Orders of SC Confed General Martin Witherspoon Gary - HQ Gary's Brig. 11/11/1864

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From the personal wartime papers of Dr. Theodore. A. LaFar of Charleston, South Carolina (born 14 October 1831 in Charleston and died 28 December 1912 in Chattachoochee, Florida and buried in the French Protestant Huguenot Cemetery in Charleston).
A Google search reveals the 1890 proceedings of the South Carolina legislature that accepted four South Carolina Confederate Battle Flags from Dr. LaFar on December 22, 1890 .  According to the minutes of the Legislature, LaFar had fled Richmond on April 2, 1865 and taken the flags with him.  The Legislature recognized and summarized his service as Director of the South Carolina Hospital Bureau ("SCHB").  Duties of the SCHB included "forwarding packages to soldiers in the field, establishing state hospitals, aiding prisoners in the hands of the enemy, receive the wounded after battle and to 'succor' a South Carolina soldier wherever found."
This is a 3 3/8" wide x 7 3/4" high piece of blue paper that is part of a field endorsement set that appears to have been written on paper that had been spoiled from another use or was part of a group of larger orders/endorsements/records.  There is a tear going the entire width just below "Brig. Gen'l Comg." in almost the middle of the document.  It has been repaired by an old-style stamp hinges.
Obverse Text as follows:
Hd Qrs Gary's Brigade
Nov 11th 1864
I fully concur in
the opinion of Gen'l
Hampton as to the
usefulness of the Bureau
Hospital and trust
that it will continue
to receive the favorable
support of the Government
M. W. Gary
Brig. Gen'l Comg.
I fully concur in the
opinion of Gen'l Gary.
Edward M. Boykin
Major Comdg of Regt.
So. Car Cavalry
Text of Reverse (a partial document)
:
(Copy)
Richmond, Nov 1st 1864
To:  Maj. Gen'l Wade Hampton
Commanding Cavalry of Army of Northern, Va,
General
I would respectfully
Additional background:
Brigadier General Martin Witherspoon Gary was first expelled from South Carolina College and graduated from Harvard in 1854.  He commanded the last Confederate Troops to leave Richmond and escaped Appomattox and escorted Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Cabinet south.  The last meeting of the Confederate Cabinet took place at General Gary's mother's  home in Cokesbury, South Carolina.
Krick's Lee's Lieutenants lists Edward Mortimer Boykin as a doctor and as a Major in Company K of the South Carolina 7th Cavalry.  He survived the war and wrote a memoir.
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