"Headquarters Dept. S. C., Ga. and Fla.
"Charleston, Sept. 20, 1863.
"(Extract)
"Special Orders.
"No. 188.
. . . . . . . . . .
"II. Brigadier-General Hagood's Brigade will be organized and consist
of the following regiments and battalions: Eleventh, Twenty-first and
Twenty-fifth Regiments, and the First (Charleston) Battalion and the
Seventh Battalion South Carolina Volunteers. This organization for the
present, however, will not interfere with any temporary distribution of
troops by the district commander. . . .
"By command of General Beauregard.
"(Signed) Jno. M. Otey, A. A. G."
