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SUGAR LOAF, December 27, 1864 - 9 a. m.
Lieutenant-General HOLMES,
Wilmington, N. C.:
Ten companies Thirty-sixth and Fortieth Regiments, expected from Charleston, should be sent by water direct to their posts in the night.
ARCHER ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SUGAR LOAF, December 27, 1864 - 9 a. m.
General HOLMES:
Send no troops here for the present except Hoke's.
BRAXTON BRAGG.
SUGAR LOAF, December 27, 1864 - 9.30 a. m.
General HOLMES:
The command at Masonborough Sound as an outpost of Wilmington is transferred from General Hoke to you; small detachment cavalry is there. General Bragg wishes you to send there also some home guards to watch enemy and prevent landing.
ARCHER ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
WILMINGTON, December 27, 1864.
Colonel ANDERSON:
I have but 450 home guards, who won't fight. They can do nothing for Swansborough.
T. H. HOLMES,
Lieutenant-General.
WILMINGTON, December 27, 1864.
General BRAGG:
The following just received from Masonborough: "Seventeen vessels off; seven moving north."
T. H. HOLMES,
Lieutenant-General.
SUGAR LOAF, December 27, 1864 - 1.30 p. m.
Lieutenant-General HOLMES,
Wilmington, N. C.:
General Bragg thinks for the present removal of stores, public and private, should be suspended.
ARCHER ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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