Richd. C. Drum to Second Infantry California Volunteers, February 10, 1862
Col. FRANcIS J. LIPPITT, Second Infantry California Volunteers, Commanding District of Humboldt:
SIR: Your report* on the condition of affairs in the District of Humboldt having been attentively perused by the general commanding the department, I am directed to say that while the plans suggested are doubtless very good, yet you must not rely upon such an increase to your force as is evidently contemplated in the report. The removal of Indians and the establishment of their reservations is a matter belonging entirely to the Indian Bureau. The superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern district has selected a new reservation in the northeastern part of this State, which, it is thought, will be sufficiently remote from the settlements to prevent disturbance. The general approves your suggestions relative to the abandonment of Fort Seward. The matter is left entirely with you.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS, ) HDQRs. DIST. OF SOUTHERN California,
No. 3. Los Angeles, Cal., February 11, 1862.
this district, unless otherwise especially ordered, will always march
with knapsacks on. Each soldier will carry one greatcoat, one blanket,
one forage cap, one woolen shirt, one pair of drawers, one pair stockings, one towel, two handkerchiefs, one fine and one coarse comb, one