battalion of artillery, commencing with Captain Cuthbert's. The companies, when relieved, will be ordered to report to Adjutant-General Gist for orders.

III. the presetn exigencies no longer requiring the services of the Seventeenth Regiment of Infantry (Colonel Cunningham), it will be relieved fromduty on the 29th instant, to report to Adjutant-General Gist in this city. Colonel Hagood's regiment will take the position of the Seventeenth Regiment when relieved in rear of Vinegar Hill.

IV. Brigadier-General Simons, whose efficient services will no longer be needed on Morris Island, will be relieved at the same time the Seventeenth Regiment is-the 29th instant-and Brigadier-General Nelson will assume command of the island.

V. On the 30th instant the companies of Colonel Rion's regiment remaining on Morris Island will be relieved from duty and ordered to report at Fort Pickens, Battery Island. The company which was ordered to Legare's Landing will be sent to Fort Johnson instead, and the one ordered to the Wappo Creek will be sent to Fort Palmetto.

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By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard:

D. R. JONES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,

Montgomery, April 27, 1861.

His Excellency JOSEPH E. BROWN,

Governor of Georgia, &c., Milledgeville:

SIR: In reference to your letter of the 24th of April, suggesting an examination into the defenses of the harbor of Brunswick, and requesting an additional engineer officer to be sent to Fort Pulaski, it gives me pleasure to say that your wishes shall be respected as to Brunswick, and that Captain Echols has been sent to assistant Captain Gill at Fort Pulaski. If these officeers should require more assistance, Major Whiting, after he shall have performed the service on which he is now engaged at Forts Caswell and Johnson, will be dispatched to Fort Pulaski.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, yours,

L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, Numbers 101.
Charleston, S. C., April 27, 1861.

1. On the arrival of the companies of Colonel Rion's regiment from Morrison Island at Fort Pickens the commanding officer at that post will relieved the Charleston Riflemen and Washington Artillery from duty and order them to this city, to report to Adjutant-General Gist, of South Carolina.

2. The Rutledge Mounted Riflemen (Captain Huger) will be relieved from duty on the Wappoo on the 30th instant. Captain Huger, on his arrival with his company in this city, will report to Adjutant-General Gist, of South Carolina.

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By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard:

STEPHEN D. LEE,
Captain, C. S. Army, and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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