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HILTON HEAD DISTRICT.

Colonel WILLIAM W. H. DAVIS.

Hilton Head.

Colonel CHARLES R. BRAYTON.

52nd Pennsylvania, Colonel Henry M. Hoyt.

104th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Thompson D. Hart.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company B, Lieutenant George W. Greene.

1st New York Engineers, Company C, Captain Vincent W. M. Brown.

Bayley's Brigade.

Colonel THOMAS BAYLEY.

1st Michigan (colored), Colonel Henry L. Chipman.

9th U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel C. Armstrong.

32nd U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel George W. Baird.

Seabrook Island.

25th Ohio, Major Nathaniel Haughton.

Fort Pulaski and Tybee Island.

Major JAMES E. BAILEY.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Companies D, G, H, and L, Major James E. Bailey.

9th U. S. Colored Troops, Company C, Captain Edwin Post.

Saint Helena Island.

Captain DAVID C. BENJAMIN.

1st Michigan (colored), Company G, Captain David C. Benjamin.

9th U. S. Colored Troops, Company B, Captain William Cook.

Invalid Detachment, Lieutenant Wilbur F. Still.

Cavalry.

4th Massachusetts, Second Battalion, Major David B. Keith.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 55.
Hilton Head, S. C., May 1, 1864.

The following-named staff officers are hereby relieved from duty in the Department of the South, and will report for duty to the major-general commanding the Tenth Army Corps:

Brigadier General J. W. Turner, U. S. Volunteers, chief of staff.

Lieutenant Colonel E. W. Smith, assistant adjutant-general.

Captain I. R. Sealy, Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general.

Lieutenant Colonel M. R. Morgan, chief commissary of subsistence.

Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Jackson, assistant inspector-general.

Lieutenant Colonel C. E. Fuller, chief quartermaster.

Surg. J. J. Craven, U. S. Volunteers.

Major J. C. Henshaw, judge-advocate.

Captain A. Mordecai, chief of ordnance.

First Lieutenant P. S. Michie, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army.

By command of Major General Q. A. Gillmore:

ED. W. SMITH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 56.
Hilton Head, S. C., May 1, 1864.

In obedience to orders from the lieutenant-general commanding the armies of the United States, the undersigned hereby relinquishes command of the Department of the South to Brigadier General J. P. Hatch, U. S. Volunteers.

Q. A. GILLMORE,

Major-General, Commanding.


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