I shall remain quietly here awaiting events, and fall back toward the south as necessity may require. My position is both mortifying and humiliating, but the example of your more trying one warns me to bearit with resignation. You should not permit yourself to hope even for any result here, and in your movements, official and personal, you should be governed accordingly. This is intended for your eye only, but the facts may be obtained from any candid eyewitness.

I am, dear, sir, yours, as ever,

BRAXTON BRAGG.

[47.]

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Milledgeville, Ga., March 27, 1865.

Major General SAM. JONES,

Commanding, &c., Tallahassee, Fla.:

GENERAL: I have seen the correspondence between youself and Governor Milton on the subject of clearing out Moccasin Slough with a view of permitting boats belonging to this State engaged in running the blockade to pass out of the river, and I regret the conclusion to which you seem to arrive. Since the blockade has been made so stringent, it will be with great difficulty that the Confederate Government and the States combined can import the supplies absolutely necessary to keep out armies in the field. The Legislature of this State has made an appropriaton of money for the purpose, and made it my duty to export cotton and import supplies for the use of the Georgia troops in Confederate service, such as clothes, shoes, &c. I now have two river boats with which I can carry cotton tot he coast of Florida, and I hope soon to have control of an ocean steamer which would meet the boats at some obscure inlet and receive the cotton. I think I have fair prospects of success. In this state of things I must ask that you will throw no obstacles in my way, and I shall be ready to aid you all in my power to defend against any force that the enemy may throw upon the coast on account of the attempt to run the blockade. In response to your request I have ordered the militia of Southern Georgia to reour call. General Wayne will forward the order to you and so notify those who command the militia of that section of Georgia.

Hoping you may be able to afford me such aid as I need for the purposes above mentioned while the militia of a large section of Georgia stands subject to your orders, I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOSEPH E. BROWN.

CAMP HUMES' CAVALRY DIVISION,

In the Field, Wayne County, N. C., April 3, 1865.

Whereas, information from a credible source has reached this command that the impression prevails in official circles at Richmond, and especially in the Department of War, that this corps is dissatisfied with and lacks confidence in Major-General Wheeler, and that the wholesale charge of want of fidelity on the part of the men to the cause they have so long served is boldly brought against the whole command, therefore, in obedience to the requirements of justice alike to the gifted chief and noble patriot who has so long led us, and whose name we have so long proudly borne, and to the gallant men composing this corps, who through all vicissitudes, left without pay for months at a time, half clad and partially shod, have nobly stood by their colors for twelve months past, not having seen a day that has not witnessed a collision between the enemy and some part of this corps, and as each