First California Volunteers to H O, February 27, 1862
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
February 27, 1862.
No. 16. f Los Angeles, Cal., February 27, 1862. I. Lieut. Col. George S. Evans, Second Cavalry California Volunteers, commanding at Camp Drum, will order Capt. T. T. Tidball, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, to report with his company without delay to Lieut. Col. M. D. Dobbins, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, commanding at Camp Kellogg. * * * * * * * By order of Colonel Carleton:
First Lieut. and Adjt., California Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen.
Los Angeles, Cal., February 28, 1862. Maj. RICHARD C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal.:
MAJOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant. My instructions to Captain Moore have been, in my opinion, both necessary and warranted by what I considered. the good of the service required, and they have been such as were needful, and such as I would have given any officer under similar circumstances. It is difficult to conceive what representations may have been made by Captain Moore in relation to this subject, but I believe it is due to me that I be informed what those representations were, and in all cases where anything is sent to department headquarters affecting my command or myself I think the military rule is that all such communications should go through me in the ascending line of correspondence. I trust I shall not be disappointed in my expectations of having such a rule observed. If Captain Moore or any other officer under my command does what I conceive to be his duty, I can feel no dissatisfaction
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toward him. If he disobeys my orders or neglects his duty I shall arrest him. I do not consider your letter in the light of a rebuke, but it is respectfully suggested (the door being open for Captain Moore to be assigned to district headquarters and left behind, a post he may desire), whether it is not possible he may endeavor so to comport himself as to produce dissatisfaction. It is probable he will shortly proceed to Fort Yuma, there to attend to important matters connected with my movements. I am, major,
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.
NoTE.—Major Woods will inform you of my cipher. Write to me a
note in cipher, that I may see whether or not you understand it.
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