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January 24, 1861 - Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper to Major Robert Anderson

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Union Correspondence, etc.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, January 24, 1861.

Major ROBERT ANDERSON,
First Artillery, Commanding Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C.:

MAJOR: Your letter [No. 19] of the 21st instant, with inclosures, has been received. The Secretary will reply to it in a few days. Meantime the Secretary desires you to inform him what is the nature of the postal arrangements with your post, and whether they are satisfactory to you. Can you send messengers to Charleston for your mails, and is there danger of your men deserting if they are thus employed?

It is observed that you seal your letters with wax-a good precaution, without which there is no certainty that they have not been opened by unauthorized hands.

Please state whether the men sent up to attend a murder trial in Charleston made an attempt to desert, as reported in the papers.

I am, &c.,

S. COOPER,
Adjutant-General.

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