Adjutant-General's Office to E. A. Rigg, January 20, 1862

Maj. E. A. RIGG, First Infantry California Volunteers, Fort Yuma:

Your communication dated 10th instant has been received. As the matter about recruits sent to your station has already been decided by Colonel Carletows orders, I can give you no new instructions about them. I presume that you have obeyed your orders implicitly. During Colonel Carleton’s temporary absence from the district I have no new orders to communicate to you about placing supplies of hay on the desert. Keene also has his instructions and is apparently acting on

eA eee eee PE eee them. I cannot entertain any proposition about supplies to be furnished upon the Tucson route, as you term it. None such are required there, nor are they likely to be that I am aware of, and being entirely in the confidence of Colonel Carleton and of the department commander you can accept this conclusion as definite. You can do nothing but follow out the instructions which you are already possessed of, and you would do well to revise them, and be assured that you fulfill them to the letter.

Very respectfully, &c.,