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

put at my disposal is at Asheville, without arms, and could not be available here in a week.

Dispatch of yesterday just received. Colonel Riddick will give you the number of troops in the department. Will reply by mail.

R. C. GATLIN, Brigadier-General.

RALEIGH, September 14, 1861.

Adjutant-General COOPER:

The disaffection in Hyde County demands the immediate presence of a regiment, which General Gatlin declines to order from another post-Macon-without your sanction. He promised to ask it.

HENRY T. CLARK.

RICHMOND, September 14, 1861.

Governor HENRY T. CLARK, Raleigh, N. C.:

Brigadier-General Gatlin, being the commanding general of the forces in North Carolina, must exercise a sound discretion in distributing the troops for the defense of that coast. The importance of maintaining a sufficient garrison at Fort Macon need not be here urged further than to state that the fort must be defended against attack at all hazards, and that the garrison must not be reduced beyond the possibility of such defense. General Gatlin has been instructed to use his best exertions to call troops for local service for limited periods under a recent act of Congress, a copy of which has been furnished him, and it is hoped he will be enabled in this way to supply the necessities of Hyde County. The cavalry regiment from your State under Colonel Ransom has better be retained in the State for purposes of defense until further advised.

S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.

DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS, Williamsburg, Va., September 14, 1861.

Captain HIGGINS:

SIR: I an instructed by the general commanding to say that he has received information from Headquarters, Adjutant-General's Office, Richmond, that four additional regiments have been ordered to report to him at Yorktown, and consequently he desires you to make all necessary arrangements to receive them, and see that an abundant supply of provisions are on hand.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. M. STANARD, Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp.

DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS, Williamsburg, Va., September 14, 1861.

Colonel CRUMP, Commanding Gloucester Point, Va.:

SIR: You will take charge of the defenses of Gloucester and Matthews as far as the Piankitank River, inclusive. You will cause every boat on all the rivers leading into Mob Jack Bay, and the other waters,