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Rh the government and regulation of the land and naval forces," and "to ordain and establish from time to time inferior courts," would seem ample to justify such legislation as is herein recommended, especially as the necessity for the ordinary forms of indictment and trial "for capital and otherwise infamous crimes" is expressly dispensable with by the Constitution "in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the militia when in actual service in time of war."

 September 11, 1862. To the House of Representatives. In compliance with the resolutions of your honorable body of the 20th ult., requesting me to transmit the official reports of all the battles and engagements which have occurred since the adjournment of Congress, including the reports of major generals and brigadier generals engaged, I herewith transmit the report of General Braxton Bragg, of the battle of Shiloh, accompanied by the reports of Generals Withers and Ruggles, and the report of Colonel J. W. Head, commanding a brigade at Fort Donelson: also the report of Brigadier General H. Marshall, of the attack upon the command of General Cox; the report of Major General Huger, of the affair at South Mills; the report of General Ledbetter, of operations on Tennessee River, and at Bridgeport; the report of Brigadier General T. M. Jones, of the evacuation of Pensacola Navy Yard, forts, etc.; the report of Colonel N. B. Forrest, of the evacuation and removal of public property from Nashville; and the report of Major General J. C. Pemberton, of the engagements on James Island.

 Sept. 11, 1862. To the Senate of the Confederate States. In reply to the resolution of your honorable body of the 8th instant, requesting information concerning the detention at certain points of the great Southwestern Mail, I herewith transmit a communication from the Postmaster General.

