This sortie may have started out from Camp Lee.

George Martin

The Richmond Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1863.

Telegraphic news.

Capture of a Yankee Signal party.

Charleston, March 10th.

--A telegram from Hardeeville announces that Capt. Mickler, of the 11th South Carolina Regiment, with a detachment of his company, went on Hilton Head Island, last night, to the Observatory, where the Yankee Signal Corps were stationed, and, without firing a gun captured the whole company keeping watch, consisting of a Lieutenant, one Sergeant, and seven privates. The prisoners have arrived in Hardeeville. No one hurt on our side. All quiet here.

Vol. 6 of the OR contains a number of reports originating at Camp Lee. Nothing therein, however, on Camp conditions.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH MILITARY DISTRICT,
Camp Lee, March 23, 1862

QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE PROVISIONAL FORCES,
THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT, DEPT. S.C.,
Camp Lee, November 24, 1861.

HDQRS. NINTH [ELEVENTH] REGIMENT S. C. VOLS.,
Camp Lee, November 12, 1861.