HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., October 29, 1861.

Colonel E. D. TOWNSEND,

Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. of the Army, Washington, D. C.:

COLONEL: Under instructions from the War Department dated September 28, 1861, I have the honor to report for orders to the General-in-Chief. Again most earnestly requesting that I may be ordered to the East,

I am, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

G. WRIGHT,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 204.
San Francisco, October 29, 1861.

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2. The troops in camp at San Pedro, Cal., will, upon the arrival of the steamer Golden Gate, embark for the East.

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By order of Brigadier-General Wright:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, 1861.

Colonel BLAKE, U. S. Army,

Fort Churchill, Nev. Ter.:

By order Numbers 23 your command, when relieved, with horses and horse equipments will repair to this city and take post at the Presidio.

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LOS ANGELES, CAL., October 29, 1861.

Captain R. W. KIRHAM, U. S. Army,

Commissary of Subsistence, San Francisco, Cal.:

Colonel Buchanan wants 12,000 rations pork and hard bread put on steamer that takes his command from San Pedro. Send by Senator 40,000 rations subsistence stores for troops in this district.

JAMES H. CARLETON.

NOTE. - Captain Ketchum, commanding at San Pedro, wrote to the undersigned a letter to which the foregoing is a reply, but afterward the undersigned concluded to send for the rations, fearing the troops might need them. The following is the basis of the calculation:

Colonel Buchanan's command, October 13, 71; Captain Davidson's command October 13, 113; Major Ketchum's command, October 20, 350; total strength, 534; round numbers, to include laundresses, servants, &c., 600; for twenty days, 12,000.