SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 92. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., February 18, 1863. The division commanded by Brig. Gen. Orris S. Ferry will remain on Saint Helena Island until further orders, the orders sending it to Daufuskie Island being suspended. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. SPECIAL ORDERS, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., February 19, 1863. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, No. 98. I. In conformity with authority received from the War Department, Brigadier-General Saxton is hereby assigned to duty with troops and placed in command of the post of Port Royal Island, relieving Colonel Good, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers. II. Colonel Good, when relieved by Brigadier-General Saxton, will immediately report with his command at these headquarters for assignment to special service. SPECIAL ORDERS, CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., February 23, 1863. Colonel Good, with the six companies Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers at this post, will proceed immediately to Key West and will assume command of that post and of the Tortugas. He will send two companies of his regiment to re-enforce Fort Jefferson, retaining four at Key West. * * * By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. SPECIAL ORDERS, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., February 25, 1863. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, No. 109. I. Two regiments of infantry will be selected by Brigadier-General Naglee; commanding U. S. forces, Saint Helena Island, who will proceed immediately to Beaufort, S. C., and report for duty to the commanding officer of that post. * * * By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. SPECIAL ORDERS, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 2, 1863. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, No. 118. The assignment of the Sixth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers to move from Port Royal Island is revoked hereby, and such regiment will remain as at present. The Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers will take the place of the Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, and will be held ready for immediate service, the commanding officer of the Sixth Connecticut Volunteers turning over to the commanding officer Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers all orders he may have received relative to the operations now pending. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 133. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 7, 1863. Brig. Gen. James H. Ledlie, chief of artillery to Major-General Foster, is included in the operation of Special Orders, No. 97, current series, from these headquarters, and is relieved from duty in this department. He will proceed to North Carolina by the first opportunity. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. SPECIAL ORDERS, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 17, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, No. 147. 1863. Capt. Richard H. Jackson, First U. S. Artillery, is announced as acting assistant inspector-general of the Department of the South, and will be respected and obeyed accordingly. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 152. } CHAS. G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 19, 1863. The One hundredth New York Volunteers, Col. George B. Dandy, will proceed immediately to Stono River and occupy Cole's Island, mouth of the Stono River, S. C. * * * By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] CHAS. G. HALPINE. Asst. Adjt. Gen., Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South. SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 161. } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 26, 1863. I. The Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers (Lieutenant-Colonel Wheeler) and One hundredth New York Volunteers (Col. G. B. Dandy) will be attached to Brigadier-General Stevenson's brigade, and the Eightyfifth Pennsylvania Volunteers (Col. J. B. Howell) to the brigade now commanded by Col. T. O. Osborn, and of which Colonel Howell, as senior colonel, will assume command. This change to be effected immediately. II. Brigadier-General Stevenson's brigade (Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, Tenth Connecticut, and Fifty-sixth New York), with Morrison's battery (B), Third New York Artillery (six 12-pounder guns), will embark at once. The full supply of ammunition heretofore indicated will be taken and provisions to April 10. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] ED. W. SMITH, Assistant Adjutant-General. SPECIAL ORDERS, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 26, 1863. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, No. 162. I. Colonel Putnam, with five companies of his regiment, will proceed immediately to these headquarters. Saint Augustine will for the present be left in command of Lieutenant-Colonel Abbott with the remaining five companies. II. Colonel Hawley will proceed immediately to these headquarters with five companies of his regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Gardiner will be left in command of Fernandina with the remaining five compa nies for the present. III. All the troops at Jacksonville will immediately be withdrawn. SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 168. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., March 28, 1863. I. The two regiments of artillery (Third Rhode Island and Third New York) will constitute a brigade, to be commanded by Col. Edwin Metcalf, Third Rhode Island. II. Light Battery E, Third Artillery, Captain Rockwell's Connecticut | battery, and Companies F, I, and K, Third New York Artillery, are placed under command of Captain Hamilton, Third U. S. Artillery. III. The battalion of First U. S. Artillery, consisting of Companies B, C, D, and M, will be commanded by Lieutenant Henry, First U. S. Artillery. