you have always acted in support of my humble efforts to serve our cause, and for your present kindness in offering me the means to do so, where they are so much needed.
Doctor Mayo informs me that you will leave for the salt works to-morrow morning, and as I may not meet you for a long time, allow me to express my high appreciation of your great and eminent services to our noble, suffering and uncomplaining State, now afflicted by the direst calamities, and threatened with the most formidable dangers that can befall a gallant and virtuous people.
God grant you, and all who labor in her cause, the success which such efforts justly merit.
I remain, Governor,
Very faithfully, your friend and servant,
J. Bankhead Magruder,
Major-General.
Bowling Green, Kentucky, November 30th, 1861.
Colonel—The muskets, I am informed, have reached Nashville. I am in receipt of your communication of November 12th, and am under the greatest obligations for your kindness and attention in the matter.
John C. Breckinridge.
Will you be good enough to express my warm thanks to Governor Letcher, to whom I will write in a few days? The guns shall be distributed in his name to my ill-armed brigade.
Col. Charles Dimmock, Chief of Ordnance Department, Richmond, Va.
Treasury Department,
Richmond, December 9, 1861.
My Dear Sir—With the thanks of Governor Pickens and myself for your prompt and considerate response to our request for arms for South Carolina, I herewith send you a receipt of the Governor for the same.
C. G. Memminger.
His Excellency Governor Letcher, present.
Received from Governor Letcher, of the State of Virginia, five hundred muskets, altered to percussion, as a loan to the State of South Carolina, through Mr. Henry Spannick, as special agent for the State of Virginia.
Assistant Ordnance Officer, South Carolina.
