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ammunition, and supplies for the land forces will bo 

 sent to you. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

 W. L. MARCY, 

 Secretary of War. 

 Colonel S. W. Kearny. 



Fort Leavenworth, Missouri. 



Appendix G. 



The particulars of the conquest of Upper Cali- 

 fornia, as well as the suppression of the insurrections, 

 we have already given in substance as they are in the 

 despatches of General Kearny and Commodore Stock- 

 ton. But we have said nothing of the transactions 

 in the Peninsula, as that afterwards was surrendered 

 to Mexico. All that is interesting in the conquest of 

 Lower California, will be found in the following 

 despatches from the commander of the New York 

 regiment of volunteers, which with a number of 

 marines were the only troops employed in that quar- 

 ter. We premise, that, after the United States 

 marines had taken San Josd, the natives rose, and 

 they were reduced to the necessity of taking refuge 

 in an old fort, or cuartel, in the town. 



Barracks, Lower California, 

 San Jose, February 20, 1848. 

 Sir : I continue my report from the 22d ultimo, 

 from which time my force consisted of twenty-seven 

 marines and fifteen seamen, of whom five were on the 

 sick report, besides some twenty volunteers, Califor- 

 nians, who at least served to swell the numbers. From 



