for service in Virginia or elsewhere. He desires you to make this known to your command, and to use every effort to discountenance anything of the kind, as its tendency is to disorganize your troops and to impair the discipline of your command.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. R. JONES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[1.]

HEADQUARTERS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
April 26, 1861.

Honorable Mr. WALKER,

Secretary of War:

SIR: As you telegraphed me you had arranged for our supplies at the end of three weeks, I thought it proper to order our commissry-general to make out a regular estimate for supplies for four months, which I now inclose inclose,* and beg leave to call your immediate attention to it; and as, under the recent requisitions from the War Department, as well as be special requisitions made by General Beauregard here, Ihave those troops now in service, I would most respectfully suggest that a paymaster be appointed by President Davis. I had a thorough army officer for that purpose, Captain Northrop, but president Davis has recently appointed him to another office, and I am in want of a regular army man for it. I know the President would rather appoint such, and I therefore beg your immediate attention to it. If you have none such suitable, I would recommend that General Beuaregard be authorized to do so here, and I will give him all the aid and assistance I can in the selection. Please let me hear from you, as every day changes our position, and I am at a loss to know how to act frequently, but desire to promote the views of the Confederate authorities so far as I know them.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

F. W. PICKENS.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, Numbers 99.
Charleston, S. C., Apri 26, 1861.

I. Lieutenant John Rutledge, C. S. Navy, and inspector of ordnance, will take charge of the dismantling, removing guns, &c., of the channel batteries on Morris Island, commencing forthwith with the nearest battery to Cummings Point. The commanding officer on said island will afford him all the assistance he may reuire for that purpose. The guns, ammunition, &c., required at Fort Sumter will be sent there; the balance will be sent to Castle Pinckeny, excepting the powder, which will be sent to the city magazine for safe-keeping. At Castle Pinckney the guns, shot, and shell will be left in depot outside the walls; the chassis, carriages, pintle-blocks, traverse circles, and other appurtenances will be put away carefully in its casemates. Mr. Ramsey, of the quartermaster's department, or other agent will be put in charge of the transportation of said ordnance from Morris Island to its destination.

II. The commanding officer on Morris Island will, when in his judgment practicable, relive gradullay by companies Colonel De Saussure's

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*Omitted.

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