Summary:
September, 1862, Confederate Special orders sending the First South Carolina Cavalry to Northern Virginia via Staunton.

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SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 218. ADJT. AND INSP. GEN.'S OFFICE,

Richmond,

September 17, 1862.

VII. The battalion organized by paragraph XXI, Special Orders, No. 211, current series, will consist of the following companies, whose captains will report for duty to Maj. W. B. Tabb, commanding said battalion: Capt.'s Ellis', Bossieux's, Carrington's, Reed's. Maj. Tabb will report for duty to Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, commanding, &c., in this city.

XXII. The First Regt. of South Carolina Cavalry, under Col. J. Logan Black, will immediately proceed to the headquarters of the Department of Northern Virginia, via Richmond, Staunton, and Winchester, Va., and report to Gen. Robert E. Lee, commanding C. S. Army, for duty with Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.

By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 619-620, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.