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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF PORT ROYAL,
Hilton Head, S. C., June 7, 1865.

Colonel G. W. BAIRD,

Commanding Post of Beaufort:

COLONEL: You will instruct Lieutenant-Colonel Guernsey to make the following disposition of his command: One company will take post at Gillisonville, one company at Grahamville, one company at Robertsville near the Savannah River, two companies at Walterborough. Headquarters will be at McPhersonville, with a small post at Pocotaligo to guard the telegraph office. The two companies which are to be stationed at Walterborough will move to that place as soon as the bridge across the Combahee can be repaired to admit the passage of wagons. the post at Robertsville will be supplied with rations from Savannah by the way of the river. Direct Lieutenant-Colonel Guernsey to forward a return of the strength of the company which will march to Robertsville, that the proper amount of subsistance stores may be sent there. These supplies will be landed at Palichucola Bluff, in the Savnnah River, as hort distance from Robertsville.

By order of Brigadier General E. E. Potter:

CHAS J. BLADWIN,

First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF GEORGIA, Numbers 88.
Near Washington, D. C., June 8, 1865.

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II. Bvt. Colonel J. A. Reynolds, major First New York Artillery, is relieved from duty as chief of artillery of the Army of Georgia and will proceed to Elmira, N. Y., where he will report to the commanding officer of his regiment with a view to his muster out of service.

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VI. Lieutenant Colonel P. M. Thorne, assistnt inspector-general, Army of Georgia, and captain One hundred and fiftieth New York Volunteers, is relieved from duty on the staff of the major-general commanding, and will proceed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and report to the commanding officer of his regiment for muster out of service.

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By command of Major General H. W. Slocum:

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

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., 14TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 65.
Near Washington, D. C., June 8, 1865.

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IX. The troops of this division will move en route for Louisville, Ky., to-morrow, the 9th instant, as follows: The Second Brigade, brevet Brigadier-General Buell, will be rady to load upon the cars at the depot at Washington, D. C., at 6 a. m. The First Brigade, Colonel Hambright, will move out of camp immediataly after the Second Brigade and be put upon the cars after the loading of the Second Brigade. Brigade commanders will superintend the loading of their troops, Brigade quartermastes will at once confer with Captain Clark, assistant quartermasters, for the proper disposition of the baggage, camp and garrison equipage, and animals of their respective brigades. The


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