NEAR LAWTONVILLE, January 22, 1865.

Lieutenant General W. J. HARDEE,

Charleston:

I can hear of no movement of enemy to-day. Scouts report considerable force near Hardeeville. Also report enemy clearing the road of our obstructions.

J. WHEELER,

Major-General.

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NEAR LAWTONVILLE, January 24, 1865 - 6 p. m.

Lieutenant General W. J. HARDEE,

Charleston:

Scouts report that enemy near pocotaligo have withdrawn a short distance. General Iverson reports enemy have moved a large body of troops from Savannah on Augusta road. Object of movement not yet ascertained.

J. WHEELER,

Major-General.

[47.]

NEAR LAWTONVILLE, January 25, 1865 - 7.30 p. m.

Lieutenant General W. J. HARDEE,

Charleston:

Scouts from other side of the river report no enemy west of the Ogeechee, and that Fourteenth Corps is camped near Shaver's Swamp. No change on this side of the river to-day.

J. WHEELER,

Major-General.

[47.]

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

January 26, 1865.

Governor Z. B. VANCE,

Raleigh, N. C.:

GOVERNOR: At my return from Charleston Colonel Mullins gave me your letter. I am at once gratified and honored with your concurrence in the suggestions I ventured to make to you. Confirmed in my purpose by your approval, I am preparing and will dispatch without delay to the Governors of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida similar suggestions to those which were addressed to you. And supported as they will be your indorsement, I have no doubt of speedily securing that united and concerted action which I hope and believe will accomplish all that we desire. At the earliest moment, and in anticipation of the response from the Governors of the States I have named, I will prepare and submit to you the draft of such a paper ask I think calculated fitly to express the opinions we have formed. I have written to Governor Brown in ackonwledgment of his reply to me, and also to the Honorable A. H. Stephens; to the latter addressing myself particularly to the consideration of the great danger of calling the people of Georgia into a conention, assuring him of my hope and belief that, without incurring the great dangers involved in the call for a convention, all that we desire to secure can be accomplished without it; and most strongly urging him to use the authority of his name and the influence