HDQRS. DEPT. SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND FLORIDA,
Charleston, June 13, 1863.

Respectfully referred to Colonel J. F. Gilmer, requesting that he should have Captain F. D. Lee detached for the purpose of having the marine torpedo ram of Messrs. Fraser & Co. constructed in Europe, as desired by these gentlemen; meanwhile Major Echols, with the assistance of Mr. Chisolm, will attend to the completion of the State marine torpedo ram now under the charge of Captain Lee.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General, Commanding.

ENGINEER BUREAU, June 19, 1863.

Respectfully returned to Captain F. D. Lee, favorable action having been taken upon his application.

ALFRED L. RIVES,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Chief Engineer.

LAKE CITY, FLA., June 7, 1863.

Colonel HUGH ARCHER,

Adjutant and Inspector General, Tallahassee, Fla.:

COLONEL: I am instructed by the general commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant, inclosing one from His Excellency Governor Milton, whose expression of confidence in the general commanding is not highly appreciated by the later. He regrets not having had His Excellency's company on the pleasant trip to Jacksonville, a position which he considers should be held and fortified. He will make an application to the War Department for two or there rifled 32-pounders so soon as he shall have arrived at Charleston. He recommends meanwhile that Governor Milton and the Florida delegation should make another application to Mr. Mallory for a like number of Brooke 32-pounder guns. About six pieces of that caliber are required at that important point to command the navigation of the Saint John's and guard the lower portion of East Florida.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. N. TOUTANT BEAUREGARD,

Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS SECOND SUB-DIVISION,
FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

Sullivan's Island, June 8, 1863.

Brigadier General THOMAS JORDAN,

Chief of Staff, &c., Charleston, S. C.:

GENERAL: In pursuance of Special Orders, Numbers 213, paragraph II, headquarters First Military District, I am about to relinquish the command of this sub-division. Before doing so, however, it is a duty which I owe myself to protest against that order. I do so upon the guard that it removes me for no sufficient cause, for I have not yet heard that I had been charged with a neglect of my duties in any particular or done ought else to merit such a degradation. I say, then, that it removes me for no sufficient cause from a superior and transfers me to an inferior