CHAP.XI.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

tardiness and uncertainty of mail communication, and the necessity often of prompt action, I may occasionally assume and exercise authority not delegated to me or in strict compliance with the regulations. In all such cases, however, the action shall be subject to the approval of the President.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P.O. HEBERT, Brigadier-General P.A., Commanding Dep't of Texas.

ORDERS, MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, No.19. Galveston, Tex., October 2,1861.

Colonel John C.Moore, First Regiment of Texas Volunteers, C.S.Army, is assigned to the immediate command of Galveston Island and its defenses, Virginia Point, and of the troops stationed on Bolivar Point and Peninsula.

By command of Brigadier General P.O.Hebert: GEO. R. WILSON, Aide-de-Camp.

ORDERS, MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, No.20. Galveston, Tex., October 2,1861.

Galveston Island, Virginia Point, adjacent bay coast, and the peninsula of Bolivar shall constitute one command, and be styled the Military District of Galveston, Department of Texas.

By command of Brigadier General P.O. Hebert:

GEO. R. WILSON, Aide-de-Camp.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Austin, Tex., October 3, 1861.

General P.O. HEBERT, Galveston, Tex.:

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge, through this morning's mail, a copy of your letter of the 30th ultimo,* handed my private secretary in Galveston.

I shall transmit immediately to Colonels Young and Parsons orders based upon your acceptance of their regiments. I would have been pleased to be able to state to them the service in which you will engage them, as I know it is a subject upon which they are much interested. I presume, however, that you design employing them in the State.

I regret exceedingly that you could not receive the other two regiments, now ready for service in Northeastern Texas. They are organized and anxiously desire service. They are mounted troops, and yet I think might be willing to take service as infantry in preference to being disbanded. Regretting to disappoint them, and fearing the result of a disappoint them, and fearing the result of a disappointment upon any future necessity that may come upon us for volunteers, I regret very much indeed to have to discharge them. If you think you will need more infantry, I believe these men would enter that arm of the service, and better soldiers, I know, cannot be obtained in the State.

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