SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT, Numbers 258.
Charleston, July 25, 1863.

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III. The following movements of troops are ordered, and will be carried into effect at the earliest possible moment after dark this evening, the quartermaster's department furnishing transportation:

One non-commissioned officer and 10 men of the Fifth South Carolina Cavalry to Morris Island, the detachment of cavalry there to the city.

The Sixty-first Regiment North Carolina Troops, from Sullivan's Island, to Battery Wagner, Morris Island.

The Twenty-first South Carolina Volunteers, from Morris Island to Fort Johnson.

Captain Chichester's company of artillery, from Battery Wagner to Fort Johnson.

IV. Major J. R. Robertson, acting commissary of subsistence, will issue 1 1/2 pounds as the meat ration to the negro laborers in the employ of the Government on Sullivan's Island.

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By command of Brigadier-General Ripley:

WM. F. NANCE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

CHARLESTON, S. C., July 26, 1863.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

Have nine positions for heavy guns ready. Not one promised from Richmond has yet arrived. Cannot their transportation be expedited?

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General, Commanding.

CHARLESTON, S. C., July 26, 1863.

Brigadier General H. W. MERCER,

Savannah, Ga.:

Send here immediately naval 7-inch condemned Brooke gun, turned over to the army. All doing well here.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General, Commanding.

CHARLESTON, S. C., July 26, 1863.

Brigadier General H. W. MERCER,

Savannah, Ga.:

War Department authorizes impressment of slaves to work on fortifications, obeying provisions of law on subject. See General Orders, Numbers 37.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General, Commanding.