^Lot 653 Magnetic Telegraph Co. California Related Civil War Telegraph.

San Francisco, California, September 1st, 1861, Correspondence from Colonel James H. Carleton ÒTelegraph has come from five regiments. I am now Senior officer of California Volunteers. Don't permit me to be men slaughteredÓ. Davis is Senior officer of Cavalry. A regular should command that armÓ Signed James H. Carleton. Carelton was in charge of the New Mexico Agency during the Civil War, It was the approach of Carleton's California Column in September 1862 that finally caused Confederate General H.H. Sibley to abandon all thoughts of taking New Mexico, Great condition telegraph from the Civil War.