First Infantry California Volunteers to Rvol L, Pti, March 7, 1862

No. 21. Los Angeles, Cal., March 7, 1862.

I. The battalion of the First and Fifth Regiments Infantry California Volunteers, consisting of four companies, viz, McMullen’s, Davis’, Hinds’, and Ford’s, and commanded by Major Coult, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, will at 12 o’clock to-day take up its line of march with ten days’ rations of subsistence and 5,000 rounds of ammunition to each company. The commander of the battalion will receive especial instructions from the commander of the district.

II. Lieut. Lafayette Hammond, regimental quartermaster First Infantry California Volunteers, will furnish the necessary transportation, and see that wood is supplied for the first nights encampment. He will send along or buy en route for the use of the train 5,000 pounds of barley or corn, and will so arrange it with the beef contractor that these troops shall be supplied with the fresh beef necessary for their, subsistence while on the march.

Colonel First Infantry Oalifornia Volunteers, Commanding.

Los Angeles, Cal., March 7, 1862. Maj. THEODORE A. COULT, Fifth Infty. California Vols., encamped near Los Angeles, Cal. : MAJOR: You will proceed by easy marches, so as gradually to inure your men to fatigue, to Camp Wright, San Diego County, Cal., and report with your battalion of four companies of infantry to the commanding officer of that camp.

your obedient servant,