Unknown to R. W. Kirkham, April 1, 1862
Capt. R. W. KIRKHAM, Assistant Quartermaster, San Francisco, Cal. :
CAPTAIN: If you will consider that the horses and mules now here, or to be fed from here, without including those cavalry horses in advance of Fort Yuma, consume 22,000 pounds of barley per day, you will readily see that unless you ship more to New San Pedro at once the supply on hand will be exhausted, and we shall have none to take with us on the road. We should have ahead the number of pounds indicated as being necessary at New San Pedro in my estimate made in December last. When may I expect the money? The teamsters will all quit soon unless they are paid at least a part of their wages. Abd-elKadir said with a plenty of barley he could cross any desert. So can I.
respectfully, j
; Los Angeles, Cal., April 1, 1862.
First Infantry California Vols., Comdg. at Camp Wright:
SIR: Captain Thayer’s company (C), Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, will leave Camp Drum for Camp Wright this morning, and Colonel Bowie, with the band and three other companies of the Fifth
Wright on the 3d instant. Inclosed herewith you will find a letter of
Instructions* to Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, First Cavalry California Volunteers, who leaves Camp Carleton, near El Monte, for Camp Wright
with Surgeon Prentiss, Lieutenants Coleman and James, and ninety