WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,

Montgomery, March 22, 1861.

His Excellency JOSEPH E. BROWN,

Milledgeville, Ga.:

SIR: Your commuication of the 19th instant is just received. Lieutenant Berry, Willis, and Barrow, having been appointed in the Army of the Confederate States, were ordered to Fort Pulaski at the request of Colonel Hardee, whom it was at that time the purpose of this Department to assign to the command of that fort and the adjacent country. No official communication, however, having been made to this Governor that the State forces of Georgia had been transferred to the authority of the President, and being as yet without any notification that there were any troops in your State subject to my control, Colonel Hardee has been sent to Fort Morgan, in this State. You will remember that in my requisition for 2,000 troops from your State I informed you that 1,000 were intended for Pulaski. So soon as I am advised that these troops are ready to be mustered into service an officer will be assigned to the command of that fort. In regard to the company ordered by you to occupy Saint Simon's Island, I can only say that either if or some other company should continue to perform thaty duty, if there is any possible occasion to justify it, until such time as the Confederate Government is in condition to do so. When that will be, depends, of course, upon the disposition to be made by you of the requisition for troops already referred to. I feel satisfied that you will not permit any unnecessary delay to inteervene either in regard to troops for Pulaski or Pensacola. There can hardly be a doubt of the immediate necessity for prompt action, especially as to Pensacola. The Government of the United States certainly do not intend to abandon Fort Pickens, but, on the countrary, are preparing the re-enforce it with ultimate views, doubltes, upon that navy-yard, now completely at the mercy of the guns of the fort. I hope to have by Monday next 5,000 troops concentrated at that point, which, with the 1,000 to be furnished by your State, will give us a force sufficient certainly for the purposes of defense. I shall be happy to hear from you in reply at your earliest convenience, trusting that my previous letter have satisfied you that I have every disposition to accommodate the action of this Department as far as possible to your wishes.

Very respectfully, your obedient servnat,

L. P. WALKER.

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WASHINGTON, March 28, 1861.

Honorable ROBERT TOOMBS,

Montgomery, Ala.:

The Senate has adjourned sine die. There is a dead calm here.

COMMISSIONERS.

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CHARLESTON, March 29, 1861.

Honorable D. C. MEMMINGER:

Telegram received. You can have 2,000 percussion muskets and beyonets. Designate your agent, and let me know what is the matter at Washington. They must act soon. England and France will have large fleets on our coast in a short time, and I fear we will lose our