BENEDICT, MD.

Brigadier General WILLIAM BIRNEY.

7th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel James Shaw, jr.

9th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Thomas Bayley.

19th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Theodore H. Rockwood.

ANNAPOLIS, MD.

Colonel CARLOS A. WAITE.

3rd Delaware (detachment),
Captain Wilson W.

2nd Maryland, Eastern Shore (detachment),
Walker.

Purnell (Maryland) Cavalry, Company B, Captain Thomas H. Watkins.

NEWTON, MD.

Smith's Company (Maryland) Cavalry, Lieutenant Joseph T. Fearing.

SALISBURY, MD.

1st Maryland, Eastern Shore, Lieutenant Colonel William H. Comegys.

Abstract from tri-monthly return of troops in the Department of the Susquehanna, Major General Darius N. Couch, U. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1864.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men.

Department staff 10 ---

Philadelphia (Brigadier General Orris

S. Ferry):

Staff 3 ---

Infantry (five companies) 9 69

Cavalry (two companies) 3 163

Artillery (two companies 2 159

Total 17 391

Lehigh District (Major General Franz

Sigel):

Staff 2 ---

Infantry (ten companies) 25 514

Artillery (one company) 1 76

Total 28 590

Chief of Cavalry (Major General

Julius Stahel):

Staff 6 ---

Infantry, a Lieutenant Colonel James 5 77

V. Bomford

Fifth U. S. Artillery, Battery E, b 4 87

Leiut. James W. Piper

Cavalry (sixteen companies),b Colonel 28 652

William H. Boyd

Detachment Twenty-second Pennsylvania 1 24

Cavalry, b Lieutenant C. L. Mercereau.

Grand total, Department of the 100 1,821

Susquehanna

Command. Aggregate Aggregate Pieces of

present. present artillery

and

absent.

Department staff 10 10 ---

Philadelphia (Brigadier

General Orris S. Ferry):

Staff 3 4 ---

Infantry (five companies) 231 299 ---

Cavalry (two companies) 174 280 ---

Artillery (two companies 180 216 4

Total 588 799 4

Lehigh District (Major

General Franz Sigel):

Staff 2 2 ---

Infantry (ten companies) 649 749 ---

Artillery (one company) 86 97 4

Total 737 848 4

Chief of Cavalry (Major

General Julius Stahel):

Staff 6 6 ---

Infantry, a Lieutenant 82 90 ---

Colonel James V. Bomford

Fifth U. S. 97 101 4

Artillery, Battery E, b

Leiut. James W. Piper

Cavalry (sixteen 614 1,341 ---

companies),b Colonel

William H. Boyd

Detachment Twenty-second 25 54 ---

Pennsylvania Cavalry, b

Lieutenant C. L. Mercereau.

Grand total, Department of 2,460 3,250 12

the Susquehanna

a At Harrisburg.

b At Chambersburg.