Order
Sumner, October 14, 1861
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
October 14, 1861.
No. 193. $ San Francisco, October 14, 1861.
1. The headquarters and Companies E, G, and K, Sixth Regiment of Infantry, and the headquarters and Companies O, G, H, L, and M, Third Regiment of Artillery, will embark for New York on the 21st instant. The deputy quartermaster-general and acting commissary of subsistence will furnish the necessary transportation and supplies.
4. One of the unmounted companies of the Second Regiment of California Volunteer Cavalry will be detailed for temporary duty at Benicia Barracks, and will proceed to its destination on the 17th instant.
By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:
Assistant Adjutant-General.
San Francisco, October 14, 1861.
SIR: The following companies of your regiment are selected to remain
on this coast: Companies A and I to garrison Alcatraz; Company B to
San Francisco, October 14, 1861.
SIR: The following companies of your regiment are selected to remain
on this coast: Companies A and I to garrison Alcatraz; Company B to
garrison Fort Point; Company D to garrison Fort Vancouver. The
general commanding desires you to transfer a sufficient number of men
from the companies ordered Hast (except Light Company C) to make an
aggregate of ninety for each of the companies at Alcatraz and Fort your regiment, selected to remain at Fort Vancouver. If Lieutenant
general commanding desires you to transfer a sufficient number of men
from the companies ordered Hast (except Light Company C) to make an
aggregate of ninety for each of the companies at Alcatraz and Fort your regiment, selected to remain at Fort Vancouver. If Lieutenant
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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