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- GLC#
- GLC01595.01
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 6 June 1863
- Author/Creator
- Halpine, Charles G., 1829-1868
- Title
- to William Watts Hart Davis
- Place Written
- Hilton Head, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 22.7 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Halpine, Assistant Adjutant General to General [David] Hunter, relates orders to Colonel Davis. Instructs Davis to order Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, "to embark on board the [Demole] ordered to Beaufort with the least possible delay." States that Shaw should bring two days cooked and ten days uncooked rations for his men. Instructs Shaw to bring his regiment directly to Hilton Head. Written on United States Military Telegraph stationery.
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