Summary:
Robert E. Lee, acting as military advisor to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, forwards an armaments request to Josiah Gorgas, Confederate ordnance chief. General Hackson had requested in April, 1862, that pikes for unarmed men be sent to Staunton.

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Col. J. GORGAS,
Chief Ordnance Bureau, Richmond, Va.:

Richmond, Va.,

April 9, 1862.

COL.:

Gen. Hackson has with him some 1,000 or 2,000 men without arms, and has requested that pikes be sent him. I have the honor to request that, if practicable, you will cause, say, 1,000 pikes to be forwarded to him via Staunton.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. E. LEE,
Gen., Comdg.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 12, Serial No. 18, Pages 845, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.