EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 29, 1861.
Honorable SECRETARY OF WAR:
SIR: I desire that an expedition, to move by sea, be got ready to sail as early as the 6th of April next, the whole according to memorandum attached, and that you co-operate with the Secretary of the Navy for that object.
Your obedient servant,
A. LINCOLN.
[Inclosure No. 1.]
NAVY DEPARTMENT. Preliminary orders.–Steamers Pocahontas at Norfolk, Pawnee at Washington, Harriet Lane at New York (Treasury Department), to be under sailing orders for sea with stores, &c., for one month. Three hundred men to be kept ready for departure from on board the receiving ships at New York.
[Inclosure No. 2.]
WAR DEPARTMENT. Preliminary.–Two hundred men to be ready to leave Governor’s Island in New York. Supplies for twelve months for one hundred men to be put in portable shape, ready for instant shipping. A large steamer and three tugs conditionally engaged.
MARCH 28, 1861.