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CHARLES  P.  PELHAM,  STATE  PRINTER. 

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Department  of  the  Military,  S.  C,  ") 
Columbia,  August  30,  1862.      J 

To  His  Excellency,  GrOVER!:3R  Pickens: 

Sir  :  In  obedience  to  your  requirement,  made  under  the  fifth  section  of 
"An  Ordinance  for  strengthening  the  Executive  Department  during  the 
exigencies  of  the  present  war,"  passe'd  by  the  people  of  Soiith  Carolina, 
in  Convention  assembled,  in  January  last,  I  have  the  honor  most  respect- 
fully to  submit  the  following  report :  ^ 

On  the  eighth  day  of  January,  1862,  I  received  a  request  from  your 
Excellency,  "  to  meet  the  members  of  the  Executive  Council  for  the  pur- 
pose of  being  organized,  as  directed  by  the  Ordinance."  On  the  next  day, 
which  was  the  one  appointed,  all  the  members  of  that  Council  met  your 
Excellency  at  the  Executive  Office,  and  proceeded  to  organization.  The 
plan  I  proposed  for  the  formation  of  departments  was  adopted,  and  I  had 
the  honor  of  being  assigned  to  the  control  of  the  Department  of  the 
Military. 

On  the  seventeenth  of  the  same  month  "  the  rules  made  and  established 
by  the  Governor  and  Council,  for  the  management  of  the  Department  of 
the  Military  of  the  Stajte,"  preparea  by  myself,  were,  with  a  few  modifica- 
tions, adopted,  and  I  then  entered  on  the  duties  of  that  Department.  A 
copy  of  these  rules  is  appended,  (marked  A.) 

On  the  eighteenth  of  January,  special  orders  were  issued  by  me  to  the 
several  bureaus  placed  under  my  control,  requiring  a  full  report  of  the 
condition  of  each.  From  the  shape  and  incompleteness  of  most  of  these 
statements,  it  was  apparent  that  the  "  Army  llegulations"  had  not  been 
sufficiently  the  standard  of  form.  Long  experience  has  demonstrated  that 
the  close  observance  of  these  rules  is  essential  to  the  establishment  of 
system,  the  attainment  of  accuracy,  and  the  enforcement  of  economy  iu  the 
administration  of  military  affairs.  The  system  of  regular  and  specific 
requisitions,  according  to  form,  for  each  month  or  quarter,  was  entirely 
neglected  ;  and  hence,  perhaps,  the  several  bureaus,  with  one  exception, 
were  burdened  with  debt  when  I  came  into  office.     The  want  of  cash,  and 


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punctuality  in  payment,  made  prices  higher  to  the  State  than  to  some  other 
buyers  and  contractors.  In  some  instances,  as  I  am  informed  by  the  heads 
of  bureaus,  purchases  were  made  at  a  rate  enhanced  five  per  cent,  on  cash 
prices.  This  evil  was  soon  remedied,  by  enforcing  strict  conformity  to  the 
rules  of  regular,  specific,  monthly  requisitions,  and  upon  them,  supplying 
the  money  for  each  month  in  advance.  In  this  I  was  promptly  and 
efficiently  aided  by  all  the  officers  under  this  Department. 

It  was  my  desire  to  present  accui'ately  to  your  Excellency  the  condition 
of  affiiirs  in  the  Military  Department  on  the  first  day  of  January  last,  but, 
despite  of  the  most  unremitting  exertions,  I  am  not  able  to  do  so,  because 
of  the  entire  neglect  of  that  system,  order  and  observance,  and  application 
of  the  regulations,  I  have  referred  to.  As  drill  and  discipline  are  indis- 
pensable to  fit  the  soldier  for  the  field,  so  time,  experience,  and  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  approved  forms,  are  equally  essential  to  qualify  the  officer  for 
his  bureau,  and  the  clerk  for  his  desk.  It  is  no  reflection,  therefore,  upon 
your  officers  to  intimate  that,  as  citizens,  aroused  from  the  peaceful  pursuits 
of  an  entire  life,  without  the  req«isite  experience,  or  superior  guidance, 
they  should  be,  for  a  time,  embarrassed,  and  perhaps  confused,  by  the 
suddenness  with  which  the  vast  and  multiform  military  interests  of  the 
State  and  country  were  pressed  upon  them.  I  have  called  your  attention 
to  this  point,  to  account  for  any  apparent  deficiency  in  extent  of  information 
or  accuracy  in  detail  during  the  period  alluded  to,  and  which  it  might  have 
been  in  my  power  to  avoid,  and  my  pleasure  to  supply,  if  the  bureau  pro- 
visions of  the  Army  Regulations  had  been  enforced  from  the  date  of 
secession  to  the  establishment  of  this  Department.  I  have  another  object, 
and  the  main  one,  which  is,  to  urge  that  these  Regulations  be  strictly  ob- 
served in  the  future,  as  they  furnish  the  only  plan  whereby  the  finances  of 
the  State  can  be  efi"ectually  guarded,  its  resources  properly  developed  and 
economically  applied,  and  full  justice  be  always  done  to  the  soldier,  by  the 
State  being  ever  ready  to  supply  his  wants. 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  bring  to  your  attention,  and  through  you  to 
the  State,  my  acknowledgments  for  the  many  valuable  suggestions,  as  well 
as  hearty  cooperation,  of  the  heads  of  bureaus,  in  my  endeavors  to  produce 
order,  efficiency  and  economy.  I  refer  you  to  the  numerous  elaborate 
statements,  exhibits,  reports  and  accounts,  made  from  their  several  offices, 
on  file  in  this  Department,  as  furnishing  ample  proof  of  the  fact  that  their 
positions,  at  least,  have  not  been  sinecures.  And  while  our  hearts  thrill 
with  gratitude  and  admiration  for  the  heroic  achievements  of  our  war-worn 
soldiery  in  the  field,  we  must  not  forget  the  silent,  incessant  and  unap- 
plauded  toil  of  these  officers,  upon  whose  labor  depends,  in  no  small  degree, 
the  credit  of  the  State,  and  the  maintenance,  comfort  and  efficiency  of  the. 
army.     Without  fidelity  and  efficiency  in  the  Quartermaster,  Commissary, 


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and  Ordnance  Departments,  the  genius  of  Napoleon  would  be  brought  to 
naught.  They  should,  therefore,  be  considered  as  of  the  highest  impor- 
tance, and  filled  always  and  only  with  the  ablest  and  most  faithful  and 
experienced  officers. 

By  a  brief  analysis,  I  propose  to  show,  from  the  reports  of  the  several 
bureaus,  the  extent  of  information  they  convey.  It  will  exhibit  their  con- 
dition on  the  first  of  January  and  the  first  of  July,  1862,  embracing 
the  first  two  quarters  of  the  current  year.  I  propose,  also,  to  add,  in  appro- 
priate location,  the  more  important  occurrences  of  the  present  quarter,  and 
to  the  date  of  this  report,  and  all  other  matters  of  interest  in  a  military 
way,  although  not  immediately  connected  with  any  of  the  bureaus. 

ADJUTANT   AND    INSPECTOR   GENERAL's    BUREAU. 

First,  the  strength,  condition  and  movements  of  our  forces. 

From  reports  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office,  I  have 
compiled  a  statement,  (in  the  Appendix  marked  B.)  showing  that,  on  the 
first  of  January,  1862,  the  troops  from  this  State,  under  Confederate 
orders,  were  as  follows  : 

For  the  war 7,111  men. 

For  shorter  periods 20,251   " 

Aggregate 27,362    " 

Of  this  number,  4,082  were  State  militia,  not  mustered  into  Confederate 
service,  leaving  really  in  Confederate  service,  subject  to  Confederate  con- 
trol, only  23,280  men.  It  appears  from  the  same  report  that  there  were 
at  that  time  sixty-four  companies  of  "  twelve  months  volunteers,  for  Con- 
federate service,"  either  in  camp  of  instruction  or  under  marching  orders 
for  it.  The  report  contains  nothing  in  relati(^n  to  the  condition  of  the 
militia  of  the  State. 

Upon  assuming  the  duties  of  this  Department,  I  found  the  militia  of  the 
State  virtually  disorganized.  The  causes  were  manifest,  and  may  be  stated 
as  follows :  First,  the  heavy  drain  which  had  been  made  upon  it.  Inciuding 
the  sixty-four  companies  in  process  of  formation,  estimated,  say  at  5,000, 
with  the  27,362  already  in  service,  there  was  then  an  abstraction  of  iti 
strength  of  some  32,362  men,  more  than  half  of  our  arms-bearing  popula- 
tion. Second,  the  indiscriminate  recruiting  actively  going  on,  by  special 
authority  from  llichmond,  by  officers  in  service,  to  fill  up  their  ranks,  by 
calls  from  the  State, to  complete  requisitions  not  fully  answered,  and  by 
consequence  of  the  Act  of  December,  1861,  vacating  all  commissions  under 
the  grade  of  general,  with  the  exception  of  volunteer  companies  in  the 
Fourth  Brigade  S.  C  M.     At  this  time,  also,  there  were  regiments  and 


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companies  in  the  field,  so  scant  in  number  as  to  make  it  proper  to  relieve 
them,  for  the  purpose  of  reorganization  ;  and  there  were  hundreds  in  camp, 
and  some  in  front  of  the  enemy,  without  arms  of  any  kind. 

On  the  second  of  February  last,  the  Secretary  of  War  made  a  call  upon 
the  State  to  fill  up  the  quota  of  troops  enlisted  for  the  war,  to  an  amount 
equal  to  ''  six  per  centum  of  the  total  white  population."  Assuming  our 
population  to  be  300,000,  the  quota  would  be  18,000  men.  The  Secretary 
supposed  we  had  furnished,  up  to  that  time,  about  6,000  men  for  the  war, 
and  called  at  once  for  five  more  regiments,  expecting  to  make  up  the  re- 
mainder by  reenlistment  among  the  twelve  months  volunteers.  Being 
satisfied  that  he  had  underestimated  the  number  of  men,  both  for  the  war 
and  for  twelve  months,  I  called  on  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  for 
a  report,  setting  forth  the  facts.  That  report  was  made  on  the  twentieth  of 
February,  1862,  and  exhibits  for  the  war  9,349  men,  and  for  twelve  months 
21,321 — total,  30,670,  sent  into  Confederate  service,  (see  my  report  in 
Appendix,  marked  C.) 

Before  the  letter  of  the  Secretary  reached  your  Excellency,  I  had  re- 
paired to  Charleston,  in  answer  to  several  pressing  calls  connected  with  the 
military  condition  of  the  State,  and  with  the  duties  of  my  office.  While 
there,  I  conferred  freely  with  the  Confederate  General  in  command  of  that 
District,  with  General  Gist,  and  communicated  with  General  Lee,  on  the 
various  necessities  of  our  military  condition.  Under  instructions  of  the 
Governor  and  Council,  (see  accompanying  papers.  No.  1,)  I  issued  orders 
for  the  reorganization  of  the  Fourth  Brigade,  S.  C.  M.,  as  one  of  the 
readiest  means  of  obtaining  immediate  aid  to  meet  threatening  dangers. 
With  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General,  I  considered  and  discussed  the 
best  mode  of  permanent  organization  of  the  militia,  to  meet  promptly  what- 
ever demands  might  be  made  upon  us.  (See  report — accompanying  papers, 
No.  2.)  On  my  return,  about  the  twelfth  of  February,  I  found  the  requisi- 
tion of  the  Secretary  of  War,  of  which  your  Excellency  had  previously  sent 
me  a  copy.  My  first  step,  under  the  authority  of  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil, was  to  issue  appeals  to  the  army  of  the  Potomac,  to  the  twelve  months 
troopt  in  this  State,  &c.,  to  change  the  term  of  their  enlistment,  from 
twelve  months  to  the  war.     (See  accompanying  papers,  No.  3.) 

The  report  of  the  twentieth  of  February,  already  referred  to,  disclosed 
the  fact,  that  although  the  troops  for  the  war  exceeded  the  estimate  of  the 
Secretary,  still  they  were  far  below  the  quota  required  of  the  State.  To 
meet  this  deficiency  in  the  quickest  and  most  effectual  way,  as  well  as  to 
establish  a  system  of  reserves,  to  answer  promptly  all  demands  in  future, 
on  the  seventh  of  March,  1862,  the  Governor  and  Council  adopted  a 
scheme  prepared  by  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  Gist,  in  conjunc- 


tion  with  myself.  It  was  a  system  of  enrollment  and  conscription.  (See 
accompanying  papers,  No.  4.)  The  only  patent  defect  in  the  scheme,  is  the 
clause  of  exemptions.  The  wisdom  of  the  measure  must  be  proved  by  its 
results.  Under  its  stimulus,  volunteering  took  place  with  such  alacrity 
that  our  skeleton  organizations  were  rapidly  filled,  and  new  formations 
made.  There  was  no  necessity  for  drafts  any  where  in  the  State  for  Con- 
federate service,  except  in  the  City  of  Charleston,  where  the  Adjutant 
General  encountered  every  species  of  harassment  and  delay.  (See  accom- 
panying papers — No.  5.) 

On  the  twenty-eighth  of  April,  1863,  the  State  had  not  only  furnished 
the  five  regiments  called  for,  but  had  exceeded  the  quota  by  four  thousand 
and  sixty-four  men,  as  appears  from  the  report  of  the  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector General  of  that  date. — (See  accompanying  papers — a.) 

Our  conscription  rolls  had  been  completed,  and  the  process  of  organiza- 
tion and  transfer  was  going  on,  when,  on  the  sixteenth  of  April,  1862,  the 
Confederate  Congress  passed  its  Conscription  Act.  This  law,  taking  from 
the  control  of  the  State  all  of  its  arms-bearing  men  between  the  ages  of 
eighteen  and  thirty-five,  threw  our  militia  and  conscript  reserves  again  into 
confusion ;  in  fact,  entirely  destroyed  the  latter  organization.  The  history 
of  Forts  Beauregard  and  Walker — the  condition  in  which  the  State  then 
was — pitiably  weak  and  unprepared — excited,  confused,  and  at  the  mercy  of 
a  bold  and  daring  invader — gave  us  a  lesson  which  we  would  be  criminal 
to  forget,  or  fail  to  improve.  It  became,  therefore,  necessary  for  us  to  adopt 
a  new  scheme,  and  that  speedily,  to  insure  our  protection.  Accordinglyj  on 
the  twenty-fourth  day  of  April,  1862, 1  had  the  honor  to  submit  to  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  a  plan  for  the  organization  of  two  corps  of  reserves — one 
for  active  duty  in  the  field,  the  other  for  police  and  patrol  duty.  (The 
resolutions,  regulations,  orders,  and  other  papers  relating  to  the  subject, 
will  be  found  in  the  accompanying  papers — No.  6.)  I  am  happy  to  state 
that  we  have,  of  the  first  corps,  ten  regiments,  fully  organized  and  offi-' 
cered,  besides  one  company  of  mounted  rifles,  and  others  forming.  It  is 
believed  that  from  them  we  could  throw  five  thousand  efi'ective  men,  at 
short  notice,  into  the  field,  to  check  the  enemy  until  our  Confederates  could 
appear.  We  have  ammunition  and  arms  of  good  quality — many  of  them 
the  most  approved  kind — sufficient  in  number  to  arm  the  whole.  The 
Combahee  Rangers,  organized  under  resolution  of  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil, have  been  accepted,  and  are  now  in  the  special  police  and  military  ser- 
vice, for  which  they  were  organized.  According  to  my  information,  they 
are  rendering  useful  and  valuable  service. 

Some  insubordination,  in  the  first  corps,  has  occurred  in  several  Districts, 
namely,  in  Marlboro'  York,  and  Lexington,  the  causes  of  which,  and  the 
means  taken  to  reduce  it,  will  be  spoken  of  hereafter. 


From  the  report  of  the  Adjutant  General,  of  this  date,  it  appears  that 
the  troops  from  this  State,  sent  into  Confederate  service,  are  as  follows  : 

Infantry — Twenty-nine  Regiments,  two  Legions,  nine  Battalions,  one 
Company. 

Artillery — Two  Regiments,  one  Battalion,  eighteen  Cgmpanies. 

Cavalry — Two  Regiments,  five  Battalions,  seven  Companies. 

Total — Thirty-three  Regiments,  two  Legions,  fifteen  Battalions,  twenty- 
six  Companies.  Making  an  aggregate  of  forty  thousand  men  contributed 
by  the  State  to  the  public  service. — (See  accompanying  papers — 6.) 

