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for your support at Bowling Green; if you find a part or the whole necessary to maintain Bowling Green, and that it will enable you to do so, use it.

W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General.

RICHMOND, September 20, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Columbus, Ky.:

The steamer was a merchant vessel. We have purchased as much of the shipment as we could get - less than a sixth of your requisition. Some of the lot pledged to troops already in service. You shall have what can be sent you. Rely not on rumors.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

RICHMOND, September 20, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Memphis, Tenn.:

A letter has been sent you by the Chief of Ordnance, stating the President's desire that you should let the Missouri army under General Price have two batteries of artillery. If you send them, he desires that they should be put in charge of General John B. Clark and Colonel William M. Cooke, the Missouri commissioners, now on their way to Missouri via Memphis.

J. P. BENJAMIN, Acting Secretary of War.

MONTGOMERY, September 21, 1861.

HonorableJ. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War:

Our friends in Kentucky are pressing us most earnestly for arms to commence the struggle. We have none to give them. We have four regiments in camp without arms. Could not one or two regiments be withdrawn from Pensacola to aid Kentucky, and our forces, when armed, substituted?

A. B. MOORE, Governor of Alabama.

COLUMBUS, September 21, 1861.

Gov. ISHAM G. HARRIS, Nashville:

I have called on you for 30,000 troops, to assemble without delay at Memphis, Nashville, Trenton, Jackson, and Knoxville. Details by mail.

A. S. JOHNSTON, General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT Numbers 2, Columbus, Ky., September 21, 1861.

Gov. ISHAM G. HARRIS, of Tennessee:

SIR: I have the honor to inform your excellency that, under date of September 10, 1861, I was authorized by the President of the Confe-

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