Robert Anderson to Samuel Cooper, January 23, 1861

(Received A. G. O., January 27.) Col. S. Cooper, Adjutant-General:

CoLonEL: I have the honor to send herewith a copy of the reply of the Hon. D. F. J. amison to my letter to him about supplies for this garrison and the removal of our women and children, and also a copy of 1 my acknowledgment of the same. Iam highly gratified at the courtesy and proper tone of this reply.

The storm which was raging yesterday has continued with unabated severity up to the present moment, and has put a stop to all outdoor

work, both with the South Carolinians and ourselves. It is now raining and blowing so heavily and the bay is so rough that I shall not venture to send our boat to Fort Johnson for the mail. Should the storm abate so that I can send our letters off in time for the evening mail I shall send them over. I see by the Coast Survey map that Matiitt’s and the

-Swash Channel are not the same. I was led into that mistake by an old pilot, who told me that Maffitt?’s Channel was formerly called the Swash. I will thank you to be pleased, therefore, to erase the words “Swash or” in my letter to the honorable Secretary of War dated the 21st instant, and also to change the word “enfilade” into “defilade,” where in the same letter I am “describing the work which has been recently executed at Fort Moultrie.* I am, colonel,

very respectfully, &c.,