[OCTOBER 14, 1861. - For Baylor to McCulloch, relating to affairs in Arizona, see Vol. IV, p. 120.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 194.
San Francisco, October 15, 1861.

1. In consequence of the withdrawal of the regular troops from this coast the chief of ordnance is authorized to increase, by enlistment, the detachment at Benicia Arsenal to an aggregate of eighty men.

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By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,

Camp Latham, near Los Angeles, October 15, 1861.

Major W. SCOTT KETCHUM,

Commanding at San Bernardino:

MAJOR: Aggreably to instructions received from Colonel Wright, U. S. Army, I have ordered Major Edward E. Eyre, First Cavalry California Volunteers, with three companies of that regiment to San Bernardino to relieve the force under your command so as to enable you to march [to] San Pedro. Please do me the favor to give to Major Eyre the many useful hints as to the management of affairs in the vicinity of Bernardino which your experience there may suggest. I count confidently on your kindness in this regard. The major will have to hire a private physician. Pray inform him who the best man is that can be employed. Judge Winston's train, which goes out with Major Eyre, you can have to transport the baggage of your troops to San Pedro. I shall send an ambulance to San Bernardino with some of the sick of Randle, ordered to join Colonel West at Chino Ranch.

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel, California Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angeles, Cal., October 16, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE ANDREWS,

Sixth U. S. Infantry, Commanding at Fort Yuma, Cal.:

MY DEAR COLONEL: You have doubtless received the orders for the regular troops now under your command at Fort Yuma, to proceed without delay to San Diego preparatory to embarking for New York. Lieutenant-Colonel West, First Infantry California Volunteers, whom you will find to be a most excellent officer and gentleman, goes to Fort Yuma with three companies of volunteer infantry to relieve you. Pray put him in possession of all the facts connected with your post, its surroundings, and its defense, which your experience may suggest. The records, orders, maps, &c., now on file, and the post books, all of which will come into his possession, will give him much information, but a few hours' conversation with you will be of the greatest service to him. As