RICHMOND, May 13, 1863.*

General BEAUREGARD:

You can retain 1,000 infantry and send instead 1,000 cavalry.

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF S. C., GA., AND FLA., Numbers 107.
Charleston, S. C., May 13, 1863.

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III. Paragraph II, Special Orders, Numbers 105, Confederate States, from these headquarters, is revoked, and paragraph I is so far modified as to direct only the movement of Evans' brigade, as soon as the Twenty-sixth South Carolina Volunteers and Abney's South Carolina battalion shall have reported for duty in First Military District, which will be directed by their respective district commanders with the least delay practicable, and the six companies of the Forty-seventh Georgia Volunteers in Third District and the two companies of Forty-seventh Georgia in District of Georgia will be relieved from duty in these districts and ordered to report to Brigadier General W. H. T. Walker, at Jackson, Miss., to form part of his brigade.

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By command of General Beuaregard:

JNO. M. OTEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

CHARLESTON, S. C., May 13, 1863.

Major General D. H. HILL, Goldsborough, N. C.:

Evans reports two brigades of enemy on Folly Island; but I don't think they will attack unless we weaken ourselves too much. It would be well, however, to prepare for the event.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

(Duplicate to Major General W. H. C. Whiting, Wilmington, N. C.)

WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,

Richmond, May 13, 1863.

Honorable W. PORCHER MILES, Charleston, S. C.:

Your several telegrams have been anxiously considered. Controlling necessity compels me to persist. I believe you safe. You will have a larger force than the enemy. Still I urge the organization of all citizens capable of bearing arms in Charleston and its vicinity. I make arrangements to re-enforce, if necessary, from Wilmington.

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

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*Repeated May 14.

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