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141 Series I Volume XXIX-II Serial 49 - Bristoe, Mine Run Part II

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Wilkinson's Brigade. *

Colonel NATHAN WILKINSON.

6th West Virginia, Major John H. Showalter.

11th West Virginia, Colonel Daniel Frost.

4th West Virginia Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel W. Snider.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Green Spring Run, W. Va.

2nd Pennsylvania Battalion (militia), Lieutenant Colonel John C. Lininger.

Romney, W. Va.

15th West Virginia, Colonel Maxwell McCaslin.

Sir John's Run, W. Va.

20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel John E. Wynkoop.

Hagerstown, Md.

Major HENRY PEALE.

18th Connecticut, Major Henry Peale.

5th U. S. Artillery, Battery B, Lieutenant Henry A. Du Pont.

Abstract from return of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Major General John G. Foster commanding, for the month of August, 1863.

Present for duty.

Command. Office Men Aggregate

rs present

General headquarters 19 --- 19

Fort Monroe 20 558 822

District of Virginia:

Headquarters 9 --- 9

Norfolk 27 651 845

Portsmouth 205 3,904 5,298

Yorktown and vicinity 146 3,122 4,872

Total District of Virginia 387 7,677 11,024

District of North Carolina:

Headquarters 25 33 58

Defenses of New Berne 194 4,051 5,502

Sub-District of the Albermale 60 890 1,470

Sub-District of Beaufort 58 1,169 1,647

Sub-District of the Pamlico 39 1,180 1,725

Detachment Eighteenth Army Corps+ --- --- ---

Total District of North Carolina 376 7,323 10,402

Grand total 802 15,558 22,267

Pieces of

artillery.

Command. Aggregate Heavy Field

present

and

absent

General headquarters 19 --- ---

Fort Monroe 1,168 --- ---

District of Virginia:

Headquarters 9 --- ---

Norfolk 1,013 --- 6

Portsmouth 9,271 --- 26

Yorktown and vicinity 6,168 --- 30

Total District of Virginia 16,461 --- 62

District of North Carolina:

Headquarters 62 --- ---

Defenses of New Berne 7,988 59 64

Sub-District of the Albermale 2,253 13 8

Sub-District of Beaufort 2,048 52 9

Sub-District of the Pamlico 2,097 --- 6

Detachment Eighteenth Army Corps+ --- --- ---

Total District of North Carolina 14,448 124 87

Grand total 32,096 124 149

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*At Clarksburg, Grafton, and Parkersburg.

+Serving in Department of the South and dropped from return.

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