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[CHAP. LXIII.
other services. Land troops serving on board C. S. vessels as marines shall be subject to the orders of the sea officer in command thereof. Other land troops embarked on board such vessels for transportation merely will be considered in respect to the naval commanders as passengers, subject, neverthaless, to the internal regulatons of the vessels.
[4.]
HEADQUARTERS,
Sewell Mountain, September 26, 1861.General JOHN B. FLOYD,
Commanding Kanawha Army:
GENERAL: The Mississippi regiment and McC's. rifle gun have arrived, each without provisions and forage. There are none here. Unless you can send provision I shall have to order the troops back to Meadow Bluff. Please inform me whether arrangements have been made for obtaining sufficient provisioins for all the troops. Five regiments under General Loring were sixteen miles from Marlin's Bottom [twenty - six miles from Lewisburg] on the night of the 25th, whose maintenance must be provided for. Two prisoners capture today report the number of the enemy in our front 12, 000. I do not know with what truth.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. E. LEE,
General, Commanding.
[5.]
GOLDSBOROUGH, September 26, 1861.
General J. R. ANDERSON,
Wilmington, N. C.:
Your dispatch received. I am sick in bed and unable to move. If any troops arrive from Relaigh I will send them forward immediately.
R. C. GALTIN.
[4.]
SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 164.
Richmond, September 27, 1861.* * * * * * *
XIV. Captain Henry St. Paul will immediately proceed with his company, the Louisiana Fot Rifles, to Manassas, Va., and report to General Joseph E. Johnson, commanding.
By command of the Secretary of War:
John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant - General.[5.]
SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 289.
Richmond, September 27, 1861.* * * * * * *
XIII. Lieutenant Colonel Fitzhugh Lee, Virginia Volunteers, is assigned to duty with the First Virginia Cavalry [Colonel. J. E. B. Stuard], and will report accordingly.
* * * * * * *
By order of the Secretary of War:
GEO. DEAS,
Assistant Adjutant - General.[5.]
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