[Inclosure Numbers 3.]

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE AND EASTERN FLORIDA,
Tallahassee, December 12, 1861.

His Excellency Governor JOHN MILTON,

Tallahassee, Fla.:

SIR: I have the honor to transmitt herewith a statement showing the regiments, battalions, and companies of Florida Volunteers already musterd into the service of the Confederate States and now on duty in this military department, to which is appended a further statement showing what additional forces are now organized and ready to be mustered into the same service. May I ask of Your Excellency the favor to state whether the Confederate Goveernment has the sanction of Your Excellency to retain in service these troops already mustered, as also two other companies now organized and ready for inspection?

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. H. TRAPIER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

[Sub-inclosure.]

Statement showing the regiments, battalions, and copanies of Florida Volunteers mustered into the Confederate service and now on duty in the Department of Mieddle and Eastern Florida: Third Regiment, Colonel W. S. Dilworth commanding; Fourth Regiment, Colonel E. Hipkins; First Battalion Infantry (six companies), Major Hopkins; First Battalion Cavalry (eight comapnies), Lieutenant Colonel W. G. M. Davis; company of infantry, Captain Bailey; Grayson Artillery, Captain William Baya; Marion Light Artillery, Captain Martin; Captain Owens' company of mounted men; Captain Pickett's company of mounted men; Captain Hopkins' company of mounted men; Captain William Turmamn's company of mounted men. Additional forces organized an ready to be mustered: Captain Cobb's company of mounted men; Captain Hughes' company of mounted men.

Respectfully submitted.

J. H. TRAPIER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

His Excellency governor MILTON,

Tallahassee, Fla.

[Inclosure Numbers 4.]

STATE OF FLORIDA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Talahassee, December 12, 1861.

Brigadier General J. H. TRAPIER:

SIR: Your highly esteemed favor of this instant is before me, in which you ask of me "to state whether the Confedereate Government has the sanction of Your Excellency to ratain in service these troops (a list of which is annexed) already mustered, as also your consent to the mustering into the service of the Confederacy the two other companies now organized and ready for inspection." It affords me pleasure to express the consent of the Executive of Florida, and to assure you, general, that to the utmost of my power any other requisition that may be made upon the State of Florida by the Confederate Government for forces shall be responded to promptly and cordially, and that