New York, May 16 [1862].

Among the passengers by the steamer Oriental, which sailed yesterday for Port Royal, was Captain Rufus Saxton, United States army, now Brigadier General of volunteers; the new military Governor of South Carolina and the Department of the whole district of General Hunter’s command.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2