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116. The town mentioned as taken by Cooke was Tucson.

117. Nit argent is silver nitrate. Ungs Resens is resin ointment. Sul. morphia and Acid ml aromat. are sulphate of morphia and aromatic sulphuric acid.

118. Malek Adhel, a Mexican brig cut out at Mazatlan by the boats of the Warren^ on September 7, 1846. She was used by the United States Navy as a transport and dispatch boat on the Pacific Coast during the conquest. Log of the U.S.S. Warren (original MS in National Archives, Washington, D. C.).

119. Soap plaster.

1 20. Commodores William Branf ord Shubrick and James Biddle had been sent to in- crease the naval forces on the Pacific Coast. Shubrick arriving first, on January 22, 1847, superseded Stockton as commander of the fleet, and was in turn replaced by Biddle, on March 2, 1847. With the coming of Shubrick, the lack of cooperation between the Army and Navy forces on the Coast came to an end. Shubrick recognized Kearny as civil governor. The Lexington arrived on January 28, 1847, carrying a company of the 3rd Artillery under Captain Christopher Q. Tompkins, with materiel for building and main- taining fortifications.

121. William H. Russell had been appointed secretary of state to Governor Fremont, by Commodore Stockton.

122. Santiago Argiiello held an honorary command as captain in the California Bat- talion.

123. Miguel Pedrorena acted as Stockton's aide and held the rank of captain in the California Battalion.

124. The U. S. storeship Erie arrived at Monterey on February 13, 1847. Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, ist United States Dragoons, was on board, sent out to replace Kearny as civil governor when the latter should return home.

125. The first copy of the paper is dated August 15, 1846, and, according to Colton, appeared on that date. Walter Colton, Three Years in California (Cincinnati, 1850), p. 32. At least some of the copies were in circulation as early as the 13th. George W. Ames, Jr., "Horse Marines, 1846," this Quarterly, XVIII (March 1939), 79. Commo- dore Stockton is said to have provided the money, out of his own pocket, for establish- ing the newspaper. A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton, pp. 156-57.

126. For the "paper war" see ibid., Appendix, pp. 43-48.

127. It is difficult to determine the person to whom Griffin refers.

128. James H. Cloud was paymaster for the Mormon Battalion.

129. This, of course, has reference to the ill-fated Donner party. For the best all- around work on this tragedy see George Rippey Stewart, Ordeal by Hunger, the Story of the Donner Party (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1936).

130. Henry Wager Halleck, lieutenant of Engineers, came with Company F, 3rd U. S. Artillery, to inspect the fortifications on the Pacific Coast.

131. George Stoneman, lieutenant of ist Dragoons, came with the Mormon Battalion. He earned an enviable reputation in the Civil War as a cavalry leader and in the eighties was governor of California. Camp Stoneman, near Pittsburg, California, was recently named for him.

132. The regiment was sent out in four ships, three of which left New York on Sep- tember 26, 1846, and the fourth on November 13. The first three arrived in San Fran- cisco during March of 1847; the Thomas Perkins on the 6th; the Susan Drew on the 19th; and the Loo Choo on the 25th. The fourth ship, the Brutus, arrived on April 18.