Summary:
Robert E. Lee writes Ordnance Chief Josiah Gorgas in this June, 1861, letter. Lee asks that supplies be sent General Robert Garnett, commanding in West Virginia, through Major Harman, quartermaster at Staunton.

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HEADQUARTERS,

Maj. GORGAS, Chief of Ordnance Department, Richmond, Va.:

Richmond, Va.,

June 26, 1861.

MAJOR:

Upon the requisition of Brig.-Gen. Garnett I desire four hundred rounds of ammunition (two hundred each) to be sent with the two 6-pounder iron guns intended for his command. Col. Dimmock informs me, upon whom, through my error, the requisition for guns, equipments, and ammunition was made, that the guns, caissons, &c., were forwarded on yesterday, but cannot say whether or not the ammunition has not already been sent, cause the same (four hundred rounds) to be shipped at once to Gen. Garnett, to the care of Maj. Harman, at Staunton?

Respectfully,

R. E. LEE,
Gen., Commanding.

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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 2, Serial No. 2, Pages 955, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.