While  engaged  in  anxious  labor  to  uphold  the  credit  of  the  State,  by 
responding  to  every  just  demand,  and  to  defend  her  honor  and  maintain 
her  interests,  we  were  startled  by  the  intelligence  of  the  purpose  of  the 
Confederate  General  to  abandon  the  control  of  the  approach  to  George- 
town, and  thereby  throw  open  all  that  valuable  region  to  the  invasion  and 
ravages*  of  a  ruthless  enemy.  Protests  and  expostulations  were  imme- 
diately made  against  it.  General  Harllee  was  sent  at  once  to  General 
Pemberton,  to  communicate  with  him  on  the  subject,  and  to  enforce,  by  a 
personal  interview,  the  wishes  and  opinions  of  the  Governor  and  Council. 
Upon  his  return,  General  Harllee  made  a  verbal  report,  stating  that  Gen- 
eral Pemberton  declined  to  annul  his  order  for  the  abandonment  and  dis- 
mantling of  the  forts,  but  intimated  his  intention  to  leave  such  troops  in 
the  vicinity  as  the  exigencies  of  the  service  elsewhere  would  permit.  The 
President  was  addressed  on  the  subject,  and  I  asked  him  for  guns,  that  we 
might  undertake  the  defence  ourselves.  I  believed  then,  and  I  believe 
now,  that  the  region  could  have  been  successfully  protected  by  us  against  the 
inroads  and  raids  of  the  enemy,  even  if  totally  abandoned  by  the  Confederate 
General.  Governor  R.  P,  W.  Allston  was  the  bearer  of  the  communication 
•to  the  President,  and  succeeded  in  obtaining  two  fine  rifle  guns,  with  equip- 
ment and  ammunition — one  a  six-pounder,  and  one  a  twenty-four-pounder — 
which  were  receipted  for  and  deposited  at  Florence,  subject  to  the  order  of 
General  Harllee,  whose  report  (see  accompanying  papers — No.  7)  will  show 
how  they  were  finally  disposed  of.  To  use  the  guns  and  other  arms  which 
we  had  to  meet  the  emergency,  a  call  was  made  for  one  thousand  men — sub- 
sequently reduced  to  five  hundred — to  be  taken  from  the  Fourth  Division  of 
S.  C.  M.,  and^rom  two  adjacent  regiments  in  another.  General  Harllee 
was  appointed  by  the  Governor  and  Council  to  organize  and  command  them. 
Accordingly,  orders  were  issued  to  him  to  assemble  the  colonels  of  the  sev- 
eral regiments  indicated,  and  arrange  with  them  the  proportion  and  manner 
of  supplying  the  call,  either  by  volunteers  or  by  draft,  if  necessary.  All  the 
necessary  ordnance,  quartermaster  and  commissary  supplies  were  immediately 


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ordered  to  the  points  indicd'ed  by  Goueral  ilarllce,  where  they  were  re- 
ceived. Nothing  was  wanting  but  the  men.  Tiie  orders  issued  by  General 
Harlleo,  now  on  file  in  this  Department,  and  referred  to  by  him  in  his  re- 
port, show  that  there  was  no  want  of  efl'ort  on  his  part  to  accomplish  a  work 
BO  important,  and  for  which  he  had  manifested  so  much  zeuh  It  is  with  pain, 
sir,  that  I  state  to  you  tlie  fact,  that  while  the  men  were  in  the  countr3%  the 
spirit  \vas  wanting..  Very  few  volunteered,  and  it  became  necessary  to  re- 
sort to  a  draft.  Even  this  was  eluded,  to  a  great  extent,  by  the  rushing  of 
those  whoiWere  Hable  into  Confederate  service — many  among  those  who  sub- 
mitted to  the  dralt  refused  to  obey  the  orders  of  General  liarllee ;  some 
took  to  concei'.lmeut,  while  others  stood  in  open  defiance  of  the  law;  others, 
again,  became  predatory  outlaw.s,  and  threatened  acts  of  violence  and  robbery 
in  the  vicinity  of  the  few  troops  which  did  assemble  at  Stone's  Landing, 
on  the  Pee  Dee.  This  state  of  things  demanded  the  immediate  attention 
of  the  Governor  and  Council.  By  their  direction,  the  proper  orders  were 
issued,  copies  of  which  will  be  found  in  the  accompanying  papers,  (No^7a.) 
Some  of  the  recusants  were  seized  and  put  into  prison ;  others  warned  and 
summoned  for  trial  before  a  Court  Martial.  But  the  Court  itself  seemed  to 
have  been  inadequate  tn  the  conception  or  performance  of  its  duty,  and  the 
defaulters  escaped. 

Perhaps  it  may  be  well  to  inquire  into  the  supposed  causes  which  pro- 
duced this  lyihappy  and  disgraceful  state  of  affairs.  I  do  not  believe  that 
the  body  of  the  people  in  that  section  of  the  country  were  unpatriotic,  or 
inclined  to  the  disobedience  of  lawful  authority.  I  feel  otherwise,  for  from 
that  very  quarter  a  full  pioportion  of  gallant  soldiers  have  been  sent  to 
the  field  in  Confederate  service.  But  the  time  of  the  call  was  unpropitious 
to  the  agricultural  interest;  the  country  to  which  they  were  ordered  was 
supposed  to  be  unhealthy  at  that  season.  The  activity,  and  most  of  the 
energy,  had  been  already  extracted;  the  love  of  ease,  convenience,  and  the 
desire  to  pursue  ordinary  vocations  had  their  full  influence  ailiong  those 
who  remained.  Still,  I  believe  these  would  have  been  overcome,  but  for  the 
fact  that  there  were  some  leading  men,  disaffected  to  the  existing  Government 
of  the  State,  who  seized  upon  the  facts  I  have  mentioned,  and  endeavored  to 
poison  the  minds  of  the  people  by  inculcating  the  idea  that  the  authority 
from  which  the  orders  emanated  was  unconstitutional — that  the  Conven- 
tion of  the  people  of  South  Carolina  was  without  lawful  existence,  and 
without  power.  They  were  stimulated  and  supplied  with  noxious  pa&M?wm, 
through  the  channels  of  an  uninformed  press.  All  have  stricken  at  the 
sovereignty  of  the  State.  Thus,  sir,  were  ignorance,  indolence,  selfishness, 
disaffection,  and,  to  some  extent,  disappointed  ambition,  combined  and  made, 
unwittingly,  to  aid  and  abet  the  enemy,  and,  in  like  manner,  to  become  the 
coadjutors  of  Lincoln  and  all  the  hosts  of  abolition  myrmidons. 
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It  is  believed  that  in  this  way,  and  by  such  iuflueuces,  the  Executive  au- 
thority of  the  State  was  frustrated,  and  prevented  from  securing  from  de- 
vastation one  of  the  finest  and  richest  portions  of  our  country. 

The  abandonment  of  the  forts  and  the  region  about  Georgetown,  by  the 
Confederate  Grovernment,  came  upon  us  at  a  most  inauspicious  moment. 
All  ihe  troops  we  had  then  organized  were,  but  a  short  time  before,  trans- 
ferred to  the  Confederacy,  to  fill  up  the  quota  required  by  the  Secretary  of 
War  ;  and  all  the  conscripts  wc  had  then  enrolled,  and  from  among  whom 
we  could  have  raised  a  force  ample  for  the  defence  of  our  eastern  coast, 
were,  at  the  very  moment  of  need,  swept  from  us  by  the  Conscription  Act 
of  Congress. 

In  this  connection,  permit  me  to  inform  you  that  there  are  certain  recu- 
sant captains,  who  mock  at  the  power  of  the  Convention,  and  pretend  to 
defy  the  Executive  authority  which  it  has  instituted  for  the  exigencies  of 
the  war.  (See  accompanying  papers — No.  8.)  It  is  hoped  that  calm  re- 
flection and  a  returning  sense  of  what  is  due  to, the  State  in  her  present 
emergency,  will  render  unnecessary  an  appeal  to  the  higher  powers  of  the 
law.  But,  if  this  hope  shall  prove  fallacious,  then  I  trust  your  Excellency 
and  the  Council  will  approve  of  the  measures  I  have  prepared  to  reduce 
them  to  obedience,  to  vindicate  the  majesty  of  the  law,  and  to  uphold  the 
outraged  dignity  of  the  State. 

I  ask  leave,  also,  to  submit,  for  the  information  of  your  Excellency,  as 
part  of  the  proceedings  of  my  Department,  the  telegrams  from  the  Mayor 
of  Cheraw  and  General  Prince,  commanding  Seventh  Brigade  of  S.-C.  M., 
in  relation  to  the  expected  advance  of  the  enemy's  gunboats  up  the  Pee 
Dee  River  ;  the  authority  I  gave  them  at  their  request ;  to  the  protest  of 
many  of  the  worthy  citizens  of  Marlboro'  District,  against  the  proceedings 
of  General  Prince ;  and  my  reply  to  the  said  protest.  (See  accompanying 
papers — No.  9.) 

The  question  of  exemption  from  military  service,  and  the  seeming  con- 
flict between  the  State  and  Confederate  law  on  that  subject,  was  a  source  of 
some  embarrassment,  and  made  heavy  drafts  upon  our  time  and  attention. 

The  exemption  of  overseers — a  matter  so  important  to  the  agricultural 
interests  of  the  State,  and  so  essential  to  a  proper  system  of  police — the 
Convention  saw  fit  to  confide  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  of  the 
State.  But  the  exemption  of  all  other  classes  was  -left  exclusively  under 
the  control  of  the  Governor  and  Council. 

Finding  that  much  anxiety  prevailed  on  the  subject,  1  caused  the  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector  General  to  issue  a  notification  to  all  concerned,  that 
those  who  held  certificates  of  exemption  from  the  State  authority,  would 
be  protected  under  them.  Subsequently,  and  on  the  third  day  of  April,  I 
addressed  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  at  Richmond,  representing  the 


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importance  of  the  matter — suggesting  a  plan  whereby  all  difficulty  could 
be  avoided,  and  urging  the  exemption  of  overseers  and  military  cadets. 
The  reply  of  the  Secretary  was  not  satisfactory.  In  the  latter  part  of  June, 
and  early  in  July,  when  I  was  charged  by  the  Grovernor  and  Council  to 
represent  the  interests  of  the  State  in  Richmond,  I  brought  the  subject, 
among  other  matters,  to  the  attention  of  the  Secretary,  and  again  urged 
upon  him  its  importance.  I  stated  to  him,  that  if  there  was  one  great  lead- 
ing principle  which  distinguished  the  original  contest  between  the  Confed- 
erate and  the  United  States,  it  was  the  difference  between  them  in  relation 
to  the  sovereignty  of  the  States.  We  warred  to  maintain  the  sovereignty 
and  equality  of  each  and  all  of  our  States,  while  they  endeavored  to  oblit- 
erate the  States  and  consolidate  a  despotic  empire — that  the  Governor  and 
Council  must  be  governed  by  our  view  of  the  principle  in  insisting  upon 
the  exemption — that  we  were  but  the  agents  of  the  Convention,  which 
represented  the  sovereignty  of  the  State,  and  which  had  imperatively  com- 
manded the  exemption  of  overseers  in  stated  cases — that  for  us  the  Ordi- 
nance of  the  Convention  was  paramount  law,  and  that  we  owed  it  to^the  sove- 
reign power  to  insist — we  had  no  alternative.  The  Secretary,  of  course, 
could  not  alter  the  law  of  Congress,  but  assured  me  there  should  be  no  con- 
flict— that  he  had  instructed  his  officer  charged  with  the  subject,  to  protest 
in  cases  where  the  State  insisted,  and  send  up  the  matter  to  Richmond. 
The  question  now  has  taken  that  turn — where  it  rests  for  the  present. 
(See  accompanying  papers — No.  10.) 

The  power  of  appointment  to  office  in  the  organizations  known  as  the 
Regular  Artillery,  Infantry  and  Cavalry  of  South  Carolina,  has  presented 
another  vexed  question,  causing  much  correspondence,  and  some  conflict. 
The  power,  for  what  seemed  to  be  sufficient  reasons,  though  not  admitted 
to  bo  in  the  President,  was  finally  transferred  to  him.  For  full  information 
on  this  subject,  I  refer  you  to  the  papers  which  accompany  t^is  report. 
(See  accompanying  papers — No.  11.) 

In  obedience  to  the  resolutions  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  I  corres- 
ponded with  the  Confederate  General  commanding  in  South  Carolina,  in 
relation  to  guards  for  the  railroad  bridges  and  trestles  in  this  State.  It 
will  be  seen  that  he  declined  to  make  a  detail  of  men  for  that  purpose. 
(See  accompanying  papers — No.  12.) 

The  defence  of  the  City  of  Charleston  has  been,  to  us  all,  a  source  of 
constant  solicitude.  I  have  looked  with  deep  interest,  and  some  anxiety,  on 
the  preparations,  material  and  progress  of  the  defensive  Works.  By  re- 
quest, I  have  ventured  suggestions,  and  by  authority  of  the  Governor  and 
Council,  I  have  had  correspondence  and  personal  interviews  with  the  Pres- 
ident and  General  Cooper,  in  RichnJond,  touching  all  these  subjects.  Of 
my  official  visit  to  Richmond,  I  made  a  verbal  report  to  the  Governor  and 


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Council,  wliicli,  under  all  the  circumstances,  I  trust  your  Excellency  'will 
hold  to  be  sufficient.  I  found  the  President,  the  Secretary  of  War  and 
General  Cooper  keenly  alive  to  the  importance  of  an  effectual  defence  of 
the  City  and  State,  and  willing,  at  all  times,  to  do  all  in  their  power  to  ad- 
vance our  wishes  and  interests.  From  the  President,  I  am  able  to  tender 
the  State,  through  you,  the  assurance,  that,  when  the  day  of  trial  comes, 
he  will  not  be  unmindful  of  his  duties — nor  grudging  nor  slack  in  his 
performance  of  them.     (See  accompanying  papers — No.  7b.) 

Eeiog  impressed  with  the  inadequacy  of  the  communication  between 
Charleston  and  James'  Island,  as  well  as  between  the  city  and  the  forts  in 
the  harbor,  I  directed  Mr.  J.  R.  Niernsee,  who  was  engaged  in  building  flats 
to  transport  stone  for  the  San  tee  obstruction,  so  to  increase  his  force  as  to 
enable  him  to  build  a  sufficient  number  to  establish  an  easy  and  adequate 
communication  between  White  Point  and  James'  Island.  He  has  experi- 
enced great  difficulty  in  procuring  either  material  or  labor.  The  work, 
therefore,  is  for  the  time  suspended.  I  submit,  however,  that  it  should  not 
be  permanently  discontinued.  The  gallant  defence  at  Secessionville  has 
saved  the  city.  The  brave  and  indomitable  Lamar,  and  his  gallant  com- 
rades, while  winning  renown  and  immortal  honor  for  themselves,  have 
placed  their  country  under  obligations  of  lasting  gratitude. 

The  defeat  of  the  enemy  at  Secessionville,  and  the  great  victory  before 
Richmond,  have  obtained  for  us  a  short  respite,  which  I  trust  will  be 
properly  improved. 

As  germain  to  the  subject  I  ask  leave  to  state  the  connection  of  this 
Department  with  the  vexatious  question  of  impressment  of  negro  labor.  It 
began  with  correspondence  with  General  Ripley,  in  Charleston.  On  my 
return  to  this  place,  on  the  sixth  of  February,  1862,  I  had  the  honor  of 
proposing  to  the  Governor  and  Council  the  following  resolution  : 

"  Rcsolvm,  That  it  be  referred  to  the  Chief  of  Justice  and  Police,  to 
inquire  into  and  report  on  the  propriety  of  rescinding,  suspending  or 
modifying  any  act  or  resolution  of  the  General  Assembly  of  this  State, 
giving  power  to  the  Governor  and  commanding  general  or  generals  of  the 
Confederate  States,  in  South  Carolina,  to  impress  and  seize,  without  notice, 
the  negroes  and  other  property  of  the  citizens  of  this  State ;  also,  upon  the 
expediency  of  adopting  such  resolutions  as  will  at  the  same  time  procure 
prompt  and  efficient  labor  to  the  Confederate  Government  in  this  State,  and 
protect  the  citizens  from  unnecessary  irritation  or  injustice." 

It  was  not  acted  on,  for  some  good  reason,  I  suppose,  probably  because  we 
were  induced  to  believe  that  each  call  \YOuld  be  the  last.  This  Department 
after  that  had  no  connection  wifcl^  the  subject.     Subsequently,  it  was  con- 


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sidered  by  me  only  as  a  member  of  the  Council.  My  communications  on 
that  subject  will  be  found  iu  the  accompanying  papers,  (No.  13).  I  ask  at- 
tention to  the  correspondence  between  General  Eipley  and  myself,  as  early 
as  February  last,  to  show  that  the  Confederate  commanders  did  not  then 
contemplate  the  present  magnitude  of  their  works,  as  I  have  recently  af- 
firmed, in  my  communication  to  the  Commissioners  of  Roads  for  Abbeville. 

Early  in  July  last,  information  was  received  from  iGeneral  Pemberton 
announcing  the  advance  of  the  enemy's  gunboats  up  the  Santee,  and  asking 
for  State  troops  to  defend  the  railroad  bridge  across  that  stream.  Adju- 
tant General  DeSaussure  was  immediately  dispatched  to  organize  the  force 
called  out,  and  conduct  the  movement.  For  an  account  of  his  proceedings 
I  refer  to  his  report,  herewith  sent.     (See  accompanying  papers,  No.  14.) 

