GENERAL ORDERS,}     HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SOUTH,
           No. 109.          }          In the Field, Folly Island, S. C., Dec. 5, 1863.
    I. In compliance with Special Orders, No. 512, current series, from the War Department, Surg. Horace R. Wirtz, U. S. Army, is hereby relieved from duty in this department.
    Surg. Ebenezer Swift, U. S. Army, is hereby announced as medical director of the department, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly.
    II. Whenever an acting commissary of subsistence is appointed o relieved, he will furnish the chief commissary of the department with a copy of the order appointing or relieving him.
    Officers doing duty in the subsistence department will furnish the chief commissary of the department with a copy of any order they may receive involving an expenditure of public money or which is in conflict with orders received from him.
    III. Capt. John C. Henshaw, assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, having reported for duty in obedience to Special Orders, No. 501, current series, from the War Department, is hereby assigned to duty at these headquarters, in charge of the judge-advocates' bureau.
    All records of courts-martial or military commissions forwarded to these headquarters will be addressed to him.
    By command of Maj. Gen. Q. A. Gillmore:
                                               ED. W. SMITH,
                                       Assistant Adjutant-General.

Source:

United States. War Dept., United States. Record and Pension Office., United States. War Records Office., et al., "Ft. Sumter-Ft. Wagner," The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Prepared, Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, by the Late Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Third U. S. Artillery. Series I-Volume XXVIII-In Two Parts. Part II-Correspondence, Etc. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1890.