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Page 34 S. C. AND GA. COASTS, AND IN MID. AND E. FLA. Chapter XL.

FOLLY ISLAND.

Colonel W. W. H. DAVIS.*

Davis' Brigade.

Colonel W. W. H. DAVIS.

56th New York,# Colonel C. H. Van Wyck.

52nd Pennsylvania, Colonel J. C. Dodge, jr.

104th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel T. D. Hart.

Not Brigaded.

47th New York, Lieutenant Colonel A. B. Nicholson.

Independent New York Battalion [Enfans Perdus], Lieutenant Colonel Simon Levy.

1st Connecticut Battery, Captain A. P. Rockwell.

3rd New York Light Artillery, Battery B, Captain J. E. Ashcroft.

3rd New York Light Artillery,## Battery F. Lieutenant Paul Birchmeyer.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND.

Colonel EDWIN METCALF.@

6th Connecticut, Captain John H. Tracy.

8th Maine, Major John Hemingway.

176th Pennsylvania, Colonel A. A. Lechler.

1st South Carolina, colored (two companies), Captain William J. Randolph.

3rd South Carolina, colored (five companies), Lieutenant Colonel A. G. Bennett.

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Company I, Captain L. Richmond.

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Company M, Lieutenant L. H. Morrill.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (four companies), Lieutenant Colonel John Frieze.

PORT ROYAL ISLAND.

Brigadier General RUFUS SAXTON.

115th New York, Colonel Simeon Sammon.

55th Pennsylvania, Colonel Richard White.

1st South Carolina (colored), Colonel Thos. W. Higginson.

1st Massachusetts Cavalry (three companies), Major A. H. Stevens, jr

1st New York Engineers, Company K, Captain H. L. Southard.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company A, Captain W. H. Hamner.

1st U. S. Artillery, Battery D, Lieutenant John S. Gibbs.

1st U. S. Artillery, Battery M, Captain L. L. Langdon.

FERNANDINA.

Colonel H. M. PLAISTED.

11th Maine, Major Winslop P. Spofford.

4th South Carolina (colored), Captain Mahlon E. Davis.

FORT PULASKI.

Major WILLIAM AMES.

48th New York Company G, Captain Anthony Elmendorf.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company G), Captain John H. Gould.

SAINT AUGUSTINE.

7th Connecticut (six companies), Colonel Joseph R. Hawley.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 457.
In the Field, Morris Island, S. C., August 1, 1863.

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III. Brigadier-General Vogdes, commanding First Brigade of General Terry's division, is hereby relieved from command of that

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*Assumed command July 19,

#Joined July 13,

##Also reported as on Morris Island,

@Assumed command July 6

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