War of the Rebellion: from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies
    

Braxton Bragg to Secretary of War Walker on Federal re-enforcements to Santa Rosa Island

PENSACOLA, April 6, 1861.

Hon. L. P. WALKER:

I can control the dock, but re-enforcements can be landed on the outside Santa Rosa Island in spite of me. The ships, except the Wyandotte, are beyond my range. She can be driven off or destroyed. Any attack by us now must be secretly made by escalade. My batteries are not ready for breaching, and we are entirely deficient in ammunition. No landing should be made on Santa Rosa Island with our present means. Will write.

BRAXTON BRAGG.

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