at Fort Churchill with a large entourage.
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In 1859, the news broke that silver had been found in the huge Comstock Lode in Washoe, a region that was then in the western part of Utah Territory, and that would soon become the territory of Nevada.
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The war was caused by an influx of miners and ranchers after silver was discovered in the Comstock Lode near to Carson City.
On May 12 it was ambushed and routed by Paiute forces under the command of Numaga approximately five miles south of the lake.
Piaute chief Numaga ambushed Ormsby on May 12, 1860 and defeated the vigilantes killing 76 men and wounding another 29 at what came to be known as the first Battle of Pyramid Lake.
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