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Troops in the Department of the South Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore, U. S. Army, commanding, July 31, 1863.

MORRIS ISLAND.

Brigadier General ALFRED H. TERRY.

TERRY'S DIVISION.*

Brigadier General ISRAEL VOGDES.

7th Connecticut (four companies), Captain S. H. Gray.

9th Maine, Lieutenant Colonel Zina H. Robinson.

3rd New Hampshire, Captain James F. Randlett.

4th New Hampshire, Colonel Louis Bell.

76th Pennsylvania, Captain John S. Littell.

Second Brigade.

Colonel JOSHUA B. HOWELL.

39th Illinois, Colonel Thomas O. Osborn.

62nd Ohio, Colonel Francis B. Pond.

67th Ohio, Major Lewis Butler.

85th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Purviance.

2nd South Carolina (colored), Colonel James Montgomery.

Third Brigade.

Brigadier General THOMAS. G. STEVENSON.

10th Connecticut, Major Edwin S. Greeley.

24th Massachusetts, Colonel Francix A. Osborn.

54th Massachusetts, (colored), Colonel Milton S. Littlefield.

7th New Hampshire, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Abbott.

100th New York, Colonel George B. Dandy.

97th Pennsylvania, ##Colonel Henry R. Guss.

Artillery.

3rd New York Light, Battery B (one section), Lieutenant Edward A. Wildt.

3rd New York Light, Battery F.@

48th New York (eight companies), Major Dudley W. Strickland.

1st United States, Battery B, Lieutenant Guy V. Henry.

1st United States, Battery C (detachment), Lieutenant James E. Wilson.

3rd United States, Battery E, Lieutenant John R. Myrick.

Attached.

11th Maine (detachment), Lieutenant Charles Sellmer.

1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Company I (detachment), Lieutenant Charles V. Holt.

ENGINEER TROOPS.

1st New York Engineers (nine companies), Colonel E. W. Serrell.

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*Organized July 19, General Terry and the brigade commanders assuming command, as indicated, same day.

#The Sixth Connecticut, and Forty-eighth New York, assigned July 19, transferred to Hilton Head. The Seventh Connecticut transferred August 2 to Third Brigade.

##Transferred to First Brigade, and Colonel Guss assigned as brigade commander, August 2.

@Also reported as on Folly Island.

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