First California Volunteers, March 10, 1862

No. 39. f i San Francisco, Cal., March 10, 1862.

1. As soon as the weather will permit, Maj. Charles McDermit, Second Cavalry California Volunteers, will proceed to and take vost at Fort Churchill, Nev. Ter.

2. Maj. Edward McGarry, Second Cavalry California Volunteers, is assigned to duty at Camp Alert, to the commanding officer of which he will report without delay.

By order of Brigadier-General Wright:

Assistant Adjutant-General. SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,

No. 23. San Pedro, Cal., March 10, 1862.

1. Lieutenant-Colonel Evans, Second Cavalry California Volunteers,

will order Captain McLaughlin’s company (D), Second Cavalry California Volunteers, to Camp Latham without delay. The horses in this company which were exchanged for horses in Company B, Second Cavalry, will be transferred back to that company as soon as Company D arrives at Camp Latham. When this is done, Colonel Bowie, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, will order Captain Cremony’s company to report to Lieutenant-Colonel Evans, at Camp Drum.

By order of Colonel Carleton:

First Lieut., First Infty. California Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen.

Camp Drum, near San Pedro, Cal., March 11, 1862. Maj. R. ©. DRUM, U.S. Army, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal.:

MAJOR: Inclosed herewith please find a copy of a letter from Major Rigg, commanding at Fort Yama, stating he has at length received the two guns the general ordered to that post. I have ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Dobbins to New San Diego to assume command of that post. He has at present Captains Ffrench and Soper with their companies of the Fifth Infantry California Volunteers. I have ordered Colonel Bowie to Camp Latham, where he has five companies of the

Fifth Infantry California Volunteers (one of them will be detached at Fort Yuma), and has Lieutenant-Colonel Evans and McLaughlin’s, Jones’, and Winne’s companies, of the Second Cavalry California Volunteers. Soper’s company will march to Camp Latham at the earliest practicable moment. This will leave one company at San Diego, Ffrench’s. Major Coult, with two companies of the First Infantry (McMullen’s and Davis”) and two companies of the Fifth Infantry (Ford’s and Hinds’), are en route to Camp Wright. The mules that now come down are said to be of the first class.. I feel under great obligations to the general for having sustained me in my action in rela- _ tion to the insubordinate men at Camp Wright. I learn the most of those men are heartily ashamed of themselves. The companies en route to Camp Wright march with knapsacks and all the effects carefully packed. It is important that a general court-martial be ordered at Camp Latham at the earliest practicable day. The discipline of the service requires that a large number of general prisoners at that camp be tried at once. Please send down the order by return of boat. Please send down to San Diego by return boat a plenty of subsistence stores, if they have not a plenty already on hand there; and if you will send 100,000 pounds of barley there I can get it to Camp Wright much easier than from here. If I have it in my power I will do all I can for the gentleman recently from Texas about whom you wrote. I am, major,

very respectfully, your obedient servant,