First California Volunteers to Cap. Lxii. Correspondence Union And Confederate. 725, November 15, 1861

SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
November 15, 1861.
No. 212. f San Francisco, Cal., November 15, 1861.

1. Col. Benjamin L. Beall will transfer the command of the First Regiment of Cavalry to Lieut. Col. George A. H. Blake. Colonel Beall will then comply with the instructions he has received from the Adjutant-General’s Office. :

2. Maj. Charles S. Lovell, of the Tenth, and Maj. Franklin F. Flint, of the Sixteenth Regiments of Infantry, will continue on duty with the Sixth Infantry and proceed to the East on the steamer of the 21st instant.

3. The following troops will embark for New York on the steamer leaving this port on the 21st instant, under the command of Col. Washington Seawell, Sixth Infantry: Companies A, B, and H, of the Sixth Infantry, now at Benicia; Companies E and I of the Fourth, and O, F, and I, of the Sixth Infantry, at San Diego.

By order of Brigadier-General Wright:

Assistant Adjutant- General.

Los Angeles, Cal., November 15, 1861. Maj. E. A. RIGG, Commanding Camp Wright, San Diego County, Cal.:

MAJOR: General Wright has directed that as soon as Colonel Andrews’ command has passed your camp for San Diego you will at once send me an expressman stating the fact. I have directed quite a large supply of stationery to San Diego by the last Senator for your command. You can muster the man who talks Spanish as a teamster when you have discharged the one you write about, but he must be a teamster in fact. I had but a moment to write.

your obedient servant,

Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.

Camp Wright, near Warners Ranch, San Diego County,
Southern California, November 15,

Commanding California Volunteers, Los Angeles, Cal. :
COLONEL: I wrote to you on the 13th instant informing you of the