Governor Rector, Little Rock, Ark.:

For God’s sake allow no attack to be made on Fort Totten.

A. Rust.

Ibid., vol. liii, supplement, 617.

February 7, 1861.

E. Burgevin, Little Rock:

For God’s sake do not attack the arsenal. It can do no good and will be productive of great harm.

C. B. Johnson.

Ibid.

Little Rock, February 8, 1861.