Leland Stanford to R. C. Drum, January 14, 1862

Maj. R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant-General :

SIR: Your communication of January 9 came duly to hand on the 13th instant. This post is located on the Klamath River six miles above the mouth and thirty miles from Crescent City on a flat piece of ground. Said post has been overflowed by the flood four times this season, and took away seventeen buildings out of twenty, which comprise all the buildings of this post. I have received orders from headquarters to rebuild the post. The condition of the company is as well as can be expected under the circumstances, having had rain nearly all the time we have been here. It is nearly impossible to drill the company more than two or three times per week. The number of men is fifty-five, including officers and all. Nothing more.

I remain, your obedient and humble servant, JOHN H. MAY, Captain Company O, Third Regiment California Volunteers.

STATE OF California, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Sacramento, January 15, 1862, Brig. Gen. GEORGE WRIGHT,

GENERAL: I am gratified to acknowledge receipt of yours of the 11th instant, and desire to assure you that 1 fully appreciate the importance of

à a more perfect system of defense for the city and bay of San Francisco. To this end I shall cheerfully lend my aid and shall be glad to receive, at as early a day as possible, such communications as you may deem advisable to place before me in reference to the matter, that I may lay the subject before the Legislature in time for their early action. Most

respectfully, your obedient servant,