icies to Brigadier-General Beauregard, are hereby appointed volunteer aides-de-camp, and any orders transmitted through them will be obeyed accordingly.

II. General Samuel McGowan and Colonel R. B. Boylston, having volunteered their services to the brigadier-general commanding, are hereby appointed assistants; the former to the quatermaster-general and the latter to the commissary-general, to whom they will report for duty, and will be respected accordingly.

By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard:

D. R. JONES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES,
Charleston, S. C., April 10, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel W. G. DE SAUSSURE,

Commandant of Batteries, Morris Island:

(Through Colonel Gregg, commanding.)

SIR: The brigadier-general commanding directs me to inform you that a system of lights on flat-boats will be established in the harbor to-night for the purpose of lighting up the channel to show any small boats that may attempt to reach Fort Sumter with supplies and re-enforcements. These lights will be under the direction of Captain Hartstene, C. S. Navy. He also directs that the guns be so directed that a terrible fire may be opened on them as soon seen by these lights, if it be too dark to see them except by the lights. The time lights will also be so regulated that they may be used in connection with these lights with their best effect as soon as an alarm may be given.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servnat,

STEPHEN D. LEE,

Captain South Carolina Army, and Actg. Asstl Q. M.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL FORCES, Numbers 17.
Charleston, S. C., April 11, 1861.

Honorable s W. Procher Miles and Roger A. Pryor, having tendered their services to Brigadier-General Beauregard, are hereby appointed voulunteer aides-de-camp, and all orders transmitted through them will be obeyed.

By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard:

D. R. JONES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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Svannah, April 11, 1861.

L. P. WALKER:

Great uneasiness previals here from the fact that we have no officer in general charge of the defenses of Savannah. Colonel Williams, of the Georgia regulars, being in command of the fort, it is important that the Confederate Government should take charge of this matter and assign some one to this duty.

F. S. BARTOW.

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