The  Legislature,  at  its  extra  session  in  18'31,  appropriated  the  sum  of 
twenty  thousand  dollars  for  recruiting  and  reenlisfcing  the  regular  forces  of 
the  State.  And  again,  in  December,  at  the  regular  session,  by  resolution, 
authorized  the  Governor  to  apply  the  additional  sum  of  fifteen  thousand 
dollars  to  the  same  purpose.  What  proportion  of  this  sum  was  expended 
before  the  formation  of  this  Department,  I  have  no  means  of  ascertaining. 
Since  that  time  seventeen  thousand  dollars  have  been  expended,  or  remitted 
to  the  following  ofiicers: 

To  Major  Thomas  Wagner S12,500 

To  Major  J.  C  Simkins 2.500 

To  Captain  T.  B.  Ferguson -. 2,000 

$17,000 

All  returns  of  moneys  spent  are  made  and  vouched  at  the  Department  of 
the  Treasury,  and  as  none  have  reached  me,  I  refer  you  to  the  Chief  of  that 
Department  for  further  information.  I  believe,  however,  that  there  has 
been  no  regular  return,  except  by  Major  Simkins. 

QUARTERMASTER  GENERAL' S  BUREAU. 

For  the  condition  in  which  ibis  bureau  was  found,  for  the  changes  in  its 
organization  I  had  the  honor  to  suggest,  in  order  to  make  its  operation 
lawful,  efficient,  and  more  economical,  I  ask  leave  to  refer  to  a  report  made 
by  n»  in  February  last.  (See  accompanying  papers — No.  15.)  The  re- 
turns made  in  obedience  to  orders  from  this  Department  show  that,  notwith- 
standing the  heavy  payments  made  during  three  months,  from  first  October, 
1861,  to  thirty-first  December,  1861,  amounting  to  §370,177  17,  this  bureau 
was,  on  the  first  day  of  January,  1862,  burdened  with  a  debt  of  nearly 
$170,000.   It  was,  consequently,  trammelled  in  its  operations.   It  might  havo 


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been  profitable,  if  it  had  been  possible,  to  pursue  the  investigations  through 
a  period  anterior,  but  this  could  not  be  done,  because  I  have  failed  to  obtain 
any  satisfactory  records  or  returns,  or  any  showing  whatever,  previous  to  the 
administration  of  the  late  Col.  Glover.  And  even  from  these  I  am  unable 
to  collect  that  detailed  information  on  some  points  which  it  was  desirable  to 
present  in  this  report.  There  is,  however,  sufficient  evidence  to  show  that 
a  large  part  of  this  heavy  expenditure  was  made  on  account  of  the  clothing 
department,  csta'olished  under  the  order  of  your  Excellency,  in  September, 
18G1.  Should  the  amount  due  for  clothing  ever  be  collected,  it  will  properly 
go  to  the  credit  of  that  outlay,  as  should  also  a  due  proportion  of  the  issues 
of  the  present  year,  and  of  the  stock  on  hand  on  the  first  day  of  July,  1862. 
The  cash  transactions  of  the  first  two  quarters  of  the  current  year,  as 
condensed  from  the  returns,  on  file  in  this  Department,  exhibit  the  follow- 
ing results  :     (See  Appendix,  D.) 

lleceipts  from  all  sources,  from  January  1  to  July  1,  1862... ^274, 522  05 
Expenditures  for  all  purposes 239,702  29 

*Balanceon  hand  July  1,  1862 $34,819  76 

Of  this  balance,  $30,000  are  held  in  thirty  several  Confederate  bonds, 
bearing  8  per  cent,  interest,  which  I  directed  the  Quartermaster  General  to 
take  in  payment  for  sales  made  to  the  Confederate  Government.  The 
annual  interest  of  these  bonds  will  more  than  pay  the  salary  of  the 
Quartermaster  General.  Of  the  expenditures,  $169,047  56,  more  than 
three-fourths  of  the  whole  amount,  were  required  to  meet  the  liabilities 
incurred  before  this  Department  was  established,  leaving  the  comparatively 
moderate  expenditure  of  $70,654  73  for  the  transactions  of  the  current 
year.  This  sum  includes  the  extraordinary  expense  of  removing  the  bu- 
reau and  stores  from  Charleston  to  Columbia.  The  changes  in  the  bureau 
force,  suggested  in  my  report,  referred  to,  and  authorized  by  the  Governor 
and  Council,  have  been  made.  The  results,  as  exhibited  in  the  Appendix, 
(marked  E.,)  show  a  reduction  of  more  than  half  in  the  item  of  salaries, 
an  annual  saving,  when  compaired  with  the  highest  expenditure,  as  shown 
in  the  account,  of  $8,305  60,  and  when  compared  with  the  lowest,  an  an- 
nual saving  of  $6,205  60.  Nothwithstanding  this  efi"ort  at  economy,  the 
operations  of  the  bureau  have  been   conducted  with  a  vigor  and  prompt- 

___^ , : i ■ 

*  Balance  on  hand  July  1 $34,819  76 

Receipts  during  July 55,055  19 

$89,874  95 
Expenditures  during  July 6,484  42 

Balance  on  hand  1st  August,  1862 $83,390  53 


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itude  fully  adequate  to  any  demand  which  has  been,  and,  it  is  believed, 
which  may  be  made  upon  it.  It  is  now  entirely  free  from  debt,  and  I  have 
no  doubt  that  its  efficient  condition  will  not  only  be  sustained,  but  increased, 
by  the  able,  energetic  and  experienced  chief  now  at  its  head. 

Exhibit  F.,  in  the  Appendix,  is  an  abstract  of  the  purchase  and  issue  of 
leading  articles  from  the  first  of  January  to  the  first  of  July,  1862. 

In  my  report  of  the  seventh  of  February  last,  (before  referred  to,  as  No. 
15,  accompanying  papers,)  I  called  the  attention  of  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil to  the  fact,  that  the  mode  of  supplying  clothing,  &c.,  to  the  soldiers,  was 
not  in  accordance  with  the  Act  of  Congress,  passed  August,  1861,  and  by 
dealing  with  the  captains  of  companies  instead  of  directly  with  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  as  the  law  provides,  I  feared  would  occasion  great  loss  to  the 
State.  I  stated  that  I  did  not  discontinue  the  system  at  once,  because  our 
interests  had  already  become  (*htangled  with  it,  but  I  urged  such  discontin- 
uance at  as  early  a  day  in  the  future  as  they  would  permit. 

The  results  of  the  .system  are  more  disastrous  than  I  then  thought  possi- 
ble. Although  the  returns  indicate  a  large  increase  in  the  collections  for 
clothing  sold,  as  will  be  seen  in  exhibit  D.,  (before  referred  to,)  still,  on  the 
first  day  of  July,  1862,  there  was  due  by  officers  for  clothing  thus  sold 
them,  the  sum  of  8127,288  94,  and  it  is  presumed  that  no  considerable 
portion  of  this  amount  will  ever  be  collected,  as  the  frequent  changes  oc- 
curring from  death,  transfer,  discharge,  promotion,  <&c.,  will  render  the 
most  untiring  efforts  for  that  purpose  unsuccessful. 

But  this  loss,  large  as  it  is,  does  not  cover  the  question.  The  advanced 
price  of  clothing  material,  has  rendered  the  fifty  dollars  commutation  al- 
lowed the  soldier  for  clothing  inadequate,  as  will  be  seen  by  reference  to  a 
tabular  statement  accompanying  the  report  of  General  Jones  on  this  sub- 
ject. (It  is  appended,  marked  G. ;  also,  see  accompanying  papers — No.  16.) 
From  this  statement  it  appears  that,  by  pursuing  this  system  to  the  same 
extent  as  heretofore,  and  with  half  the  number  of  men  we  have  now  in  the 
field,  the  State  would  lose,  in  one  year,  the  sum  of  nine  hundred  and  forty 
thousand  dollars,  even  were  we  able  to  collect  every  dollar  of  the  commu- 
tation money.  The  risk  of  this  enormous  loss,  as  well  as  that  actually  sus-  . 
tained,  was  entirely  unnecessary,  in  my  judgment,  as  the  Act  referred  to 
provides,  "  in  case  any  State  shall  furnish  to  its  troops  and  volunteers  in 
the  Confederate  sei-vice  such  clothing,  then  the  Secretary  of  War  is  re- 
quired to  pay  over  to  the  Governor  of  such  State  the  money  value  of  the 
clothing  so  furnished."  Such  being  the  case,  I  have  directed  the  Quarter- 
master General  to  discontinue  the  system  in  .its  present  form,  but  obtained 
the  authority  of  the  Governor  and  Council  to  continue  the  travelling  agent 
in  Virginia  for  the  present,  with  a  view  of  making  further  collections,  if 
possible. 


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In  accordance  with  the  resolution  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  adopted 
the  twenty-eighth  of  April,  1882,  I  have  appointed  General  James  Jones  a 
commission  to  inquire  into  and  report  upon  the  matter  of  future  supply  of 
clothing  for  all  our  troops.     I  have  his  report  now  before  me. 

In  obedience  to  the  resolution  of  the  eighth  of  August,  1862,  I  have 
ordered  all  the  officers  therein  named  under  bond. 

COMMISSARY    GENERAL's    BUREAU. 

I  found  this  bureau  in  admirable  condition,  and  in  the  hands  of  the  effi- 
cient officer  now  at  its  head.  The  stores  on  hand  were,  in  some  respects, 
limited,  but  measures  had  been  previously  taken  to  increase  them  largely. 

The  cash  transactions  for  the  present  year  are  shown  in  the  exhibit, 
marked  H.  in  the  Appendix.     Th&y  present^he  following  aggregate  results  : 

Receipts  from  all  sources, $152,952  44 

Expenditures  for  all  purposes, , 132,696  23 


Ealance  on  hand  the  first  of  July,  1862, $20,256  21 

Exhibit  I.  shows  the  cost  value  of  stores  on  hand  on  the  first  day  of 
July,  18G2,  to  be  8117,241  21.  Their  present  market  value  is  more  than 
double  that  amount.  This  statement  does  not  include  the  heavy  stores  of 
beef  and  bacon  cured  and  packed  in  the  upper  Districts  by  Mr.  Robert 
Adger.  The  correspondence  in  this  Department  shows  that  this  patriotic 
citizen,  failing  to  receive  any  authority  or  guaranty  from  the  State,  upon 
the  earnest  assurance  of  Colonel  Walker,  the  Commissary  General,  that  he 
deemed  the  measure  of  vital  importance  to  the  welfare  of  the  country, 
assumed  all  the  risk,  advanced  the  funds,  and  devoted  his  time  gratu- 
itously to  the  purchasing,  slaying,  curing  and  packing  of  beeves  and  hogs, 
to  the  extent  of  more  than  one  hundred  tons  in  weight,  which  he  placed  at 
the  control  of  the  State.  Such  conduct,  in  these  times  of  extortion,  stands 
out  in  bold  relief,  and  merits,  as  it  will  receive,  the  admiration  and  grati- 
tude of  his  country.  The  Commissary  General,  while  receiving  this  valu- 
able contribution,  is  now  engaged  in  settling  the  account  of  Mr.  Adger. 

Exhibit  J.  will  show  the  leading  purchases,  issues  and  balances  for  the 
present  year.  From  statement  H.  it  appears  that  the  Confederate  Commis- 
sary has  been,  to  a  large  extent,  supplied  from  our  stores.  By  reference  to 
the  orders  and  correspondence  (see  accompanying  papers — No.  17,)  it  will 
appear  that  I  ordered  a  temporary  discontinuance  of  these  sales,  for  reasons 
assigned,  giving  to  the  Commissary'  General  discretion  to  resume  in  con- 
formity to  the  general  purpose  I  had  in  view.  This  measure  was  attended 
with  very  favorable  results,  inasmuch  as  heavy  stores,  in  consequence,  were 


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purchased  by  the  Confederate  Grovernment  from  the  Sea  Islands  and  aban- 
doned and  expof^cd  plantations,  while  the  State  was  thus  enabled  to  husband 
its  already  secure  supply,  to  meet  unforeseen  contingencies. 

The  accompanying  papers  (No.  18)  will  show  that  T  ordered  the  collection 
and  purchase  of  three  thousand  casks  of  rice  from  exposed  regions,  and 
afterwards,  by  authority,  duplicated  the  quantity. 

Owing  to  the  extravagant  prices  demanded  for  provisions,  I  have  deemed 
it  expedient  to  instruct  the  Commissary  General  to  supply  the  Commissariat 
of  the  South  Carolina  Military  Academy  with  stores  at  cost  prices,  thereby 
eflPecting  a  large  sieving  to  the  State,  without  impairing  our  resources  to  any 
appreciable  extent. 

From  time  to  time  our  stores  have  been  carefully  inspected,  and  reported 
iiTgood  condition. 

The  one  hundred  an(f  eighty-six  sacks  of  salt,  seized  in  Cheraw  last  fall, 
by  the  order  of  your  Excellency,  was,  by  authority,  sold  as  directed  in  my 
order.  (See  accompanying  papers — No.  19.)  I  have,  also  under  authority, 
directed  the  Commissary  General  to  distribute  the  eighty  sacks  of  ocean 
salt  we  have  on  hand  to  the  Soldiers'  Relief  Associations  of  the  several 
Districts,  to  be  sold  in  small  quantities,  at  cost,  to  the  families  of  our 
soldiers  in  service.  The  upper  and  more  populous  Districts  have  received 
the  first  supply,  and  we  expect  to  send,  as  fast  as  it  comes  to  hand,  a  due 
proportion  to  each  District  in  the  State.  I  have  purchased,  for  the  sum 
of  four  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  a  large  brick  store,  for  the  use 
of  this  and  other  Departments.  The  purchase  is  a  good  one,  and  the  title 
is  in  the  State.  The  building  can  now  be  sold  at  a  large  advance,  if  the 
State  desires  to  sell. 

Exhibit  J.  also  shows  the  locality  of  the  stores,  &c.,  where  they  are 
deemed  safe.  Notwithstanding  the  heavy  expense  of  transporting  them 
into  the  interior,  there  has  been  a  considerable  reduction  in  the  bureau 
expenses. 

SURGEON    general's    BUREAU. 

This  bureau,  in  charge  of  the  Surgeon  General,  has  not  been  organ- 
ized in  accordance  with  the  plan  suggested  in  his  report,  (see  accompa- 
nying papers — No.  20,)  because  we  have  had  no  large  bodies  of  organized 
forces  in  State  service.  Should,  however,  the  Confederate  Government 
leave  our  present  organization  undisturbed,  it  might  be  well  to  consider 
and  act  upon  the  suggestion  of  this  officer. 
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The  cash  transactions  have  been  as  follows  : 

Keceived  from  Treasury,  under  appropriations  of  the  Legislature,  $2,000  00 
Expenditures  on  Hospital  account,  as  per  vouchers  filed  in  this 

office, 7C3  12 


Balance  on  hand, $1,236  88 

At  the  suggestion  of  the  Surgeon  General,  I  issued  an  order,  in  July  last, 
directing  the  establishment  of  a  Way-Side  Hospital  at  Kiugsville  ;  since 
which  date  it  has,  under  temporary  arrangements,  dispensed  its  benefits  to 
the  sick  and  wounded  soldier  on  the  way.  I  am  happy  to  be  informed,  by 
the  Surgeon  Greneral,  that  the  permanent  hospital  building  is  nearly  ready 
for  occupation  ;  and  with  the  facilities  now  at  our  command,  we  have  good 
reason  to  hope  that  the  sufi'erings  of  the  soldiers  in  transitu  will  be  greatly 
allevia-ted. 

In  the  latter  part  of  March,  I  obtained  the  authority  of  the  Governor 
and  Council  to  transmit,  by  the  hands  of  a  trusty  agent,  exchange  on  Eu- 
rope for  the  purpose  of  replenishing  our  exhausted  medical  stores.  We 
have,  quite  recently,  received  the  bulk  of  our  purchases  safely,  and  I  trust 
that  the  Surgeon  General  will  have  it  in  his  power  to  open  and  report  upon 
them  before  this  report  is  closed.  From  the  supplies  received,  I  have  di- 
rected him  to  sell  to  our  soldiers  in  service  an  half-ounce  of  quinine  each, 
at  one-half  the  current  rates. 

PAYMASTER    GENERAL'S    BUREAU, 

This  bureau,  like  that  of  the  Quartermaster  General,  was  burdened  with 
pressing  claims.  The  troops  called  out  by  your  Excellency,  in  November, 
1861,  and  placed  under  the  command  of  Confederate  officers,  although 
never  regularly  mustered  into  Confederate  service,  being  all  the  time, 
however,  actively  employed  under  Confederate  authority,  it  was  hope4  that 
the  Confederate  Government  would  pay  them  ;  this  it  failed  to  do,  and 
our  unpaid  soldiery  became  clamorous  for  their  pay.  Immediately  after 
taking  charge  of  my  Department,  I  presented  these  facts  to  the  Secretary 
of  War,  who  replied  that  the  State  must  meet  these  claims  for  the  present, 
and  leave  the  matter  for  future  adjustment  with  the  Confederate  Govern- 
ment, I  then,  under  authority,  instructed  the  Paymaster  to  prepare  esti- 
mates. The  operations  of  this  bureau  have  been  principally  confined  to 
the  examination  and  settlement  of  these  claims. 

