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packing, for the use of trains, &c. I send Lieutenant-Colonel West to San Francisco, to stay twenty days from the he leaves here, to assist either to carry out the details of the present plan or any other which the general may inaugurate.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES H. CARLETON,
Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.
A.
Memoranudm of supplies needed at San Pedro for 1,600 men on march (twenty days) from Camp Latham to Fort Yuma.
FULL RATIONS.
Pork 3, days at 1,200 pounds per day.........net.....................3,600
Flour, 32,000 rations, of 18 ounces each.....do....................36,000
Beans, 16,000 rations.................................do..................... 2,480
Rice, 16,000 rations...................................do......................1,600
Coffeee, 32, 0000 rations............................do...................... 3,200
Sugar, 32,000 rations.................................gros.....................5,200
Vinegar, 32,000 rations..............................do...................... 3,424
Candles, 32,000 rations-sperm...................do......................... 400
Soap, 32,000 rations..................................do.......................1,472
Salt, 32,000 rations....................................do........................1,216
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58,892
Exclusive of eighteen days fresh beef on the hoof. Add ten days for delays at Fort Yuma and contingencies en route, increasing above 50 per. cent on each item, including beef.............29,296
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Total amount to be transported from
San Pedro by land..........................87,888
ADDITIONAL.
Pemmican...............pounds.................10,000
Tents............................................760
Mess-kits......................................8,928
Field and staff, &c............................1,250
Horseshoes, a &c...............................3,000
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23,938
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111,826
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Add 300 6-gallon water-kegs to be landed at San Pedro 2 to each of the 150 wagons; hooped with iron; well-seasoned wood.
FORAGE.
Time of march from Camp Lathan to Fort Yuma, twenty days:
900 mules daily......................8,100
550 mules daily......................6,600
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Twenty days.........................14,700 = 294,000
Add ten days for delay at Fort Yuma and contigencies en route, increasing above 50 per cent.......147,000
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441,000
Of this amount 150 wagons being loaded with subsistence stores &c., weighing............111,826
Will carry of barley................338,174 338,174
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Required to place on the road from Camp Latham to
Fort Yuma....................................102,826
JAMES H. CARLETON,
Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angeles, Cal., December 20, 1861.a Eight thousand should be shipped to San Pedro, which leaves 5,000 pounds to be a sent before starting.
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