War, containing an estimate of additional funds required for the Ordnance Bureau for the period ending December 1, 1862.
I recommend that an appropriation be made of the sums and for the purposes specified.
Hon. Thos. S. Bocock, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Sir: I transmit herewith Lieut. Commanding Robert B. Pegram's report of the cruise of the Nashville, and certain official correspondence called for by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th inst.
To the Senate and House of Representatives.
I herewith transmit for the information of Congress a communication from the Secretary of War, covering "a copy of the official report of Major General Earl Van Dorn of the battle between his forces and those of Generals Sigel and Curtis in Arkansas."
To the Honorable the House of Representatives.
I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, covering an estimate of an appropriation required to carry into effect an act therein mentioned.
I recommend that an appropriation be made of the sum and for the purposes specified.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States.
I deem it proper to inform you that a number of acts passed by the Congress were presented to me at a very late hour on Saturday night. I have examined them as carefully as the limited time at my disposal has permitted, and have returned nearly all of them with my approval. There are, however, three of them to which I have objections, which it is impossible to communicate to you in
