Letters from Trapier, $50,000; ordnance officer, Captain Childs, $25,000; quartermaster, Captain Lee, $100,000; total, $175,000

Trapier, $50,000; ordnance officer, Captain Childs, $25,000; quartermaster, Captain Lee, $100,000; total, $175,000 to It would also be bad policy to take too many men from the vicinity of, September 1, 1861

From Trapier, $50,000; ordnance officer, Captain Childs, $25,000; quartermaster, Captain Lee, $100,000; total, $175,000

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To It would also be bad policy to take too many men from the vicinity of

September 1, 1861

Charleston, September 1, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to request that authority may be given me to provide the force necessary for the defense of the batteries now being…