Unknown, January 3, 1862
Beaufort, S. 0., January 3, 1862.
DEAR SIR: I desire to express my great confidence in your code of signals from my actual experience on the field of battle, and to call your attention to the great skill and merit of the signal officers of my command, Lieutenant Tafft and Lieutenant Cogswell. In my official report of the affair at Port Royal Ferry on New Year’s Day I have stated that the signaling was a perfect success. It was indeed an extraordinary success. So far as I am advised, this is the first time it has been tested in actual battle.
It affords me the greater satisfaction to be able to give this testimonial from the circumstance that I had faith in your code from the beginning, as you will well remember, and lent my humble name in favor ofyour appointment to your present position.
Truly, your friend, ISAAO I. STEVENS, Brigadier-General, Commanding,
Signal Officer of the Army, Washington City. ^ R R—-VOL VI
66 C(ASTS OF 8. C., G. A., AND MIDDLE AND EAST FLA. (Cm. X. V. No. 14.
Return of casualties in the Union forces at Port Royal Ferry, S. C., January 1, 1862. [Compiled from records of Adjutant-General’s Office. ]
Killed. Wounded. Missing.
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Congratulatory orders from Major-General McOlellan, U. S. Army.