having been ordered to Virginia it will become necessary to replace them by other troops as soon as possible.

I am, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

R. H. ANDERSON,

Colonel, South Carolina Infantry, Provisional Forces, Commanding.

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ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, Richmond, July 29, 1861.

Captain D. N INGRAHAM, C. S. Navy,

Chief of Bureau of Naval Ordnance, Richmond, Va.:

CAPTAIN: I am directed to request that you will fill the requisition of General A. R. Lawton for 32-pounder guns for sea-coast defenses south. Number to be sent, thirty.

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

R. H. CHILTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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[AUGUST 1, 1861.]

[Honorable L. P. WALKER:]

DEAR SIR: Fernandina wants four guns. This Department can furnish them if you direct it. The people there apprehend that Fort Clinch, at that place, unarmed and nearly completed, will be taken by enemy, and that with these guns they may prevent it. Please say whether this Department shall furnish guns, carriages, &c.

Yours, &c.,

S. R. MALLORY.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, S. C. A.,

Richmond, August 1, 1861.

Honorable S. R. MALLORY,

Secretary of the Navy:

SIR: Your note of this morning, informing this Department that Fernandina was in want of guns and that your Department could furnish them, has been received. You are respectfully requested to furnish and forward these guns at your earliest opportunity, providing them also with gun carriages and equipments if it should be in your power.

Very respectfully,

L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War.

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RICHMOND, August 26, 1861.

Major J. H. TRAPIER,

Charleston, S. C.:

SIR: I have recommended to the Secretary of War that you be authorized to purachase the prize ship A. H. Thompson and quip her as a floating battery, to co-operate with the land defenses of Port Royal Harbor. In the matter of guns we are hard pushed, but I suppose that Colonel Gonzales will attend to that. There has not been nor is there now any special appropriation. You can therefore pay for gun carriages. You can also pay on Colonel Ripley's cetificate.

D. LEADBETTER,

Major of Engineers, Chief of Bureau.

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