CHAPTER XVI.
RESIGNATION--PRIVATE LIFE--LIFE AT GALENA--THE COMING CRISIS.
My family, all this while, was at the East.

It consisted now of a wife and two children.

I saw no chance of supporting them on the Pacific coast out of my pay as an army officer.

I concluded, therefore, to resign, and in March applied for a leave of absence until the end of the July following, tendering my resignation to take effect at the end of that time.

I left the Pacific coast very much attached to it, and with the full expectation of making it my future home.