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: [14.] T. SEYMOUR, Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff. HDQRS. U. S. FORCES ON THE SAVANNAH RIVER, Lieut. Col. CHARLES G. HALPINE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Tenth Army Corps: COLONEL: I have the honor to report for the information of the major-general commanding the department that early this morning a schooner was reported to me off Daufuskie Island to the east of the plantation known as Stoddard's, about five miles from the fort. The wind was at the time from the northeast and blowing a perfect gale. Judging from the appearance and position of the vessel that her being there was not the result of accident, but that her design had evidently been to run into Savannah, I immediately went on board steamer Mattano, taking with me Captain Coan, Forty-eighth New York Volunteers, and a small detachment of his company, and directed Captain Blakeman, commanding the Mattano, to proceed at once toward her. As the schooner, notwithstanding our approach, showed no colors, I caused a shot from a 6-pounder to be fired across her, immediately upon which she hoisted the English flag. Having hailed her and received no satisfactory reply, I directed Captain Coan to board her and ascertain her name and character. She proved to be the schooner Expeditious, Captain Edgecomb, with a cargo of 310 sacks of salt from Nassau, and ostensibly bound for Beaufort, N. C., for which port she had a sort of clearance. I therefore deemed myself justified in taking possession of the vessel, cargo, and crew, and at once towed her to the fort. The captain and maté on being closely questioned admitted that their destination was Savannah, but that the night being dark they had lost their way. During almost all Saturday they were within a few miles of Port Royal Light Ship, and thus got the compass bearings, &c., of Tybee entrance. There exists not the least doubt as to the Expeditious being a would-be blockade-runner. She will be towed to Hilton Head by the steamer which takes this communication, and her papers will be handed to you. You will perceive that Captain Edgecomb was but recently in the employ of the United States Government as a pilot in the Banks expedition. I desire especially to commend Captain Blakeman, of the Mattano, for the zeal and intelligence with which he carried out my wishes in this matter not only, but which have characterized his entire conduct during his entire connection with the post. I have the honor to be, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. B. BARTON, [14.] Colonel Forty-eighth New York Volunteers, Comdg. Post. SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, No. 187. Brig. Gen. Israel Vogdes, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby assigned to the command of the brigade of Ferry's division at present commanded by Colonel Howell, Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and will report immediately to Brigadier-General Ferry for duty. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: CHAS. G. HALPINE, Lieut. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South. [14.] SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Stono Inlet, S. C., April 9, 1863. Col. John Hay, of Illinois, private secretary to His Excellency the President, having tendered his services as a volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of the major-general commanding, is hereby appointed and announced as such, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: CHAS. G. HALPINE, Lieut. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South. SPECIAL ORDERS, Head, PAR MONT, OF THE SOUTH Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., April 22, 1863. The Third New York Artillery, Major Kennedy, is hereby relieved from duty in the Department of the South, nd will proceed to New Berne, N. C., after turning over to the ordnance department its extra material (horses and guns); this order to include the batteries and foot detachments. * * By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: CHAS. G. HALPINE, Lieut. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South. [14.1 SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., April 24, 1863. Capt. Walter McFarland, U. S. Engineers, is hereby relieved from duty in this department, and will immediately proceed to his proper post, Key West, Fla., Department of the Gulf. In taking leave of Captain McFarland the major-general commanding desires to thank him for the zealous and efficient manner in which during his period of service in this department he has discharged the duties of his position. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: CHAS. G. HALPINE, Lieut. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South. [14.] SPECIAL ORDERS,} HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., April 25, 1863. I. The Sixth Connecticut and Fourth New Hampshire Regiments will proceed to Folly Island, commanding officers to report to BrigadierGeneral Vogdes for duty. II. The Third New Hampshire and Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania will land at Botany Bay Island, and with the Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania, which will be transferred from Seabrook Island to Botany Bay, will constitute a post at the latter-named place under the command of Col. Henry R. Guss. By command of Maj. Gen. D. Hunter: CHAS. G. HALPINE, Lieut. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South. [14.] SPECIAL ORDERS, 0.0,E SOUTH, Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., April 27, 1863. I. So much of Special Orders, No. 235, as transfers the Ninetyseventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers from Seabrook Island, under General T. G. Stevenson, to Botany Bay Island, under command of Col. Henry R. Guss, is hereby revoked, and the Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania (Colonel Guss) will remain on Seabrook Island. II. The Third New Hampshire and Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania will remain on Botany Bay Island under command of the senior officer |