James H. Carleton to John C. Cremony, March 31, 1862

Capt. JOHN C. CREMONY, Second Cavalry California Volunteers, Present:

CAPTAIN: You will take five trusty cavalry soldiers and one six-mule team, with one day’s rations of barley for all your horses and mules, and one day’s rations of subsistence for yourself and men, including the teamster, and proceed to a camp beyond the Cahuenga Pass, which Captain Shirland visited yesterday, and bring from said camp all the property and arms you may find there, and such animals as you may see in that neighborhood which belonged to the party of citizens to whom the camp referred to belonged. You will arrest and bring to this camp any citizens which you may find at the point where those brought in by Captain Shirland were found, particularly a man named Powell and another man named Anderson, if they are there or near there. You will proceed and return via the road leading past Camp Latham. ‘Take with you a political prisoner named Thomas J. Hodgkinson, now in confinement at this camp, to point out and identify the animals belonging to the party alluded to. See that you bring this prisoner back. You will return to-morrow evening.

very respectfully, your obedient servant,