The  cash  transactions,  exhibited  in  the  Appendix,  (marked  K.,)  show  the 
following  aggregate  results  : 


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Receipts  from  all  sources,  to  30th  of  June, 357,788  89 

Expenditures  for  all  purposes,  "  "  54-,405  23 

Balance  on  hand  the  first  of  July, $3,383  66 

The   Paymaster  General  has  no  clerical   force  in   his  bureau,   and  has 
faithfully  discharged  the  duties  of  his  office. 


ENGINEER  S   BUREAU. 

The  State  has  no  organized  Bureau  of  Engineers,  nor  any  engineer 
corps ;  but  under  this  head  I  may  refer,  with  propriety,  to  several  recon- 
noisances  made  under  my  instruction.     (See  accompanying  papers.  No.  21.) 

With  a  view  to  obstruction  and  defence,  in  February  last,  I  caused  a 
reconnoisance  to  be  made  of  the  Santee  and  Pee  Dee  rivers.  The  first 
was  conducted  by  a  commission  composed  of  Messrs.  John  L.  Manning, 
John  R.  Niernsee  and  John  Macrae.  It  was  thoroughly  done,  as  will 
appear  by  the  report  of  the  commission,  herewith  sent.  The  obstruction  in 
the  Santee  was  not  immediately  begun,  as  it  was  not  deemed,  at  that  time, 
necessary,  the  enemy  not  then  being  in  possession  of  any  gunboats  of  draft 
light  enough  to  pass  the  bar  at  the  mouth  of  the  river.  Not  feeling  easy, 
however,  for  the  safety  of  lihe  railroad  bridge  across  that  stream,  and  of  the 
plantations  below,  I  directed  the  obstruction  to  be  made  some  time  in  May 
last.  It  is  not,  however,  sufficient,  and  I  am  now  prepared  to  make  it  of  a 
character  so  formidable  that  no  boat  can  pass,  provided  it  is  defended  by  a 
battery  and  a  few  rifles.  The  direction  of  the  work  will  be  under  Mr.  Niern- 
see, in  whose  engineering  skill  and  ability  I  have  great  confidence.  This 
obstruction  is  below  Lanueau's  Ferry,  and  will  guard  both  the  Congaree 
and  Wateree  rivers. 

The  reconnoisance  and  obstruction  of  the  Pee  Dee  ^iver  were  intrusted 
to  a  commission  consisting  of  Generals  Harllee  and  Gonzales,  Mr.  Geddes, 
and  others.  This  obstruction,  at  Stone's  landing,  on  the  Pee  Dee,  has  been 
complete  for  many  months.  The  work  was  promptly  and  energetically 
done.  It  is  supposed  to  be  adequate,  and  is  guarded  by  a  battery  and  some 
infantry.  For  further  information  on  this  subject,  I  refer  your  Excellency 
to  the  report  of  General  Harllee,  which  is  herewith  sent. 

The  cost  of  the  reconnoisances  was  but  small — the  gentlemen  of  the 
commission  charging  only  their  personal  expenses.  The  obstruction  on  the 
Pee  Dee  cost  us,  according  to  the  report,  four  thousand  four  hu4jidred  and 
twenty-six  dollars.  That  on  the  Santee  is  not  complete,  but  we  suppose 
will  not  cost  more. 


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I  caused  still  another  reconnoisance  to  be  made,  which  was  of  the  moun- 
tain passes  leading  to  this  State  from  Tennessee,  North  Carolina  and  Geor- 
gia. This  was  performed  by  Messrs.  J.  R.  Niernsee  and  John  Macrae,  fib 
may  yet  prove  very  useful.  For  the  manner  in  which  it  was  done,  and  for 
full  information  on  the  subject,  I  take  great  pleasure  in  referring  you  to 
the  elaborate  report  of  these  gentlemen,  herewith  sent,  and  to  the  beautiful 
map  which  accompanies  it. 

.     The  entire  cost  of  all  the  reconnoisanccs  and  obstructions,  as  far  as  ren- 
dered, will  be  seen  to  be  comparatively  small.     (See  Appendix,  L.) 

Expenditures, S5,458  33 

Cash  drawn  from  Treasury, 5,458  33 

ORDNANCE    BUREAU. 

On  assuming  the  supervision  of  this  bureau,  I  discovered  that  its  large 
stores  of  ordnance  and  small  arms  had  been  scattered  broadcast  over  the 
Confederacy,  and  its  efficiency  much  injured  by  an  irregularity  which  I 
will  notice  hereafter,  and  of  which  the  able  officer  in  charge  complained. 
As  the  best  method  of  presenting  its  condition,  I  propose  a  brief  review  of 
the  operations  of  1861.  A  tabular  statement,  prepared  from  reliable  data, 
furnished  by  the  laborious  investigations  and  elaborate  reports  of  Major 
Eason  and  Captain  Thomas,  is  hereto  appended,  (marked  M.,)  and  shows 
the  following  results  : 

Heavy  Ordnance — On  hand  December,  1860, 103 

Purchased  from  Tredegar  Works  in  1861, 10 

113 

Issued, 100 

On  hand  the  first  of  January,  1862, 13 

Field  Artillery — Onf^hand  December,  1860, 66 

Donated  by  Messrs.  Eraser  &  Co., 2 

"     "     P.  C.  J.  Weston  &  C.  K.  Prioleau,  1  each,     2 

70 

Issued., 52 

On  hand  the  first  of  January,  1862, 18 

Muskets  and  Rifles— On  hand  December,  1860, 27,407 

Bought  by  order  of  Governor  Gist, 4,850     . 

32,257 

Issued  or  unaccounted  for, 29,086 

3,171 
Deduct  condemned,  "Irreparable,"..  452 

On  hand  the  first  of  January,  1862, ■  2,719 


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Of  side  arms,  two  thousand  two  hundred  and  seventy-one  pistols,  and 
two  thousand  three  hundred  and  thirteen  swords  and  sabres,  had  been  dis- 
tributed, leaving  none  of  the  former,  and  only  three  hundred  and  thirty- 
five  of  the  latter,  on  hand  the  first  of  January,  1862. 

Powder — On  hand  December,  1860,  pounds  of....  20,400 

Purchased  in  1861, 417,550 

487,050 

Issued, 373,897 

64,053 
Deduct  old  and  damaged, 4,843 

On  hand  the  first  of  January,  1862,  pounds  of  59,210 

From  the  statistical  tables  (accompanying,  papers,  No.  22.)  it  appears  that 
a  large  proportion  of  these  issues  were  sent  beyond  the  limits  of  the  State, 
to  various  points  in  Tennessee,  Florida,  Georgia,  Nortli  Carolina  and  Vir- 
ginia. With  reference  to  the  irregularity  in  the  bureau,  of  which  I  have 
spoken,  I  submit  the  following  extract  from  the  able  report  ot  Maj.  Edward 
Manigault  to  t^e  Board  of  Ordnance,  made  November  twenty-first,  1861 : 

"  There  is  one  crying  evil  which  I  must  state  broadly  and  distinctly.  The 
Arsenal  Keepers  in  Charleston  and  Columbia  are  instructed  to  issue  ordnance 
and  ordnance  stores  on  the  order  of  the  Governor,  or  his  Adjutant  General; 
on  that  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  ;  on  that  of  the  Board  of  Ordnance,  through 
their  Chairman  ;  on  that  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  and  to  the  Major  General 
of  Militia  commanding  the  division  in  which  the  arsenal  is.  Whatever  the 
precise  instructions  may  have  been,  there  is  no  doubt  this  has  been  tbe 
practice."  In  consequence  of  this  irregularity,  it  became  necessary  to  give 
the  ordnance  ofiicer  an  order  not  to  issue  any  ordnance  or  ordnance  stores 
without  the  express  order  of  this  Department,  or  of  the  Governor  and 
Council. 

The  weakened  condition  of  this  most  important  branch  of  our  military 
strength  was  more  deplorable,  because  existing  at  a  time  when  the  enemy, 
flushed  with  having  successfully  established  himself  at  Port  Royal,  was 
arrogantly  threatening  our  speedy  subjugation.  Prompt  and  eflicient  action 
was  required  to  place  this  bureau  in  a  condition  of  adequate  supply. 

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Executive  Council,  on  the  ninth  of  January 
last,  I  had  the  honor  to  propose  the  resolution  then  adopted.  (See  accom- 
panying papers — No.  23.)  Under  its  provisions,  I  forthwith  published  a  call 
for  the  collection  and  return  of  State  arms  and  equipments,  inviting  those 
who  had  more  than  one  rifle  or  doub'e-barrel  gun  to  send  them  to  the 
Department,  to  be  paid  for  at  a  fair  valuation.  I  corresponded  with  parties 
of  known  energy  and  prudence,  authorizing  them  to  collect  public  arms, 


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and  purchase  effective  weapons  in  private  hands,  and  appointed  Captain  T. 
W.  Radcliflfe  General  Agent  of  the  State  for  that  purpose,  giving  him 
authority  to  appuint  sub  agents,  under  instructions. 

The  result  of  this  movement,  was  not  only  to  secure  some  hundreds  of 
serviceable  rifles  and  double-barrel  guns,  but  also  to  gather  into  the  State 
Arsenals  several  thousand  public  arms  and  accoutrements,  nearly  all  of  them 
serviceable,  or  susceptible  of  being  rendered  so,  and  four  light  bronze  field 
pieces,  with  equipments.  In  addition,  valuable  donations  of  small  arms, 
lead,  brass,  &c.,  were  made  by  patriotic  citizens  j  and  various  congregations 
and  corporations,  moved  by  a  holy  impulse,  freely  forwarded  their  bells  to 
be  moulded  into  cannon.  The  accompanying  papers  (No.  24)  furnish  the 
more  important  details  of  these  collections  and  contributions. 

Under  the  direction  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  I  appointed  Mr.  David 
Lopez  General  Superintendent  for  the  manufacture  and  repair  of  small 
arms.  (See  accompanying  papers,  No.  25.)  For  the  repair  of  arms,  and 
the  manufacture  of  pikes  in  which  I  had  never  any  faith,  the  work-shops 
were  occupied  in  the  State  House  grounds.  At  this  period,  the  demand 
upon  my  time  and  attention  from  this  and  all  the  bureaus,  and  from  an  in- 
finite number  of  other  sources,  became  so  oppressive,  that  I  obtained  the 
assent  of  the  G^overnor  and  Council  to  form  the  Department  of  Construc- 
tion and  Manufacture,  to  the  control  of  which  was  assigned  the  Hon.  W. 
H.  G-ist,  in  whose  hands  the  work  has  been  energetically  pressed.  For  fur- 
ther information  on  the  subject,  I  refer  you  to  his  report. 

In  the  latter  part  of  March,  under  authority,  I  transmitted,  by  Mr.  Evans, 
of  Charleston,  a  bill  of  exchange  on  England  for  the  purchase  of  rifles, 
ammunition,  equipments,  medicines,  &c.  Nearly  all  have  safely  reached 
us.  Some  cases  were  thrown  overboard  while  running  the  blockade.  Of 
the  rifles  (Enfield),  we  have  now  at  the  Arsenal  at  Columbia  2,535.  The 
purchases  made  under  this  adventure  could  now  be  sold  for  five  times  their 
cost. 

Under  authority,  a  revolving  cannon  has  been  purchased  by  the  Depart- 
ment, and  is  now  in  good  hands,  from  which  we  expect  good  service.  It 
was  only  lent  to  the  Confederate  ofiicer,  and  is  subject  at  any  moment  to  the 
order  of  the  State. 

Efforts  to  procure  powder  have  not  availed  much  to  increase  our  stock ; 
but  what  we  had  on  hand  has  been  carefully  husbanded,  and  issued  only 
when  the  puhlic  good  demanded  it.  At  an  early  period,  the  Confederate 
Government  was  notified  that  our  stock  was  low,  and  that  they  must  look 
elsewhere  for  supplies.  It  will  appear  in  another  part  of  the  report  that  due 
attention  has  been  given  to  the  production  of  the  material  most  essential 
to  the  manufacture  of  gunpowder. 


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An  examination  of  the  exhibit  M.,  before  referred  to,  will  show  that 
the  stock  of  fixed  ammunition  for  small  arms  has  been  more  than  tripled 
since  the  first  of  January  last,  requiring  over  12,000  pounds  of  powder. 
This  table  will  also  show  the  gratifying  result  of  my  efforts  to  procure 
arms. 

During  the  year  we  have  issued  7,397  effective  rifles  and  muskets — more 
than  three  times  the  number  we  had  on  hand  on  the  first  of  January  last — 
among  them,  the  1,000  received  by  your  Excellency  from  Richmond  some 
time  last  winter  or  spring;  and  we  have  now  on  hand  7,710,  nearly  triple, 
also,  the  number  in  January.  Among  those  we  have  now,  one-third  are 
new,  first-class  Enfield  rifles,  and  all  in  good  condition.  The  statement 
does  not  include  the  guns  now  in  the  work-shops  in  Greenville  for  repair. 
Of  side  arms,  also,  we  began  the  year  with  little,  have  made  large  issues, 
and  have  a  fair  supply  on  hand. 

The  small  supply  of  heavy  ordnance,  with  the  collection  we  have  been 
able  to  make,  has  been  exhausted  by  the  constant  and  heavy  demiuid  of  the 
Confederate  Government  for  the  defence  of  Charleston.  None,  however, 
has  been  sent  otlt  of  the  State.  We  have  but  two  on  hand.  The  field 
artillery  has  been  increased  thii-ty-one  pieces  since  January  last,  but  the 
issues  have  kept  even  pace  with  the  additions,  leaving  at  this  time  but 
eighteen  light  pieces.  There  were  twenty-two  artillery  carriages  on  hand 
on  the  first  of  January,  many  of  them  old,  and  sbme  worthless.  The  supply 
was  increased  by  twenty-seven  new,  or  thoroughly  repaired-  but  the 
demand  around  Charleston  has  reduced  the  total  number  on  hand  to 
eighteen.  The  supply  of  prepared  projectiles  has  been  more  than  doubled, 
and  the  unprepared  sustained.  These  facts  speak  well  for  the  energy 
and  efficiency  of  Major  Eason,  now  at  the  head  of  the  bureau. 

A  large  quantity  of  lead  has  been  purchased,  and  besides  that  moulded, 
we  have  now  on  hand  -1,000  pounds.  We  have  been  able  to  make  slight 
additions  to  our  cannon  caps,  and  an  increase  to  the  stock  for  small 
arms.  I  have  endeavored  to  obtain  adequate  supplies  from  the  Secretary 
of  War,  but  although  promised,  they  have  never  been  received.  With  the 
exception  of  powder  and  heavy  ordnance,  the  bureau  will  be  adequate  to 
all  probable  and  reasonable  demands.     It  is  now  in  good  condition. 

Exhibits  P.,  Q.,  R.,  S.,  and  T.,  show  the  issues  of  all  classes  to  the  Con- 
federate Government  during  the  present  year. 

It  was  deemed  prudent  to  move  the  heavier  and  more  important  stores 
from  Charleston  to  Columbia.  The  construction,  therefore,  of  a  new  mag- 
azine became  necessary.  Captain  Thomas  was  ordered  to  have  one  built. 
It  is  finished,  received,  will  contain  100,000  pounds  of  powder,  and  cost 
the  State  SI, 200.  Guns  repaired  under  some  contracts  which  I  have 
been  unable  to  see,  were  so  defective  that  large  numbers  were  constantly 


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returned  to  be  done  anew.  To  the  force  of  the  bureau  it  became  necessary 
to  add  a  first-class  armorer.  But,  notwithstaudkig  the  increase  of  the  bu- 
reau force,  its  expenses  are  over  two  thousand  dollars  less  per  annum  than 
those  of  last  year. 

Appended,  (marked  N.,)  will  be  found  an  exhibit  of  the  cash  transac- 
tions for  1861,  and,  notwithstanding  the  heavy  expenditure,  the  bureau, 
like  some  of  the  others,  was  burdened  with  debt.  Some  $33,000  of  old 
obligations  have  been  paid  since  January  last. 

The  cash  transactions  for  the  first  two  quarters  of  this  year  will  be  seen 
in  exhibit  0.,  and  may  be  stated  generally: 

Keceipts  from  all  sources, $109,176  54 

Expenditures  for  all  purposes, 106,770  60 

*Balance  on  hand  the  first  of  July, $2,399  94 

Most  of  the  troops  from  South  Carolina,  in  Confederate  service,  have 
been  armed  by  the  State,  and  it  is  believed  that  we  will  never  be  able  to 
reclaim  them.  The  Confederate  Grovernment,  as  I  undeuetand,  refuses  to 
redeliver  to  the  States,  but  assumes  the  ground  that  the  arms  have  become 
Confederate  property,  to  be  accounted  for  in  a  future  settlement.  How  far 
we  will  be  able  to  make  out  a  full  account  from  the  beginning,  I  am  unable 
to  say.  The  Confederate  Grovernment  has  made  application  for  the  arms 
imported  by  the  State  under  order  of  this  Department  I  have  taken  the 
liberty  to  decline  to  turn  them  over,  and  recommend  that  we  shall  never 
again  strip  the  State  of  the  means  of  self-defence. 

