Abstract from Return of Troops in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, commanded by General G. T. Beauregard, April 23, 1863.

Present for duty.

Command Troops. Total Total Total Aggrega Aggrega

ing effecti effecti effecti te te

officer ve ve ve present present

. infantr cavalry artille . and

y. . ry. absent.

Brigadi First 11,148 1,131 3,945 18,351 21,956

er Militar

General y

R. S. Distric

Ripley t of

South

Carolin

a.

Brigadi Second 1,866 916 298 3,361 3,673

er Militar

General y

J. Distric

Hagood t of

South

Carolin

a.

Brigadi Third 2,927 1,732 610 5,991 7,251

er Militar

General y

W. S. Distric

Walker t of

South

Carolin

a.

Brigadi Distric 2,148 1,840 2,104 7,200 8,513

er t of

General Georgia

H. W.

Mercer

Brigadi Distric 788 452 280 1,701 2,128

er t of

General Middle

Howell Florida

Cobb

Brigadi Distric 222 441 140 916 1,249

er t of

General East

Joseph Florida

Finegan

Grand ....... 19,099 6,512 7,377 37,520 44,770

total

NOTE.-Heavy artillery included with light artillery in the First District of South Carolina and the District of Georgia.

RECAPITULATION OF EFFECTIVES.

First Military District of South Carolina.............. 16,224

Second Military District of South Carolina............. 3,080

Third Military District of South Carolina.............. 5,269

District of Georgia.................................... 6,092

District of Middle Florida............................. 1,520

District of East Florida............................... 803

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Total effectives....................................... 32,988

CHARLESTON, S. C., April 24, 1863.

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.:

I wanted the Whitworth guns-one to place on Morris Island, to cover at long range the bar and enable us to get guns off Keokuk, also to keep the enemy from replacing buoys and surveying bar; the other to place on Sullivan's Island, to cover vessels running the blockade frequently run ashore.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

Private.] CHARLESTON, S. C., April 24, 1863.

Honorable J. L. ORR, C. S. Senator, Richmond, Va.:

DEAR COLONEL: Your letter of the 4th instant has been received,* but the events of the 7th instant have prevented me from answering it sooner; even now I have time only for a few hasty remarks.

I feel indeed highly faltered by the confidence shown in me by the Senate in this affair relative to the increase, &c., of the artillery force here. You may well imagine my surprise at the position assumed in

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*Not found.

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