Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, Confederate General

Letter signed ("G.T. Beauregard"), one page on blue ruled paper (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 245 x 195 mm), Headquarters Provisional Army, Charleston, South Carolina, 11 March 1861, to Col. Edward Manigault, Chief of Ordnance, regarding preparation of the batteries for attacking Fort Sumter; 2 folds repaired with cellotape, dealer's note affixed to top margin.

Letter signed ("G.T. Beauregard"), one page on blue ruled paper (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 245 x 195 mm), Headquarters Provisional Army, Charleston, South Carolina, 11 March 1861, to Col. Edward Manigault, Chife of Ordnance, regarding prepartion of the batteries for attacking Fort Sumter; 2 folds repaired with cellotape, dealer's note affixed to top margin.
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Preparing for the attack on Fort Sumter. Beauregard requests the following from Ordnance: "I have the honor to request that you will furnish to mr. D. Lopez, from the Arsenal, the following articles, viz. manoeuvring bars for Columbiad guns & wrenches, traverse wheels for babette chassis with circles and wheels for the same gun—and anything else that may assist him in fulfilling the orders on which he is engaged."