This regiment was organized in pursuance of the President’s first call upon the State of California for troops, which will be found on page 12 of this book.

            The regiment was assembled and organized at a camp situated in the City of Oakland, near where the railroad mole now leaves the main land.  It was named Camp Downey, in honor of the Governor of the State.

            James H. Carleton, then a Captain in the Sixth Infantry, U.S.A, was made Colonel of the regiment, with Joseph R. West and Edwin A. Rigg, both distinguished officers of the California militia, as Lieutenant Colonel and Major, respectively.

            Colonel Carleton’s record as an officer in theregular army is as follows:  Born in Maine; appointed from Maine Second Lieutenant First Dragoons, October 18, 1839; First Lieutenant, March 17, 1845; Captain, February 16, 1847.  Regiment made First Cavalry, August 3, 1861.  Major Sixth Cavalry, September 7, 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Cavalry, July 31, 1866.

            Brevet Rank. – Brevet Major, February 23, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Buena Vista; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, March 13, 1865, for service in New Mexico; Brevet Colonel, March 13, 1865 for meritorious service in New Mexico; Brevet Brigadier-General, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in New Mexico; Brevet Major-General, March 13, 1865, for meritorious service during the war.

            Volunteer Service. – Colonel First California Infantry, August 9, 1861; Brigadier-General of Volunteers, April 28, 1863; mustered out as such, April 30, 1866, resuming his rank in the regular army.  He died January 7, 1873.

            After Carleton’s promotion in 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph R. West succeeded to the Colonelcy.  The latter was appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers, October 25, 1862.  West was succeeded by Colonel Edwin A. Rigg.

            The following is the correspondence regarding the formation and command of the regiment:

[Telegraph and pony express.]

ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE

WASHINGTON, July 24, 1861.

Brigadier-General SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific:

                One regiment of infantry and five companies of cavalry have been accepted from California to aid in protecting overland mail route via Salt Lake.  Please detail officers to muster these troops into service.  Blanks will be sent by steamer.

                By order:

GEORGE D. RUGGLES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

WASHINGTON, July 26, 1861.

Brig.-Gen. E.V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific:

                Direct your Quartermaster and Commissary to prepare in advance the stores necessary for the regiment of infantry and five companies of cavalry accepted from California.  Suggest to the Governor of California the propriety of making Major Carleton the Colonel of the infantry regiment.  Colonel Waite is prevented by ill health from accepting the command.  It is desired that Major Carleton be placed in command.  If any one else is made Colonel of the infantry regiment, he will be deprived of the command.

L.THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, August 14, 1861.

His Excellency JOHN G. DOWNEY, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento City:

                SIR:  I have this day addressed you a dispatch requesting you to organize, equip, and have mustered into service, at the earliest date possible, four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry, to be placed at the disposal of General Sumner.

                I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

SIMON CAMERON,

Secretary of War.

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[By telegraph to Fort Kearney, and thence by pony express and telegraph.]

WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, August 14, 1861.

Hon. JOHN G. DOWNEY, Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:

                Please organize, equip, and have mustered into service, at the earliest date possible, four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry, to be placed at the disposal of General Sumner.

SIMON CAMERON,

Secretary of War.

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[Telegraph and pony express and telegraph.]

WAR DEPARTMENT,

August 15, 1861.

Hon. JOHN G. DOWNEY, Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:

                In filling the requisition given you August fourteenth for five regiments, please make General J.H. Carleton, of San Francisco, Colonel of a cavalry regiment, and give him proper authority to organize as promptly as possible.

SIMON CAMERON,

Secretary of War.

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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

SACRAMENTO, CAL., September 2, 1861.

