Also, from the Official Records, [Series I, Vol 17 Pt 2, p 723]:
HDQRS. CHIEF OF ORDNANCE, DIST. OF THE TENN., Tupelo, Miss., October 7, 1862.
Maj. Gen. STERLING PRICE, Commanding Army of the West: GENERAL:
I have the honor to report that in pursuance of your orders I have delivered over 8,000 stand of arms to Brigadier-General Tilghmans ordnance officer at Jackson, Miss. Out of the whole lot on hand at present I think I can assort 500 or 1,000 stand of serviceable arms, mostly flintlock muskets, which I will retain for the present,I will leave nothing undone that can be done to refit the army with stores from my department. I am informed by the commandant of this post that there are now in this place about 1,200 convalescents who are without arms; and had I known this fact sooner I should have stopped the last shipment of 1,400 stand of arms to Jackson, although my orders are to ship all the serviceable arms within the district to that place. I hope the ordnance officers of divisions will be sent forward immediately with their requisitions, so that I may be informed more particularly what is needed at the earliest day possible.