Samuel W. Ferguson to Executive Department, March 25, 1861

Chief of Ordnance 8. C. Army, Charleston, S. C. ;

COLONEL: Your communication of this date is just received. The brigadier-general commanding desires me to say that he wishes the following distribution to be made of the ordnance referred to by you:

One Dahlgren gun to Sullivan’s Island; two 10-inch sea-coast mortars to Sullivan’s Island; two i0-inch sea-coast mortars to Mount Pleasant battery ; two-thirds of the 9-inch shells to Morris Island, for the Dahlgren battery; one-third of the 9-inch shells to Sullivan’s Island, for the Dahlgren battery ; all the 8-inch shells to Morris Island; two hundred 10-inch shells to Sullivan’s Island, for mortar battery ; two hundred 10pina

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inch shells to Mount Pleasant mortar battery. The balance of 10-inch shells to be equally divided between Morris Island and Fort Johnson.

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