His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States:

                SIR:  The first requisition made upon this State for one thousand five hundred volunteers has been filled and the command given to Colonel Carleton.  It having been intimated by the War Department that it was your desire that this officer should have the command, I cheerfully complied, as I had every confidence in his experience, patriotism, and gallantry.  I would now represent to your Excellency that the command of this expedition to Utah is a most important one, and will embrace a jurisdiction of some one thousand five hundred miles.  As Colonel, he will have command of the First California Infantry and the First California Cavalry, being more than a Colonel’s command and less than that of a Brigadier.  I would respectfully ask, on behalf of the State, that this be created a separate department, and that Colonel Carleton be appointed Brigadier-General of this brigade.  I trust you will at once see the benefits that will result from this course.  As it is remote from Headquarters on the Pacific, and being subject to have all communications cut off for four months in the year by snows, the officer in command of this department should be invested with ample power to act as circumstances might require.  Besides, California has not yet been honored with a military appointment of this rank, and should your Excellency deem it advisable to accede to this request, I know of no man more deserving than Colonel Carleton, nor one who would reflect more credit upon the State, or give more satisfaction to the General Government.

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

JOHN G. DOWNEY.

            The regiment, after completing its organization at Camp Downey, was moved to Camp Latham, situated at the cienega between Los Angeles and Santa Monica, and in the spring of 1862 it became part of the California Column and went to New Mexico.  As the history of that column has already been given, it will not be repeated in this place.

            The regiment took part in a large number of Indian battles during its term of service, but unfortunately the officers neglected to make record of them upon their muster rolls or monthly returns.

            The following are the remarks and correspondence found in the office and on the rolls and returns:

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,

LOS ANGELES, CAL., October 6, 1861.

Lieut.-Col. JOSEPH R. WEST, First Infantry, California Volunteers, en route to Ft. Yuma, Cal.:

                COLONEL:  You are ordered, with three companies of the First Infantry, California Volunteers, to march to Fort Yuma, to relieve the present garrison there.  It is important to the interest of the service that you reach there with the least possible delay.  Besides, promptness in executing must be the cardinal point in all movements of the First Infantry.  You must know that Fort Yuma, in a strategic point of view, is an out-post to all of Southern California.  It is on the line whence must come the only troops which can possibly menace the State from Texas or Arizona overland.  If you use circumspection, you can never be surprised there.  If you are not surprised, your force properly managed, with the desert as an auxiliary, will never be whipped, to say the least.

                You will seize all the ferryboats, large and small, upon the Colorado River.  All the crossing of the river must be done at one point, under the guns of the fort.

                All persons passing into Sonora or Arizona from California must take the oath of allegiance before they pass.  So must all coming into California by the route overland via Yuma.  Do not hesitate to hold in confinement any person or persons in that vicinity, or who may attempt to pass to or from California, who are avowed enemies of the Government, or who will not subscribe to the oath of allegiance.  Keep an exact record of the name, place of residence, age, occupation, and whence he came, and whither he is to go, of each person passing the river to or from California.

                You will assume control of the steamers on the river, if in your judgment such control is vital to your safety or to the interest of your Government.  You will promptly report to the officer in command near Warner’s Ranch, and to myself, should you be menaced by an enemy in force.  You will make any and, if necessary, every sacrifice to destroy that enemy before he reaches this edge of the desert, calling on all of the troops atCamp Wright to assist you by a timely advance should it be necessary to this end.

                Keep your command well supplied, in a high state of discipline and drill, and I have no fears but that the country will have good reports of your conduct.

                                I am, your friend and well-wisher,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel, First California Volunteers, Commanding.

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[Telegraph message]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., December 8, 1861.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Headquarters of the Army, Washington:

                SIR:  I have made satisfactory arrangements for protection of overland mail route without sending troops over a route now impracticable – full particulars by mail.

                I propose to send Colonel Carleton with his own regiment and the First Battalion of Cavalry with a battery of artillery to reopen the southern mail route – recapture Forts Buchanan, Thorn, Fillmore, and Bliss.  The expedition to move as soon as practicable, via Yuma.  The troops are ready and anxious.  Guaymas should be occupied.  Army and navy cooperating, I have the force to hold the whole country this side of the Rio Grande.  Please answer by telegraph.

G. WRIGHT,

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

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HEADQUARTERS OF THE FIRST INFANTRY REGIMENT OF CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS,

FORT CRAIG, N.M., February 26, 1864.

During the year regimental headquarters have been at Fort Craig.

