I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
F. O. Wyse,
Captain and Brevet Major 3d Artillery, commanding.
Consolidated Morning Report of Companies A, B, D, G, H, I, K and L, of the 3d Artillery.
Stationed at Fort Wood, New York Harbor, January 14, 1854.
| Number of Companies. | Letters of Companies. | Present for Duty. | Present Sick. | Absent. | Absent Sick. | Dead. | Total Present. | Total Present, Absent and Dead. | Commissioned Officers Present. | Aggregate. | REMARKS. | |
| Field and Staff | 1 | Lieutenant C. Winder and Sergeant Major Gorham embarked for Liverpool. | ||||||||||
| Regimental Band | 7 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 7 embarked for Liverpool. | ||||
| 1 | A | 17 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 54 | 54 | 2 embarked on board the bark Kilby for Boston, and 26 for Liverpool. | ||
| 2 | B | 12 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 31 | 14 | 68 | 68 | 23 embarked for Liverpool. | ||
| 3 | D | 21 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 56 | 1 | 57 | 9 embarked for Boston, and 15 for Liverpool. | |
| 4 | G | 14 | 23 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 55 | 1 | 56 | 2 privates embarked on board the bark Kilby for Boston, and 21 for Liverpool. | ||
| 5 | H | 11 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 51 | 51 | 24 embarked for Liverpool, and 2 for Boston. | ||
| 6 | I | 10 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 46 | 46 | 29 embarked for Boston, and 4 for Liverpool. | ||
| 7 | K | 12 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 36 | 13 | 57 | 57 | 1 private embarked on board the bark Kilby for Boston, and 7 for Liverpool. | ||
| 8 | L | 16 | 1 | 16 | 41 | 17 | 74 | 74 | 16 embarked for Liverpool. | |||
| —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | ||||
| Total | 120 | 12 | 174 | 18 | 160 | 132 | 483 | 2 | 485 | |||
Colonel Gates to the Adjutant-General of the Army.
Headquarters, 30 Artillery,
New York City, Jan. 16, 1854.
To
Colonel S. Cooper, 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.