[CHAP. LXIV.

MONTGOMERY, March 7, 1861.

General BRAXTON BRAGG,

New Orleans:

I propose to nominate you brigadier - general of Provisional Army, if you [will] accept. If you do proceed at once to Pensacola to take command, where yoru orders will be forwarded. Answer.

L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War.

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MONTGOMERY, March 7, 1861.

Colonel W. J. HARDER,

Savannah, Ga.:

You are appointed colonel First Regiment of Infantry in Confederate Army; your command at Mobile. If your can, muster in company for twelve months under bill just passed not requiring tender or consent of State. Answer.

L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War.

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NEW ORLEANS, March 8, 1861.

L. P. WALKER:

My health is too precarious to admit of active duties of command; I suffer from bronchial disease. I therefore decline the appointment of brigadier - general.

W. H. CHASE.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 2.
Montgomery, Ala., March 8, 1861.

Captain Robert C. Wood is assigned to duty as assistant adjutant - general with the command of Brigadier General Braxton Bragg, at and near Pensacola, Fla., to whom he will proceed and report without delay.

By command of the Secretary of War:

GEORGE DEAS,
Acting Adjutant - General.

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ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, Montgomery, March 8, 1861.

Colonel JOHN B. TOOD, Mobile:

COLONEL: Your report of the companies turned over by you as the commander of Fort Morgan, under date of the 2nd instant, has been