R. Drum to W. S. Hancock, May 13, 1861

Capt. W. S. HANCOCK, Assistant Quartermaster, Los Angeles, Oal. :

CAPTAIN: Your letters of May 4 and 7 have been received, and I am instructed by the general commanding the department to inform you that the site selected by Major Carleton and yourself in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and the measures you have taken to facilitate the rapid concentration of troops at that point, are highly approved by him. He directs me to inform you that Colonel Beall has been this day telegraphed to turn over to Major Carleton two mountain howitzers, with the requisite amount of ammunition for the same.

very respectfully, your obedient servant,