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"(Extract)

"Special Orders.

"No. 198.

"I. By authority of the War Department, the First Battalion South
Carolina Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel P. C. Gaillard commanding, and the
First Battalion South Carolina Sharpshooters, Major Jos. Abney commanding,
will be consolidated into a regiment. . . .

"By command of General Beauregard.

"(Signed) Jno. M. Otey, A. A. G."