CHAP.XI.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

lue, of Brazoria County, is said to have a full company of infantry, and desires to get into service. It may be convenient for you to accept this company at once.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDWARD CLARK.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, San Antonio, Tex., September 20,1861.

Brigadier General P.O. HEBERT:

SIR: By request of your aide, Lieutenant Wilson, I make the following report of troops, arms, &c., as I understand them to be, in this department: General Van Dorn made requisitions on the governor for three regiments of infantry, one each for Galveston, Victoria, and Fort Brown; also for seven companies of artillery [one to be light], for Fort Brown, Saluria, San Luis, Galveston, and Sabine Pass; but I do not understand exactly how he intended to place them all. Also five companies of cavalry, one for Sabine Pass and the coast to Bolivar Point; three for Galveston, and one for the coast west of that place. I have directed the troops intended for Galveston and Sabine Pass to report to Colonel Moore, for muster and orders; those for Victoria to report at that place to Major A.M.Haskell, for the same purpose; those for Saluria, to Captain D.D.Shea, for the same purpose. At Saluria there are, or soon will be, two companies of artillery. The troops for Fort Brown are to be mustered into service here. One company of artillery [Captain Marmion] has been mustered, and will be sent on in a few days. Captain Kampmann's company of infantry was mustered in yesterday [19th], and will be sent in a few days to Camp Verde, and Captain Buquor's company, now at that place, sent to Fort Brown. The governor has selected Victoria and Millican as the points for the two camps of instruction for the twenty companies of the reserve army. Major Haskell has been ordered to Victoria to establish that depot, muster in and supply the troops, and command them. Lieutenant Dinkins has been ordered there to assist him. He wants Lieutenant J.Sparks [now at Houston on duty] also, but I do not see how I can let him have him, as there is no other officer that I know of that I can send to must in the troops at Millican. There is no quartermaster or commissary that can be sent to Millican at present to establish that depot and supply the troops; but Major Maclin, chief quartermaster, &c., Department of Texas, will send an agent there for that purpose. I have designated no officer to command that camp. I know of no one at all suitable, but shall instruct Lieutenant Sparks to put them to drilling, under their captains, until a commander be sent them. Colonel Forshey is in command at San Luis, at the mouth of the Brazos, but I do not know what troops or arms he has there. Several companies are now waiting at Victoria to be mustered in, so I learn. I have directed that one of the cavalry companies be mustered in at that place. General Sibley's brigade is filling up rather slowly; twelve or thirteen companies are here and mustered in; others are expected daily. He talks of taking three regiments with him from this point, under instructions from the adjutant-general and an agreement between him and General Van Dorn. To aid him, this department will be entirely stripped of every tent, all the clothing of every kind, and nearly all other quartermasters' stores. His transportation will have to be done by contract, or there would be none left in the department. Colonel John S.Ford is at Fort Brown, where he has three or four companies of his own regiment [Second Texas Mounted Rifles], and