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

Page 617 Chapter XLI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

PITTSBURGH, PA.

Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (one company), Captain Samuel T. Griffith.

PULASKI, PA.

Departmental Corps (Pennsylvania Emmergency Militia), Lieutenant James M. Brown.

SOMERTON, OHIO.

Departmental Corps (Ohio Emergency Militia), Captain Samuel Beard.

WEST ALEXANDER, PA.

Departmental Corps (Pennsylvania Emergency Militia), Lieutenant John C. Porter.

WEST FINLEY, PA.

Departmental Corps (Pennsylvania Emergency Militia), Captain John Henderson.

Abstract from return of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Major General Benjamin F. Butler, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of December, 1863.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men.

General headquarters a...... 26 71

Fort Monroe, Va............ 68 1,734

Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. 175 3,611

(barnes)............

Portsmouth, Va. (Getty)..... 303 6,574

Newport News, va. (Heckman) 141 2,877

Yorktown, Va., and vicinity 183 3,932

(West)...............

District of Saint Mary's 71 1,968

(Marston)...............

District of North Carolina

(Peck):

Headquarters.............. 21 ........

Defenses of New Berne 148 3,114

(Palmer)...............

Sub-District of the Albemarle 82 1,224

(Wessells)...............

Sub-District of Beaufort 65 1,219

(Jourdan)...............

Sub-District of the Pamlico 47 1,316

(McChesney).................

Total..................... 1,330 27,640

Pieces of

artillery.

Command. Aggrega Aggrega Heavy Fiel

te te d.

present present

and

absent.

General headquarters a...... 100 125 ..... ....

Fort Monroe, Va............ 2,069 2,416 ..... 2

Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. 4,147 4,686 ..... 6

(barnes)............

Portsmouth, Va. (Getty)..... 8,312 12,450 57 34

Newport News, va. (Heckman) 3,837 4,956 ..... 18

Yorktown, Va., and vicinity 5,106 5,956 51 51

(West)...............

District of Saint Mary's 2,483 3,077 ..... 9

(Marston)...............

District of North Carolina

(Peck):

Headquarters.............. 21 23 ..... ....

Defenses of New Berne 4,080 6,090 61 49

(Palmer)...............

Sub-District of the Albemarle 1,700 2,058 17 13

(Wessells)...............

Sub-District of Beaufort 1,594 2,115 55 9

(Jourdan)...............

Sub-District of the Pamlico 1,643 1,926 ..... 7

(McChesney).................

Total..................... 35,092 45,878 241 198

a Including signal corps.

Troops in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Major General Benjamin F. Bufler, U. S. Army, commanding, December 31, 1863.

FORST MONROE.

3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Colonel Joseph Roberts.

U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, 2nd Battalion, Major James W. H. Stickney.

1st U. S. Colored Cavalry, Colonel Jeptha Garrard.

Army gunboats, Brigadier General Charles K. Graham.

Signal Corps, Captain Henry R. Clum.


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