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molest them. There is a Union company in Munfordville, commanded by Captain William Brown. Endeavor to make his acquaintance as a friend of mine, and give him my most friendly assurances.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. B. BUCKNER, Brigadier-General, C. S. Army.

WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, September 19, 1861.

His Excellency Gov. A. B. MOORE, Montgomery, Ala.:

SIR: The President has been pleased to appoint HonorableL. P. Walker a brigadier-general, to command the following Alabama regiments, all of which are unarmed: The Fourteenth Alabama Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas J. Judge; the Seventeenth Alabama Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas H. Watts; the Eighteenth Alabama Regiment, commanded by Colonel E. C. Bullock, and the Nineteenth Alabama Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joseph Wheeler. This was done because it was agreeable to General Walker to have the command of Alabama troops, and it was supposed that it would be equally agreeable to the regiments to have him to command them. The President directs me to express his earnest wish that your excellency will do everything in your power to arm these regiments without delay, in order that General Walker may report with his command to General A. S. Johnston for duty.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. P. BENJAMIN, Acting Secretary of War.

COLUMBUS, KY., September 19, 1861.

His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS, President:

A steamer has arrived in Savannah with arms from Europe. Thirty thousand stand is a necessity to my command. I beg you to order them, or as many as can be got, to be instantly procured and sent with dispatch, one-half to Nashvillee, and the other to Trenton, on the Mobile and Ohio road.

A. S. JOHNSTON, General.

HEADQUARTERS, Columbus, Ky., September 19, 1861.

Brigadier-General BUCKNER, Bowling Green:

Telegram of 19th received. The object of your advance on Green River will have been accomplished if you have been able to destroy the bridge on Green River. Order Hawes to retire on the main body when this is done or found impracticable.

Camps Boone and Trousdale will be immediately re-enforced, each certainly by one regiment, probably each by two regiments. Colonel Stevenson will by telegraph notify you of their arrival in camp.

The unarmed Kentucky troops at Boone are ordered from the frontier camp in Nashville to wait for a supply of arms. This force is intended