Company A marched from Franklin, Texas, April eighteenth, for Fort Union, N.M., at which place it arrived August thirtieth, having marched three hundred and seventy-five miles.  August nineteenth, Lieutenant Wood, with thirty-five rank and file, left Santa Fe for Valles Grande, returning to Santa Fe in October; eighty miles marched.  September twenty-ninth, seven rank and file left Fort Union for Denver City, as escort to CaptainWilliam H. Russell, U.S.A., and returned October twenty-ninth; distance marched, six hundred and eighty miles.  October eighth, ten rank and file left Fort Union as escort to Major Wallen, A.I. General to Forts Sumner and Stanton, returning November fifth; distance marched, seven hundred and fifty miles.

Company G. – Private John N. Dewey died of wounds received in action while attempting to arrest a Mexican desperado, at Mesilla, N.M., August 29, 1862.  Privates Higgins and Leibold wounded in action, forcing their way through Cook’s Canon, by the Apaches, whilst in charge of Government train, July tenth.  Company left Mesilla March sixth, for San Diego Crossing; arrived tenth; marched thence for Pinos Altos on fifteenth, arriving on twenty-first; marched one hundred and forty miles.  Left Pinos Altos for Fort West April twenty-seventh, arriving May first; marched sixty-six miles.  Left Fort West September twenty-ninth for Fort Cummings; arrived October third; distance, seventy-five miles.  Whole distance marched, two hundred and eighty-one miles.  June twenty-seventh Lieutenant Phelan and twenty-two enlisted men left on a scout with Major McCleave, Cal. Cav., returning on September fifteenth.

Company C was stationed at Mesilla till March twenty-seventh, when it marched for Franklin, Texas, arriving on twenty-ninth; fifty miles.  Marched from Franklin June twenty-seventh for Fort Wingate, arriving July twenty-fourth; three hundred and eighty miles.  August twenty-second, started on an expedition against Navajo Indians; encountered a party of them on twenty-ninth at Colorado Chiquito, attacked and routed them, capturing five hundred sheep, without injury to either party; marched one hundred and eighty miles.  November seventh, marched from Fort Wingate for Fort Whipple, arriving December seventh; distance, three hundred and forty miles.  December twenty-ninth, left Fort Whipple for Bear Springs; arrived same day.  Distance marched during the year, one thousand miles.

Company D marched from Mesilla for Fort McLean January sixth; arrived on twenty-second; distance, one hundred and forty miles.  Left there February sixteenth, and arrived at Fort West on twenty-fourth; sixty-six miles.  February ninth, Captain Mitchell and forty enlisted men left Fort McLean on a scout after Indians towards the headwaters of the Rio Miembres, returning on fourteenth; marched one hundred miles.  March fourth, Captain Mitchell and forty rank and file left Fort West and proceeded sixty-six miles down the Gila; thence fifteen miles to Rio Prieto, striking the latter stream about eight miles above its junction with the Gila; thence up the Prieto fifty-nine miles, and thence fifty-six miles to Fort West, which they reached on twenty-second; distance, one hundred and ninety-six miles.  Private Jacob Bay, while hunting near Fort West, November eighth, was surrounded and killed by Indians.  Captain Mitchell deserted, was apprehended, tried, and cashiered, October twenty-sixth.

Company E left Franklin January third, arrived at Mesilla fifth; left there seventh, arrived at Fort Craig thirteenth; one hundred and seventy miles.  March fourth left Fort Craig for Fort McRae; arrived sixth.  Left on ninth, arrived at Fort Craig eleventh; distance, one hundred miles.  April ninth left Fort Craig to explore wagon road to Fort West; returned May twenty-first; marched two hundred and twenty-five miles.  Left Fort Craig September twenty-fifth for Socorro; arrived twenty-sixth; left that place for Fort Craig October fourteenth; arrived sixteenth; marched ninety miles.  December twenty-second left for La Joya; arrived December twenty-seventh.  Whole distance marched during the year, six hundred and sixty miles.

Company F stationed at Fort Craig until August fourteenth, from which time till September twelfth was scouting after Indians in Socorro County; then stationed at Fort Craig until October sixteenth, when it marched for Los Pinos; arrived twenty-first; marched thence to Fort Wingate, arriving November third; marched thence to Fort Whipple, arriving December twenty-first.  Marched during the year, six hundred miles.

