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is to repress with a strong hand any organization to resist or impede the measures of the Government. You will consider yourself charged with all the supervision of Los Angeles, San Bernadino, San Diego, and Santa Barbara Counties, and you will endeaveo to keep yourself well informed of all scheming against the Governement, and interpose at once if any overt act of treason is committed. You will have authority to concentrate the troops from Los Angeles, San Bernandino, and San Diego, if any emergency should make it necessary. Communicate with Colonel Andrews, at Fort Yuma, and if that post should be threatened by any histile movement from Texas or Arizona, march instantly to its supporst with your whole available force.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. V. SUMNER,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.
WAR DEPARTMENT, August 15, 1861.
Honorable JOHN G. DOWNEY,
Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:
In filling the requisition given you August 14 for five regiments, please make General J. H. CArleton, of San Francisco, colonel of a cavalry regiment, and give him proper authority to organize as promptly as possible.
SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
(Telegraph and pony express and telegraph.)
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC Numbers 147.
San Francisco, August 15, 1861.Captain Henry S. Burton, Third Artillery, will turn over to the commanding officer of Benicia Arsenal 1,000 sets of infantry equipments.
By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:
RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.LOS ANGELES, August 15, 1861 - 12:40 p. m.
R. C. DRUM:
My men are being demoralized and tamprered with. Shall I move nearer San Pedro? All my officers urge the move.
J. W. DAVIDSON,
Commanding.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 1861.
Captain J. W. DAVIDSON,
First Dragoons, Los Angeles:
Your dispatch of this date received. Read second paragpraph of General Orders, Numbers 6, from these headquarters. *
By order:
RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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* See May 15, p. 486.
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