James H. Carleton to Theodore A. Coult, June 21, 1862

Maj. THEODORE A. COULT, Fifth Infty. California Vols., Comdg. Fort Barrett, Ariz. Ter.:

MAJOR: Order Comipanies B, E, and F, First Infantry California Volunteers, to Tucson, Ariz. Ter., to start to-day and proceed thither via the Picacho route; also order Capt. John C. Cremony, with his company (B), Second Cavalry California Volunteers, to proceed to Tueson, Ariz. Ter., with a herd of beeves now at Maricopa Wells, via the

Leech wagon road to Alamo Spring, and thence via Canada del Oro to Tucson ; also, order Corporal Timmons, of Company O, First Cavalry California Volunteers, and Sergeant Harrison, of Company F, First Infantry California Volunteers, together with the ten privates of that company now at Gila Bend, to Tucson. You will send to replace them one first-rate non-commissioned officer and three privates. The party then at Gila Bend will be three privates of Company O, First Cavalry, and a non-commissioned officer and three privates of the Fifth Infantry. J am, major,

very respectfully, your obedient servant,