words or actions indicate a want of loyalty. You will make no mention of the cause in the order. The contents of this letter will not be made known.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[AUGUST 1, 1861. -For proclamation issued by Lieutenant Colonel John R. BAylor, C. S. Army, takin possession of the Territory of Arizona, &c., in the name of the Confederate States of America, see Vol. IV, p. 20.]

SPECIAL ORDERS
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, No. 139.
San Francisco, August 3, 1861.

1. Captain Frederick Myers, assistant quartermaster, will relieve Captain Ralph W. Kirkham, assistant quartermaster, at Fort Walla, and Captain Kirkham will assume the duties of chief commissary at these headquarters, relieving Captain Drum, assistant adjutant-general.

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3. The commanding officer at Alcatraz Island will have in readiness and turn over to the commanding officer of Benicia Arsenal, when called for, 10,000 stand of muskets, without equipments.

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6. Captain Winfield S. Hancock, assistant quartermaster, will be relieved without delay from duty at Los Angeles by an officer to be disignated by the commanding officer at Camp Fitzgerald. He will then immediately repair to these headquarters and report for duty in connection with the movement of volunteers upon the Overland Mail Route.

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By order of Brigadier-General Summer:

D. C. BUELL,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAMP FITZGERALD,

Near Los Angeles, Cal., August 5, 1861.

Major D. C. BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Ca.:

MAJOR: I have the honor herewith to inclose a letter written to me by some of the leading citizens of San Bernandino, Cal., and my reply thereto.

I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. H. CARLETON,

Brevet Major, U. S. Army, Commanding.

[Inclosure Numbers 1.] SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., August 6 [1], 1861.

Major CARLETEON,

Commanding U. S. Troops at Los Angeles, Cal.:

SIR: We have heard within the last few hours from, as we believe, a reliable source that a band of some forty or fifty desperadoes are now