Company G left Mesilla for Franklin April twentieth; arrived twenty-second; fifty miles.  Left Franklin June twenty-sixth for Fort McRae; arrived July third; distance one hundred and forty miles.  Private Robert S. Johnson was killed by Indians July 19, 1863, while driving an ambulance from Fort McRae to Fort Craig.  August ninth, Captain Green and twenty men, mounted, left McRae in pursuit of Indians; overtook and attacked them at Alamicito Mountains, capturing one thousand seven hundred sheep; arrived at Fort McRae on twentieth; no casualties; marched four hundred miles.  August twenty-sixth, Captain Green, one subaltern, and twenty-two men, mounted, left in pursuit of Indians on the Jornada; arrived at Point of Rocks, camped till daylight, ordered back eight men, then followed the Indians’ trail, overtook and attacked them at Rio de los Animas, on Rio Grande, at 12 M., twenty-seventh; killed one and wounded three; private George S. Dickey killed; distance, ninety-five miles.  November fifth, Captain Green with eighteen men left McRae in pursuit of Indians; Captain and thirteen men returned on eighth; Sergeant Rhodes, Corporal Argust, and three men pursued the Indians two hundred and twenty-five miles, and succeeded in retaking one hundred and fifty sheep, killing one and wounding four Indians; private William C. Atkinson wounded; total march, four hundred and fifty miles.  December fifth, Captain Green and nine men left McRae in pursuit of Indians running off stock; on afternoon of sixth overtook a flock of sheep numbering two hundred that the Indians had abandoned; secured the sheep and returned on seventh; traveled seventy-five miles.

Company H marched from Franklin to Fort Wingate June thirtieth, arriving July twenty-fourth; three hundred and forty-four miles.  Left Wingate August fourth on scout after Navajo Indians; returned seventeenth; two hundred and fifty miles.  September fifteenth went on a scout after Navajoes till October sixth; returned to Wingate; three hundred and eighty miles.  November twentieth marched thence to Fort Craig; arrived December sixteenth; one hundred and seventy miles.  Left Fort Craig December twenty-ninth; arrived at San Pedro December thirty-first; distance, twenty-five miles.  Whole distance marched during the year, one thousand one hundred and sixty-nine miles.

Company I left Fort Craig January twenty-second against Gila Apaches; arrived at Tule Rosa Valley January thirty-first; one hundred and thirty-two miles.  Returned to Craig January twenty-first; marched two hundred and forty-six miles.  Marched from Fort Craig July ninth; arrived at Fort Union July twenty-sixth; two hundred and sixty-five miles.  December first left Fort Union for Fort Sumner; arrived on tenth; one hundred and sixty miles.  Whole distance marched, seven hundred and three miles.

Company K left San Elizario January eighth; arrived at Mesilla tenth; seventy-five miles.  Left Mesilla February fifth; arrived at Fort Craig February eleventh; one hundred  and twenty miles.  Left Fort Craig July twenty-third on an Indian expedition, and returned to Fort Craig August twenty-third; marched three hundred and one miles.  Total distance marched during the year, four hundred and ninety-six miles.

The discipline, drill, and physique of the rank and file of this regiment are good, and will compare as well as any other regiment in the service.

EDWIN A RIGG,

Colonel First Infantry, Cal. Vols., Commanding the Regiment.

