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SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 249
Richmond, October 24, 1862.

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XIX. Captain Westcott's, Captain Robinson's, and the three companies of Florida Partisan Rangers, under Captain T. W. Brevard, are hereby constituted into a separate battalion, under the command of Major T. W. Brevard.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistand Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 251.
Richmond, October 27, 1862.

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XVI. Brigadier General Howell Cobb, Provisional Army, will report for duty to General G. T. Beauregard, commanding, &c., at Charleston, S. C.

XVII. Brigadier General J. H. Trapier, Provisional Army, will report for duty to General G. T. Beauregard, commnding, &c., at Charleston, S. C.

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By command of the Seretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 253
Richmond, October 29, 1862.

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V. Captain Charles Wood, ssistant adjutant-general, Provisional Army, will report to General G. T. Beauregard, commanding, &c., at Charleston, S. C., for duty with Brigadier General R. S. Ripley.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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COUNCIL CHAMBER,* October 30, 1862.

Resolved, That the proposition of the Secretary of War, contained in a communication to James Chesnut, Jr., chief of the department of the military, accepting four regiments of the First Corps of Reserves of State troops, upon condijions expressed in said communication, be reluctantly declined upon the ground of the impracticability of so filling and maintaining the regiments, and that the Secretary lof War be informed of this conclusion by telegraph as well as by letter.

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COLUMBIA, October 31, 1862

President DAVIS:

I offer to loan you 3.000 good rms for troops from any other Stte that may now be organiyed upon their reporting immediately to Gen-

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*Executive Council of the State of South Carolina.

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