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

I have given directions to have five months' supplies sent up to the troops on the line from this place to Fort Bliss; five months' supplies to those on the Lower Rio Grande, and three months' supplies sent to my own regiment, on the northern frontier of the State, and supplies are now being sent forward for General Sibley's brigade, expecting it to move soon. We will not be able to supply him full rations of coffee or sugar, but will give him all we can possibly spare, putting his troops at the least on an equal footing with those of the department. He has seventeen companies mustered into service and expects others daily, and I hope will soon be full and on his march. I have made an appeal to the people of the State to turn out and fill up the regiments called for by General Van Dorn and the Secretary of War, hoping by that to show them that their services are needed now, if at all, and to get them to act at once.

Commissions for the Second and Third Regiments of Infantry have reached here, and I forwarded them at once to the persons for whom they were intended. I have no doubt that those appointed for the Fourth, or Victoria, Regiment by General Van Dorn will also be approved, and hence shall direct the officers appointed to go on duty at Victoria.

I have arrested a gentleman of distinction [Colonel Charles Anderson, brother of Anderson, of Sumter], who had sold out all his property, and was going, he said, to Kentucky, via Mexico and New York, considering him as an alien enemy, and held as a prisoner of war, subject to the action of the Confederate States courts [if he sees proper to take it before them] or the order of the Secretary of War. He is a very intelligent man, and has been the leader of the opposition here, and was leaving the Confederate States, to connect himself with our enemies, after the expiration of the forty days given by the President in his proclamation, and I felt that I would not have been doing my duty to my country to have let him depart; consequently I interposed military power to prevent it, of which I shall inform the President as early as possible.

No important orders or communications have been received at this office from the Department at Richmond since your arrival in the State.

If you can possibly do without the small-arms sent from this place to Lieutenant Haskell at Harrisburg [a portion of them I suppose are still there], it might be well to send them to this place or Victoria, the latter probably being the proper place for them now.

Most respectfully, your obedient servant,

H.E. McCULLOCH, Colonel, C.S. Prov.Army, Commanding Dep't of Texas.

GALVESTON, October 7,1861.

To the Men of Texas:

TEXANS: It is more than probable that your State will soon be invaded by the sea-coast. The enemy's resources for such an attack would seem to be formidable. Yours to meet and defeat it lie almost entirely in your own strong arms, brave hearts, and trusty rifles.

Our infant Government has achieved wonders; but yet it must largely rely upon the States that created it and which have so gallantly sustained it to strain every nerve for their own individual protection. Look not to Richmond, then, for all your military inspiration and guidance. Remember the days of yore, when your own red right hands achieved your independence; and while some of your hardly sons are