to proceed North on recruiting service for the battalion of his regiment, now forming a part of the Tenth Army Corps. * * *

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By command of Major-General Mitchel:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,

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

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 44.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., October 11, 1862.

I. The following-named officers are hereby announced as additional members of the staff of the major-general commanding the Department of the South: Captain J. J. Elwell, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, assistant quartermaster; Captain Charles Garretson, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, quartermaster; Captain Gideon Scull, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, chief commissary of subsistence; Captain L. A. Warfied, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, depot commissary; Captain W. P. Martin, commissary of subsistence, U. S. Volunteers; Surg. C. H. Crane, Medical Department, U. S. Army, medical director; Major A. V. Elliott, Pay Department, U. S. Army, chief paymaster; Colonel E. W. Serrell, New York Volunteer Engineers, chief engineer; Colonel N. W. Brown, Third Rhode Island Volunteers, chief of artillery; First Lieutenant J. W. Todd, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, chief of ordnance; First Lieutenant E. J. Keenan, Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, chief signal officer.

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By command of Major General O. M. Mitchel:

[W. P. PRENTICE,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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HILTON HEAD, S. C., October 25, 1862.

Colonel JOHN H. JACKSON,

Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report that I left the Boston at 11 p. m. with twelve men and a negro guide to capture a picket-post. Went up the river by water to within two miles of my destination, landed and reached the rear of the picket a little after daybreak; sent six men to occupy a dike in the rear, to capture any who might escape me, then advanced and captured two cavalry pickets, one a first lieutenant in Morgan's cavalry, and learning that two more pickets would soon be in, ordered the dike guard to let them pass in, and stationed the remainding force about the grounds with orders to allow the rebels toenter the line and then capture them, which was done. I then embarked and returned to the flet and delivered the prisoners to General Brannan; the property, consisting of 3 valuable cavalry horses, 4 sets cavalry equipments, 2 double-barreles fowling pieces, 1 rifle, 3 cartidg-boxes, and 3 belts, to Captain Coryell, quartermaster of General Brannan's brigade, by order of General Brannan. My thanks are due Master Ormond, of the gun-boat Paul Jones, who accompanied me with eight men.

Your obedient servant,

S. M. SMITH,

Lieutenant, Third Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers.

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