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company of infantry from Fort Crook for the purpose of re-enforcing the commands at Benicia ant the Presidio.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. V. SUMNER,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 8.
San Francisco, May 20, 1861.

I. Major D. C. Buell, assistant adjutant-general, and Captain Richard C. Drum, assistant adjutant-general, having reported at these headquarters in pursuance of General Orders, Numbers 7, from the Adjutant-General's Office, are announced on the department staff. Major Buell will accordingly relieve Major Mackall, assistant adjutant-general, and the latter will be governed by the orders which he has received from the Adjutant-General's Office.

II. First Lieutenant Armistead L. Long, Second Artillery, is announced as aide-de-camp to the general commanding.

By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:

D. C. BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LOS ANGELES, May 22, 1861 - 11. 20 a. m.

General SUMNER,

Commanding Department of the Pacific:

The citizens here are to raise with ceremony the national flag over the court-house next Saturday. My command is invited to assist. Should U. S. forces, as such, take part in a civic celebration of this character?

JAMES H. CARLETON,

U. S. Army.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, May 22, 1861.

Major J. H. CARLETON,

First Dragoons, Commanding, Los Angeles, Cal.:

MAJOR: The general answers yes to your dispatch of to-day.

D. C. BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, May 22, 1861.

Captain C. S. LOVELL,

Sixth Infantry, U. S. Army, Commanding Fort Humboldt, Cal.:

SIR: If in your opinion the further services of the detachment of volunteers under your command can be dispensed with the department commander directs that you discharge them. They will be paid as soon as the necessary funds are provided. In the event of your deeming it unadvisable to discharge them you are desired to report the reasons for that determination. I am also directed by the department commander to call your attention to the subject of the treatment of the


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