GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 30.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., August 21, 1862.

I. Major Charles G. Halpine, assistant adjutant-gneeral and chief of staff, having been ordered to report to Major-General Halleck, commander-in-chief, for further orders, is hereby relieved from duty in this department.

II. First. Lieutenant Edward W. Smith, Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, is appointed acting assistant adjutant-general, and all communications to these headquarters will be addressed to him.

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D. HUNTER,

Major-General, Commanding.

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HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, SAVANNAH RIVER,
Fort Pulaski, Ga., August 30, 1862.

Lieutenant E. W. SMITH,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding, that, in accordance with general verbal instructions received from him, with thirty men of my command on board of the armed tug Starlight, I to-day went up the Bluffton River to a point opposite to and above the village of that name, driving in the rebel pickets on my way up. On the bluff near the village I discovered a camp of infantry, which I shelled quite thoroughly, but in consideration of the smallness of my force did not deem it prudent to land. I judge that the enemy has a collection of small boats above the point reached by me to-day, and think that with an additional steamer I could destroy these and inflict other damage. May I request that the George Washington be placed (at least temporarily) at my disposal, and that she be sent here, if possible, to-morrow.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. B. BARTON,

Colonel Forty-eighth New York Volunteers, Commanding Post.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 309.
Hilton Head, S. C., October 2, 1862.

I. Captain M. R. Morgan, commissary of subistence, is hereby relieved from duty in this department, and will report as soon as practicable to the Commissary-General at Washington, D. C.

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By command of Major General O. M. Mitchel:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,
Second Lieutenant, Forty-seventh New York Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 310.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., October 3, 1862.

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II. Captain Richard H. Jackson, First U. S. Artillery, is hereby relieved from duty as assistant inspector-general of this department, and ordered