Letter
Unknown, November 15, 1861
November 15, 1861.
No. 29. Hilton Head, S. C., November 15, 1861. * * * * *
III. The fort on Hilton Head will be known as Fort Welles, and the one on Bay Point, heretofore called Fort Beauregard, will be known as Fort Seward.
By order of Brig. Gen. T. W. Sherman :
Captain, Fifteenth Infantry, Actg. Asst. Adjt. General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, 1861–62. Summary: Brigadier General T. W. Sherman orders the renaming of Hilton Head's fort to Fort Welles and Bay Point's fort from Fort Beauregard to Fort Seward in November 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 6
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