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

By a special messenger, dispatched to you yesterday, you will learn that I have some 4,000 troops, now ready for service,, and offered for your acceptance. These men, for the term of their enlistment, are willing to go where ordered. They are mounted troops. Will not some two or three regiments of mounted men be needed on our coast? They are as fine troops and as well mounted and armed as any that can be procured in the State. I earnestly desire that you receive them. If, however, you esteem it essential to raise a regiment in the vicinity of the coast for service near Brazoria [as Mr.Bryan tells me has been proposed], you have my consent. As I have heretofore said, you may rely upon my ready co-operation in anything necessary for the defense of Texas or the Confederacy. If it be possible, I would be pleased, indeed, to see you at Austin. If my presence was not at all times required here, I would not impose upon you the necessity of a visit to this city.

You will please excuse my brevity and seeming familiarity,, as I am much pressed with business, and without my private secretary.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, &c.,

EDWARD CLARK.

RICHMOND, September 25, 1861.

General H.H.SIBLEY, San Antonio, Tex.:

GENERAL: The Secretary of War, in reply to yours upon the subject of additional regiments, authorizes your acceptance of the tender of all armed regiments made to you by the governor of Texas.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

R.H. CHILTON, Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS, MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, No.8. Galveston, Tex., September 26,1861.

You are appointed colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Texas Volunteers, subject to the approval of the President. You will signify your acceptance to these headquarters. The regiment is to be stationed on or near the coast, from San Luis to the Caney, but must serve at any point in the State, if required. It is to be composed of two companies, to serve as artillerists; two mounted companies, to serve as scouts and vedettes, and six of infantry. It is desirable that the companies should present themselves for muster with such arms and ammunition as the men possess or can procure in their respective counties, these arms to do until the department is enabled to supply the deficiency.

Musket and cannon powder, in a limited quantity, can be sent to Columbia, or to some other convenient point, subject to your order. The two 6-pounders at Columbia should be finished and mounted as soon as possible, and I would suggest that they be placed in charge of Captain W.G. Mosely. Captain Mosely was formerly in the service, and informs me that he has a company partially drilled, and will be ready in a few days to be mustered into service.

The department has no funds at its disposal, and but limited supplies of any description. You must make the best arrangements you can to supply your command with provisions and quarters. The Con-