Richd. C. Drum to Second Infantry California Volunteers, June 4, 1862

Col. FRANCIS J. LIPPITT, Second Infantry California Volunteers, Commanding District of Humboldt, Fort Humboldt, Cal. : Sir: The department commander has read with interest your letter relative to operations in your district, and is pleased with the activity and zeal displayed by yourself and the officers and men under your command.i Your regimental quartermaster will receive instructions through Lieutenant-Colonel Babbitt to purchase the mules (seventyfive) required. The general desires you to send to Benicia the Third Infantry companies, now in the Humboldt District, as fast as you can relieve them with the companies of your own regiment. The companies of your regiment still in the District of Oregon will ioin you so soon as they can be relieved.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,