General BEAUREGARD:

The following dispatch was received from Governor Vance at Goldsborough:

For God's sake send us one regiment and some guns as quickly as possible. The fight is raging and Evans is overwhelmed.

I have sent one regiment and one battery of six guns. I have now but one regiment.

W. H. C. WHITING.

CHARLESTON, December 14, 1862.

General GUSTAVUS W. SMITH, Petersburg, Va.:

Orders given and movement will begin at 9 o'clock the evening.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

CHARLESTON, December 14, 1862.

General GUSTAVUS W. SMITH, Petersburg, Va.:

Five thousand infantry and three good batteries. Answer.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

CHARLESTON, December 14, 1862.

Brigadier General JOHNSON HAGOOD, Adams Run, S. C.:

The troops in readiness to be sent here from your district will move at the orders of General Gist.

THOMAS JORDAN,

Chief of Staff.

CHARLESTON, December 14, 1862.

Brigadier General H. W. MERCER, Savannah, Ga.:

Put the troops ordered (about 2,500) from your district in motion for this place at once. Report when started.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General, Commanding.

CHARLESTON, December 14, 1862-5 p. m.

Brigadier General W. H. C. WHITING, Wilmington, N. C.:

Troops will be sent as soon as possible. More than eighteen hours lost by not receiving answer to dispatch of last night until now.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

HDQRS. DEPT. SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND FLORIDA,
Charleston, S. C., December 14, 1862.

Brigadier General W. H. C. WHITING,

Commanding Department of North Carolina, Wilmington, N. C.:

GENERAL: I send one of my volunteer aides, Colonel A. G. Rice, with a