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BEAUFORT, April 22, 1862.
Lieutenant KEENAN:
The rebels have been shelling our troops at the ferry since 5 o'clock a. m. Our battery has just gone out.
HOWARD,
Lieutenant.
The ferry referred to in the above note is Port Royal Ferry, at the north end of Port Royal Island.
D. HUNTER,
Major-General, Commanding.
Abstract from Return of the Department of the South, Major General D. Hunter commanding, for April 30, 1862; headquarters Hilton Head, S. C.
Present for duty.
Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate
present.
Department staff.. 12 ... 12
Hilton Head, S. C.,
Brigadier General H. W.
Benham commanding Northern
District:
Staff.. 4 ... 4
Daufuskie, Jones, and Bird
Islands, Brigadier General
E. L. Viele commanding:
Staff.. 7 ... 7
Command.. 113 2,662 3,070
Beaufort, S. C., Brigadier
General I. I. Stevens:
Staff.. 7 ... 7
Command.. 127 3,144 3,874
Fort Edisto and Otter
Islands, Brigadier General
H. G. Wright:
Staff.. 7 ... 7
Command.. 135 3,265 3,616
Tybee and Cockspur Islands,
Fort Pulaski, Ga. Brigadier
General Q. A. Gillmore:
Staff.. 6 ... 6
Command.. 85 1,832 2,133
Hilton Head and Fort 102 2,331 2,976
Welles, Colonel Robert
Williams..
Fernadina, Fla., Colonel 37 979 1,123
R. Rich..
Saint Augustina, Fla., 2 64 71
Lieutenant Colonel Louis
Bell..
Fort Seward, S. C., 6 73 92
Lieutenant Colonel S. R.
Rucklin..
Total.. 650 14,350 16,989
This report embraces only the troops in the Northern District of the department. No return has as yet been received from Tortugas, Key West, or Fort Pickens.
HDQRS. WESTERN DISTRICT, DEPT. OF THE SOUTH,
Fort Pickness, Fla., May 1, 1862.Major CHARLES G. HALPINE,
Asst. Adjt. General, U. S. Vols., Hdqrs. Dept. of the South:
MAJOR: I have the honor to transmit herewith inclosed copies of reports that I have made to the Headquarters of the Army, Washington, and correspondence between flag-officers Farragut and McKean, General Butler and Brannan, and myself relative to military affairs in the Department of Florida.* As the best mode of correctly informing Major-General Hunter, commanding Department of the South, of the of the situation of my command at this time and the relations existing between it and the rebels on the opposite side, as an apparent change has taken place since my report to the War Department dated Headquarters Department of Florida, April 24, 1862, I will add that I was informed
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