QUARTERMASTER’S OFFICE, C.S.A., CHARLESTON, MAY
13,1862 – The following Order having been received at this Office, will be
obeyed by all boats in the service of this Department. HUTSON LEE, Major and
Quartermaster.
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HEADQUARTERS, SECOND MILITARY DISTRICT OF
SOUTH CAROLINA,
CHARLESTON, MAY 13, 1862
SPECIAL
ORDER No. 35.
NO STEAM BOAT, SMALL BOAT, OR VESSEL OF
any description whatever, will be allowed to pass Fort Sumter, by day or night,
without a report in person of the Captain thereof at said fort.
By
order of Brigadier-General RIPLEY.
(Signed) F.G. Ravenel,
A.D.C.
May
14
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The Steamer Planter – We learn that
this vessel, which has been allowed to escape under our very noses, to the
enemy with a heavy responsibility somewhere, had on board six cannon; one of
them a rifled cannon, the rest common guns.