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General orders were issued designating the force to march on . 
California. It consisted of three hundred United States Ist dra- 
goons, under Major Sumner, who were to be followed by the bat- 
: talion of Mormons, five hundred in number, commanded by Cap-" a: 
‘tain Cook. | ’ 
Colonel Doniphan’s regiment was to remain in New Mexico until ’ 
- relieved by Colonel Price’s regiment, which was daily expected to 
reach there from the United States, when Colonel Doniphan’s regi-~ 
ment was directed to effect a junction with General Wool at Chi- 
*huahua. , ‘ 
Major Clarke’s two batteries of artillery were divided—one com- _ 
pany, Captain Fisher’s, to, be left in New Mexico; the other, Cap- 
tain Weightman’s, to accompany Colonel Doniphan. The battalion 
of foot, under Captain Agney, was directed to remain im Santa Fe. 
Thus was the army of the west divided into three columns, to 
operate in regions remote from each other, and never to unite again 
in one body. - > 
September. 25.—I received notice that the general. was to march 
at 2, p. m., for California. His force consisted of three hundred 
dragoons, to be followed by a battalion of Mormons on foot that 
had not yet arrived in Santa Fe. 
My requisition for twelve pack-saddles and eight mules not being 
filled, I determined to delay starting for an hour or two, and 
did not reach my camp, sixteen miles distant, till long after dark. 
- [found my tent pitched, my supper smoking, and corn ‘secured for 
- my mules; this was gratifying, and I congratulated myself on the 
reorganization of my party, at least so far as ‘the personel was 
concerned, for I had never found my camp so well attended to. 7 
day was excessively hot, the night very cold, the thermo- 
eter 32 degrees. | | : 
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Memorandum.—My party is now organized as follows: 
Lieutenant Warner, topographical engineers, &c. 
Stanly, draughtsman. ee 
Norman Bestor, assistant. ; | 
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‘ : Men. a 
James Early, driver to..instrument wagon; i 
W. H. Peterson, in charge of horizon box and cantina for sextants; 
Baptiste Perrot, driver of transportation wagon; 24 
: Maurice Longdeau, in charge of spare mules; ie 
+ Francois de Von Ceur, in charge of spare mules; 
, rank Ménard, assistant teamster; 
James Riley, assistant to Bestor; 
Dabney Eustis, assistant to Stanly, 
and the private servants of Lieutenant Warner and myself. = 
_. Our roadis oyer the ground heretofore travelled and chronicled as 
ae far as Tomé. chia oe 
Asan evidence of the ignorance of the people here respecting — 