LEAD    MINE. 

Under  authority  of  a  resolution  introduced  by  your  Excellency,  I  availed 
myself  of  the  proffered  scientific  skill  and  services  of  Dr.  John  LeConte, 
to  examine  the  lead  mines  in  the  State.  The  lead  mine  in  Spartanburg  he 
reports  to  be  rich  in  ore,  and  easily  worked.  Arrangements  have  been  made 
with  the  proprietor,  Mr.  Cammeron,  to  place  it  for  a  time  in  the  hands  of  the 
State  without  charge,  until  all  expenses  incurred  shall  be  paid,  and  after  that 
time  to  receive  a  certain  ratio  of  the  yield.  Dr.  LeConte  has  taken  steps  to 
procure  the  necessary  skilled  labor  to  work  the  mine.  (See  accompanying- 
papers — No.  25.) 

*  Balance  on  hand  July  1 $2,399  94 

Keceipts  during  July 23,228  03 

$25,627  97 
Expenditures  during  July 20,385  91 

Balance  on  hand  August  1 $5,242  06 


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SALTPETRE   PLANTATION. 


In  the  early  part  of  the  present  war,  and  for  some  time  anterior,  one  of 
the  greatest  sources  of  anxiety  to  the  Government,  and  to  the  intelligent 
citizen,  was  the  very  limited,  in  fact  the  totally  inadequate  supply  of  gun- 
powder. We  were,  to  a  great  extent,  cut  oif  from  the  foreign  world,  from 
whence  alone  we  could  procure  a  sufficient  quantity  To  manufacture  a 
sufficiency  to  meet  the  wants  of  the  army  in  every  quarter,  was  beyond  our 
power.  The  chief  ingredient,  seventy-five  per  cent,  of  which  enters  into 
the  manufacture,  was  at  the  time  beyuud  our  reach.  It  is  true,  that  there 
were  within  the  limits  of  the  Confederacy  saltpetre  caves,  but  their  yield 
was  far  short  of  our  necessities.  There  was  but  one  way  to  supply  the 
deficiency,  and  that  was  to  produce  it  ourselves.  Accordingly,  early  in 
February  last,  I  caused  a  brief  statement  of  the  process  of  production  to  be 
published,  and  called  upon  all  who  could  to  aid  us  by  making  it.  To  this 
there  was  no  response.  I  determined  then  to  produce  it  under  the  imme- 
diate direction  of  this  Department.  On  the  fourteenth  of  March,  I  had 
the  honor  to  introduce  a  resolution  authorizing  me  to  do  so.  The  author- 
ity was  granted.  On  the  twenty-first  of  the  same  month,  I  wrote  to  Dr. 
W.  Hutson  Ford,  who  was  then  a  Surgeon  in  the  army  on  the  coast,  re- 
questing him  to  undertake  the  superintendence  of  the  plantation.  General 
Pemberton  at  once  detailed  him,  and  he  reported  here  without  delay.  On 
the  twenty-eighth  of  March,  Dr.  Ford  was  appointed  superintendent,  and 
entered  at  once  upon  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  with  great  zeal  and 
intelligence. 

Five  acres  of  land  were  leased,  for  this  purpose,  at  an  almost  nominal 
rate,  from  Dr.  Parker,  and  the  necessary  sheds,  buildings,  &c ,  con- 
structed. A  large  number  of  beds  have  been  made,,  which  are  in  rapid 
process  of  nitrification.  What  quantity  of  nitre  may  be  expected  from 
them,  cannot  now  be  accurately  stated,  but  it  is  hoped  and  expected  that 
after  a  period  of  from  eight  to  twelve  months  from  the  time  they  were 
made,  that  we  may  obtain  at  least  one  thousand  pounds  daily,  which 
would  make  one  thousand  three  hundred  and  thirty-three  pounds  gun- 
powder. In  order  to  produce  it  more  rapidly,  I  have  ordered  the  pre- 
paration of  a  wagon  train,  with  troughs,  pans,  &c.  This  can  be  done  by 
extracting  such  earth  beneath  buildings  in  Columbia,  and  the  adjacent 
country,  as  is  generally  found  to  contain  nitre.  By  these  means  we  can 
produce  saltpetre  enough  to  insure  a  constant  supply  to  manufacture  a  suf- 
ficient quantity  of  powder  for  the  wants  of  the  State,  at  all  times.  (See 
report  of  Dr.  Ford,  in  accompanying  papers — No.  26.)  The  sulphur  and 
charcoal  can  always  be  obtained. 
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It  is  believed  ttat  the  saltpetre  plantation,  under  the  charge  of  Dr.  Ford, 
is  the  first  ever  established  on  this  continent;  and  I  must  here  express 
my  obligations  to  Dr.  Joseph  LeConte,  for  his  valuable  aid  in  establishing 
this  plantation.  A  copy  of  his  "  instructions  for  the  manufacture  of  salt- 
petre," is  herewith  presented  to  you.  The  cost  of  the  plantation,  up  to  the 
first  of  July,  1862,  as  per  exhibit  U.,  appended,  is  as  follows : 

Receipts  from  Treasury, S9,488  10 

Expenditures  to  first  of  September, 9,100  59 

Balance  on  hand  September  1,  1862, $387  51 

GUNBOAT. 

An  appropriation  of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars  was  ordered  by  the 
Convention,  at  its  last  meeting,  for  building  a  marine  battery,  or  ram,  and 
for  the  construction  or  purchase  of  other  vessels  adapted  to  coast  or  inland 
defence,  and  the  Grovernor  and  Council  were  "  empowered,  on  consultation 
with  the  officer  of  the  Confederate  Navy  for  the  time  being  in  command 
of  the  Military  District  whereof  the  City  of  Charleston  forms  a  part,  to 
order  the  building  or  purchase  of  said  vessels." 

During  my  first  tour  of  duty  in  Charleston,  in  the  latter  part  of  January,  I 
conferred  freely  with  Commodore  Ingraham  on  this  subject ;  and  subse- 
quently, on  the  twelfth  of  February,  in  obedience  to  a  resolution  intro- 
duced by  your  Excellency,  I  communicated  with  him  in  writing.  He 
referred  me  to  flag  officer  Tatnall,  commanding  in  the  waters  of  South 
Carolina,  then  at  Savannah.  As  the  enemy's  fleet  intervened  between 
that  officer  and  the  harbor  of  Charleston,  I  addressed  the  President, 
at  the  request  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  asking  that  Commodore 
Ingraham  might  be  placed  in  command  of  naval  afiairs  in  Charleston. 
Commodore  Ingraham,  Captain  Hamilton  and  G.  A.  Trenholm,  were 
appointed  a  commission  to  carry  out  the  resolution  of  the  Convention,  and 
notified  that  the  fund   was  subject  to  their  order. 

This  commission  did  not  act,  because  it  was  thought  unnecessary  to  use 
the  funds,  and  impracticable  to  obtain  workmen  and  material — the  Confed- 
erate Government  having  already  given  orders  to  Commodore  Ingraham  to 
build  a  boat  of  like  chai-acter,  and  six  gunboats  of  smaller  class.  Thus 
the  matter  was  suspended  until  the  eighth  of  April,  when,  being  notified 
of  a  change  in  the  condition  of  things,  which  made  it  expedient  to  under- 
take the  construction  of  an  iron-clad  vessel,  another  commission,  consisting 
of  Messrs.  J.  K.  Sass,  G.  A.  Trenholm,  C.  M.  Furman,  W.  C.  Courtenay, 
and  W.  B.  Heriot,  was  appointed,  the  appropriation  placed  at  their  dispo- 


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sal,  and  after  unavoidable  delays,  the  enterprise  was  fairly  commenced  on 
the  ninth  day  of  April. 

For  the  manner  in  which  the  worlt  has  been  carried  forward,  as  well  as 
an  accurate  description  of  the  boat,  I  ask  leave  to  refer  to  the  report  of  the 
commissicn,  in  the  accompanying  papers.  (No.  27.)  The  "  Chicora"  was 
successfully  launched  on  the  twenty-third  day  of  August,  and  now  rides 
beautifully  on  the  waters.  The  vessel  will  be  transferred,  on  completion, 
by  name  to  the  Confederate  Government,  pursuant  to  an  agreement  with 
the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  to  do  so,  on  being  reimbursed   the  entire  cost. 

The  commission,  under  authority  asked  for  and  obtained,  are  proceeding 
with  arrangements  to  build  two  more  gun-boats  as  rapidly  as  possible — one 
of  them  to  be  of  lighter  draft,  for  river  defence. 

CONCLUSION. 

It  will  be  seen,  that  the  reports  of  bureaus  are  made  in  full  up  to  the 
first  of  July  only,  except  that  of  the  saltpetre  plantation,  which  is  made 
in  full  up  to  the  first  of  September.  This  is  done  because  the  monthly 
statements  form  only  partial  items  of  the  quarterly  accounts.  Wherever  the 
transactions  for  July  have  involved  matters  of  moment,  I  have  given  a 
synopsis  of  them,  and  may  remark  that  the  statements  for  that  month  indi- 
cate a  continued  careful  compliance  with  the  "  Army  Regulations." 

I  append  a  statement  (marked  V.)  showing  at  a  glance  the  object  for 
which  each  expenditure  was  made,  the  amount  of  the  expenditure,  and 
the  authority  under  which  it  was  made. 

The  multiplicity  of  subjects,  and  infinite  details  connected  with  the  op- 
erations of  this  Department,  have  enlarged  my  report  beyond  the  volume 
within  which  I  would  have  been  pleased  to  encompass  it,  but  anything  less 
would  not  have  presented  the  "  business  and  condition"  of  the  Department. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted, 

JAMES  CHESNUT,  Jr., 
Chief  of  the  Department  of  the  Military  of  South  Carolina. 


APPENDIX 


A. 


STATE   OF    SOUTH    CAROLINA. 


Executive  Council  Chamber,  ) 


January  17,  1862. 

Rules  made  and  established  hy   the   Governor  and  Council  for   the   man- 
agement of  the  Department  of  the  Military  of  the   State. 

Rule  I.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chief  of  the  Military  Department 
to  examine  into  the  military  condition  of  South  Carolina,  which  includes 
the  returns  and  present  condition  of  the  troops  in  service,  and  the  militia 
not  in  service,  together  with  the  number,  amount  and  condition  of  arms, 
ordnance,  ammunition,  clothing  and  supplies,  and  to  report  the  same  to 
the  Governor  and  Council. 

Rule  II.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chief  of  said  Department  to  keep 
in  proper  form  and  report  regular  and  exact  returns  of  the  military  force  of 
the  State  in  Confederate  service  and  in  the  militia  of  the  State,  and  of  all 
military  stores,  arms,  equipments  and  supplies  in  the  magazines  and  other 
places  in  the  State,  and  to  order,  receive  and  take  them,  and  all  arms, 
ammunition  and  equipments,  from  officers  and  other  persons  in  whose 
possession  they  may  be,  which  belong  to  the  State  and  are  not  used  in 
actual  service,  and  to  direct  them  to  such  places  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

Rule  III.  The  Chief  of  said  Department  shall  form  estimates  for  all  such 
stores,  arms,  ammunition,  equipments,  clothes  and  supplies,  as  may  be 
requisite  for  the  military  service  of  this  State  and  the  contingencies  of 
Confederate  demand,  and  providing  adequate  magazines  for  the  same 
where  such  do  not  now  exist,  and  report  the  same  to  the  Governor  and 
Council,  that  due  provi.sion  may  be  made  therefor. 

Rule  IV.  The  Chief  of  said  Department  shall  give  directions  necessary 
to  carry  into  operation  all  resolutions  and  directions  of  the  Governor  and 
Council,  by  orders  through  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Depart, 
ment,  for  raising,  arming  and  equipping  troops  for  the  service  of  the  State 


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and  of  the  Confederate  States,  under  the  authority  of  the  State,  and  for 
organizing,  providing  and  inspecting  the  same ;  and  to  direct  the  arrange- 
ment, distribution,  transportation  and  operation  of  such  troops  (till  mustered 
into  Confederate  service)  as  may  be  brought  into  the  service  of  the  State 
under  and  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  and  to  pro- 
vide for  the  transportation,  safe  keeping  and  distribution  of  supplies  neces- 
sary for  the  troops  called  into  the  service  of  the  State,  or  •which  the  con- 
tingency of  the  Confederate  service  may  appear  to  require. 

Rule  V.  The  Chief  of  the  said  Department  is  vested  with  all  such 
powers  as  are  necessary  for  a  full  performance  of  the  duties  above  specified, 
or  which  may  hereafter  be  imposed,  and  to  this  end  he  may  supervise, 
direct  and  give  all  proper  orders  to  the  Commissary,  Ordnance,  Quartermas- 
ter and  Medical  Departments  of  the  military  organization  of  the  State,  and 
command  all  oflBcers  and  employees  in  the  military  service  of  the  State,  and 
to  depute  to  them  such  matter  and  at  such  times  as  he  may  see  proper. 
He  is  vested  with  further  power  to  remove  all  persons  employed  in  any  of 
the  Departments  aforesaid,  and  to  appoint  others  in  their  stead;  but  all 
such  orders,  removals  and  appointments,  shall  be  done  by  orders  through 
the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Department,  and  shall  be  reported 
to  the  Governor  and  Council  at  their  next  meeting  thereafter,  and  be  sub- 
ject to  the  control  of  the  same.  Appointments  to  all  vacancies  in  the  mili- 
tary service  of  the  State  heretofore  vested  by  law  in  the  Governor,  shall  be 
vested  in  the  Chief  of  the  Military  Department,  subject  to  the  previous 
decision  of  the  Governor  and  Council. 

Rule  VI.  The  Chief  of  the  Military  Department  shall  keep  a  book  or 
books,  in  which  all  orders  and  directions  made  or  given  by  him  shall  be 
transcribed,  and  the  same  shall  be  submitted  to  the  Governor  and  Council 
at  each  successive  meeting;  and  to  enable  him  to  discharge  such  duties  as 
are  imposed,  he  is  authorized  to  employ  one  or  more  clerks,  upon  such 
compensation  as  may  be  fixed  by  the  Governor  and  Council. 

By  ord6r  of  the  Governor  and  Council. 

F.  J.  MOSES,  Jr.,  Secretary. 


'i] ^uii\f\i^yj  imn  ■■^■^^iiVSiL, 


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B 


Statement  of  South  Carolina  Troops  muxtn-ed  into  the  service  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  or  under  Confederate  orders,  on  the  frst  day  of  January^ 
1862,  compiled  from  the  reports  of  the  Adjutant  and  Insjyector  General  of 
South  Carulina. 


Style  of  Oboamza- 

TIOK. 


Name  of 

CoMjrA.VDER. 


Arm  of 
Service. 


Term  of  Ser-  I; 


■~  -r. 


Remarks. 


1st  Regt.  S.  C.  Vols. 

2d       •'       "       " 

3d       "       «       " 

4th      " 

."ith      "       "       " 

6th      "       " 

7th      « 

8th  " 
11th  "  '■  " 
Hampton's  Legion... 
Calhoun's  Lt.  Hiifry 
Mangiim's  Company 
Boykin's  Rangers..!. 
Kirk  wood  Rimgers.. 
Coifs  .\rtillery 

Isf  Regt.  S.  U.  'Vols. 

9th      '•        "        " 
10th      " 
12th      « 
13th      "        " 
14th      "        "        " 
15th      "        "        " 
16th      "        «        « 
17th      "        "        « 
Holcombe  Legion.... 

8.  C.  Regulars 

Coast  Rangers 

Rifle  Battalion 

Black's  Squadron.... 
Palmetto  Baltahon... 
Mauigault's  Battal'n 

Lamar's  .\rtillery 

Laurens  Battalion.... 
Boyee's  (ompany.... 
Orr's  Rifle  Regiment 
Mounted  Regunent,. 

Pee  Dee  Legion 

State  Cavalry 

4th  Brigade,"S.  C.  M.. 


Col.  Hamilton 

Col.  Kershaw 

Col.  'Williams 

Col.  Sloan 

Col.  Jenkins 

Col.  Winder 

Col.  Bacon 

Col.  Cash 

Col,  Blanding 

1.  Hampton 

(^apt.  Callioun 

Capt.  Manguni...., 

('apt.  Boykin 

Caj)!.  Sh.innon...., 

Capt.  Coit 

Col.  Hagood 

Col.  Heyward 

Col,  Manigault...., 
Col.  Duntiovant.. 

Col.  Edwards 

Col.  Jones 

Col.  DeSaussure. 

Col.  Elford 

Col.  Means 

Col.  Stevens 


For  the  War.i 
12  months.... 


Mi.«d.... 
.\rtilierv. 


