SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 193.
San Francisco, Octobver 14, 1861.

1. The headquarters and Companies E, G, and K, Sixth Regiment of Infantry, and the headquarters and Companies C, G, H, L, and M, Third Regiment of Artillery, will embark for New York on the 21st instant. The deputy quartermaster-general and acting commissary of subsistence will furnish the necessary transportation and supplies.

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4. One of the unmounted companies of the Second Regiment of California Volunteer Cavalry will be detailed for temporary duty at Benicia Barracks, and will proceed to its destination on the 17th instant.

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By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,

San Francisco, October 14, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES S. MERCHANT,

Commanding Third Regiment of Arty. and Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.:

SIR: The following companies of your regiment are selected to remain on this coast: Companies A and I to garrison Alcatraz; Company B to garrison Fort Point; Company D to garrison Fort Vancouver. The general commanding desires you to transfer a sufficient number of men from the companies ordered East (except Light Company C) to make an aggregate of ninety for each of the companies at Alcatraz and Fort Point. You will transfer the men at Fort Umpqua to Company D, of your regiment, selected to remain at Fort Vancouver. If Lieutenant Wildrick belongs to either of the companies he will be directed to join immediately. You will see by the special order of this date that your headquarters and Companies C, G, H, L, and M sail on the 21st instant.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Numbers 2.
Los Angeles, October 14, 1861.

The undersigned having received orders to repair to San Francisco, the command of this district is hereby transferred to Colonel James H. Carleton, of the First Infantry California Volunteers.

G. WRIGHT,

Colonel, U. S. Army, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Numbers 2.
Los Angeles, Cal., October 14, 1861.

I. The undersigned hereby assumes command of this district.

II. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph R. West, First Infantry California Volunteers, with Companies E, G, and H of that regiment, will on Wednesday morning, the 16th instant, start en route for Camp Wright, near Warner's