Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Beaufort District, SC People Documents Date Title 05/19/1862 Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's May 9, 1862 Order of Military Emancipation, May 19, 1862 04/07/1865 Colonel Peter Pineo to Headquarters, Department of the South, Hilton Head, South Carolina, April 7, 1865 04/13/1865 Major General Quincy A. Gillmore to Brigadier General E.D. Townsend, War Department, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1865 Images