            Remarks on Rolls of Company A. – Captain Edwin A. Rigg, Company A, of the First Infantry Regiment of California Volunteers, commanded by Colonel James H. Carleton, called into the service of the United States by the President, under Act of Congress, approved July 22, 1861, at San Francisco, California (the place of rendezvous), on the fifteenth day of August, 1861, to serve for the term of three years from the date of enrollment, unless sooner discharged.  The company was organized by Captain E.A. Rigg at San Francisco, Cal., in the month of August, 1861, and was marched to the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., where it was mustered into the service of the United States, August 24, 1861.  Left there for Camp Downey, near Oakland, August 25, 1861, and arrived August 28, 1861, where it remained drilling and doing camp duty until September 16, 1861, when it left for San Francisco, Cal., which it reached the same day, and embarked on board the U.S.S. “Shubrick,” which sailed the same day for San Pedro, Cal., and arrived at the latter place September 19, 1861, from whence it marched for Camp Latham, near Los  Angeles, Cal., where it arrived September 22, 1861; distance marched, eighteen miles.  It remained there drilling and doing camp duty until February 10, 1862, when it marched, via Los Angeles, Cal., to Camp Wright, Oak Grove, San Diego County, Cal., under the command of Captain E.B. Willis, where it arrived February 17, 1862; distance marched from Camp Latham, one hundred and twenty-three miles.  It remained there drilling and doing camp duty until March 30, 1862, when it marched to Fort Yuma, Cal., where it arrived April 8, 1862; distance marched from Camp Wright, one hundred and seventy-three miles, and from San Pedro, Cal., three hundred and fourteen miles.  It remained at Fort Yuma, Cal., drilling and doing garrison duty until May 9, 1862, when it left en route for Tucson, Arizona, via Pimos Village – being a part of the command under Major Coult, Fifth Infantry, Cal. Vols.; it arrived at Tucson, A.T., June 6, 1862; distance marched from Fort Yuma, Cal., two hundred and eighty-six miles, and from San Pedro, Cal., six hundred miles.  A detachment of the company, under the command of Captain E.B. Willis, marched from there June 7, 1862, for the Patagonia, or Mowry’s, Silver Mines, A.T., where it arrived June 13, 1862, and remained until June 30, 1862, and returned to Tucson, July 2, 1862.  On the fifteenth of July a detachment of men, four of whom were members of the company, under the command of Lieutenant Thompson, First Infantry, Cal. Vols., were attacked in Apache Pass, A.T., by the Apache Indians, but the Indians were driven off.

            The company left Tucson, A.T., July 21, 1862, in the “Column from California,” en route for the Rio Grande, and arrived at Fort Fillmore, N.M., on the fourteenth day of August, 1862; distance marched from Tucson, A.T., three hundred miles.  Left Fort Fillmore, N.M., August 2-, 1862, and arrived at Hart’s Mills, Texas, August 21, 1862; distance marched, forty miles.  Total distance marched from San Pedro, Cal., nine hundred and forty miles, and distance from San Francisco, Cal., one thousand four hundred and thirty-one miles.  The company was stationed at Hart’s Mills, and at Franklin, Texas (about one and one half miles below the mills), until April 18, 1863, when it marched, under the command of Captain Robert M. Crandall, for Las Cruces, N.M., where it arrived April 19, 1863; distance marched, forty-seven miles.  It marched from there July 5, 1863, to join a command at Old Fort Thorn, N.M., against the Apache Indians, where it arrived July 9, 1863; distance marched, forty-five miles.  The order for it to form a part of this command having been countermanded, it marched from there July 22, 1863, en route for Fort Union, N.M., and arrived at Santa Fe, N.M., August 14, 1863, where Lieutenant Wood, and a detachment of four non-commissioned officers and thirty-two privates, marched, August 16, 1863, to a locality about forty miles from Santa Fe, known as Los Valles, “to operate against any Navajo or Apache Indians who may attempt to pass in that vicinity.”  They returned to Fort Marcy (Santa Fe), N.M., October, 1863, where they remained on detached service until March 12, 1864, when the company, under the command of Captain R.M. Crandall, arrived at that post.  The company marched from Santa Fe, N.M., August 18, 1863, for Fort Union, N.M., where it arrived August 30, 1863; distance marched from Old Fort Thorn to Fort Union, N.M., three hundred and eighty-nine miles.  It was stationed at Fort Union until March 7, 1864, when it marched to Fort Marcy, N.M., where it arrived March 12, 1864.  Left Santa Fe June 25, 1864, and returned to Fort Union – arriving June 30, 1864 – where it was stationed until October 29, 1864; during which time it was carefully and thoroughly drilled as a company of mounted artillery, so far as could be done in a battery without horses.  On the thirty-first of August, 1864, Captain R.M. Crandall, and men who had not reenlisted as Veteran Volunteers, were mustered out by reason of expiration of terms of service, and sixteen men of Company E, First Infantry, Cal. Vols., who had reenlisted, and also those of Companies F and I who had joined those companies since their original organization, and whose terms of service had not yet expired, were assigned to the company upon the muster out of their own companies.

