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ORDNANCE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,
Richmond, Va., September 1, 1 861.
Captain R. M. CUYLER, Savannah, Ga.:
SIR: The men required by you may be enlisted as laborers and ustered in the appropriate grades. The ten additional guns requested cannot be furnished by the Navy Department. There are none, I am informed, but 42-pounder carronades on hand. Please to infrom General Lawton to this effect, and that these guns cannot be furnished for some time to come.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. GORGAS,
Chief of Ordnance.
[6.]
COLUMBIA, S. C., September 2, 1861.
Honorable L. P. WALKER:
President Davis telegraphs me to retain Colonel Orr's regiment as a reserve to protect our coast for the present. Please let Colonel Orr or myself know it immediately, as you have ordered him to Virginia. Will you send back Gregg's regiment? Our difficulty is as to arms. Yours of July 15 directed election of field officers for the regiment raising. I have two companies for the war. Let me receive three more to make a battalion. Please telegraph.
F. W. PICKENS.
[6.]
MARIANNA, FLA., September 5, 1861.
Honorable L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War:
The following dispatch has just been received here:
SAINT VINCENT ISLAND, NEAR APPALACHICOLA, September 5, 1861.
The enemy have threatened to enter the harbor in light-draft steamers and burn Apalachicola. Cannon, friction-primers, and powder greatly needed, and artillerists. Answer.
CHARLES A. GEE,
Captain, Commanding.
W. E. ANDERSON,
Brigadier-General, Florida Militia.
[6.]
CHARLESTON, September 13, 1861.
Honorable L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War:
It appears that General Ripley has no control over the arsenal here. Arms and munitions are wanted at once, State having issued from her own resources until nearly exhausted. Please send instructions at once to enable action to be taken.
F. W. PICKENS.
[6.]
RICHMOND, September 13, 1861.
Governor FRANCIS W. PICKENS, Charleston, S. C.:
The arsenal must of course remain under the control of the Ordnance Bureau here, but all proper requisitions will receive immediate attention.
L. P. WLAKER.
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