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Applachicola Nov 22 (61

W^m A. McKeegin Esq Eufaula, Al^a }

Dear Sir

Your interesting favor of the 12^th Inst came duly to hand. It was handed over to the Col commanding at this post. who has given the information below with a great deal of pleasure.

- Ordinance at Military POst Ap^a- 4 Short 32 Pounders in Battery, Muskets Carriage 2 Long [12 Pounders in Battery, Muskets, Carriage 2 [Long] 24 [Pounders in Battery, Muskets Carriage 2 [Long] 18 [Pounders in Battery, Muskets Carriage 2 Rifles 12 [Pounders] in guage caring 28 ^lbs on seige 12 pieces ordnance

Ammunition No Boxes 32 /²³ 700 [No Boxes 24 [/²³] 343 [No Boxes 18 [/²³] 261 [illegible] of Grape 40 Cannister 32 [/²³] 9 Shells 200 Rifles 48 Mud projectiles 1601

Cartridges filled for Guns 108 Cask Powder 20 Kegs small arms 19 1/2 [Kegs small arms] 13 1/4 [Kegs small arms] 15 Musket Cartridges 30,000 Percussion Caps 6,000

Remarks Great want at this post of Cartridges bags[?] & material for same. All having been exhausted. Scarcity of Caps for ordinary guns rifles &c -

The above is all the information I could obtain from the Col Commandery. We have some Seven hundred & fifty men stationed here now, with the promise of as many more as our necessities may require Two companies of Horse are also stationed here, our Town is thirty miles from the East pass. with the Bulk head between us and it, with 6 1/2 feet of water on it. Twenty miles from west pass with fourteen feet of water to within 2 1/2 miles of Town. Depth of water on East Pass has 17 1/2 feet