Cavalry .. 

.Artillery- 


Mixed. 


Col.  Hatch 

Lt,  Col.  Moore.... 

Lt.  Col.  Black 

Major  White 

.Major  Manigault. 

('apt.  Lamar 

Major  James 

Capt.  Boyce 

Col.  Orr 

Col.  Martin 

Gen.  Harllee 


Cavalry . 


Artillery. 


Gen.  DeSaussure, 


Mixed.... 
Cavalry.. 


For  the  War. 

1*2  months.... 
For  the  War. 

12  months.... 
For  the  War. 


12  months.... 
For  the  War. 


12  months,... 
Limited 


S.C. 


Toial. 


800 

8U 

1,066 

973 

1.124 

813 

8ii3 

S19 

896 

1,100 

84 

84 

78 

63 

116 

860 

761 

1.146 

7sn 
704 
902 
813 
713 
783 
1,120 

760 
430 
362 
240 
260 
196 
391 
124 

1,030 
000 
800 
275 

2.40' 


Muster'd  in  Conf.  Service. 


Required  by  Gen.  Ripley. 


27.362 


ANALYSIS   AND    SUMMARY. 

In  Confederate  service, 23,280 

la  State  service,  under  Coui'ederatc  orders, 4,082 

For  the  war. 7,111 

For  ishurter  periods, 20,251 

In  service  in  this  State, 17,642 

In  service  iii  other  States, 9,720 

Under  the  Act  of  Assembly,  Deo.  7th,  1861,  there  are  in  camp,  under 
instruction,  some  fourteen  companies.  Accepted  and  under  marching  orders 
for  camp,  fifty  companies.  These  sixty-four  companies  are  volunteers  for 
tv^elve  months'  Confederate  service. 


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(a.) 

Columbia,  April  28,  1862. 
Hon.  James  Chesnut,  Jr.,  Chief  of  Military  Department : 

Sir  :  I  submit  herewith  Exhibit  A.,  showing,  as  nearly  as  can  be 
reached  from  the  returns  to  this  office,  the  number  of  troops  from  South 
Carolina  on  the  twentieth  of  February  in  the  field,  for  the  war  and  for 
twelve  months,  and  my  estimate  of  those  in  the  field  for  the  same  terms 
at  this  date.  Exhibits  B.,  C.,  and  D.,  show  the  efibrts  to  obtain  accurate  in- 
formation ;  Exhibit  E.,  the  number  of  companies  which  responded  to  the 
call  for  five  thousand  men.  Large  numbers  of  individuals,  volunteers  and 
recruits,  responded  to  that  call,  which  is  the  explanation  of  the  increased 
numbers  in  the  second,  third,  and  fourth  columns  of  Exhibit  A. 
I  am,  sir,  with  much  respect. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

WILMOT  G.  DeSAUSSUEE, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


Exhibit  A.  to  Adjutant   General's  Report  of  the  2.^th  of  April,   1862,  to 
Chief  of  Military  Department. 


Eeqiments,  Battalions,  Squadrons  and 
Companies. 


O    53 


CM    2 
<U  CI 


1st  Kegiment,  S.  C.  V.,  Hamilton,. 
Kershaw,.. 
Williams, . 

Sloan, , 

Jenkins,... 
Winder,... 

Bacon, , 

Cash, 

Blanding, . 
Hagood,  ... 


2d 

3d 

4th 

5th 

6th 

7th 

8th 

9tli 

1st 

Hampton's  Legion,. 

Boykin's  Kangers, 

Shannon's  Company, 

Colt's  Artilleiy, 

Manigault's  10th  Kegiment,  S.  C.  V., 

i2th  Eegiment,  S.  C.  V.,  R.  G.  M..Dunovant,. 
13th         "  "  Edwards,  


860 


78 

63 

116 


789 
764 


900 
450 
400 
400 
800 
450 
400 
400 
400 
600 
600 
78 
100 
125 
550 
1,000 
1,100 


841 

1,066 

973 

1,124 

813 

803 

819 

896 

850 

1,100 


1,126 


391 
666 
573 
324 
363 
403 
419 
496 
250 
500 


576 


Carried  forward, , 2,670    8,753  10,411    4,961 


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Exhibit  A.  to  Adjutant   General's  Report  of  the  2Sth  of  April,  1^862,  to 
Chief  Military  Department — Continued. 


Eegiments,  Battalioks,  Squadrons  and 
Companies. 


rg.o 

1  =  ^ 

a- CI, 


oi 


.  eq    . 

o  -    -a 


Br6uE:ht  forward, 

14th  Regiment,  S.  C.  V.,  Jones, 

15th         "  "  DeSaussure, 

Kith         "  "  Elford, 

17th         "  '*    '      Means, 

18th         "  '•  Gadberry, 

19th         "  "  Lythgoe", 

20th         "  "  Keitt, 

21st  "  "  Graham, 

22d  "  "  Abney, 

23d  "  "  Hatch 

24th         "  "  C.  H.  Stevens, 

Holcombe  Legion, .  Stevens, 

1st  Regiment  Artillery,  S.  C,  A.  Calhoun, 

1st  "  Infantry,      •'       John   Dunovant, 

Lucas'  Battalion, 

Moore's  Battalion 

11th  Regiment,  S.  C.  V.,  Heyward, 

Orr's  Regiment,  Marshall 

Black's  Cavalry,  J.  L.  Black 

Palmetto  Battalion.  E.  B.  White 

Manigaulfs  Battalion,  E.  Manigault, 

2d  Regiment  Artillery,  S.  C.  V.,    Lamar, 

James'  Battalion.  James, 

Boyce"s  Artillery,  Boyce, 

Coit's  Artillery,  Coit 

Felder's  Cavalry,  Felder, 

Adams'  Cavalry,  Adams, 

Nelson's  Battalion,  Nelson, 

Cavalry  Companies 

Infrantry  Companies, 

McCcrd's  Zouaves, 

Elliott's  Artillery 

Chichester's  Artillery, 

Gist  Guards, 

Beauregard  Light  Infantry, 

Eutaw  Battalion 

Alston's  Artillery, 

Stanley's  Artillery, 

McKenatt's  Company 

Stafford's  "  , 

Whitesides'         "         

Gwin's  '•         

Winsmith's         "  

Smith's  Battalion, 

LaFayette  Artillery, 

Marion  Artillery, 

Charleston  Battalion, 


2,670 
902 
813 


Carried  forward,. 
5 


620 

500 

94 

680 


1,030 
600 
240 
2G0 
300 


124 
116 


30Q 


100 


8,7.53 

1,200 

'JUO 


1,000 
800 


800 
750 
150 
800 
450 
1,200 
700 
450 
500 
800 


i60 
116 


3.50 
850 


100 
80 
80 
90 
100 
250 
80 
80 
75 
75 
75 
75 
75 


10,411 


713 
784 
708 
730 
790 
698 
786 
750 
489 
1,102 


761 


560 


304 
315 


690 
670 


4,961 


900 
800 
900 
900 
800 
850 
800 


1,200 


311 


600 


500 
600 


670 


600 

85 

110 

500 


9,349  21,914  21, 321  j  15,987 


84 

JExhibit  A.    to  Adjutant    General's  Report  of  the  2Sth  of  April,   1862,    to 
Chief  of  Military  Department — Continued. 


Ekgiments,  Battalions,  Squadrons  and 
Companies. 


:?^ 


I'M    O 


H^:^ 


Brought  forward,.. 

German  Artillery, 

Dixie   Eangers, 

Jefford  Kangers,...,.^ 

Ashley  Dragoons, 

Charleston  Light  Dragopns, ... 
Kutledge  Riflemen,  (mounted,) 

German  Hussars, 

Easley's  Squadron, 

Nelson's  Squadron, 


9,349 


21,914 


21,321 


100 


15,987 
200 
75 
75 
75 
75 

76 
308 
340 


9,349  22.064  21,321  17,210 


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EXHIBIT  E. 

Companies  accepted  under  the  Call  for  Five  Additional  Regiments. 

Twenty-Fourth  Eegiment  of  South  Carolina  Volunteers,  C.  H.  Stevens, 
Colonel  commanding : 

Captains  Sigwald,  Spears,  Appleby,  Gooding,  Jones,    Hill, 

Pearson,  Thomas,  Hammonds,  Tompkins, 800 

Regiment  of  Artillery,  T.  G.  Lamar,  Colonel  commanding  : 

Captain  Dickson, 77 

Company  "  F." 69 

';Ct." 79 

Second  Regiment  of  Artillery,  Colonel  Lamar  : 

Captain  F.  F.  Warley, 90 

J.  F.Sanders, 76 

J.  K.  Legare, 92 

M.  B.  Stanly, 100 

Charles  Alston,  Jr., 

T.  D.  Gwyn, 

II.  L.  Crawford, 

T.  P.  Whitesides, 

W.  J.  McKeratt, 

J.  II.  Stafford, 


100 

79 

76 

70 

70 

70 

Three  companies  of  Moore's  Battalion, 260 


2,108 


36 


c. 


Department  of  the  3Iilitary,  | 
Columbia,  S.  C,  April  28,  1862.      | 

To  the    Governor  and   Council : 

In  obedience  to  your  directions,  and  in  conformity  witli  my  duty,  I  sub- 
mit to  your  consideration  an  abstract  of  a  report  made  to  this  Department 
from  tbe  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General,  in  relation  to  the  forces  from 
this  State  in  Coni'ederate  service. 

On  the  2d  day  of  February  last,  the  Secretary  of  War  addressed  a 
communication  to  his  Excellency  Governor  Pickens,  stating  that  six  per 
cent,  of  the  entire  white  population  of  this  State — which  is  about  eighteen 
thousand — had  been  determined  upon  as  the  quota  to  be  furnished  by  this 
State  for  the  war.  Of  this  number  he  estimated  that  we  had  then  six 
thousand  in  the  field, "which  would  leave  twelve  thousand  more  to  be  sup- 
plied. This  remainder  he  expected  to  raise  by  reealistments  among  the 
twelve  months  regiments  from  the  State  then  in  service,  and  by  calling 
for  five  new  regiments.  At  the  date  of  the  communication  referred  to, 
he  supposed  that  the  State  had  six  thousand  troops  for  the  war,'  and  seven- 
teen thousand  for  twelve  months.  But  in  truth,  at  that  time,  the  rolls  iu 
the  office  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  exhibited  the  fact  that  we 
had  on  the  20th  of  February — a  few  days  after  that  date — 9,349  troops  for 
the  war,  and  21,321  for  twelve  months.  For  the  purpose  of  meeting  the 
requisition  made  on  the  State  for  its  quota  of  eighteen  thousand  men  for 
the  war — including  the  five  new  regiments  called  for — the  Governor  and 
Council  adopted  a  system  of  conscription.  The  result  of  that  action  has 
been  to  accomplish,  in  less  than  two  months,  more  than  was  required  or 
expected.  According  to  the  data,  information  and  estimates  now  before  us, 
we  have  in  the  field  in  Confederate  service  for  the  war  22,064  men,  and 
for  twelve  months  17,210  men,  making  an  aggregate  from  this  State  of 
39,274. 


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RECAPITULATION. 


Now  in  the  field  for  the  war 9. 22,064 

Quota  of  the  State — under  call 18,000 


Excess  over  the  quota 4,064 

In  service  for  the  war  at  the  time  of  the  President's  call 9,349 

In  service  now  for  the  war 22,064 


Increase  since  the  call 12,715 

Total  in  service  at   time  of  the  call .'...30,670 

Total  now  in  service 39,274 

Total  increase 8,614 

That  the  rapid  increase  of  our  forces  in  the  field  is  attributable  to,  the 
resolutions  of  the  6th  of  March  last,  establishing  a  system  of  conscription, 
I  suppose  no  one  doubts.  I  must  say  that  the  returns  now  made  are  by  no 
means  full,  and  cannot,  therefore,  be  said  to  be  accurate;  for,  notwithstanding 
the  constant  and  earnest  efforts  of  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Generals  Gist 
and  DeSaussure  to  procure  information  from  all  the  regiments,  we  have  not 
been  able,  so  far,  to  obtain  from  the  officers  anything  approaching  to  complete 
returns  of  the  new  enlistments.  Our  efforts  to  that  end  are  still  unabated, 
and  we  have  now  reasonable  expectation  that  they  will  be  furnished  in  a 
few  days.  When  these  returns  are  received,  another  and  a  fuller  statement 
will  be  made,  with  as  near  an  approach  to  accuracy  as  possible.  That 
statement,  I  have  no  doubt,  will  show  a  much  larger  force  for  the  war  than 
is  here  exhibited. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JAMES  CHESNUT,  Jr., 
Chief  of  the  Department  of  the  Military  of  South  Carolina. 


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(i-) 


Office  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


Columbia,  August  30,  1862.      j 


To  Ron.  James  Chesnut,  Jr.,   Chief  of  Military  Department : 

Sir:  I  have  the  honor  herewith  to  submit,  in  obedience  to  your  order, 
a  report  exhibiting  an  approximate  estimate  of  the  forces  contributed  by 
this  State  to  the  Confederate  service,  with  the  Regiments,  Battalions  and 
Companies  in  which  they  are  now  organized. 

The  list  of  organizations  will,  I  think,  be  found  complete,  and  by  refer- 
(BDce  thereto  it  will  be  seen  that  the  State  has  now  in  service  the  following: 

Infantry — Twenty-eight  Regiments,  two  Legions,  eight  Battalions,  two 
Coiiipanies. 

Artillery — Two  Regiments,  one  Battalion,  eighteen  Companies. 

Cavalry — Two  Regiments,  five  Battalions,  seven  Companies. 

Total — Thirty-two  Regiments,  two  Legions,  fourteen  Battalions,  twenty- 
seven  Companies. 

It  would  be  more  satisfactory  if  this  office  had  the  means  for  furnishing 
a  statement  more  in  detail,  particularly  of  the  present  strength  of  these 
organizations,  and  of  the  losses  by  disease  and  other  casualties  of  the  service. 
The  regulations  of  the  Confederate  service  do  not  require  the  sending  of 
rolls  or  stated  reports  of  the  condition  of  the  forces  to  the  offices  of  the 
States  from  which  they  are  respectively  drawn ;  and  when  troops  are  once 
received  into  Confederate  service,  all  official  knowledge  of  them  by  the 
State  ceases. 

By  reason  of  this,  very  great  embarrassment  has  attended  the  efforts  of 
this  office  to  keep  pace  with  the  organization  of  our  forces,  and  to  procure 
reliable  information  as  to  the  number  of  men  actually  drawn  from  our 
population.  The  original  rolls  of  Companies,  on  file,  furnish  but  little  satis- 
factory information,  and  give  no  data  upon  which  to  estimate  the  strength 
of  the  Companies.  They  give  but  the  number  with  which  the  Companies 
were  first  organized — in  perhaps  all  cases  the  mioimura  of  its  strength — 
whilst  the  accretions,  by  recruiting  or  otherwise,  not  being  reported,  are 
known  only  as  they  may  be  casually  ascertained.  During  the  period  from 
the  first  of  March  to  the  first  of  July,  under  the  pressure,  first  of  the 
proposed  State  conscription,  and  afterwards  of  the  Confederate  conscription, 
very  large  additions  were  made  to  the  then  existing  organizations,  by  the 
voluntary  going  forward  of  recruits,  very  few  of  whom  were  reported  to 
this  office.  In  some  instances  Companies  were  so  increased,  that  from  the 
excess  new  Companies  were  formed,  no  rolls  of  which  have  been  reported 


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to  this  office.  The  number  thus  irregularly  added  to  the  service  did  not, 
it  is  believed,  fall  short  of  5,000  men.  Much  confusion,  also,  resulted  from 
the  reorganization  in  Virginia  of  the  original  twelve  months  Regiments 
whose  terms  of  service  expired  in  April  last.  Entire  Companies  and  even 
Regiments  were  lost,  and  new  Companies  and  Regiments  formed;  in  most 
instances  retaining  the  former  names,  but  the  Regiments  in  all  instances 
composed  to  a  great  extent  of  new  Company  organizations.  The  original 
9th  Regiment  was,  in  this  way,  wholly  lost;  and  the  old  4th  was  reduced 
to,  and  yet  remains,  a  mere  Battalion. 

To  remedy  this  want  of  information,  and  to  procure  accurate  descriptive 
rolls  of  all  persons  then  in  Confederate  service  from  this  State,  with  details 
of  discharges,  deaths  and  other  losses,  blank  forms  were  prepared  by  this 
office,  in  obedience  to  your  order,  and  in  April  last,  were  forwarded  to  the 
Commandants  of  Regiments,  Battalions  and  Companies;  and  with  the  view 
to  procure  a  prompt  return  of  the  rolls,,  special  agents  were  appointed  to 
visit  the  troops  on  the  coast  and  in  Virginia,  to  impress  on  commandants, 
by  a  personal  appeal,  the  importance  of  furnishing  the  information  desired. 
These  efforts,  I  regret  to  state,  were  only  partially  successful.  In  some 
instances  the  agents  found  great  reluctance  to  prepare  the  rolls;  in  others, 
actual  unwillingness,  and  in  a  few  instances,  positive  refusals  to  undertake 
tihe  labor.  Out  of  over  four  hundred  Companies  theu  in  service,  only 
about  two  hunded  and  fifty  furnished  the  rolls;  and  of  those  so  furnished, 
many  were  so  hastily  and  imperfectly  prepared  as  to  give  but  little  satisfac- 
tory information.  So  far,  however,  as  they  were  carefully  and  properly 
prepared,  they  furnish  the  only  certainly  reliable  information  to  be  found 
in  this  office  of  the  strength  and  condition  of  the  respective  Companies. 

