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I have nothing special to report. Everything is quiet to all appearance, but we must not relax in our vigilance nor be lulled into a false security.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. WRIGHT,

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

[Indorsement.]


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, November 16, 1861.

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C.:

The within communication, addressed to Brigadier-General Thomas, after receiving his telegraphic dispatch of the 13th instant, is respectfully submitted to Major-General McClellan.

G. WRIGHT,

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


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 212.
San Francisco, Cal., November 15, 1861.

1. Colonel Benjamin L. Beall will transfer the command of the First Regiment of Cavalry to Lieutenant Colonel George A. H. Blake. Colonel Beall will then comply with the instructions he has received from the Adjutant-General's Office.

2. Major Charles S. Lovell, of the Tenth, and Major Franklin F. Flint, of the Sixteenth Regiments of Infantry, will continue on duty with the Sixth Infantry and proceed to the East on the steamer of the 21st instant.

3. The following troops will embark for New York on the steamer leaving this port on the 21st instant, under the command of Colonel Washington Seawell, Sixth Infantry: Companies A, B, and H, of the Sixth Infantry, now at Benicia; Companies E and I of the Fourth, and C, F, and I, of the Sixth Infantry, at San Diego.

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By order of Brigadier-General Wright:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,

Los Angeles, Cal., November 15, 1861.

Major E. A. RIGG,

Commanding Camp Wright, San Diego County, Cal.:

MAJOR: General Wright has directed that as soon as Colonel Andrews' command has passed your camp for San Diego you will at once send me an expressman stting the fact. I have directed quite a large supply of stationery to San Diego by the last Senator for your command. You can muster the man who talks Spanish asa teamster when you have discharged the one you write about, but he must be a teamster in fact. I had but a moment to write.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.


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