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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH,
Hilton Head, S. C., June 3, 1865.

Bvt. Major General C. GROVER,

Commanding District of Savannah, Savannah, Ga.:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that two commpanies of the Sixth U. S. Infantry, under command of Captain Montgomery Bryant, be detailed to take post at Fort Pulaski at once, relieving the present garrison. The detachment will include Captain Bryant's company, and must be in the aggregte about 100 strong.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. L. M. BURGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH,
Hilton Head, S. C., June 3, 1865.

Brigadier General I. VOGDES,

Commanding District of Florida, Jacksonville, Fla.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to acknwlege the receipt of your communication of the 27th ultimo in regard to the arrest of Mr. Yulee, &c. The major-general commanding directs that you give Mr. Yulee the limits of Jacksonville, on his parole. No more troops of any kind can be sent to Florida at present. The command now there must be scattered over all through the interior of the State from Tallahassee east, except the Gulf counties.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. L. M. BURGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF GEORGIA, Numbers 84.
Near Washington, D. C., June 4, 1865.

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IV. Bvt. Major General A. S. Williams, U. S. Volunteers, is relieved from further duty with the Twentieth Army Corps, and will report to Bvt. Major General J. C. Davis, commanding Fourteenth Army Corps, for assignment to duty.

V. The following-named, now serving with the Fourteenth Army Corps, are hereby transferred to the Twentieth Army Corps, viz, Seventeenth New York Volunteers, Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers. The commanding officers of these regiments will report to Major General Joshep A. Mower, commanding Twentieth Corps.

VI. The following-named regiments, now serving with the Twentieth Army Corps, are hereby transferred to the Foruteenth Army Corps; Third Wisconsin Volunteers, Thirty-first Wisconsin Volunteers, Fifth Ohio Volunteers, Twenty-ninth Volunteers, Fifty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, Seventy-third Ohio Volunteers, Eighty-second Ohio Volunteers, Eighty-second Illinois Volunteers, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers. The commanding officers of these regiments will report to Bvt. Major General J. C. Davis, commanding Foruteenth Army Corps.

By irder of Major General H. W. Slocum:

ROBT. P. DECHERT,
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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