GENERAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ARIZONA, August 27, 1862

NOIK Franklin, Tex., August 27, 1862. IL. Captain Roberts’ company (E, First California Volunteer Infantry) and Captain Pishows company (D, First California Volunteer Cavalry) will be ordered by Colonel West to proceed without delay to Franklin, Tex., where Captain Roberts’ company will take post, and whence Captain Pishon’s company will march to Fort Stockton, in Texas, as a guard to some prisouers of the Confederate Army who are to be sent to Texas on parole. Each of these companies will be rationed from the depot at Mesilla to include the 30th proximo. Besides these rations Colonel West will send, escorted by Roberts’ company, 6,000 rations of subsistence stores from the Mesilla depot to Franklin, Tex. By order of Brigadier-General Carleton: BEN. C. CUTLER, First Lieut., First California Vol. Infty., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. [Inclosure Q.]