Captain to Second Infantry California Volunteers, April 29, 1862

Col. FRANCIS J. LIPPITT, Second Infantry California Volunteers, Commanding District of Humboldt, Fort Humboldt, Cal. : COLONEL: Your letters of the 16th, 23d, and 24th instant are received and submitted to the general commanding, all of which are approved,

Two companies of your regiment now at Vancouver are under orders to report to you. They will be down on the Panama. She leaves for Vancouver on the 30th instant. The general says he can spare you no more troops at present. I am,

respectfully, your most obedient servant,