desire to call your attention to the 25th and 26th articles of war and to request an immediate execution of them.

G. W. RANDOLPH,

Secretary of War.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA,
Charleston, S. C., September 22, 1862.

Brigadier General H. W. MERCER,

Commanding District of Georgia:

GENERAL: The rapid completion of the gunboat at Savannah is of the greatest importance. You will therefore furnish very assistance in the way of mechanics which the authorized agent of the Navy Department may call for. If necessary ordinary routine must be temporarily dispensed with to facilitate this object.

J. C. PEMBERTON,

Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA,
Charleston, S. C., September 22, 1862.

Honorable S. R. MALLORY,

Secretary of the Navy:

SIR: General Beauregard not having yet assumed the command of this department, I have this day acted on your letter of the 19th instant, addressed to General Beauregard, and have directed Brigadier-General Mercer, commanding at Savannah, to furnish all the aid (in mechanics) from enlisted men which the authorized agent of the Navy Department may call for to hasten the completion of the gunboats.

J. C. PEMBERTON,

Major-General, Commanding.

Guns bearing on Charleston Harbor.

[About September 23, 1862.]

FORT SUMTER.

Kind of ordnance Caliber Numb Barb Case Fie Sie Nav

er ette mate ld ge al

of carr carr car car car

guns iage iage ria ria ria

s s ges ges ges

10-inch 10-inch 3 3 -- -- -- --

columbiad

8-inch columbiad 8-inch 12 8 4 -- -- --

8-inch navy gun 8-inch 2 -- -- -- -- --

8-inch sea-coast 8-inch 5 -- -- -- -- --

howitzer

9-inch Dahlgren 9-inch 3 3 -- -- -- --

42-pounder 42-pounder 7 -- -- -- -- --

42-pounder 42-pounder 6 -- -- -- -- --

rifled

32-pounder 32-pounder 31 10 21 -- -- --

32-pounder 32-pounder 4 -- 4 -- -- --

rifled

24-pounder 24-pounder 6 -- -- -- -- --

10-inch mortar 10-inch 4 -- -- -- -- --