[Indorsement.]

LOS ANGELES, August 13, 1861.

I hereby certify that the foregoing names are copies of bona fide signatures of citizens and residents of Los Angeles County.

HERBY D. BARROWS,

U. S. Marshal for the Southern District of California.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, August 14, 1861.

Honorable JOHN G. DOWNEY,

Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:

Please organizem, equip, and have mustered into service, at that earliest date possible, four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry, to be placed at the disposal of General Sumner.

SIMON CAMERON,

Secretary of War.

(By telegraph to Forth Kearny, and thence by pony express and telegraph.)

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, August 14, 1861.

His Excellency JOHN G. DOWNEY,

Governor of the State of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:

SIR: I have this day addressed you a dispatch requesting you to organize, equip, and have mustered into service, at the earliest date possible, four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry, to be placed at the disposal of General Sumner.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

SIMON CAMEREON,

Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC Numbers 146.
San Francisco, August 14, 1861.

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3. Major William S. Ketchum, Fourth Infantry, is authorized on and emergency to direct the movements and concentration of the troops stationed at New San Diego, Camp Fitzgerald, and those under his immediate command at San Bernandino on such points as the may deem necesary.

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By command of Brigadier-General Sumner:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,

San Francisco, August 14, 1861

Major WILLIAM S. KETCHUM,

Fourth Regiment of Infantry, Camp Samner, Cal.:

MAJOR: It is reported from authentic sources that there is much disaffection toward the Government in the southern part of this State, and the object of placing you with your command at San Bernardino