neighbors, non-combatants, women and children, among whom they live, will be in no danger whatever from the effects of your shot. If the C. S. officers, prisoners of war, shall be placed by you indicate, I have to ask that you will, as promptly and minutely as I have done, inform me when and where they are placed and how treated.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

SAM. JONES.,

[35.] Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 275.
Washington, August 19, 1864.

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2. Brigadier General Daniel P. Woodbury, U. S. Volunteers, commanding District of Key West, Fla., will turn over his command to the next officer in rank and report without delay to the Adjutant-General of the Army in this city.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
[35.] Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 307.
Hilton Head, S. C., August 20, 1864.

I. The Second Battalion, Fourth Massachustess Cavalry, now at this post, will imediately proceed, with all their camp and garrison equipage and horses, to Jacknoville, Fal., reporting to Brigadier General Jon. P. Hatch, commanding district, for duty. * * *

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By command of Major General J. G. Foster:

THOMAS J. ROBINSON,

First Lieutenant, Twenty-first U. S. Colored Troops,

[35.] Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 364.
Hilton Head, S. C., October 16, 1864.

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III. The One hundred and twenty-seventh New York Volunteers is hereby relieved from duty in the Northern District, Department of the South, and will proceed at once to Beaufort, S. C., with camp and garrsion equipage . The commanding officer will report to Brigadier General R. Saxton, commanding District of Beaufort. * * *

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V. The One hundred and fifty-seventh New York Volunteers is hereby relieved from duty in the Northern District, Department of the Southe, and will proceed at once of Fort Pulaski, Ga., with camp and garrison eqiPAGE, and will act as guard over the rebel prisoners of war and accompandy them from Morris Island. * * *

By command of Major General J. G. Foster:

W. L. M. BURGER,
[35.] Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.