SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 1861. Capt. J. W. DAVIDSON, First Dragoons, Los Angeles : Your dispatch of this date received. Read second paragraph of General Orders, No, 6,…
WAR DEPARTMENT WAR DEPARTMENT, August 15, 1861. Hon. JoHN G. DOWNEY, Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal. : In filling the requisition given you August 14 for five regiments, please…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, August 14, 1861. Maj. WILLIAM S. KETCHUM, Fourth Regiment of Infantry, Camp Sumner, Cal.: MAJOR: It is reported from authentic sources that there…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, August 14, 1861. No. 146. } San Francisco, August 14, 1861. * * * * * * * 3. Maj. William S. Ketchum,…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 14, 1861. His Excellency Joun G. DOWNEY, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento City, Cal.: SIR: I have this day addressed you a dispatch requesting…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 14, 1861. Hon. Joun G. DOWNEY, Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal. : Please organize, equip, and have mustered into service, at the earliest date possible,…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Fitzgerald, Cal., August 13, 1861. Maj. D. C. BUELL, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army: MAJOR: After careful thought I have determined, as an officer intrusted with an important…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, August 13, 1861. No. 145. f San Francisco, August 13, 1861. 2. Two of the field guns at the Presidio of San…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 10, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco : DEAR SIR: Since addressing you under yesterday’s date information has…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Fitzgerald, August 10, 1861. MAJOR: I have the honor to inclose the accompanying letter from Mr. Willis, of San Bernardino, which will be found to bear directly upon…