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

here give the date-and the fear that this call might again interfere with your enlistment for the war, I have thought it proper to submit the case to you, and ask you to put that State in arms to repel invasion or to permit me so to do.

A. S. JOHNSTON, General.

RICHMOND, November 19, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Nashville:

You may call out all the armed men you can get from Mississippi, Northern Alabama, Kentucky, or Tennessee. Do not call any from the sea-coast. You can use your discretion as to terms of enlistment of armed men, or you can call out the militia so far as armed. Do not give any of our arms to men enlisted for less than the war. We hope soon to receive 10,000 stand of arms from another quarter, and you shall have your full share.

J. P. BENJAMIN, Acting Secretary of War.