R.S.Ewell, of my class, arrived to open a cavalry rendezvous, but, finding my depot there, he went on to Columbus, Ohio.

Tom Jordan afterward was ordered to Zanesville, to take charge of that rendezvous, under the general War Department orders increasing the number of recruiting-stations.

I reached Pittsburg late in June, and found the order relieving me from recruiting service, and detailing my classmate H.B.Field to my place.

I was assigned to Company F, then under orders for California.

By private letters from Lieutenant Ord, I heard that the company had already started from Fort McHenry for Governor's Island, New York Harbor, to take passage for California in a naval transport.