At Monterey we went on shore, and Colonel Mason, who meantime had been relieved by General Riley, went on board, and the steamer departed for Panama.

Of all that party I alone am alive.
General Riley had, with his family, taken the house which Colonel Mason had formerly used, and Major Canby and wife had secured rooms at Alvarado's.

Captain Bane was quartermaster, and had his family in the house of a man named Garner, near the redoubt.

Burton and Company F were still at the fort; the four companies of the Second Infantry were quartered in the barracks, the same building in which we had had our headquarters; and the company officers were quartered in hired buildings near by.

General Smith and his aide, Captain Gibbs, went to Larkin's house, and I was at my old rooms at Dona Augustias.