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April 27, 1861 - Brigadier General G.T. Beauregard to Secretary of War LeRoy Walker

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Reports of Brigadier General G.T. Beauregard, C.S. Army, of operations against Fort Sumter.

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C.S.,
Charleston, S.C.,
April 27, 1861.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit to the Department with this my detailed report of the operations conducted during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, accompanied by copies of the reports sent in to this office by the commandants of batteries, together with a series of photographs (twenty-two in number), showing the condition of Forts Sumter and Moultrie and of the floating battery after the surrender of the former fort.*

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G.T. BEAUREGARD,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.

to Honorable L.P. WALKER,
Secretary of War, Montgomery, Ala.

* Photographs not found.

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