with his regiment to the south end of Saint Helena Island and will report in person for instructions at these headquarters. * * *

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By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, HEADQUARTERS IN THE
FIELD, Numbers 94.
Folly Island, S. C., October 28, 1863.

I. Medals of honor for gallant and meritorious conduct during the operations before Charleston will be awarded by the commanding general to a number of the enlisted men of this command, not exceeding 3 per cent. of the present aggregate strength of those regiments, companies, and detachments that have been in action or on duty in the batteries or trenches. Candidates for these honors will be nominated by company officers, acting for their respective companeis in the capacity of a board. The recomendations of these boards will be forwarded to post commanders, through the usual channels, accompanied by remarks of approval or disapproval of the intermediate commanders, set opposite the name of each candidate. The lists thus obtained will be examined and pronounced upon by boards convened by post commanders, and composed exclusively of field officers, and will then be forwarded to these headquarters.

II. In honor of some of the brave men who have fallen on Morris Island during the present campaign, the following names are adopted for the works herein below designated, viz: The work at Cummings Point will be known as Fort Putnam; that next to it, on Morris Island, as Battery Chatfield; Fort Wagner as Fort strong; the new work near the south end of Morris Island as Fort Shaw; that on Oyster Point as Battery Purviance, and that on the north end of Folly island as Fort Green.

By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

W. L. M. BURGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, HEADQUARTERS IN THE
FIELD, Numbers 581.
Folly Island, S. C., October 28, 1863.

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I. The brigade of Colonel Howell, consisting of the Sixty-second Ohio, Sixty-seventh Ohio, Thirty-ninth Illinois, and Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed to the south end of Folly Island and report to Brigadier General A. Schimmelfennig, commanding post.

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By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,

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

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