[Inclosure Numbers 2.] STATE OF Georgia, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Macon, July 23, 1864.

Major-General McLAWS,

Provisional Army, C. S., Commanding at Savannah:

GENERAL: At the urgent request of the citizens of Liberty County I have authorized and directed my aide-de-camp, Colonel w. B. Gaulding, to organize a force from the reserve militia of Bryan, Liberty, and McIntosh Counties, to act in co-operation with and to obey your orders for the defense of the people and property of those three counties. Do you wish the co-operation of this force? And if called out at any time, will the Confederate Government furnish it with subsistence, quartermaster's, and ordnance stores? An early answer will oblige the Governor. It is understood that this organization is predicated on the idea that the men composing it are called out defend their own counties.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HENRY C. WAYNE,

Adjutant and Inspector General.

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HDQRS. DEPT. OF S. CAROLINA, Georgia, AND FLORIDA,
Charleston, S. C., August 16, 1864.

Major-General McLAWS:

GENERAL: Your communication of the 14th instant has been received and considered by the major-general commanding, who directs me to say in reply that you should accpt the militia tendered by Governor Brown upon the terms proposed by him. It would certainly be more desirable to have the men organized in local companies under the general orders of the War Department, but inasmuch as the call of the Governor subjects all to State service it will be impossible to do this so long as his call is in force. You may be able to make this class of troops very useful in the way you suggest and thus relieve for more active duties the drilled troops whose places are thus filled. It would be well to have special instructions given to the commanding officers in regard to their responsibility for accouterments, &c., issued to the men, and take every precaution to guard against the waste of ordnance stores which generally attends all issues to irregular or undisciplined troops.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. S. STRINGFELLOW,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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COLUMBIA, September 4, 1864.

Honorable J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War:

In view of the condition of General Hood's army, and the necessity of protecting the middle and western portion of this State, I earnestly request that the reserve General Jones has at Charleston from that portion of the State be sent up to General Chesnut with all possible dispatch.

M. L. BONHAM.

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