OPERATIONS IN N. C. AND . E. VA. [CHAP. XIII.

GOLDSBOROUGH, August 31, 1861.

General S. COOPER:

Owing to the capture of Hatteras it is very necessary to forty the rivers running into the sound. Have o disposable officer for that duty. Pleas send immediately a good engineer.

R. C. GATLIN, Brigadier-General.

RALEIGH, N. C., September 2, 1861.

L. P. WLAKER, Secretary of War:

The defense of North Carolina requires two regiments at New Berne and two at Wilmington. Send them down if you can. If North Carolina regiments are convenient they would be preferred. Will you let me know by mail on this subject.?

HENRY T. CLARK.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Raleigh, N. C., September 2, 1861.

HonorableL P. WALKER, Secretary of War:

SIR: The loss of Fort Hatteras exposes so many points of attack and invasion, some of them of great importance from their connection with the railroad and public works, that I must ask for the immediate assistance of four regiments-two to be sent to New Berne and two to Wilmington. General Gatlin called on me for more troops (as many as I could spare), bur did not specify what number of men or at what post they should go. Acting on my own judgment, I ask for the assistance of two regiments to go to each place; one to each place immediately, the others to follow afterwards. If convenient, the North Carolina regiments in Virginia might be preferable on many accounts, particularly the First Regiment,w hose term of service expires in November (six months). I would suggest that General Gatlin's command is too extensive to be overlooked by one man, being nearly 300 miles of sea-coast, besides many inland points of great distance, and far separated from each other. This I hope you will regard as a mere suggestion.

I telegraphed to you this morning I shall write you for these four regiments, giving you as much notice as I could, particularly as i was not aware that your arrangements with you Quartermaster's and Commissary Departments wee completed.

Very respectfully,

HENRY T. CLARK.

YORKTOWN, September 3, 1861.

Brigadier General J. BANKHEAD MAGRUDER, Commanding Department of the Peninsula:

GENERAL: We require at this post to work the guns about to be mounted from 250 to 300 men. There are seven 42-pounder carronades, four long 32-pounder guns, and two long 42-pounder guns, furnished by the Navy Department; four 24-pounder howitzers on field carriages furnished by the State armory at Richmond, and four long 24-pounder guns expected from the same quarter. Ten men to a gun would require 210 men, but to provide for casualties and sickness it would be well to increase the number to at least 15 men to a gun, or 320 for the whole number. There are also two brass 12-pounder field pieces on the works