CHAPTER III.
EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA--( CONTINUED).
1849-1850.
The department headquarters still remained at Monterey, but, with the few soldiers, we had next to nothing to do.

In midwinter we heard of the approach of a battalion of the Second Dragoons, under Major Lawrence Pike Graham, with Captains Rucker, Coutts, Campbell, and others, along.

So exhausted were they by their long march from Upper Mexico that we had to send relief to meet them as they approached.

When this command reached Los Angeles, it was left there as the garrison, and Captain A.J.

Smith's company of the First Dragoons was brought up to San Francisco.