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the enemy may bring against it [by the following forces], to wit:
James island: 1,000 infantry, 1,000 heavy artillery, 500 cavalry, 6 field batteries.
Morris island: 1,000 infantry, 250 heavy artillery, 50 cavalry.
Sullivan's island: 1,500 infantry, 800 heavy artillery, 50 cavalry, 1 field battery.
Christ Church: 1,000 infantry, 100 heavy artillery, 200 cavalry, 1 field battery.
St. Andrew's: 2,000 infantry (movable column), 200 heavy artillery, 200 cavalry, 2 field batteries.
Second military district: 5,000 infantry, 800 cavalry, 200 heavy artillery, 2 field batteries.
Third military district: 5,000 troops of all arms.
Savannah: 10,000 infantry, 1,200 heavy artillery, 2,000 cavalry, 8 field batteries.
Fort Sumter: 500 heavy artillery, 100 riflemen. Georgetown (merely for preventing marauding, the defense of Winyaw bay requiring obstructions and a numerous heavy artillery, both of which are entirely out of the question): 7 companies of cavalry, 3 batteries of artillery, 3 companies of infantry.
The above estimate is based upon the supposition that attacks may be made simultaneously upon different points.
Upon this communication,
General Beauregard endorsed: ‘Approved as the minimum force required, as above stated, to guard with security the department of South Carolina and Georgia.’
General Beauregard was warmly received by the governor and council of
South Carolina, by the military and by the citizens.
Governor Pickens addressed him the following letter a few days after his taking command:
Dear General: I enclose the within to you, being a letter from myself to General Lee, dated May 23d, and one from him in reply, dated May 29th, containing an order to General Pemberton relating to the defense of Charleston.
It strikes me that the defense of Charleston is now of the last importance to the Confederacy, and in my very full interview yesterday, I took the liberty of urging that Fort Sumter was the key to the harbor and in fact was almost absolutely essential to enable the South to hold communication with the foreign world. . . . I am rejoiced to see you here again, as there is no general who could have been selected to whom South Carolina would look with more confidence for her defense than
