Order
Sumner, September 25, 1861
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
September 25, 1861.
No. 180. y San Francisco, September 25, 1861, * * * * * * *
2. The counties of San Luis Obispo, Buena Vista, Tulare, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego, in the southern part of the State of California, will constitute a command within this department to be known as the District of Southern California, headquarters at Los Angeles. Col. George Wright, Ninth Regiment of Infantry, is assigned to the command of the district.
3. The headquarters of the Fourth Regiment of Infantry will be stationed at San Bernardino, to which point Bvt. Lieut. Col. Robert ©. Buchanan, major Fourth Infantry, with the regimental staff and band will proceed.
By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Siaty-five miles southeast of Fort Humboldt, September 26, 1861.
San Francisco, Cal. :
better location than any that could be found after a diligent and careful examination on Larrabee’s Creek or Van Dusen, besides being in
Siaty-five miles southeast of Fort Humboldt, September 26, 1861.
San Francisco, Cal. :
better location than any that could be found after a diligent and careful examination on Larrabee’s Creek or Van Dusen, besides being in
the heart of the Indian country. It is about fifteen or sixteen miles
farther from Fort Humboldt than the camp occupied by the detachment of Company B, Sixth Infantry, on the 10th of July last. The
trail after leaving Hydesville, twenty-two miles this side of Fort Humboldt, will be very difficult to pack supplies over after the 1st of December until the 1st of April, as some of the mountains over which it passes,
I am told, will have from two to five feet of snow on them. I think by
farther from Fort Humboldt than the camp occupied by the detachment of Company B, Sixth Infantry, on the 10th of July last. The
trail after leaving Hydesville, twenty-two miles this side of Fort Humboldt, will be very difficult to pack supplies over after the 1st of December until the 1st of April, as some of the mountains over which it passes,
I am told, will have from two to five feet of snow on them. I think by
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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