The  estimates  embodied  in  the  accompanying  report  have  been  made  up 
from  many  sources;  partly  from  the^April  rolls,  above  referred  to;  partly 
from  reports  obtained  from  officers  in  command;  partly  from  returns  to  the 
Confederate  officer  commanding  the  Department  of  South  Carolina  and 
Georgia;  partly  from  information  furnished  by  individuals;  and  in  a  few 
instances,  from  conjecture.  These  estimates  are  intended  to  represent  the 
highest  number  of  men  who,  from  first  to  last,  have  belonged  to  the  respect- 
ive organizations,  not  including  discharges.  In  some  instances  they  may 
be  found  too  high;  but  generally  they  are  believed  to  be  below  the  correct 
number.  So  far  as  they  are  based  on  the  April  rolls,  they  represent  the 
strength  of  the  organizations  at  the  time  those  rolls  were  prepared,  say  the 
1st  of  May;  and  do  not  include  the  additions  since  made  to  the  Companies. 
And  in  many  cases  where  we  have  only  been  able  to  ascertain  the  maximum 
strength  of  a  Regiment  or  Company,  it  is  obviously  short  as  a  proper 
estimate  ;  for,  whilst  recruits  are  being  daily  added,  and  losses  by  death  or 


40 

otherwise  are  daily  occurring,  the  maximum  is  not  increased,  when,  in  fact, 
a  continual  draft  is  made  from  the  population  of  the  State.  An  absolutely 
correct  estimate  can  ouly  be  had  by  adding,  to  the  present  strength  of  Com- 
panies, the  number  of  losses  by  disease  or  other  casualties  of  the  service, 
and  of  discharges  by  reason  of  wounds  or  wasted  health.  If  such  an  esti- 
mate could  be  prepared,  I  am  fully  assured  that  the  number  of  men  contrib- 
uted by  this  State  to  the  public  defence  would  be  found  to  exceed  forty- 
jive  thousand. 

It  is  much  to  be  regretted,  that  a  very  considerable  number  from  this 
State  have  connected  themselves  with  the  organizations  of  other  States. 
In  the  Districts  adjoining  North  Carolina,  very  many  were  induced,  by  the. 
very  liberal  bounty  there  offered,  to  join  Companies  organized  in  that  State. 
And  in  the  April  reorganization  in  Virginia,  very  many  exercised  the 
option  given  them  by  the  Conscriction  Act,  to  go  into  other  arms  of  service, 
and  connected  themselves  with  Companies  of  Artillery  and  Cavalry  from 
other  States,  chiefly  of  Virginia.  These,  amounting,  it  is  believed,  to 
several  hundred,  are  wholly  lost  to  the  credit  of  the  State. 

In  obedience  to  the  resolutions  of  the  honorable  Grovernor  and  Council, 
the  first  corps  of  State  Militia  Reserves,  embracing  all  males  subject  to 
duty  between  the  ages  of  thirty-five  and  fifty,  have  been  organized,  with 
a  view  to  active  service,  in  the  event  that  the  necessities  of  the  State  defence 
should  require  it.  Of  these,  ten  Regiments  are  already  formed  and  offi- 
cered, each  comprising  ten  companies;  and  it  is  conjectured  that  the  Compa- 
nies yet  remaining  to  be  organized,  will  yield'at  least  another  Regiment. 
The  average  strength  of  these  Regiments  will  be  about  700,  making  an 
aggregate  in  the  State  of  near  eight  thousand  effective  men  of  this  corps. 

The  second  corps  of  Reserves,  embracing  all  males  between  the  ages  of 
fifty  and  sixty-five,  all  those  between  sixteen  and  eighteen,  and  all  exempts, 
remain  subject  to  Patrol  and  Police  duty  in  their  respective  Beats,  under 
the  command  of  the  officers  of  the  Militia,  as  reorganized  in  January  last, 
under  the  Act  of  the  General  Assembly.  In  the  present  existing  scheme, 
this  corps  constitutes  the  regular  militia  organization  of  the  State,  its 
strength,  there  is  no  present  means  of  ascertaining,  as  an  enrollment  has 
not  been  thought  of  sufficient  importance  to  justify  the  labor  and  expense. 

I  have  the  honor,  sir,  to  be. 

Very  truly,  yourrf,  most  obedientft, 

C.  D.  MELTON, 
Assistant  Adjutant  and  Inspector   General. 


41 

APPROXIMATE  ESTIMATE  of  the  strength  of  the  South   Carolina 
Regiments,  Battalions  and  Companies  now  in  Confederate  service. 

Infantry. 

style  of  Organization.  Commtinders.  No.  Men. 

IstEeg't  S.  C.  Volunteers, Col.  Hamilton, 1,100 

1st     "          "            ''          Glover, •. 750 

2d      "          "             "           Kennedy, 850 

3d      '^          "             "           Nance, 1,066 

4th  Mattison's  Battalion, Mattison, 400 

6th  Reg't  S.  C.  Volunteers, Jackson, 700 

6th    "          "             "           Bratton, 700 

7th    "          "             "           Aiken, 803 

8th    "          ''.            "           Henegan, 811V 

10th    "          ''<             "           Manigault, .^..  1,100 

11th    "          "             "           p:ilis, 921 

12th    "          "             <'           Barnes, 1,100 

13th    "          "            "          Edwards, 1,250 

14th    "          <'             "          McGowan, 1,144 

15th    "          "            <'           DeSaussure, 976 

16th    "         "       •    "          ,: McCullough, 792 

17th    "          "             «          Means, 852 

18th    "          "             "            Gadberry, 942 

19th    "          "             "          Lythgoe,  827 

20th    "          ''            <'            Keitt, 950 

21st     "          "             "           Graham, 848 

22d     "          "            "          Goodlett, 873 

23d     ''          "            "          Benbow, 785 

24th    "          "             "          C.H.Stevens, 1,020 

25th    "           ''■            "           Simonton,' 900 

1st   Rifles, : Marshall, 1,500 

2d        "     Moore, 884 

1st  Reg't  S.  C.  A.,  (Regulars,) Dunovant, 700 

Hampton  Legion, Griffin, 1,100 

Holcombe  Legion, P.  F.  Stevens, 1,188 

Laurens  Battalion, Lt.  Col.  James, 528 

Smith's  Battalion Smith, 552 


Carried  forward..... $28,870 

6 


42 

Fhihiiit  f^"^  Adjiitant  GencraVs  Report. —  Continued. 
style  of  Organization.  Commanders.  No.  Men. 

Brought  forward $28,870 

Manigault's  Battalion, Major  Byrd, 638 

Nelson's              " Nelson, 462 

Charleston     ■     "         Lt.  Col.  Gaillard, 430 

Palmetto  Sharp  Shooters, 1,100 

Batt'n  Sharpshooters, Major  Smith,  300 

Batt'n       "          "         Abney, 800 

Partisan  Rifles, Capt.  Brooks, 86 

Ordnance   Guard, , 100 


32,286 

Artillery. 

1st  Reg't  S.  C.  Artillery, Col.  Calhoun, 863 

1st     "           "     Volunteers, Lamar, 1,040 

Palmetto  Batt.  Lt.  Artillery, Lt.  Col.  White, 1,059 

Macbeth  Lt.  Artillery, Capt.  Boyce, 161 

Beaufort  Artillery Elliott, • 97 

Marion  Artillery Parker, 100 

Washington  Artillery Walter,  134 

Lafayette  Artillery Kanapaux, 90 

Chesterfield  Artillery Coit, 130 

Gist  Guard Chichester, 90 

German  Artillery,  Co.  A, Werner, 83 

«             "            "   B, Melchers, 72 

Dismounted  Dragoons, Major  Lucas, 169 

Ferguson's  Artillery, Capt.  Ferguson, '. 92 

Palmetto  Guard, Buist, i 100 

Alston's  Artillery, Alston,  95 

Matthews'  Artillery, Bonneau, 100 

Ward's  Battery, Ward,  100 

Garden's  Battery, Garden, 100 

Stanley's  Artillery, Stanley, 98 

Gaillard's  Artillery, ^ Gaillard, 100 

4.873 


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JSmhibiti^)  fei  Adjutant  GeneraVs  Report. —  Continued. 
Cavalry. 

Stj'le  of  Organization%  Commanders.  No.  Men. 

1st  llegiment  Cavalry, Col.  Black, 789 

1st  Battalion         "       Major  Morgan, ; 325 

2d        "               "       ■      Stokes, 383 

3d         "               "       Easley, 320 

4th       "                "       Emanuel, 352 

6th       "                "       Jeffords, 391 

Colleton  Rangers, '. Capt.  Campbell, 85 

Calhoun  Mounted  Men, Martin, 75 

St.  Peter's  Guards, Smart, 88 

Howard  Cavalry, Howard, 80 

Charleston  Light  Dragoons, Rutledge, 95 

Ashley  Dragoons, G.  C-  Heyward, 100 

Barnwell  Dragoons, Lawton, 110 

Rutledge  Mounted  Riflemen,  Trenholm, 90 

Savannah  River  Guard, Johnson,  96 

Heyward's  Cavalry, D.  B.  Heyward, 110 

German  Huzzars, Cordes, 80 

Rebel  Troop, Jenkins, 95 

Santee  Rangers,  Co.  A., Pinckney, 90 

"            "          "     B, Whilden, 90 

Boykin  Rangers, Boykin, 80 

Kirkwood  Rangers, Doby,  90 

Partisan  Rangers, Col.  Aiken, 700 

4,714 

Of  the  above  companies,  ten  have  recently  been  formed  into  a  regiment, 
under  Col.  Colcock,  being  the  2d  Regiment  of  Cavalry. 

Aggregate. 

Infantry, 32,286 

Artillery, 4,873 

Cavalry, 4,714 — 41,873 

To  which  add  Conscripts  recently  sent  forward,  say 1,100 

42,973 


44 


I 


D. 

Condensed  view  of  (he  Cash  Transactions  of  the  Quartermaster  General's 
Bureau/or  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  from  the  first  of  January,  1862,  to 
the  thirtieth  of  June,  1862. 


Dr. 

To  balan 

ce  from  1861 

$21,413  05 

Cash 

from   treasury   1st    qr.,    1862 

$143,355  00 

<i 

"                  2d           '<          

7,500  00- 

-150,855  00 

u 

clothing  acct.      1st           "          

35,972  35 

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62,915  01- 

—98,887  36 

« 

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45  80 

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''                  2d           "          

294  12- 

339  92 

« 

public  property  sold,  such  as  horses, 

mules,  wagons,  &c.,  1st  quarter.,. 

2,436  00 

(( 

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590  72- 

3,026  T2 

$274,522  05- 

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11,861  35-$138,333  48 
52,740  48 

8,611  63 61,352  11 

'  7,562  61 

3,489  25 11,051  86 

400  00 

6,742  50 7,142  50 

2,356  89 

£  659  00 3,015  89 

'  256  00 

(  916  50 1,172  50 

3,218  62 

3,482  75 6,701  37 


«  103  12 

103  71- 

'  45  50 

905  25- 

75  00 

'  3,845  Go- 

to Capt.  Motte  Pringle,  Q'rmaster  4th  Br'de, 
Balance  to  next  ao't 


-206  83 
-950  75 


3,920  00 

5,855  00 
34,819  76 

$274,522  05 


45 


E. 

Comparative  vieto  of  Salaries  paid  to  the  Quartermaster  General  and  his 
assistants,  compiled  from  Exhibits  on  file  in  this  Dfpartment,  and  condensed 
info  Qanrterly  Statements,  from  the  first  of  July,  1861,  to  the  thirtieth  of 
June,  1862. 

Salaries  paid  during  the  quarter  ending  30th  Sept.,  1861,  $3,651  40 

"                    "                «            31st  Dec,       "  3,126  40 

"                    "                «            31st  iMarch,  1862,  2,41140 

"                    «                «             30th  June,     "  1,575  00 


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G. 

Quantity  of  Clothing  furnished  to  each  non-commissioned  officer y  musician 
and  private  of  the  Confederate  States  Army,  for  each  year  of  the  three 
years'  service^  showing  thfi  cost  of  each  article,  cost  per  year,  and  cost  over 
allowance  of  the  §50  commutation  money  allowed,  according  to  the  price  of 
clothing  and  materials,  July,  1862. 


ARTICLES. 


COST. 


C  0) 

2; 


COST, 


COST,    b  9 


Total  cost 
for  the 
three 
years. 


Remarks. 


Caps  @  $1.25 

Cajj  Covers  @  75c 

Coats,  @  $12 

Trowsers.  (&  $6 

Flannel  Shirts,  @$2 

Flannel  Drawers,  @$1.75. 

Bootees,  @.  $4.75 

Pairs  Stockings,  @  60e 

Leather  Stock.  @  50c 

Great  Coat,  @  $15 

Blanket,  @  $4 


$2  50 

75 

24  00 

18  00 
6  00 
6  25 

19  00 
2  00 

50 
15  00 
4  00 


$1  25 
75 

12  00 

12  00 
6  00 
3  50 

19  00 
2  00 


Deduct  Commutation. 

Loss, 

Loss  per  1.000  men, 


97  00 
50  00 


56  50 
50  00 


6  50 


$47,000  00 


$6,500  00 


?1  25 
75 

12  00 

12  00 
6  00 
3  50 

19  00 
2  00 


60  50 
50  00 


$5  00 

2  25 

48  00 

42  00 

IS  OO 

12  25 

57  00 

6  00 

50 

15  00 

8  00 

214  00 
150  00 


Per  Man. 


$10,500  00 


$64,000  00 


Upon  the  supposition  of  20,000  men  in  the  service,  the  loss  will  be : 

First  year $940,000  00 

Second  year 130.000  00 

Third  year 210,000  00 


Whole  loss  for  the  three  years $1,280,000  00 


Not!.— It  will  be  seen  that  the  prices  affixed  to  the  articles  in  the  above  table  are  far  below  the 
ruling  prices  at  this  date,  1st  September,  1862. 


48 


H. 

Condensed  View  of  the  Cash  Transactions  of  the  Commissary  GeneraVs 
Bureau  for  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  from  the  first  of  January, 
1862,  to  the  thirtieth  of  June,  1862. 

Dr. 

To  Balance  from  1801, $15,266  15 

Cash  from  Treasury,  1st  quarter,  1862, $37,000  00 

<<        "  '<  2cl      "  "     60,000  10—97,000  00 

"     from  sales  to  Confederate  Government,  1st 

quarter,  1862, 25,944  66 

"     from  sales  to  Confederate  Government,  2d 

quarter",  1862, 10,079  57—36,024  23 

"     from  sales  to  other  parties,  1st  quarter,  '62,     2,022  90 

''      "        "  "        "        2d      "         "         130  60 2,153  50 

"       "     proceeds  of  Salt  seized  at  Cheraw  by 

order  of  Governor  Pickens, 22,508  56 

$152,952  44 
July  1st,  To  balance  brought  down, $20,256  21 

Or. 

By  Purchases  of  Cattle  to  cure  into  Salt  Beef,....  $14,188  89 

"           "    Bacon,  Rice,  &c.,  1st  quarter,... $46,291  51 
"  "        "        '^      ''      2d      "     54,562  77—100,854  28 

Disbursements  for  collecting  Rice  from  ex- 
posed regions,  freights  to  the  interior, 
and  incidental  expenses,  1st  quarter, 7,515  23 

Disbursements  for  collecting  Rice  from  ex- 
posed regions,  freights  to  the  interior,  and 

incidental  expenses,  2d  quarter, 10,137  83 17,653  06 

Balance  carried  to  next  account,  20,256  21 

$162,952  44 


49 


I. 


Inventory  of  Stores  on  hand  in  the   Commissary  General's  Bureau,  on  the 
first  of  July.  1862,  and  the  cost  value  thereof 


6,800  lbs.  Salt  Pork,  @  20  c, 1,360  00 

25,805    "     Bacon,  @  32c., 8,257  60 

3,251    "     Hams,  @33ic., 1,083  66 

152,641    "     Salt  Beef,  @  11  c, 16,790  61 

5,505    "     Dried  Beef,  @  18  c, 990  90 

10,000    "     Soup  Cakes,  @  6  c, 600  00 

1,437  bbls.  Flour,  @  $11, •'• 15,807  00 

604  lbs.  Hard  Bread,  @  12  c, 72  48 

1,915,003    "     Rice,  @3c., .* 57,450  09 

21,169    "     Sugar,  @  13  c., .'...  2,75197 

785  sacks  Salt,  («]  $12, 9,420  00 

1,657  gallons  Molasses,  @  $1, 1,657  00 

Small  Stores,  not  enumerated,  say.... 1,000  00 

Total  cost  value, $117,241  21 

Market  value  on  the  first  of  July,  about $250,000  00 

The  Bacon  and  Beef  cured  by  Robert  Adger,  Esq.,  in  Anderson,  amount- 
ing to  between  two  and  three  hundred  thousand  pounds,  is  not  included  in 
the  above  inventory,  as  the  accounts  are  not  yet  closed. 


