and that for fortifications has not been made. It is expected to be taken up this week, and then I shall be able to cause to be remitted to you some $30,000 for August.

Very truly, sir, your obedient servant,

D. LEADBETTER,

Major of Engineers, Chief of Bureau.

[6.]

GENERAL ORDERS,
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 5.
Knoxville, Tenn., August 26, 1861.

Colonel W. E. Baldwin will move his command by rail on the morning of the 28th instant from Russellville to Haynesville, East Tenn., where a wagon train is being provided for the use of his command, and so soon as the same is procured he will move his regiment by way of Elizabethtown to Fish Springs, near the Johnson County line, and there encamp until further orders.

By order of F. K. Zollicoffer, brigadier-general, commanding.

P. B. LEE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[4.]

RICHMOND, August 27, 1861.

General B. BRAGG,

Pensacola, Fla.:

The Secretary of War directs that Captain S. H. Lockett, of engineers, be ordered to take the place of Major D. Leadbetter at Forts Morgan and Gaines, Mobile Bay, Major Leadbetter having been placed in charge of the Engineer Bureau in this city.

S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General.

[6.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 136.
Richmond, August 28, 1861.

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V. Captain Samuel H. Lockett, corps of engineers, will proceed to Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Ala., and report to the commanding officer for duty in charge of the works at Forts Morgan and Gaines.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[6.]

RICHMOND, August 28, 1861.

General LEONIDAS POLK,

Memphis:

Your dispatch submitted to the President.* Before he can decide the question it is necessary you should send to this office a statement of the forces now under your command, and their distribution, with a

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* See Polk to Cooper, August 26, VOL. III, p. 682.

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