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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death from snake Bite. (search)
ldent assumed the control of all military operations in this State which were to be conducted against any foreign powers. The President then appointed Gen. Lawton, and extended his command from Savannah to the Florida line, and assigned to Commodore Tatnall the command of the small naval force upon our coast. Our own Convention, while in session at this place, passed an ordinance turning over the forts and arsenals of this State to the Confederacy. Fort Pulaski was not at that time sufficiently equipped, and I have since expended about eighty thousand dollars from the State Treasury for heavy guns and other necessary equipments for the fort. Gen. Lawson and Commodore Tatnall have been actively engaged in putting the coast in a defensive condition, and I have co-operated with them to the extent of my ability, in every case when they have called upon me for assistance. I have not felt, however, that I possessed the constitutional power to call into active service troops ot