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North Carolina than could be spared from my command, with the hope that their places would have been supplied. I have reported both by telegraph and letter my actions, but no response have I receive.

BENJ. HUGER, Brigadier-General.

NEW BERNE, N. C., September 6, 1861.

General COOPER, Adjutant-General:

Colonel Bridges writes me that the captain of the British steamer Rinaldo, lying off the harbor, sent word to him that the enemy would attack Fort Macon Friday night or Saturday morning. British vessels in the harbor ordered by the captain of war steamer out of range of the guns. Messenger left at 6 o'clock this morning. No ship in sight then. Please hurry on the troops required by Governor Clark.

R. C. GATLIN, Brigadier-General.

RICHMOND, September 6, 1861.

General GATLIN, New Berne, N. C.: Governor Clark reported some days got that he had two regiments ready for the coast besides the two regiments on Cape Fear River and the two regimens at New Berne. He has been telegraphed to send the first-named two regiments (supposed at Raleigh) immediately to Fort Macon, if he has not already done so.

S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.

RICHMOND, September 6, 1861.

Governor CLARK, Raleigh, N. C.:

General Gatlin reports an expected attack on Fort Macon either on Friday night or Saturday morning, and suggests the hurrying on the troops required by you. We have no requisitions for troops by you. Please send forward to Fort Macon the two regiments reported by you some days since, if you have not already done so.

S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.

ROANOKE ISLAND, September 6, 1861.

Brigadier General B. HUGER, Commanding Forces, Norfolk:

GENERAL: I wrote you yesterday by the Junaluski, but as I learn she has broken down on the way I write again, to request that [you] will send on to this place Captain Caswell's company of my regiment, and also Captain Vincent's, if it has arrived. I hope to get arms for them from North Carolina a few days. Please send them down immediately if my regiment is to remain here permanently, which I hope is not the case. Even without arms they can be of great service to us in the inclosure of the defenses here. The North Carolina troops that are here are in a state of disorganization, and but little can be expected from them. If you have not sent the baggage and teams you need not