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[451] of fuse vary, so as to explode the shell over the north-east and south-east faces of the work.

If any battery should be unmasked outside the work, battery Totten should direct its fire upon it, varying the charge of mortars and length of fuse accordingly.

The fire from each battery will cease at dark, except especial directions be given to the contrary.

A signal-officer at battery Scott, to observe the effects of the thirteen-inch shells, will be in communication with other signal-officers stationed near batteries Stanton, Grant, and Sherman, in order to determine the range for these batteries in succession.

By order of

Brig.-Gen. Q. A. Gilmore. W. L. M. Burger, First Lieut. Volunteer Engineers, Acting Assist. Adjut.-Gen.

Special orders--no. 32.

headquarters, Tybee Island, Ga., April 8, 1862.
The following reassignments to batteries are hereby made, namely: gel,

1. Battery Totten, Capt. D. C. Rodman, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Capt. S. H. Gray, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Second Lieut. S. J. Corey, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, with a detachment of Seventh Connecticut Volunteers in three reliefs.

2. Battery McClellan, Capt. H. Rogers, with company H, Third Rhode Island Volunteer artillery, in three reliefs.

3. Battery Sigel, Captain C. Seldeneck, Forty-sixth New-York State Volunteers; Captain T. Hohle, Forty-sixth New-York State Volunteers, with companies B and H, Forty-sixth regiment New-York State Volunteers, in three reliefs.

4. Battery Scott, Captain Pardon Mason, with company F, Third Rhode Island Volunteer artillery, in three reliefs.

5. Battery Halleck, Capt. O. S. Sanford, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Capt. E. S. Hitchcock, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Second Lieut. S. S. Atwell, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, with a detachment of Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, in three reliefs.

6. Battery Sherman, Captain D. C. Francis, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Captain J. B. Dennis, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Second Lieut. V. B. Chamberlain, with a detachment of Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, in three reliefs.

7. Battery Burnside, Sergeant J. E. Wilson, company A, Corps of Engineers; Sergeant P. Maguire, company A, Corps of Engineers; Sergeant Wadlie, with a detachment of Eighth Maine Volunteers, in three reliefs.

8 and 9. Batteries Lincoln and Lyon, Capt. Louis H. Pelouze, Fifteenth infantry, Acting Inspector General Department of the South, with Capt. L. C. Tourtellotte, company B, Third Rhode Island Volunteer artillery, in two reliefs.

10. Battery Grant. Capt. Charles E. Palmer, of life. Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Capt. Jerome Tourtellotte, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; First Lieut. Wm. E. Phillips, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, with a detachment of Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, in three reliefs.

11. Battery Stanton, Capt. B. F. Skinner, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; Capt. Theo. Bacon, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers; First Lieut. Theo. Burdick, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, with a detachment of Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, in three reliefs.

By order of

Brig.-Gen. Q. A. Gilmore. W. L. M. Burger, First Lieut.-Col. Engineers, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Special orders--no. 37.

headquarters United States forces, Tybee Island, Ga., April 11--4 A. M.
Flag-Officer Du Pont having, in compliance with a request from the Major-General Commanding the Department of the South, directed a detachment of sailors from the frigate Wabash, under command of Lieutenant John S. Irwin, United States Navy, to report to Commander C. R. P. Rodgers, United States Navy, for service on one of the batteries, they are assigned to battery Sigel, just vacated by two companies of the Forty-sixth New-York State Volunteers, and will take charge of the three thirty-pounder Parrotts and one twenty-four pounder James on the right of that battery.

The balance of the battery will remain with Captain Turner, United States Army, Commissary of Subsistence, and will be served by a detachment of the Eighth Maine regiment, under Captain McArthur.

By command of

Brig-Gen. Q. A. Gilmore. W. L. M. Burger, First Lieut.-Col. Engineers, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

The bombardment did not begin as early as was anticipated on Thursday morning. It was postponed an hour or two in order to send a flag of truce, by Lieutenant Wilson, of the Topographical Engineers, to Fort Pulaski, to the commander of the post, demanding an immediate surrender of the works. The following are copies of the demand and reply.

headquarters, Department of the South, Tybee Island, Ga., April 10, 1862.
To the Commanding Officer, Fort Pulaski:
sir: I hereby demand of you the immediate surrender and restoration of Fort Pulaski to the authority and possession of the United States.

This demand is made with a view to avoiding, if possible, the effusion of blood, which must result from the bombardment and attack now in readiness to be opened.

The number, calibre and completeness of the batteries surrounding you, leave no doubt as to what must result in case of refusal; and as the defence, however obstinate, must eventually succumb to the assailing force at my disposal, it is hoped you will see fit to avert the useless waste

This communication will be carried to you under a flag of truce by Lieut. J. H. Wilson, United States Army, who is authorized to wait any period


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