First Infantry California Volunteers to E. A. Rigg, March 30, 1862

No. 37. Los Angeles, Cal., March 30, 1862. Capt. Sylvester Soper, Company H, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, will report with his company without delay to Lieut. Col. Joseph

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R. West, First Infantry California Volunteers, commanding at Camp Wright, San Diego County, Cal. By order of Colonel Carleton:

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

SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRs. DIST. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, No. 38. } Los Angeles, Cai., March 30, 1862.

II. Col. George W. Bowie, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, will direct one of the companies of his regiment now serving at Camp Latham to march to Camp Drum, uear New San Pedro, and there await further orders. The company will be equipped in all respects agreeably with General Orders, No. 3, from these headquarters (series for 1862), All tents and other property not needed for field service will be turned in to the depot quartermaster at New San Pedro. Each soldier will be furnished with one day’s rations and twenty rounds of ammunition. The officers will be allowed to have only eighty pounds of baggage apiece, including their bedding, mess furniture, and clothing.

III. The acting regimental quartermaster Fifth Infantry California Volunteers wil! furnish the necessary transportation.

By order of Colonel Carleton:

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

Fort Yuma, March 30, 1862. Col. JAMES H. CARLETON, Commanding Southern District, Los Angeles, Cal. :

COLONEL: I have the honor to inclose, for the information of the district commander, letter received this day, signed George Peters, and in explanation would respectfully state that the writer is Mr. Peter Brady, of Sonora, the same gentleman who gave me the information (forwarded to the district commander) about the Mojave country. I had anticipated his passport, and sent him in to obtain information, if possible, through to Mesilla. This communication was written on his way thither at Sonoita, and I have forwarded it for your consideration. If I am not deceived Mr. Brady is the best man the Government could have in that section of Sonora. He married there, and his family connection secures to him, with his intelligence, great influence with those people. Pesqueira visits his home and is intimate with his family, and if Colonel Reily has succeeded in making any arrangement with him I will soon be informed of it. Senor Guadalupe Orosco, alcalde of Sonoita, is also here. He is of the same opinion vhat Mr. Brady is, that Pesqueira will not grant any privileges to the rebels. Orosco brought me Mr. Brady?s letter without knowing the contents of it, being absent at the time Brady was there; yet he thinks that the reward offered—protection from the Apaches—a strong inducement to grant them privileges, if he (Pesqueira) has confidence in their ability to carry them out. Mr. George Martin has returned by express to obtain information also through the Papagos. Mr. Martin is the Martin and Dorsey spoken of in Brady’s letter. He will report by the 2d of March [April?] on the road by the copper mines to San Serain or Tucson. Señor Orosco goes, to-night, home with Kilbride to do the same thing. He cannot act personally, being in an official position, but will have it done, so that what he reports can be depended on. He urges the district commander, or some one else clothed with the proper authority, to write to Pesqueira. Both he and Brady assure me that the Sonorans are, almost to a man, warm friends of our Government, and would not only cheerfully but faithfully perform any request made of them. Señor Orosco’s integrity is indorsed by every one here, and all Sonorans speak of him in high terms. He has been at my service in several instances. He furnished fresh animals to Buckner and a guide (the Dutchman) mentioned by Brady, but sent me word that the messenger talked too much. It would not be safe for him to go in that direction again. I have written to Clymer to conceal his powder or haul it to Antelope Peak for safety (where it will be safer). 3

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,