|| L | 16 | 1 | 16 | | 41 | 17 | 74 | || 74 ||
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Total || |120 |12 |174 |18 |160 |132 |483 | 2 ||485 ||
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Number of Companies. REMARKS.

Field and Staff: Lieutenant C. Winder and Sergeant Major Gorham
embarked for Liverpool.

Regimental Band: 7 embarked for Liverpool.

1: 2 embarked on board the bark Kilby for Boston,
and 26 for Liverpool.

2: 23 embarked for Liverpool.

3: 9 embarked for Boston, and 15 for Liverpool.

4: 2 privates embarked on board the bark Kilby
for Boston, and 21 for Liverpool.

5: 24 embarked for Liverpool, and 2 for Boston.

6: 29 embarked for Boston, and 4 for Liverpool.

7: 1 private embarked on board the bark Kilby
for Boston, and 7 for Liverpool.

8: 16 embarked for Liverpool.

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_Colonel Gates to the Adjutant-General of the Army._ (p. 415)

To Headquarters, 30 Artillery,
COLONEL S. COOPER, New York City, Jan. 16, 1854.
Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.

Colonel: I have the honor to report my arrival in this city, with
a remnant of my regiment.

As you are already aware I embarked on the 22d of December last,
with eight companies of my regiment, on the steamship San
Francisco for California. On the 24th December, when about three
hundred miles from New York, the engine of the ship gave way, and
in a few hours a heavy sea boarded her, carrying away the entire
upper cabin, and with it four officers and about two hundred
enlisted men, the wife of Major Taylor, my eldest son, and a
number of citizen passengers.

Every exertion was now made by both officers and men to assist
the crew in keeping the ship afloat; by clearing her of water and
throwing overboard freight.

A constant succession of gales continued for four days, rendering
it almost certain (to human foresight) that she must go down. But
by the merciful goodness of God we were preserved, and I am happy
to inf