Ben. C. Cutler to George W. Bowie, March 31, 1862

Col. GEORGE W. BOWIE, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, Comdg. at Camp Latham: COLONEL: The colonel commanding the district directs that yourself, your commissioned staff (with the exceptions hereinafter named), and non-commissioned staff, your band, and the three companies of your regiment now stationed at Camp Latham, proceed without delay by the way of New San Pedro, Cal., to Camp Wright. Cal. where you will receive further instructions. Your officers and men will be prepared for active field service, agreeably with General Orders, No. 3, current series, from these headquarters. Each company will have two days’ rations and twenty rounds of ammunition per man. Other rations will be drawn at New San Pedro. You will take with you all the rifled-musket ammunition now in store at Camp Latham, Cal., and also the two mountain howitzers and all the ammunition and equipments pertaining to them now in your possession. You will also take the new hospital tent, fly poles, and pins, which you yourself now occupy. All other tents used by the officers and men of your regiment, together with all desks, tables, and all other public property not needed on a march or for active field service, for which they are responsible, will be transferred to Lieutenant Morgan, Fifth Infau’ry California Volunteers, depot quartermaster, New San Pedro, Cal. Private property may also be left with him for storage. Brigade Surg. Robert A. Christian, U. S. volunteer service, and Lieutenant Frink, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, acting regimental quartermaster, will remain at Camp Latham, and Lieutenant Morgan, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, depot quartermaster, and his party will remain at New San Pedro, Cal., until further orders. Captain Moore, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Army, and Lieutenant Frink, regimental quartermaster, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, will furnish the necessary transportation to carry all this into effect. You will take with you all the clothing and also all the empty sacks which are now in store at Camp Latham. Colonel Bowie and the troops who are to take the field will leave Camp Latham on the 3d proximo.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,