MONTGOMERY, April 19, 1861. General BRAGG, Pensacola: Events are such as to excite belief that demonstrations may be made upon you at an early day. I would, therefore, advise increased vigilance in preventing possible communication with the fleet or Fort Pickens. Martial law should be rigidly enforced. Everything is being done to send you guns [...]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA, Fort Pickens, April 18, 1861. Lieut. Col. E. D. KEYES, Secretary to the General-in-Chief, Washington, D.C.: COLONEL: We arrived off this place on the evening of the 17th instant, having encountered a heavy norther on the passage from Tortugas. I immediately sought and obtained an interview with Captain Adams, commanding the [...]

PENSACOLA, April 17, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: Large steamer with troops joined the fleet last night. Send me instructed officers of Artillery for my batteries. BRAXTON BRAGG. —– PENSACOLA, April 17, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: Another naval steamer arrived to-day. Col. Harvey Brown and several hundred men landed. Colonel B. informs me he [...]

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S. A., Charleston, S.C., April 17, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to transmit by Col. R. A. Pryor, one of my aides (who like the others was quite indefatigable and fearless in conveying my orders, in an open boat, from these headquarters to the batteries during the bombardment), a general [...]

HEADQUARTERS SURGEON-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT, Charleston, April 16, 1861. SIR: From the returns received from the various posts I have the unexampled and happy privilege of stating that no serious casualty has occurred during the vigorous action of thirty-three hours in reducing Fort Sumter. Four trifling contusions are reported at Fort Moultrie, but none at other posts, [...]

FLA., April 16, 1861. To the ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Department of the East: SIR: I have the honor to report that on the 14th instant it was reported to me that a small boat had landed at the wharf with a flag of truce, and that the bearer solicited an interview with the commanding officer of [...]

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S. A., Charleston, S.C., April 16, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following summary statement of the circumstances of the surrender of Fort Sumter: — On the refusal of Major Anderson to engage, in compliance with my demand, to designate the time when he would evacuate Fort Sumter, [...]

MONTGOMERY, April 16, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War, Montgomery: SIR: I have the honor to submit the following statement in relation to my recent visit to Pensacola to your attention: I left Washington City on the morning of April 7, with a communication from the Secretary of the Navy to Captain Adams, [...]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA, Transport Steamship Atlantic, April 15, 1861. Bvt. Maj. L. G. ARNOLD, Commanding Fort Jefferson, Fla.: MAJOR: My short stay at your post and the hurry of business prevented my conversing with you so freely as I could have wished on the defense of the fort. The importance of Fort Jefferson can [...]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA, Transport Steamship Atlantic, April 15, 1861. Lieut. Col. E. D. KEYES, Secretary to the General-in-Chief Washington, D.C.: COLONEL: I wrote you at Key West, reporting our arrival there, and took from Fort Taylor some guns and stores necessary for our expedition, and detached from the companies of the fort and barracks [...]

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, C.S. ARMY, Charleston, S.C., April 15, 1861. SIR: We have the honor to submit the following report of our visit to Fort Sumter on the 13th instant for the information of the brigadier-general commanding: After reporting to the general the execution of the orders with which we were charged for Morris Island, [...]

MONTGOMERY, ALA., April 15, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War, Montgomery: SIR: Very unexpectedly I find myself a prisoner of war at this place. May I be permitted to request that you will do me the kindness to inform me of the grounds upon which I am so detained? Very respectfully, your obedient [...]

RALEIGH, N. C., April 15, 1861. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: Your dispatch1 is received, and if genuine, which its extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the States of the South as [...]

U. S. FRIGATE SABINE, Off Pensacola, April 14, 1861. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy, Washington : SIR: I have the honor to inform you that immediately on the receipt of your order by Lieutenant Worden, on the 12th instant, I prepared to re-enforce Fort Pickens. It was successfully performed, on the same night, [...]

PENSACOLA, April 14, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: Captain Adams, commanding the fleet, writes on 13th, just received. Subsequently to the date of your last letter, as you are probably aware,   re-enforcements have been placed in Fort Pickens, in obedience to orders from the United States Government. Lieutenant Worden must have given these orders [...]

CHARLESTON, April 14, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: I have possession of Sumter. Anderson and garrison on Isabel going in morning. None killed; two wounded. Quarters in ruins. Interior of fort damaged. Armament still effective against entrance to channel. G. T. BEAUREGARD. —– CHARLESTON, April 14, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: Fleet still outside. Can [...]

MONTGOMERY, April 13, 1861. General BRAGG Pensacola: When you arrested Lieutenant Worden what instructions, if any, did he show you? Did he communicate to you that he had verbal instructions, and, if so, what were they? He is here under arrest, and it is important for you to reply fully. L. P. WALKER.

U. S. STEAMER CRUSADER, Off Key West, April 13, 1861. Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, Washington: DEAR SIR: We arrived here and anchored some three miles below the fort to prevent communication. Going to the fort in a boat Colonel Brown sent notes to Judge Marvin; to Colonel Patterson, the newly appointed Navy [...]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA, Key West, April 13, 1861. Lieut. Col. E. D. KEYES, Secretary to the General-in-Chief, Washington, D. C.: COLONEL: We arrived at this place this afternoon. Captain Meigs and I have had an interview with Judge Marvin which has been entirely satisfactory. He, though anxious to leave the place, will remain, having [...]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA, April 13, 1861. Bvt. Maj. W. H., Commanding Fort Taylor, Key West: SIR: You will use the forces of your command, if need be, for the protection of the officers and citizens of the United States on this island in the discharge of their public duties, and the pursuit of their [...]

CHARLESTON, April 13, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War; Officers’ quarters in Sumter burning. Part of roof supposed to have fallen in. Sumter firing at long intervals. Ours regular and effective. Six vessels outside in signals with Sumter. G. T. BEAUREGARD. —– CHARLESTON, April 13, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: Anderson has hauled [...]

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, Charleston, S.C., April 13, 1861. SIR: In obedience to orders from the commanding general, Beauregard, we left the wharf at 11.15 a.m., and proceeded in an open boat to deliver communications to Brigadier-General Simons, commanding on Morris Island, and passing under the batteries of Fort Johnson landed in the rear of Major [...]

PENSACOLA, April 13, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War: Re-enforcements thrown into Fort Pickens last night by small boats from the outside. The movement could not even be seen from our side, but was discovered by a small reconnoitering boat. BRAXTON BRAGG, Brigadier General.

MONTGOMERY, April 12, 1861. General BRAGG, Pensacola: Lieutenant Worden1, of U. S. Navy, has gone to Pensacola with dispatches. Intercept them. L. P. WALKER. ——– BARRANCAS, April 12, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: Mr. Worden had communicated with fleet before your dispatch received. Alarm guns have just fired at Fort Pickens. I fear the news [...]