for your kind attention. The flag has been sent to the Secretary of War at Montgomery.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. R. JONES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S.,
Charleston, S. C., May 2, 1861.

Mr. J. TOWNSEND,

Bleak Hall, Edisto Island, S. C.:

DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 30th ultimo has just been received. I have already furnished, at the request of General Pickens, the guns, &c., required for the armament of the forts you allude to on the North and South Edisto, which are indeed very important points of the coast to be protected. I will take the earliest opportunity to visit those two points immediately on my return from Montgomery, where I have to go for a few days only; otherwise I should havd already complied with my promise to you. I think the season is so far advanced, ad the enemy so occupied elsehwere, that you have but little to fear from him. However, it is well to be on the alert. So soon as I am ready to start on my reconnoitering tour I will inform you of the fact, and I thank you for your kind offers.

I remain, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

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A RESOLUTION of thanks to Brigadier General G. T. Beauregard and the army under his command for their conduct in the affair at Fort Sumter.

Be it unanimously resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of the people of the Confederate States are due, and through this Congress are herby tendered, to Brigadier General G. T. Beuaregard and the officers, military and naval, under his command, and to the gallant troops of the State of South Carolina, for the skill, fortitude, and courage by which they reduced and caused the surrender of Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, on the 12th and 13th days of April, 1861. And the commendation of Congress is also hereby declared of the genorosity manifested by their conduct toward a brave and vanquished foe.

Be if further resolved, That a copy of this resolution be communicated by the President to General Beauregard, and through him to the army then under his command.

Approved May 4, 1861.

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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Mlledgeville, May 4, 1861.

Honorable L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War:

DEAR SIR: I addressed you a letter some days since by Major Spalding, in addition to former ones, upon the subject of the coast defense of Georgia. Since that time I have received repeated statements and petitions from our fellow-citizens along the coast, which show that the state of alarm is so great among them that many of