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1026 Series I Volume XLVI-III Serial 97 - Appomattox Campaign Part III

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Abstract from return of the Army of the Potomac, Major General George G. Meade, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of April, 1865.*

Present for duty. Piec. of artil.

Office Men. Aggreg Aggrega Hea Field

rs. ate te vy. .

Command. presen present

t. and

absent

General 35 - 35 41 - -

headquarters

Provost Guard 82 2,607 3,182 5,042 - -

(Macy)

Engineer Brigade 57 2,333 2,899 4,175 - -

(Benham)

Independent

Company Oneida 1 31 61 102 - -

(N. Y.) Cavalry

(Batchelder)

Artillery 55 1,995 2,151 4,273 - 56

(Hunt)#

Signal Corps 8 123 137 151 - -

(Davis)

Second Army 1,154 20,984 27,627 46,246 - 34

Corps

(Humphreys)##

Fifth Army Corps 846 17,552 23,735 36,505 - 36

(Griffin)

Sixth Army Corps 852 18,990 23,926 34,081 - 24

(Wright)

Total 3,090 64,615 83,753 130,616 - 150

Organization of troops in the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade, U. S. Army, April 30, 1865

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.

PROVOST GUARD.

Bvt. Brigadier General GEORGE N. MACY.

1st Indiana Cavalry, Company K.

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Major John Tewksbury.

2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel William W. Sanders.

3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel James W. Walsh.

3rd United States, Captain John H. Page.

10th United States, Captain Robert H. Hall.

11th United States, 1st Battalion, Captain Alfred E. Latimer.

14th United States, 1st and 2nd Battalions, Captain John D. O'Connell.

ENGINEER BRIGADE.

Brigadier General HENRY W. BENHAM.

15th New York Engineers, Colonel Wesley Brainerd.

50th New York Engineers, Colonel William H. Pettes.@

Battalion U. S. Engineers, Bvt. Major Franklin Harwood

GUARDS AND ORDERLIES.

Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry, Colonel Richard N. Batchelder.

SIGNAL CORPS.

Captain CHARLES L. DAVIS.

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*By general orders, Numbers 71, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, April 19, 1865, the Military Division of the James was constituted to consist of the Department of Virginia (see p. 833) and such parts of North Carolina not occupied by the command of General Sherman and including the Army of the Potomac. Major General Henry W. Halleck was assigned to the command of the division.

#On detached service; Bvt. Colonel Edward R. Warner, 1st New York Light Artillery, temporarily commanding.

##On leave from April 22; Bvt. Major General Francis C. Barlow temporarily commanding.

@Commanding detachment at Washington, D. C., the remainder of regiment serving in the field under subordinate officers.

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