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K. 

Condensed  View  of  the  Cash  Transactions  of  ihe  Paymaster  General! s  Bvreau 
for  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  from  the  first  of  January,  1862,  to  the 
thirtieth  of  June,  18G2. 

Dr. 

To  balance  from  1861 ^788  89 

Receipts  from  Treasury  1st  quarter,  1862,  $40,000  00 

«  "        2d        «  17,000  00 57,000  00 

657,788  89 

#  — = 

July  1st.  Balance  brought  down $3,383  66 

Cr. 

By  payments  to  Regulars  made  1st  qu'r,  1862,  1,628  86 

"  "  "     2d        "  9,064  94 10,693  80 

"            Volunteers   "     1st        "  34,952  34 

"  '^  "     2d        "  .        8,759  09 43,711  43 

Balance  carried  to  next  account 3,383  66 

$57,788 '89 


52 


L. 

Condensed  Vieio  of  the  Cash  Transactions  in  the  Engineer's  Bureau  for  the 
State  of  South  Carolina,  from  the  first  of  January,  1862,  to  the  thirtieth 
of  June,  1862. 

— ae 

Dr. 

To  Cash  from  Treasury  for  Pee  Dee  obstructions, 4,590  76 

Less  this  amount  returned  to  Treasury, 166  76 

14,424  00 
To  cash  from  Treasury  for   Reconnoisance  Santee  River, 97  90 

"  "  Survey  of  Mountain  pas^, 936  43 

$5,458  33 

Cr. 

By  expenditures  for  Pee  Dee  obstructions, 4,424  00 

"  Reconnoisance  Santee  River, 97  90 

"  Survey  Mountain  passes, 936  48 

$5,458  33 


53 


M. 


Condensed  Tabular  View  of  the  principal  operations  of  the  Ordnance 
Bureau  for  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  from  December,  1860,  to 
August,  1862. 


Arms  and  AMsnninTioN. 


Dec.  1860,  to  Dec.  1861. 


c  t.  a 


eus: 


jANTIARy  1,  1862,  TO  AUQ.  30, 1862. 


Muskets J 

Rifles A 

Pistols 

Sabres 

Swords 

Percussion  Caps 

Cannon  Caps 

Musket  Cartridges 

Rifle  Cartridges 

Powder  (pounds) 

Heavy  Ordnance 

Field' Artillery 

Artillery  Carriages 

Projectiles  (prepared) 

Projectiles  (unprepared) 

Grape  and  Canister  (pounds). 

Lead 

Musket  Balls  (round) , 

Musket  Balls  (conical) 

Musket  Balls  (pounds) 

Double-Barreled  Guns 


23,703 

3,704 

2,271 

1,877 

771 

120.000 

2,070 

67.110 

38,000 

2t1,400 

103 

66 

78 

3.174 

6,230 

229,500 


♦4,850 


1,315,775 


25,971 

3,115 

2,271 

1," 

534 

1,008,525 


+2.582 
to89 


914.656 

531.147 

417,550 

10 

t4 

89 

16.249 

31.441 

61,648 


821,236 

444,14 

373,89' 

100 

62 

146 

16,308 

26.902 

252,132 


23' 

427.250 

10,500 

160.5.30 

125,000 

§64,053 

^    13 

18 

22 

3.115 

10.769 

38,916 

3,000 


5,500 


5.198 

1)6,738 

829 

2,224 

348 

194,520 

945 

486,713 

211,322 

10,130 

9 

31 

27 

3,865 

"  3,791 

880 

67,779 

60,000 

35,000 


4.921 
2,476 
671 
1,730 
8 
53,000 


45.6.30 

25.224 

36,88' 

20 

31 

31 

650 

4.084 

1,316 

39,642 


220 


170 


2,859 

1 4,851 

158 

592 

677 

568.770 

11.445 

601,613 

311,098 

337,296 

18 

18 

6,330 

10,476 

38,480 

21,137 

50,000 

35,000 

6,600 

21 


•  Purchased  by  order  of  Governor  Gist. 

t  One  314  inch  Rifle  Gun  presented  by  C.  K.  Prioleau,  of  Liverpool;  two  Z}4  inch  RiA©  Guns 
TCesented  by  Messrs.  Fraser  &  Co.;  one  3)^  inch  wrought  iron  Rifle  iSun  presented  by  P.C.J 
Weston. 

1  Condemned,  irreparable,  452. 

I  4,843  pciunds  old  and  damaged. 

U  2,635  Enfield,  new,  purchased  in  Europe. 


54 


N. 

Receipts  and  Expenditures  of  the   Ordnance  Department  of  the  State  of 
South  Carolina,  from  the  first  of  January,  1861,  to  the  25th  of  January, 

1862. 

Receipts. 

From  the  Treasurer  of  the  Lower  Division  for  appropriation  of 

the  Legislature, $150,000  00 

"     Hon.  E.  Frost,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 120,000  00 

'«     Hon.  W.  G.  DeSaussure,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 226,000  00 

"     Col.  E.  Manigault,  am't  of  his  and  clerk's  salary,  which 
was  paid  out  of  the  General  Fund,  and  aftCT  collected 

from  Treasurer  of  Lower  Division, 3,250  00 

"     Sales  of  coal  taken  from  U.  S., 2,398  00 


1501,648  00 

Expenditures. 

On  Cannon  ac't,  purchased, 5,039  38 

Artillery  ac't,  carriages,  implements,  &c 71,067  38 

Ammunition  ac't 145,258  22 

Artillery  projectiles,  shell,  shot,  &c 105,865  11 

Ordnance  tools 1,589  03 

Small  arms 53,580  38 

Equipments  for  infantry  and  cavalry  comp's...     99,831  97 

General  expenses  of  Department 19,376  93 

^ —  501,608  40 


Balance  of  cash  on  hand,  25th  January,  1862 $39  60 

Special  Fund. 
1861. 
Jan'y  9.   Donation  by  Mr.  Plowden  C.  J.  Weston,  for  purchase 

of  "arms  of  precision," 15,000  00 

Less  paid  for  one  wrought-iron  rifle  six-pounder  gun  in 

hands  of  Maj.  E.  Manigault,  for  use  in  his  battalion      800  00 

1862.  

Aug.  1.     Balance  in  hands  of  Ordnance  Officer $4,200  00 


56 

O. 

Condensed  View  of  the  Cash  Transactions  of  the  Onlnance  Bureau  for 
the  State  of  South  Carolina,  from  the  twenfi/sixth  of  January,  1862, 
to  the  thirtieth  of  June,  1862. 

Dr. 

To  Balance  from  1861, $39  60 

Cash  from  Treasury,  1st  quarter,  1862, $66,726  00 

"  "  2d      "  "     39,556  00—106,282  00 

"     from  saWof  damaged  Powder, 160  00 

"    Acids,  &c., 150  50 310  50 

"     refunded  on  Shells  purchased  from  Glaze 

the  eighth^f  April,   1861,  not  pa.s-  ' 

ing  the  inspection  ordered  by  Chief 

of  the  Military  Department, 1,500  00 

"     donation  from  the  Marion  Fire  Engine 

Company,  Charleston, 44  44 

"  from  W.  J.  Laval,  Treasurer  Lower  Di- 
vision, to  pay  salary  of  Ordnance  Offi- 
cer, 1801, 1,000  00 

$109,176  54 

July  let,  1862,  To  balance  from  June, 2,399  94 

Cr. 

By  Artillery  &  Carriage  account,  1st  quarter,  '62,  $7,733  63 

"           "         2d  «  "  16,438  13— $24,171  76 

Projectiles                      '<         1st  «  "  4,798  59 

2d  »  "      2,457  30 7,255  89 

Small  Arms                   "         1st  "  "  4,754  55 

«        "  «         2d  "  "      4,460  70 9,215  25 

Equipment                     «         1st  "  "  29,992  35 

''  "         2d  "  ''      8,866  65 38,859  00 

Ammunition                   "         1st  "  "  10,893  79 

"         2d  "  "    10,396  07 21,289  86 

General  Expense           ''         1st  "  "  2,459  21 

«  "  "         2d  "  "      3,525  65 5,984  84 

Balance  to  next  account,  2,399^ 

•         ■ 

$109,176  54 


56 


P. 

Issues  of  Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores  to  Confederate  Government  from 
January  1,  1862,  to  July  1,  1862. 

12-pounder  guns,  smooth  bore 4 

12-pounder  guns,  rifled 3 

Carriages 7 

Ammunition  chests 8 

18-pounder  guns 2 

24-pounder  guns,  rifled 3 

8-inch  Columbiads 1 

32-pounder  guns .f. 1 

42-pounder  guns 1 

8-inch  sea-coast  Howitzers 1 

8-inch  siege                "         4 

Sling  Carte 1 

12-pounder  shot,  rifled 198 

12-pounder  shell,  rifled 36 

12-pounder  canister 127 

8-inch  sea-coast  Howitzer  canister 38 

1 8-pounder  shot 25 

18-pounder  canister 25 

24-pounder  shot,  rifled 264 

9-inch  solid  shot '. 200 

9-inch  shell 400 

6-pounder  spherical  case 275 

12-pounder  Howitzer  spherical  case 125 

12-pounder  shell 150 

8-inch  shells 260 

10-inch  shells 200 

Cartridge  Bags,  9-inch  gun 115 

12-pounder  shot 123 

Friction  tubes 2,500 

Roman  fuses 250 


57 


Q. 

Issttes  of  Field    Guns  and   Carriages  to   State  Artillery  in    Confederate 
service,  from  January  1  to  July  1,  1862. 

4-pounder  guns 6 

6-pounder  guns .". 20 

12-poun(ier  Howitzers 2 

Enfield  rifle  guns 3 

Ammunition  chests 10 

Gun-carriages 31 

Caissons 19 


58 


R. 


Statement  of  Artillery  Projectiles  issued  to  the    Confederate   Government, 
from  January  1  to  July  1,  1862. 


6-pounder  shot,  fixed 70 

6-pounder  spherical  case,  fixed 285 

6-Pounder  canister,  fixed 20 

12-pounder  Howitzer  spherical  case,  fixed 135 

12-pounder  Howitzer  shell,  fixed 150 

9-inch  solid  shot 200 

9-inch  shell 400 

8-inch  Howitzer  canister 38 

Spherical  case  shot,  unfixed 60 

24-pounder  rifle  shot  and  shell 144 

8-inch  mortar  shells 269 

10-inch  mortar  shells 200 


59 


s. 


Abstract  of  issues  of  Small  Arms  to  Troops  from  South  Carolina,  sent  info 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  Government,  from  first  January,  1862,  to 
first  July,  1862. 


Rifles,  Enfield, 819 

"      State, 141 

"      perO'54, 1,246 

Total  Rifles, 2,206 

Muskets,  Percussion, ,^ 2,321 

"  ''         model  1842, \..    955 

"     altered  to  Percussion, 1 ,201 

"     Cadet,  40 

"     Minie, 254 

Total  Muskets, 4,771 

Carbines, 170 

Cavalry  Pistols,  Percussion, 322 

"  "        Flint  and  Steel, 332 

Colt's  Navy  Revolvers, 9 

Total  Pistols, 663 

Sabres,  Cavalry, 1  714 

Swords,  Officers, 8 

Equipments,  Infantry, 6  165 

"  Cavalry, 934 

Double  Barreled  Guns, 123 

Bayonets, '. 5,795 

"        Sabre, 1,083 

Cartridges,  Musket, 34,690     ^ 

Rifle, 6,800     '^ 

"  Revolver, , 834 

Percussion  Caps, 13,574 

Articles  of  minor  importance  not  enumerated  on  the  above  abstract. 


60 
T. 

Statement  of  Powder  issued  from  first  January^  1862,  to  first  July,  1862. 

ISSUES  TO  THE  CONFEDERATE  GOVERNMENT. 

Cannon,  pounds  of. 7,435 

Musket,       "       "     300 

Rifle,  "       "     16,400 

Blasting,     ''        "     325 

Total,  pounds  of. 24,460 

ISSUES  FOR  FIELD  AND  SMALL-ARM  AMMUNITION. 

Cannon,  pounds  of. 2,602 

Musket,       ''       "     4,530 

Rifle,  "       "     5,025 

Blasting,     ''       "     270 

Total,  pounds  of. ..12,427 

POWDER  ON  HAND  FIRST  JULY,  1862. 

Cannon,  pounds  of. 7,371 

Musket,       ''       "      8,570 

Rifle,  "       "      11,350 

Blasting,     "        "      900 

Mealed,       "       »      1,262 

Pickens  District,  pounds  of. 3,000 

Old,  mixed,  and  damaged,  pounds  of. 4,843 

Total,  pounds  of. ; 37,296 


61 


u. 


Condensed  View  of  the  Cash  Transactions  of  the   Saltpetre  Plantation  for 
the  State  of  South  Carolina,  from  tenth  April  to  first  September^  1862. 


1862.  Dr. 

April,  To  Cash  from  Treasury, .' $4,304  58 

July,     "     "         "  "         3,700  52 

August,"     "         "  "  1,483  00 


-$9,488  10 


Cr. 

Sept.  1st,  By  Disbursement,  Building  Account, $3,316  29 

Horses  and  Mules  Account, 2,522  00 

"     276  45 

"     483  78 

"     415  00 

"     581  95 

«     625  54 

"     501  58 

"     375  00 


Forage 

Harness  and  Tools 

Wagon  and  Cart 

Materials 

Labor 

Weekly  Allowance 

Salary 


9,100  59 


Balance  on  hand  the  first  of  September,  1862, $387  51 


62 

V. 

ABSTRACT  OF  DISBURI^EMENTS 

By  the  Department  of  the  Military  of  South  Carolina  from 
January  27,  1862,  to  August  14,  1862. 

Payments  in  'pursuance  of  Ordinances  of  the  Convention,  Acts  and  Resolu- 
tions of  the  Legislature,  and  hy  order  of  his  Excellency  Governor  Pickens, 
prior  to  the  organization  of  the  Executive  Council. 

Payments  to  Quartermaster  General $169,047  56 

"             Commissary  General, 37,000  00 

"             Paymaster  General 66,058  39 

for  Hospitals 15,482  50 

"               Ordnance  purposes > 68,326  00 

"               Repairing  arms 6,516  92 

''               Arsenal  purposes 3,200  00 

"               Recruiting  service 17,000  00 

"               Railroad  bridge  guards 5,088  91 

"       .       A.  L.  Dearing  (Military  service) 190  00 

"               Travelling  expenses  (Agents) 85  65 

"               Arresting  soldiers 45  75 

«               Salary  of  Clerk 233  33 

«              Gunboat  Commission 300,000  00 

$688,270  00 
Deduct : 

Balance  in  Quartermaster's  hands $83,390  53 

^        "         Surgeon  General's  hands 1,236  88 84,627  41 

Total  disbursements,  as  above $603,642  60 


63 

Payments  in  pursuance  of  orders  hy  the  Executive  Council. 

Payments  to  Quartermaster  General , 7,500  00 

"             Commissary  General 60,000  00 

"             Paymaster  General 4,941  61 

"         for  Reconnoisances 1,034  33 

"              Obstructions,  Pee  Dee 4,424  00 

"               Ordnance  purposes 60,215  81 

*'              ExcLange  for  arms  and  drugs 79,561  04 

«               Freight  on         «                "     11,194  14 

«               Old  arms 5,077  97 

«               75  new  Enfield  rifles .' 3,000  00 

"               Freight  on  old  arms 122  65 

'<               Lead,  saltpetre  and  sulphur 2,481  52 

"              Socks 72  90 

"               Enrolling  Militia 83  10 

"               Saltpetre  plantation 9,488  10 

"               Travelling  expenses,  (Agents) 65  75 

"              House  and  lot  in  Columbia* 4,500  00 

$253,462  92 
Deduct : 

Balance  in  Commissary's  hands 620,256  21 

"  Paymaster's        "     3,383  66  " 

<'  Ordnance  officers 5,242  06 28,88193 

Total  disbursements  by  order  of  Executive  Council...    6224,580  99 

Recapitulation. 

Total  disbursements  under  Ordinances  of  the  Convention, 
Acts  and  Resolutions  of  the  Legislature,  and  by  order 
of  Governor  Pickens,  prior  to  the  organization'of  the 
Executive  Council 6603,642  60 

Total  disbursements  under  the  engagements  of  the  Execu- 
tive Council '. 224,580  99 

Total ; 6828,223  59 

*  A  large  brick  building,  used  for  Commissary's  store-houfle. 


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