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Page 240 S. C., S. GA., MID. & E. FLA., & WEST. N. C. Chapter LXV.

The following companies compose the Sixth Regiment, eight companies of which are at the Mount Vernon Arsenal and two at Rico's Bluff: Magnolia State Guards, Captain L. M. Attaway; Campbellton Greys, Captain H. B. Grace; ; Jackson County Volunteers, Lieutenant John L. Hays; Jackson County Company, Captain H. O. Basset; Union Rebels, Captain A. D. McLean; Choctawhatchie Volunteers, H. K. Hagan; Florida Guards, R. H. M. Davidson; Gadsden Greys, Captain Samuel B. Love; Gulf State Infantry, Captain James C. Evans; Washington County Company, Captain A. McMillan, of which regiment J. J. Finley is colonel, A. D. McLean lieutenant-colonel, and D. L. Kenan major.

I have also the honor to report two artillery companies mustered into the Confederate service for three years or the war: The first, known as the Milton Artillery, with six field pieces, commanded by Captain J. L. Dunham, and now stationed at the Mount Vernon Arsenal; the other, known as the Leon Artillery, commanded by Captain R. H. Gamble, and at Camp Lee, with six field peces; and to report also four cavalry companies mustered for three years or the war: Marianna Dragoons, Captain R. L. Smith; Aucilla Troop, Captain J. Caraway Smith; Milton Rangers, Captain Clinton Thigpin; company from Jefferson County, Captain John Partriddge. Besides these companies five companies for local defense wee assigned to General Trapier and by him ordered to be mustered into Confederate service: One cavalry company, known as the Tallahassee Guards, and commanded by Captain P. b. Brokaw, for twelve months, and stationed near Shell Point, and four infantry companies, one known as Dilworth Volunteers, and commanded by Captain James Tucker, and upon duty on the Suwanee river and at the railroad briddge where it crosses the river; one company known as Key West Avengers, and commanded by Captain Henry Mulrennan, at Tampa Bay, and a company known as the Gulf Coast Rangers, and commanded by Captain John C. Chambers, near Cedar Keys.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. H. MILTON,

Adjutant and Inspector General.

[Inclosure Numbers 2.]

TALLAHASSEE, April 22, 1862.

Governor JOHN MILTON:

SIR: In compliance with your instructions of the 17th instant to proceed to East Florida and take charge of all the arms, &c., landed at Smyrna, and proceed with them with all the dispatch possible to corinth, Miss., I left Saint Mark's on the same day and proceeded by railroad to Camp Langford, near Jacksonville, where I found Captain Simkins, C. S. Army, quarteremaster, in charge of the arms, and on reading your instructions and also the telegram from the Seccretary of Wartter authorizing me to take control of all the arms and munitions on the line of the road under his charge. I then prroceeded on the Florida Railroad to Archer and took charge of all the arms and munitions I could find. At Arher I found 57 boxes cartridges; at Gainesville, 33 barrels powder, 65 boxes cartridges, 16 boxes percussion aps; at Waldo, 97 boxes cartridges, 5 boxes pistol cartridges, 1 l barrels powder,, 12 dases arms, with one open box containing 9 Enfield rifles, and 7 boxes percussion caps; at Lake City, I found 7 boxes arms, 32 barrels powder, and 1 keg rifle powder, 9 boxes percussion caps, and 43 boxes cartridges, making a total in all of 76 barrels. 1 keg of powder, 262 boxes cartrides, 5 boxes pistol cartridges, 32 cases percussion caps,


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