Numbers 2. CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. SECOND Brigadier, NORTHERN DISTRICT, DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Beaufort, S. C., May 11, 1862.

In accordance with the orders of Major-General Hunter, commanding Department of the South, the several agents or oversees of plantations will send to Beaufort to-morrow morning every able- bodied negro between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, capable of bearing arms, under their charge. These negroes will be turned over to Mr. Broad, 'superintendent of contrabands."

By order of Brigadier-General Stevens:

HAZARD STEVENS,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

NOTE.-The agents will be required to send a descriptive list with each squad of negroes.

Numbers 3. HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, NORTHERN DISTRICT, DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Beaufort, S. C., May 11, 1862.

Mr. PIERCE:

SIR: I am directed by the general to inclose circular ordering the several oversees of the plantations of Ladies, Saint Helena, and Coosaw Islands to send to Beaufort to-morrow morning every able-bodied negro between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, capable of bearing arms, and to request that you have these circulars distributed among the several agents with instructions to pay the greatest attention to the enforcement of the order.* Any assistance that you may require to distribute the circulars, or otherwise, will be cheerfully rendered.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HAZARD STEVENS,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

P. S.-Inclose herewith twenty descriptive lists, blank.

Numbers 4. POPE'S PLANTATION, Saint Helena Island, May 11, 1862.

The special agent of the Treasury Department herewith communicates to the several superintendents the circular of Brigadier-General Stevens, commanding, in relation to the sending of able-bodied negroes to Beaufort; which circular, or order, is to be respected by them, and they are to give such aid as is in their power toward its execution.

EDWARD L. PIERCE,

Special Agent for Treasury Department.

Numbers 5. BEAUFORT, Sunday, May 11, 1862.

Major-General HUNTER,

Commanding Department of the South:

GENERAL: This evening I received from Brigadier-General Stevens, through his adjutant, while I was at my headquarters on Saint Helena,

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