SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 268.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., May 11, 1863.

I. Brigadier General O. S. Ferry, U. S. Volunteers, having returned to this department, is hereby assigned to the command of all the forces on the Edisto, including Seabrook and Botany Bay Islands, relieving General Thomas G. Stevenson, who will assume command of his brigade on Seabrook Island.

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By command of Major General D. Hunter:

CHAS. G. HALPINE,
Lieutenant Colonel and Asst. Adjt. General, Tenth Army Corps, Dept. of the South.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 293.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., May 25, 1863.

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II. The following-named regiments are relieved from duty on the Edisto, and will under the command of Colonel Henry R. Guss, Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, immediately embark for Port Royal Harbor, taking post on their arrival at Land's End, Saint Helena Island: Third New Hampshire Volunteers, Colonel Jackson; Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Campbell; Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel A. P. Duer. * * *

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By command of Major General D. Hunter:

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

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 327.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., June 10, 1863.

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VII. A military post is hereby established at Land's End, Saint Helena Island, S. C. Colonel Henry R. Guss is announced as commandant, and will assume command of all the forces on Saint Helena Island, reporting direct to these headquarters.

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By command of Major General D. Hunter:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,

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

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 330.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., June 11, 1863.

In conformity with instructions of the War Department, Major J. C. Duane, U. S. Engineers, is hereby relieved from duty in the Department of the South, and will proceed north to take command of the battalion of U. S. Engineers. In taking leave of Major Duane the major-general commanding desires to express his sense of the zeal,