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155 Series I Volume XXVII-I Serial 43 - Gettysburg Campaign Part I

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No. 9. Organization of the Army of the Potomac, Major General George G. Meade, U. S. Army, commanding, at the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863.

GENERALHEADQUARTERS,

COMMAND OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL.

Brigadier General Marsena R. Patrick.

93rd New York, * Colonel John S. Crocker.

8th UnitedStates (eight companies), * Captain Edwin W. H. Read.

2nd PennsylvaniaCavalry, Colonel R. Butler Price.

6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies E and I, Captain James Starr. Regular cavalry (detachments from 1st, 2d, 5th, and 6th Regiments).

SIGNAL CORPS.

Captain Lemuel B. Norton.

GUARDS AND ORDERLIES.

Oneida(New York) Cavalry, Captain Daniel P. Mann.

ARTILLERY. +

Brigadier General Henry J. Hunt.

ENGINEER BRIGADE. ++

Brigadier General Henry W. Benham.

15th New York (three companies), Major Walter W. Cassin.

50th New York, Colonel William H. Pettes. United

States Battalion, Captain George H. Mendell.

FIRST ARMY CORPS. $

Major General Abner Doubleday. Major General John Newton.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS. 1st Maine Cavalry, Company L, Captain Constantine Taylor.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General James S. Wadsworth.

FirstBrigade.

Brigadier General Solomon Meredith.

Colonel William W. Robinson.

19th Indiana, Colonel Samuel J. Williams.

24th Michigan: Colonel Henry A. Morrow. Captain Albert M. Edwards.

2nd Wisconsin:

Colonel Lucius Fairchild.

Major John Mansfield.

Captain George H. Otis.

6th Wisconsin, Lieutenant Colonel Rufus R. Dawes.

7th Wisconsin:

Colonel William W. Robinson.

Major Mark Finnicum.

Second Brigade.

Brigadier General Lysander Cutler.

7th Indiana, Colonel Ira G. Grover.

76th New York:

Major Andrew J. Grover.

Captain John E. Cook.

84th New York (14th Militia), Colonel Edward B. Fowler.

95th New York: Colonel George H. Biddle. Major Edward Pye.

147th New York:

Lieutenant Colonel Francis C. Miller.

Major George Harney.

56th Pennsylvania (nine companies),

Colonel J. William Hofmann.

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*Not engaged.

+See artillery brigades attached to army corps and the reserve. ++Not engaged With exception of the regular battalion, it was, July 1, and while at Beaver Dam Creek, Md., ordered to Washington, D. C., where it arrived July 3. $Major General John F. Reynolds, of this corps, was killed July 1, while in command of the left wing of the army; General Doubleday commanded the corps July 1, and General Newton, who was assigned to that command on the 1st, superseded him July 2.

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