HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angelees, Cal., December 13, 1861.

Major R. S. DRUM, U. S. Army,

Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal.:

MAJOR: I have ordered the prisoners at Camp Wright to be sent to Fort Yuma. They have all taken some kind of an oath of alegiance, prepared for their signature by Major Rigg, copies of which have been sent to you mail. * I believe they would take any oath to get clear and cross to Arizona and Texas. It is respectfully submitted if it would not be better to hold them as prisoners, notwistanding their having taken this oath, at leat until the matters suggested by the general have been disposed of.,

I am, major, very respectfully,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angeles, Cal., December 13, 1861.

Major DAVID FERGUSON,

First Cavalry California Volunteers, Commanding Camp Wright:

MAJOR: If the company of infantry which has been ordered from your camp to Fort Yuma has not left your camp let it remain in readiness to move until further orders. If it has already gone whtn this reaches you, send an express to stop it until Colonel Eyer arrives. It need not return to your camp, but wait, say at Vallecito, where there is grass for the animals, until he comes.

I am, major, very respectfully,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angeles, Cal., December 13, 1861.

Major E. A. RIGG,

First Infty. California, Vols. Commanding Fort Yuma, Cal.:

MAJOR: Inclosed please find an official copy of a letter from department headquarters, dated the 10th instant, in relation to Showalter and party. + Be very careful that these men do not escape, and be sure and carry out the instructions in that letter in relation to persons passing from this way beyond Fort Yuma, or crossing the Colorado, and in relation to persons coming to California from the other direction. Keep me advised of all the steps you take in the premises.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel First California, Cal., December 14, 1861.

Colonel J. H. CARLETON,

First Infantry, California Volunteers,

Commanding Dist. of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal.:

SIR: I am directed by the general commanding the department to acknowledge the receipt of your letter transmitting papers relating to

* See pp. 36039.

+ See Drum to Carleton, p. 758.