When he returned he told me that he had found Reese and offered him a hundred dollars for my gun, but Reese sent me word that he liked the gun, and would not take a hundred dollars for it.

Soldiers or sailors who could reach the mines were universally shielded by the miners, so that it was next to useless to attempt their recapture.

In due season General Persifer Smith, Gibbs, and I, with some hired packers, started back for San Francisco, and soon after we transferred our headquarters to Sonoma.

About this time Major Joseph Hooker arrived from the East -- the regular adjutant-general of the division--relieved me, and I became thereafter one of General Smith's regular aides-de-camp.
As there was very little to do, General Smith encouraged us to go into any business that would enable us to make money.

R.P.
Hammond, James Blair, and I, made a contract to survey for Colonel J.D.Stevenson his newly-projected city of "New York of the Pacific," situated at the month of the San Joaquin River.