HISTORY OP CALIFORNIA. 



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General orders No. 10, of 1847, promotes Lieute 

 nant Loeser, third artillery, and orders him to join 

 his company. I regret that at this moment his services 

 cannot be spared, and I am compelled to retain him 

 on duty with company F, third artillery, because the 

 absence of Captain Tompkins, the death of Lieutenant 

 Minor, and Lieutenant Sherman being detached as 

 acting assistant adjutant general, has reduced the 

 number of officers of that company to but two 

 Lieutenants Ord and Loeser. I trust that the two 

 companies of regulars in this country will be kept with 

 a full supply of officers, that an officer, upon being 

 promoted, may be enabled to join the army in the 

 field, and participate in the active operations to which 

 he looks for distinction and experience. 



Captain H. M. Naglee, seventh New York volun 

 teers, with a strong detachment of his company, is 

 now absent in pursuit of Indians in the valley of the 

 San Joaquin. He has with him Lieutenant Burton's 

 company of California volunteers, which is expected 

 to return to Monterey before the end of this month ; 

 in which case I shall cause it to be mustered out of 

 service, and discharged on the 31st day of October. 



Again I have to report the death, by sickness, of 

 an officer of my command Lieutenant C. C. Ander 

 son, seventh New York volunteers, who contracted a 

 fever when on duty at Fort Sacramento, and died in 

 consequence at San Francisco on the 13th of Septem 

 ber. He was buried with military honors by the troops 

 at San Francisco, under direction of Major Hardie. 

 This death reduces the number of officers in Captain 

 Brackett's company, seventh regiment New York 

 volunteers, to one captain and one second lieutenant. 



Commodore Shubrick will sail for the west coast of 

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