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Page 1052 OPERATIONS IN N. C., VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter XLV.

Abstract return of the troops in the Department of the Susquehanna, Major General Darius N. Couch, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of April, 1864, headquarters Chambersburg, Pa.

Present for duty. Pieces of artillery.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggreg Aggreg Heavy. Field.

ate ate

presen presen

t. t and

absent

.

Department 10 ... 10 10 ... ...

staff...

Post

troops, a

Major

General

G.

Cadwalader

:

Staff.. 2 453 2 2 ... ...

Infantry 5 132 573 733 ... ...

(nine

companies)

...

Artillery 5 185 152 152 58 3

(one

company)..

Total... 12 585 727 887 ... 3

Lehigh

District,

b

Brigadier

General

O. S.

Ferry:

Staff.. 2 ... 2 2 ... ...

Infantry 14 331 352 382 ... ...

(four

companies)

..

Artillery 4 118 137 145 ... 4

(one

company)..

Total.. 20 449 491 529 ... 4

Post 10 194 232 232 ... ...

troops, c

Lieutenant

Colonel

J. V.

Bomford..

Signal ... 58 58 65 ... ...

corps, d

Lieutenant

G. W.

Kennedy..

Chief 3 ... 3 4 ... ...

quartermas

ter, d

Captain

J. G.

Johnson...

Chief 5 ... 5 5 ... ...

commissary

subsistenc

e, c

Captain

B.

Granger...

21st 33 922 1,035 1,297 ... ...

Pennsylvan

ia Cavalry

d, Colonel

W. H.

Boyd..

Detachment 18 420 505 710 ... ...

1st

Battalion

Pennsylvan

ia

Infantry,

c

Lieutenant

Colonel

J. F.

Ramsey.

Medical 22 ... 22 22 ... ...

Director,

a Serg. J.

Campbell.

Post 11 17 35 48 ... ...

troops, e,

Captain

E. S.

Wright..

Grand 144 2,654 3,124 3,809 58 7

total

Department

of the

Susquehann

a..

a Philadelphia. b Pottsville, Pa. c Harrisburg, Pa. d Chambersburg, Pa. e Pittsburg, Pa.

Troops in the Department of the Susquehanna, commanded by Major General Darius N. Couhch, U. S. Army, April 30, 1864.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Major General GEORGE CADWALDER.

147th Pennsylvania, Company I, Captain Charles Fair.

186th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Frink.

Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery I, Captain Robert J. Nevin.

Convalescents, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel P. Whiting.

Convalescents, provost guards, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Frink.

HARRISBURG, PA.

Lieutenant Colonel JAMS V. BOMFORD.

Patapsco (Maryland) Guards, Captain Thomas S. McGowan.

184th Pennsylvania, Company B, Captain J. Stanley Gerhart.

LEHIGH DISTRICT.*

Brigadier General ORRIS S. FERRY.

1st Battalion Pennsylvania Infantry (four companies), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Ramsey.

1st New York Light Artillery, Battery A, Captain Thomas H. Bates.

21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D, Captain Josiah C. Hullinger.

PITTSBURG, PA.

Captain EDWARD S. WRIGHT,

109th Company, U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, Captain Charles A. Edmonds.

Company U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps.+

Company Pennsylvania Militia.+

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* At Pottsville, Scraton, Reading, Easton, Heckerville, and Hazleton.

+ Commander not of record.

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