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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 344.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., October 29, 1862.

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VII. Brigadier General A. H. Terry will immediately assume command of the U. S. forces on Hilton Head Island.

By order of Brigadier General J. M. Brannan:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,
Second Lieutenant, Forty-seventh New York Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 349.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., November 4, 1862.

The garrison at Fort Seward, S. C., is hereby attached to the command of Brigadier General A. H. Terry.

By order of Brigadier General J. M. Brannan:

ISRAEL R. SEALY,

Second Lieutenant, Forty-seventh New York Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 394.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., December 26, 1862.

I. Brigadier General T. Seymour, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby placed in command of the U. S. forces on Port Royal Island.

By command of Brigadier General J. M. Brannan:

IRA V. GERMAIN,
Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 85.
New Berne, N. C., December 30, 1862.

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16. The uniform or distinctive badge of this corps [ambulance] shall be, for private and non-commissioned officers, a broad red band around the cap with a know upon the right side, and a red band, one inch wide, above the elbow upon each arm.

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By command of Major-General Foster:

[JOHN F. ANDERSON,]

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Numbers 12.
Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. C., January 12, 1862.

I. The Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, Colonel Hawley, will embark on the transport Delaware to-morrow, and proceed to and take post at Fernandina, Fla., relieving the Ninth Maine Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel H. Bisbee commanding.

II. Lieutenant-Colonel Bisbee, Ninth Maine Volunteers, on being relieved by the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, will return by the

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