activity, and skill displayed by Major Duane during his term of service in this department.

By command of Major-General 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 354.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., June 17, 1863.

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V. The following temporary organization is announced for the forces on Folly Island, S. C.: First Brigade, Colonel H. S. Putnam-Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, Colonel H. S. Putnam; Sixty-second Ohio Volunteers, Colonel F. B. Pond; Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, Colonel A. C. Voris; Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, Colonel Louis Bell. Second Brigade, Colonel J. B. Howell-Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel J. B. Howell; Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, Colonel J. L. Chatfield; Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, Colonel T. O. Osborn; One hundredth New York Volunteers, Colonel G. B. Dandy.

By order of Brigadier General Q. A. Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 362.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., June 19, 1863.

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III. The late temporary brigade organization of the Tenth Army Corps having ceased to exist, Colonel H. R. Guss, Ninety-seventh Pensnylvania Volunteers, is relieved from the command of the troops laterly constituting the First Brigade, and will proceed to Seabrook Island and resume command of his regiment as soon as the court-martial of which he is a member is dissolved.

By order of Brigadier General Q. A. Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 3 (676).
U. S. Transport Mary Benton, July 11, 1863.

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II. The Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, now at Ossabaw Island, will proceed to James Island without delay and report to Brigadier-General Terry, commanding First Division, taking with them there days' cooked rations. The regiment will bring with them all Government property at Ossabaw Island and turn over all the guns, ordnance, ordnance stores, except small-arm ammunition, to the ordnance officer at Hilton Head. * * *

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By order of Brigadier General Q. A. Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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