desires to ask the arming of two new regiments, nearly complete, for the Confederate army from this remaining stock of Confederate arms, that the city may have two more fitted out at an early day. Colonels Bowman and Martin have command of them.

F. W. ROYSTER,

Secretary Committee of Safety.

[4.]

ATLANTA, GA., July 5, 1861.

Honorable J. DAVIS:

Shall I order General Phillips' brigade to Bristol?

J. E. BROWN.

[4.]

RICHMOND, July 5, 1861.

Governor I. G. HARRIS,

Nashville, Tenn.:

Have understood that you have twenty-one regiments organized for the field, and therefore supposed that you could spare two for service here. We need them, but I shall not order them here against your protest.

L. P. WALKER.

[4.]

RICHMOND, July 5, 1861.

General GIDEON J. PILLOW,

Memphis, Tenn.:

The appointment of Major-General Polk is to the command of the Confederate troops.

L. P. WALKER.

[4.]

RICHMOND, July 8, 1861.

Governor J. E. BROWN,

Atlanta, Ga.:

Dispatch received. Send the regiments to Bristol.

JEFF'N DAVIS.

[4.]

RICHMOND, July 9, 1861.

General S. R. ANDERSON,

Nashville, Tenn.:

You have been appointed by the President a brigadier-general of the Provisional forces of the Confederate States. Governor I. G. Harris has been requested to send two regiments into East Tennessee. If you accept, you will proceed with them and take command.

L. P. WALKER.

[4.]

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FLOYD'S BRIGADE,
Camp Jackson, near Wytheville, Va., Numbers 1.
July 10, 1861.

The Forty-fifth Regiment Riflemen, Floyd's brigade, under command of Colonel Henry Heth, will move from Camp Jackson at 10 a. m. on Friday next and take up the lines of march in the direction of the Kanawha