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This system of construction to be used as soon as found practicable.
It would be of great advantage to have the wooden sections of the boom to present their side-angle to the force of the current.
You will continue to throw
debris around
Fort Ripley until its foundations shall be covered about one foot above highwater mark, with a berme of twenty feet along-side of that work; and from thence, with a natural slope to the bottom of the bay. You will have laid a telegraphic wire from the battery on the
Stono, near Church Flats, to Rantowle's Station, where an operator will have to be located.
I am informed that a part of the telegraphic wire can be obtained from
James Island, where it is not now in use.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
Two regiments ordered to
General Finegan will be sent from
Georgia, the War Department assuming the responsibility of detaching them at this time from
Georgia, where the troops are already prostrated by disease, as
General Mercer reports.
If you think
Savannah endangered by detaching two regiments to
General Finegan, you will retain them.
It is not intended to deprive you of discretion in the matter.
The two regiments ordered to
Florida must be recalled at once.
Answer.
By command of
Genl. Beauregard.
