Chap.XII.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - CONFEDERATE.

and hauled across to you. You must make arrangements for having it hauled after getting to Fulton.

L. POLK, Major-General, Commanding.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Nashville, Tenn., September 28, 1861.

HonorableJ. P. BENJAMIN, Acting Secretary of War, Richmond:

SIR: The transfer of the Provisional Army of Tennessee having been agreed upon, Major General Leonidas Polk was authorized and ordered to appoint Confederate officers to muster the army into the service of the Confederate States. The mode of mustering agreed upon by General Polk and myself was a simple verification by and delivery of a copy of the rolls to a Confederate officer. To carry out this agreement and complete the transfer, on the 31st day of July, 1861, I issued a general order to the officers commanding the Provisional Army of Tennessee to muster their respective commands, for the purposes of verifying their rolls when called upon by a Confederate officer for that purpose, and when verified to deliver the same to said Confederate officer, and to hold themselves subject to the orders of the Government of the Confederate States; which order completed the transfer so far as the action of Tennessee was necessary to complete it, and from that day almost the whole army has been actually under the command and control of officers of the Government of the Confederate States, and the balance subject to their command and control. The verification of the rolls of the various regiments has been delayed (unnecessarily, I think) by the small number of mustering officers thrown into the field and the tardiness which characterized their action. For nearly two months they have been slowly progressing with the work, and at this time there is a considerable portion of the force which has not been called upon to verify their rolls.

It becomes a question of interest to the troops to know from whom they are to draw their pay while in this state of transit. In the present condition of their rolls a Confederate paymaster would not feel authorized to pay them without an order from the War Department. The object of this letter is to ask that you make an order that the Provisional Army of Tennessee, thus transferred by my general order, be placed upon the pay roll of the Confederate States from the 31st day of July, 1861, and that they be paid from that day as all other troops of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States are paid. Tennessee has paid them up to that day, and, indeed, has yielded to the necessities of the soldiers, and has advanced to a portion of them the amount due them for services since that day; but these advances shall be reported to your Pay Department, so that the pay roll may be properly made out, and the sum so advanced should be refunded to the State by the Confederate States.

Your early attention to this matter is a necessity to the soldier, and will greatly oblige, very respectfully,

ISHAM G. HARRIS.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Jackson, Miss., September 28, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON:

SIR: By proclamation I have called for 10,000 troops for the war or twelve-months' service, as they may elect, in accordance with your