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A COMPILATION OF THE

OFFICIAL RECORDS

OF THE

UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

The Honorable RUSSELL A. ALGER, Secretary of War,

BY

Major GEORGE W. DANIS, U. S. ARMY,

MR. LESLIE J. PERRY, CIVILIAN EXPERT,

MR. JOSEPH W. KIRKLEY, CIVILIAN EXPERT,

Board of Publication.

SERIES I - VOLUME LII - IN TWO PARTS.

PART II - CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1898.

CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA, Kentucky, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, WEST FLORIDA, AND NORTHERN Georgia.

SUPPLEMENT

EMBRACING DOCUMENTS FOUND OR RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN VOLUMES 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 26, 30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 45, AND 49.

JANUARY 1, 1861 - JUNE 30, 1865.

WASHINGTON, January 7, 1861.

COLE SAUNDERS,

Paducah, Ky.:

Etheridge - Crittended bill voted down. All hopes lost. Disunion inevitable.

A. L. SAUNDERS.

[4.]

WASHINGTON, January 7, 1861.

Honorable D. B. WRIGHT,

Jackson, Miss.:

Hope is dead. Secede at once. Today is the darkest yet. Telegraph the ordinance. Pay here. Letter of Governor by mail.

A. G. BROWN.

[1.]

WASHINGTON, January 9, 1861.

General C. J. McRAE,

Mobile, Ala.:

President's message * is a recital of exiting state of things. Says he is bound to execute the laws, but is powerless, and refers the whole

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* January 8, 1861.

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