HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S.,
Charleston, S. C., May 25, 1861.

Colonel BENJAMIN ALLSTON,

Charleston, S. C.:

MY DEAR COLONEL: As I expect very soon to leave this station, and as I am about to transfer my command here, I shall no longer need the services which, regardless alike to your personal comfort or interest, you so kindly and willingly rendered to me as a volunteer member of my staff. Your assistance came at a moment when I most needed such valuable aid, and I earnestly thank you for it, as well as continued and unwearied attention in the less interesting detasils of official duties to the present time. Parting from you with sincere regret,

I am, my dear colonel, very truly, yours,

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

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ORDNANCE OFFICE,

Charleston, S. C., May 25, 1861.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD:

SIR: It is not in the power of this Department to fill your requisition for two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers, to be sent to Beaufort. We have already issued the few that were in our possession, and none have ever been returned to us. We have also issued all the 24-pounder gun-carraiges, and cannot immediately mount the 8-inch siege howitzers, which are without carriages.

I remain, very respectfully, yours,

G. MANIGAULT,

Acting Ordnance Officer.

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CHARLESTON, May 26, 1861.

L. P. WALKER:

Shall I come to Montgomery for instructions, or find them at Corinth? I leave on Tuesday.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

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HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S.,
Charleston, S. C., May 27, 1861.

His Excellency Governor FRANCIS W. PICKENS,

Charleston, S. C.:

DEAR SIR: By the accompanying copy of an order from the Confederate Government you will be informed that I am relieved from duty in this State.* I have, in consequence, transferred this day the command of the forts and troops in the harbor of Charleston and its vicinity to my successor, Colonel R. H. Anderson, of the Provisional Forces of the Confederate States, and I resign into your hands the command of the South Carolina Volunteers, with which I had been honored by yourself and the convention of your gallant State. In parting with them and the other troops under my command I can but express my regret in doing so, and my high appreciation of their zeal and patience under

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*See Special Orders, Numbers 57, May 23, VOL. LII, Part II, p. 106.

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