            Remarks on Muster Roll of Co. G, First Infantry, for September and October, 1863. – A detachment of twenty enlisted men joined the company on September fifteenth, having been engaged for eighty days in a series of scouts in pursuit of the Miembres River Indians.

            Remarks on Return of Co. G, First Infantry, for June, 1864. – Thirty enlisted men of Company G, First Infantry, California Volunteers, left the Rio Los Palomas, June 26, 1864, under command of Captain H.A. Greene, on a scout after Indians, and marched sixty miles.

            Remarks on Return of Co. G, First Infantry, for July, 1864. – Left Antelope Springs on fourth day of July, and pursued a course towards the Rio San Francisco.  On the twenty-fifth, on nearing the river, had an engagement with Apache Indians, killing three, and taking six prisoners; also, nineteen head beef cattle.  Distance traveled, two hundred and twenty-five miles.

            Remarks on Return of Co. K, First Infantry, for January, 1865. – Lieutenant George M. Pettis, with twenty-five men of the company and two mountain howitzers, constituting a portion of the Comanche and Kiowa expedition, under command of Colonel Christopher Carson, First Cavalry, N.M. Volunteers, were in action on the twenty-fifth of November, 1864, at Bent’s old fort on the Canadian River, two hundred miles east of Fort Bascom, with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians.  The engagement was of some eight hours’ duration, but the company suffered no loss.  For a fuller account of the above mentioned engagement, see page 75.

            The following are the stations of headquarters and the various companies, as shown by the monthly returns, muster rolls, etc.:

HEADQUARTERS OF REGIMENT

            Headquarters of the regiment was stationed at Camp Latham, near Los Angeles, Cal., January 1, 1862, which point it left for Camp Drum, Cal., March 10, 1862, arriving at that place on the same day; distance, eighteen miles.  Left Camp Drum April 6, 1862, en route for Fort Yuma, Cal., at which point it arrived May 1, 1862, a distance of about two hundred and seventy-five miles.  Left Fort Yuma May 16, 1862, en route for Tucson, Arizona, at which point it arrived June 4, 1862; distance, three hundred and twenty-five miles.  Left Tucson July 25, 1862, en route for Mesilla, N.M., on the Rio Grande, at which point it arrived August 14, 1862; distance, three hundred miles.  Left Mesilla December 25, 1862, for Fort Craig, N.M., at which place it arrived December 30, 1862; distance, one hundred and twenty miles.  Total distance, one thousand and thirty-seven miles.

            February 26, 1862, private George McDermott, of Company K, was turned over to the civil authorities at Los Angeles, Cal., to be tried for murder.

            On the eighteenth day of June, 1862, Sergeant William Wheeling, of Company F, while en route to the Rio Grande, carrying express, was massacred in Apache Pass, Arizona, by Indians.

            On the fifteenth of July, 1862, a detachment of the First Infantry, under command of Captain Thomas L. Roberts, while en route to the Rio Grande, was attacked by Indians in Apache Pass, Arizona.   The engagement lasted for several hours, in which John Barr, of Company E, and private Charles O’Brien, of Company G, were killed.

COMPANY A

            Was stationed at Camp Latham, Cal., January 1, 1862, and left that point February 10, 1862, for Camp Wright, Cal., at which point it arrived February 17, 1862; distance, one hundred and twenty-three miles.  March 30, 1862, left for Fort Yuma, arriving at that point April eighth; distance, one hundred and seventy-three miles.  May 9, 1862, left Fort Yuma en route for Tucson, A.T., arriving at that point June 6, 1862; distance, two hundred and eighty-six miles.  July 21, 1862, left Tucson for Fort Fillmore, N.M., at which point it arrived August 14, 1862; distance, three hundred miles.  Left Fort Fillmore August 20, 1862 for Hart’s Mills, Texas, arriving at that point August twenty-first; distance, forty miles.  Total distance, nine hundred and eighty-eight miles.  Remained at Hart’s Mills until April 18, 1863.

The company was mustered out at Fort Union, N.M., August 31, 1864.

