[Second indorsement.]

APRIL 3, 1864.

To Adjutant-General, for notice of the President's indorsement.

J. A. S.,

Secretary.

[Third indorsement.] ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, April 21, 1864.

Respectfully referred to Major General Sam. Jones for his information.

His attention is invited to the indorsement of the President. Please return the papers after examination.

By order of Adjutant and Inspector General:

H. L. CLAY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Fourth indorsement.]

HDQRS. DEPT. S. CAROLINA, Georgia, AND FLORIDA, Charleston, May 2, 1864.

Respectfully returned.

SAM. JONES,
Major-General.

[Fifth indorsement.] ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, May 27, 1864.

Respectfully referred to the Commissary-General, to note indorsement of the President. Please return papers.

By order of Adjutant and Inspector General:

H. L. CLAY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Sixth indorsement.]

OFFICE OF COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE, June 3, 1864.

The President's remarks, to which my attention has been called, are to the purport precisely which this bureau has steadily contended for. General Bragg's criticism about the Commissary-General is illogical.

Respectfully,

L. B. NORTHROP,

Commissary-General.

[35.]

CHARLESTON, S. C., March 29, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

As the mails are very uncertain and you had not received my letters of the 4th and 17th instant,* I have sent my aide, Lieutenant Reid, to Richmond with copies of those letters with directions to wait your reply. Should the clear record promised be granted I wish to enter upon duty immediately and will need a staff. I learn that my old staff is now supernumerary in Hood's corps. I would, therefore, respectfully ask to have the following officers assigned to me: Major A. C.

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*See Riely to Hill, March 26, VOL. XLII, Part III, p.1167.

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