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for garrison duty at Newbern. On Dec. 28, it was assigned to the brigade under command of Colonel T. J. C. Amory, Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, and on the same day was transferred to the First Brigade, Second Division, under command of Brigadier-General Heckman, where it remained until Jan. 11, 1863, when, the brigade being ordered to the Department of the South, the regiment was transferred to the Second Brigade, Fifth Division, under command of Colonel James Jourdan. On Jan. 25, 1863, the regiment changed camp from Fair Grounds to Fort Totten. Companies G and H were detached for duty at that place. Through the month of February, garrison duty was performed at Roanoke Island, rebel salt-works destroyed, and guerillas captured near Carrituck Sound; and on the 25th, a review of all the troops taking place at Newbern, the Eighth received the credit of being one of the best regiments in the department for soldierly bearing and deportment. Nothing of importance occur