COMPANY B

            Was stationed at Fort Yuma, Cal., January 1, 1862, which point it left April 22, 1862, for Fort Barrett, A.T., arriving there May 7, 1862; distance two hundred miles.  Left Fort Barrett June 21, 1862, for Tucson, A.T., arriving there June twenty-sixth; distance, ninety miles.  Left Tucson July 20, 1862, for Mesilla, N.M., on the Rio Grande, arriving there August 14, 1862; distance, three hundred and twenty miles.  Left Mesilla November 12, 1862, for Camp West, N.M., arriving there November 21, 1862; distance, one hundred and seven miles.  Left Camp West, N.M., November 23, 1862, for Mesilla, N.M., arriving there November 27, 1862; distance, one hundred and seven miles.  Total distance, eight hundred and twenty-five miles.

The company was mustered out at Fort Craig, N.M., August 31, 1864, except those members whose terms had not expired; they were transferred to the First Veteran Infantry.

COMPANY C

            This company was stationed at Camp Latham, January 1, 1862, which point it left March seventh for Camp Wright, Cal., arriving at that point March fifteenth; distance, one hundred and thirty-seven miles.  Left Camp Wright April 8, 1862,for Fort Yuma, Cal., arriving April seventeenth; distance, one hundred and eighty miles.  Left Fort Yuma April 19, 1862, for Fort Barrett, A.T., arriving there April twenty-ninth; distance, one hundred and eighty-five miles.  Left Fort Barrett May 14, 1862, en route to Tucson, A.T., arriving there May twenty-first; distance, one hundred and forty miles.  Left Tucson, A.T. for the Rio Grande, July 20, 1862, and arrived at Mesilla, N.M., on the Rio Grande, August thirteenth; distance, three hundred and thirty-five miles.  The company took to the field on the sixteenth of November, 1862, to operate against the Apache Indians, in the vicinity of Dog Canon.  Returned to Mesilla, December 31, 1862; distance traveled, about five hundred miles.  Total distance, one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven miles.

The company was mustered out in two detachments – one at Fort Whipple, A.T., August 26, 1864, and the other at Los Pinos, N.M., August 31, 1864.  The men whose terms had not expired at those dates were transferred to the First Veteran Infantry, California Volunteers.

COMPANY D

            Was stationed at Camp Latham in October, 1861; left that post October 10, 1861; arrived at Camp Wright October 9, 1861; distance, one hundred and forty-five miles.  A detachment of twenty men under Lieutenant D.C. Vestal aided in the capture of Dan. Showalter and party.  Was stationed at Fort Yuma, Cal., January 1, 1862, and left the last of May, en route for Fort Barrett, A.T., at which place it arrived June 3, 1862; distance, two hundred miles.  Left Fort Barrett June 12, 1862, for Tucson, A.T., arriving June 15, 1862; distance, ninety miles.  Left Tucson, A.T., July 23, 1862, for Fort Bowie (Apache Pass), arriving at that point July thirtieth; distance, one hundred and ten miles.  Left Fort Bowie July 31, 1862, and arrived at Mesilla, on the Rio Grande, August 15, 1862.  Total distance, eight hundred and twenty-four miles.

            Left Mesilla November 28, 1862, and arrived at San Elizario, Texas, in December, 1862; distance, seventy-five miles.  Left San Elizario January 8, 1863, and arrived Mesilla January 10, 1863.  Left Mesilla January twelfth, and arrived at Fort McLean January twentieth; distance, ninety miles.

This company became Company D, First Veteran Infantry, which see.

COMPANY E

            Was stationed at San Diego, Cal., January 1, 1862, which point it left March 14, 1862, for Camp Wright, Cal., arriving at that point March nineteenth; distance, ninety-two miles.  Left Camp Wright April 14, 1862, en route to Fort Yuma, Cal., arriving at that place April twenty-second; distance, one hundred and eighty-five miles.  Left Fort Yuma May 9, 1862, en route to Fort Barrett, A.T., arriving at that place May thirty-first; distance, one hundred and ninety miles.  Left Fort Barrett June 21, 1862, en route to Tucson, A.T., arriving at that point June twenty-sixth; distance, eighty-one miles.  Left Tucson July 10, 1862, en route to San Simon, A.T., arriving at that point July seventeenth; distance, one hundred and thirty-two miles.  Left San Simon July 28, 1862, en route to Fort Fillmore, one the Rio Grande, and arrived at that point August eleventh; distanc