the number of troops in this department [mustered in for the war] after the Fourth Regiment Florida Volunteers leaves for Corinth, as follows:

Regiment Arms Aggregat Remarks

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Fifth Regiment Two-thirds 1,150 Stationed at Camp

Florida armed Lee, near

Volunteers Tallahassee

Sixth Regiment Fully armed 1,100 Stationed on the

Florida Chattahoochee River

Volunteers

Seventh Regiment Four-fifths 1,100 Ordered to

Florida armed Jacksonville to

Volunteers relieve the Fourth

Regiment, under

orders for Corinth.

First Regiment No arms 1,000 Captain Amakker,

Rifles under authority

from the War

Department, has the

full number of

companies for the

war, which will

include a few

independent

companies that have

been filled up.

Field officers will

be elected at an

early day.

First Special Fully armed 600 Stationed at

Battalion Ricco's Bluff.

Three batteries Six field 450 One on the

light artillery pieces to Chattahoochee; one

each company near Tallahassee;

one near

Jacksonville.

Eight companies Partly armed 700 Stationed at

cavalry different points on

the coast.

Three companies Partly armed 250 Now being

six months reorganized for the

Missouri war.

Volunteers

6,350

As the summer advances there is less probability of an invasion of Florida by the enemy, and I respectfully submit that 2,500 men [if armed] will be sufficient to guard the coast of Florida during the summer and fall months. This would leave [when the conscripts are enrolled] fully 4,000 men available for service outside the State. If the services of these troops are needed at other points [as I presume they will be], I respectfully ask permission to accompany then in command. One good battery of flying artillery could also be taken from Florida and attached to the brigade.

I have the honor to be, general, with great respect, your obedient servant,

JOS. FINEGAN,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS CAMP MARION, Near Georgetown, S. C., May 22, 1862.

General PEMBERTON,

Commander-in-Chief of Coast of South Carolina and Georgia:

SIR: There came into this port this morning at sunrise two war steamers, each carrying ten guns. they remained about two Lour and returned down the bay, and are now up Waccamaw River. I expect them to go up all of our rivers that empty into Winyaw Bay. They did nothing while in this port, except to take a small pilot-boat from our dock. They did not demand a surrender of the town. They ordered our flag to be hauled down, but the reply was if they wished it down they would have to haul it down, but the reply was if they wished it down they would have to haul it down. I am not prepared to offer them an effectual resistance while they remain on their boats, but if they land I shall give them the best fight I can. I had the brig Joseph