NORTH CAROLINA ARSENAL,
Fayetteville, October 22, 1860.
ARCHIBALD MCLEAN, Esq., Mayor of the Town of Fayetteville:
SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge your communication, dated the 20th instant, accompanying a request from many citizens of the town that a company of troops might be ordered to this post to guard the public property in deposit here. Neither in the paper of request nor in your communication is there intimation of any menace against my post, nor have I intimation of any. I can see no necessity, therefore, for the presence of troops here at this time.
…….With much respect, I am, sir, your obedient servant,
JAS. A. J. BRADFORD,
Captain, Commanding.