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Page 552 COAST OF S. C., GA., AND MID. AND EAST FLA. Chapter XXVI.

CHARLESTON, S. C.,

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-, 1862.

General DRAYTON, Hardeeville, S. C.:

You will not move until ordered. The cavalry companies will not be moved. The two companies of the Eleventh Regiment will not be moved.

J. C. PEMBERTON,

Major-General, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF S. C. AND GA., Numbers 24.
Charleston, S. C., June 6, 1862

Lieutenant Colonel T. M. Wagner, First Regiment South Carolina Artillery, is hereby announced as chief of ordnance of the Department of South Carolina and Georgia.

By order of Major-General Pemberton:

J. R. WADDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF S. C. AND GA., Numbers 25.
Charleston, S. C., June 6, 1862.

Captain Echols, Engineer Corps, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, is hereby announced as chief engineer of the department. He will without delay proceed to Charleston, S. C., and report at these headquarters.

By order of Major-General Pemberton:

J. R. WADDY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF S. C. AND GA., Numbers 70.
Charleston, S. C., June 6, 1862.

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VI. Brigadier General W. D. Smith, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, is hereby assigned to the command of the First Military District of South Carolina, and will relieve Brigadier General H. W. Mercer, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, who, being relieved, will proceed to Savannah and relieve Brigadier-General Lawton, now under orders for Virginia.

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By order of Major-General Pemberton:

J. R. WADDY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

CHARLESTON, S. C., June 7, 1862-1 a.m.

JEFFERSON DAVIS:

A prisoner taken to-night says the enemy has landed a division and three light batteries and a siege train on James Island and a division


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