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Rights encloses the requisition of six South Carolina regiments for arms,"for the insiduations of the Board of Ordnance."

The Board of Ordnance rejects Jenkins's application for arms on the grounds that improved arms should not be issued to troops "not actually called into active service." Capt. White, Arsenal Keeper in Columbia, has been ordered to issue Jenkins 870 musket and sets of infantry equipment.

Partially-printed Invoice of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores turned over by Manigault to L.M. Hatch for transport to R.S. [Roswell S.] Ripley at Sullivan's Island. Included on the back is a note dated December 12, 1862, from Ripley stating that everything was "issued and received at posts under my command...much was expended during the operations against Fort Sumter."

Requests leave to acknowledge the receipt of "Six Copies of the Coast Survey of Charleston Harbor for the use of the Batteries established at this Post."

Order for friction tubes used for guns to be sent to Memphis, Tennessee.

Request to Gov. Harris to authorize him to purchase ten or fifteen thousand rifles and sword bayonets, at thirty dollars, deliverable in twenty days.

Telegram requesting Bragg to "send as proposed, necessity great, and immediate. Rifleman preferred."

Letter mentioning that "Damned Hound dark shooter, Jackson one who I suppose is one of your saints now." Sends love to a friend whose letter "I will answer...tomorrow but I had to put down the rebel first. Includes drawings of a gallows, shoes on the Confederate flag, and an American flag with certain blackened stars falling, symbolizing certain states' secession.

Located in the Pen and Ink collection

Shares intelligence from Baltimore concerning the movement of Union troops.

Informs Beauregard that Col. Lucius Peyton has been imprisoned in Washington, D.C.; he believes that he will be "handled very roughly" and suggests that should Beauregard have prisoners to exchange to think of Peyton.