V. The commanding officers of companies are charged with the immediate execution of this order (on its being published in the papers) and all the officers of the militia are hereby required to aid in its execution with the greatest promptness and dispatch; and the commanding officers of companies are authorized to issue certificates of transportation to railroad companies, arrangements for which will be made by the quartermaster-general of the State.

VI. The troops will provide themselves with four days' cooked rations and such articles of clothing, &c., as they think necessary for their comfort.

By command:

A. C. GARLINGTON,

Adjutant and Inspector General, South Carolina.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, HEADQUARTERS,

Charleston, September 6, 1863.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD:

GENERAL: Your letter of the 5th instant* has been received and the six-months' troops ordered out accordingly, with the addition of ordering four companies of the Third Regiment in and around Georgetown to report to General Trapier at that place. I hope to have some of them at their places of rendezvous by the 12th instant or sooner, and all by the 15th or sooner. Inclosed I send you a copy of General Garlington's report, showing the strength of the six-months'.+ They were organized by the 1st of August las, and on the 8th of that month I telegraphed the Secretary of War that "the 5,000 six-months' troops called for by the President re ready for the field except the Charleston Brigade, which is in the field in its militia organization."

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

M. L. BONHAM.

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HEADQUARTERS SECOND SUB-DIVISION,
September 25, 1863.

Captain W. F. NANCE.

Assistant Adjutant-General, Charleston, S. C.:

CAPTAIN: In reply to the note stating that it is the wish of the general commanding that I should forward without delay the names of such officers and men as especially distinguished them selves for zeal and gallantry in the discharge of their duties on Morris Island during the time I was on duty at that fort, I have the honor to state that it is extremely difficult for me to do so, for the sole reason that they all genarelly behaved so well that would be individious to particularize. The officers gerally were prompt, collected, and courageous and very zealous in the discharge in the discharge of their duties, and the men were so ready to expose themselves unnecessarily to the enemy's shot that I had constantly to give orders to compel them to remain under cover. When one night it was announced that the enemy's infantry were coming up rapidly to the assault, the lines were manned with the greatest alacrity, and the only wish seemed to be that the Yankees would come close enough to enable us to repay them with the musket and bayonet for their previous and long-continued cannonade. The hardest service was performed by the Eighth North Carolina Regiment, commanded by

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*See VOL. XXVIII, Part II, p. 339.

+Not found.

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