CHARLESTON, May 3, 1863.

Brigadier-General WALKER, Pocotaligo:

Send Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Regiments Georgia Volunteers back to General Mercer as soon as possible. Make best disposition of balance of your command you can for defense of your district.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF S. C., GA., AND FLA., Numbers 98.
Charleston, S. C., May 3, 1863.

I. Brigadier-General Gist will be relieved from duty in this department and be placed in command of a brigade of four regiments of battalions of infantry and a field battery of four guns, to be selected by the brigadier-general commanding the First Military District, with which he will move with the least delay practicable to Jackson, Miss., and report to Lieutenant-General Pemberton.

The effective total of the brigade will not be less than 2,700 bayonets.

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By command of General Beauregard:

JNO. M. OTEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

CHARLESTON, May 4, 1863.

Honorable JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War:

Enemy's fleet reported at Hilton [Head] and Port Royal yesterday is four steam frigates, five wooden gunboats, six ships, four barks, three brigs, five ocean steamers, six iron steamers, five tugs, eighty-seven transports, and fifty-eight schooners-one hundred and eighty-three in all. A very remarkable increase since last report.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,

Richmond, May 4, 1863.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD, Charleston, S. C.:

Have you sent the 5,000 men and batteries mentioned by you? If not, hurry them as soon as possible.

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT, DEPT. OF S. C., GA., AND FLA., Numbers 182.
Charleston, May 4, 1863.

I. The three companies of the Twentieth South Carolina Volunteers, Captain J. A. Cowan commanding, now on detached service in this city, will at once rejoin their regiments at Sullivan's Island. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

II. The two companies of the Eighth Georgia Battalion, one stationed