for granted that if the storm of war comes it will find you all ready. I wish I could say as much for the border States. Very truly, yours, [1.] L. Q. WASHINGTON. HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, The following memorandum of instructions is issued for the service of the channel batteries: I. In case of action the chief of artillery will take post so as to direct most conveniently the operations of all the batteries. II. For this purpose there should be detailed from two to four mounted orderlies for service under the exclusive orders of the chief of artillery. III. The charge of a battery cannot be regarded as an independent command, and officers on duty at batteries are strictly enjoined to await the orders of the commandant before opening fire. IV. Circumstances must, of course, determine whether one or more of the batteries should be engaged, and the fire, while it must not be thrown away on objects out of range, should be conducted with great care and deliberation. V. A roster of the different batteries will be made, and at the discretion of the commandant one or more will be indicated to perform the duty of enforcing the daily and nightly channel guard. The batteries so designated will be charged with bringing vessels to, and will be governed by the signals of the guard-boats, or suspicious circumstances in the case of vessels coming in. Sentries should be carefully instructed in the signals of the guard-boats, indicating the approach of friendly or unfriendly vessels. (See order of Captain North of January 29.) Two glasses with cases will be provided for the lookout sentries on Sullivan's Island, and three for those on Morris Island, to be in the care of the officer of the guard. VI. The signal for general action in daytime will be the hoisting of the Confederate and Palmetto flags on the halyards at the commandant's flag-staff, the Confederate flag above. VII. At night the signal for general action will be a lantern hoisted on the commandant's flag-staff. VIII. The Quartermaster-General will provide Lieutenant-Colonel Ripley, commandant of artillery on Sullivan's Island, with two horses and equipments for orderly service; and Lieutenant-Colonel De Saussure, commandant of artillery on Morris Island, with four horses and equipments for the same purpose. He will also provide and distribute the glasses indicated in section V of this order. By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard: [1.] D. R. JONES, Assistant Adjutant-General. CHARLESTON, S. C., April 8, 1861. Mr. M. J. CRAWFORD, Commissioner, Confederate States, Washington, D. C.: Accounts from Washington so uncertain I have called out several thousand volunteers.* [1.] G. T. BEAUREGARD, Brigadier-General, Commanding. See Crawford to Beauregard, Vol. I, p. 289. HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, C. S. A., Col. MAXCY Gregg, Commanding Morris Island: COLONEL: On notice being received of the approach of a hostile fleet, sentries at night will be doubled in front of the batteries. The regular guard details will be strongly re-enforced with detachments of infantry to support the artillery in case of an attempt to land and spike the guns by surprise. A small mounted patrol to move on the beach between the Dahlgren Battery and the south end, communicating with the different sentries, whose posts will be advanced toward the beach. Colonel Gregg will post the additional companies of infantry detailed for duty on Morris Island. Of this force three companies to occupy the Beacon Hills, supporting Warley's battery of 24-pounders. Three companies will re-enforce Gadberry's and occupy the line of the first range. Camp Gregg will be pitched immediately in rear of Light-house Hills for the support of the new batteries, the occupation and defense of the hills, and the immediate repulse of an attempt to land by boats. It is presumed that the point of landing would be either in front of the Lighthouse Hills or upon the flats to the northward of them, under cover of fire from shipping. [1.] I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, STEPHEN D. LEE, Captain, South Carolina Army, and Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. RESOLUTIONS to provide for the transfer of arms, ordnance, and munitions of war by this State to the Government of the Confederate States of America. Resolved, That the Governor be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to the authorities of the Confederate States of America all of the ordnance, arms, and munitions of war which have been purchased by the authorities of this State and now in her possession since the 20th day of December last (except such as he, with the board of ordnance, may think it advisable to retain) upon payment to this State of the cost and expenses thereof, or securing such payment to the satisfaction of the Governor and council. That he also, by and with the advice and consent of the board of ordnance, transfer to the said Confederate Government all of the arms, ordnance, and munitions of war which have been taken in the forts and arsenals of this State, lately in possession of the Government of the United States, except such as in their discretion should be retained for the use and defense of the State, taking therefor such receipts and assurances as will secure to this State the value thereof or will indemnify the State in any accounting which may hereafter be had with the United States Government; and that the Governor and board of ordnance be authorized and directed to turn over all the arms, ordnance, and munitions of war to the authorities of the Confederate States in possession of this State, upon payment therefor or securing such payment, which in their discretion can be spared consistently with the safety and defense of this State. RESOLUTIONS to provide for the transfer of the regular enlisted troops of this State to the Government of the Confederate States. Resolved, That it is proper that the regular troops which have been enlisted in the service of the State should be transferred for the remainder of their term of enlistment to the service of the Confederate States, but that in doing so justice requires that all the officers should receive commissions of the same grade for at least the period of enlistment of the troops, and that the Governor of the State be authorized to make arrangements accordingly for such transfer with the President of the Confederate States, and to endeavor to preserve, if practicable, the rank of all the officers. RESOLUTIONS to provide for tendering a volunteer force to the Confederate States. Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the sudden call which was gallantly answered by the First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, now in the service, and the valuable services which that regiment has rendered, give it a just claim to an honorable discharge as soon as the pressing exigency of state of affairs in the judgment of the Governor permit; but that if it should be the desire of the said regiment to prolong its service, then it shall have the privilege of being the first corps transferred to the service of the Confederate States, upon making the necessary change in their term of enlistment; and that if the whole regiment shall not desire to extend the term, but a number of companies and men sufficient, with the aid of prompt recruiting to form an efficient regiment, shall choose to do so, they shall have the same privilege and shall retain the regimental name and colors. Resolved, That if the services of the First Regiment shall not be needed in the field for the whole of their term of six months, the Governor may at his discretion permit the whole or any part of the regiment to return to their homes, subject to his call whenever it may be requisite during the said term, their pay and allowance being suspended while so at home, and that in the event of a treaty of peace being inade between the Confederate States and the United States before the expiration of the said term the Governor shall be authorized to disband the said regiment. Resolved, That whenever a volunteer force shall be called for by the Government of the Confederate States, the Governor be authorized to call for as many regiments of the twelve months' volunteers already organized as may be needed; and that if the said regiments shall consent to go into the service of the Confederate States they shall be transferred accordingly; and if the whole of any regiment shall not so consent, but companies and men enough shall do so to form, by aid of recruiting, an efficient regiment, such regiment shall be transferred in the same manner, provided that preference shall be given to the said regiments in the order in which they now rank. Resolved, That in case a sufficient number be not raised from these organizations, then any other companies, battalions, or regiments are hereby authorized to volunteer and tender their services till the requisite number is supplied and received. No. 11. Charleston, S. C., April 10, 1861. I. Col. Louis T. Wigfall, Col. James Chesnut, jr., Governor John L. Manning, and Capt. Arthur M. Manigault, having offered their serv *The document containing the foregoing resolutions (as here printed) is without date, but, according to the journal of the South Carolina convention, the committee on engrossed ordinances reported April 9, 1861, that the resolutions had been "duly engrossed and ratified by the signature of the president and the attestation of the clerk of the committee.' ices to Brigadier-General Beauregard, are hereby appointed volunteer aides-de-camp, and any orders transmitted through them will be obeyed accordingly. II. General Samuel McGowan and Col. R. B. Boylston, having volunteered their services to the brigadier-general commanding, are hereby appointed assistants; the former to the quartermaster-general and the latter to the commissary-general, to whom they will report for duty, and will be respected accordingly. By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard : [1.] D. R. JONES, Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, Lieut. Col. W. G. DE SAUSSURE, Commandant of Batteries, Morris Island: (Through Colonel Gregg, commanding.) SIR: The brigadier-general commanding directs me to inform you that a system of lights on flat-boats will be established in the harbor to-night for the purpose of lighting up the channel to show any small boats that may attempt to reach Fort Sumter with supplies and re-enforcements. These lights will be under the direction of Captain Hartstene, C. S. Navy. He also directs that the guns be so directed that a terrible fire may be opened on them as soon as seen by these lights, if it be too dark to see them except by the lights. The lime lights will also be so regulated that they may be used in connection with these lights with their best effect as soon as an alarm may be given. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, [1.] STEPHEN D. LEE, Captain South Carolina Army, and Actg. Asst. Q. M. GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, No. 17. Charleston, S. C., April 11, 1861. Honorables W. Porcher Miles and Roger A. Pryor, having tendered their services to Brigadier-General Beauregard, are hereby appointed volunteer aides-de-camp, and all orders transmitted through them will be obeyed. By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard: [1.] L. P. WALKER: D. R. JONES, Assistant Adjutant-General. SAVANNAH, April 11, 1861. Great uneasiness prevails here from the fact that we have no officer in general charge of the defenses of Savannah. Colonel Williams, of the Georgia regulars, being in command of the fort, it is important that the Confederate Government should take charge of this matter and assign some one to this duty. F. S. BARTOW, F. S. BARTOW, Savannah: MONTGOMERY, April 11, 1861. You certainly know that until the transfer is made I have no authority to take possession of the forts, arsenals, &c. I have received no official notice even of the ordinance of your convention, and no notice of any sort that it is the purpose of your authorities to transfer. I am as anxious as you are that the Confederate Government may be put in position to take charge of the defenses of Georgia, but as yet no response has been made to my requisition for 1,000 men for Pulaskiat least, no information that they were ready. Now, without men, and with no control of the fort, what can I do? I am ready to send an officer the moment these things are made known to me. HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S., Brigadier-General DUNOVANT, Sullivan's Island, S. C.: GENERAL: You are herewith informed that as soon as the Cummings Point mortar batteries commence doubling the intervals between their shells (that is, four minutes instead of two during the day, and twenty minutes instead of ten at night, so as to economize our ammunition), you will order those on Sullivan's Island to do the same. This order has already been communicated to Fort Johnson and Mount Pleasant. Send me some information by the bearer. Respectfully, your obedient servant, G. T. BEAUREGARD, Brigadier-General, Commanding. P. S.-Be careful to call in time for ammunition, &c., and do not allow too fast or useless firing at the gun batteries. II. Brig. Gen. A. R. Lawton, of the provisional forces in the service |