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NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS.*

Major General WILLIAM B. FRANKLIN.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General WILLIAM H. EMORY.

First Brigade.+

Brigadier General WILLIAM DWIGHT.

29th Maine, Colonel George L. Beal.

114th New York, Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Morse.

116th New York, Colonel George M. Love.

153rd New York, Colonel Edwin P. Davis.

161st New York, Lieutenant Colonel William B. Kinsey.

Second Brigade.#

Brigadier General JAMES W. MCMILLAN.

13th Maine, Colonel Henry Rust, jr.

15th Maine, Colonel Isaac Dyer.

160th New York, Lieutenant Colonel John B. Van Petten.

47th Pennsylvania, Colonel Tilghman H. Good.

Third Brigade.

Colonel LEWIS BENEDICT.

30th Maine, Colonel Francis Fessenden.

162nd New York, Lieutenant Colonel Justus W. Blanchard.

165th New York, Lieutenant Colonel Gouvernor Carr.

173rd New York, Colonel Lewis M. Peck.

Artillery.

Captain GEORGE T. HEBARD.

New York Light, 25th Battery, Lieutenant Irving D. Southworth.

1st United States, Battery L, Lieutenant Franck E. Taylor.

Vermont Light, 1st Battery, Captain George T. Hebard.

SECOND DIVISION.$

Brigadier General CUVIER GROVER.

Second Brigade.^

Colonel EDWARD L. MOLINEUX.

13th Connecticut, Colonel Charles D. Blinn.

1st Louisiana, Colonel William O. Fiske.

90th New York (three companies), Major John C. Smart.

159th New York, Lieutenant Colonel Edward L. Gaul.

Third Brigade.

Colonel JACOB SHARPE.

38th Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel James P. Richardson.

128th New York, Colonel James Smith.

156th New York, Captain James J. Hoyt.

175th New York (three companies), Captain Charles McCarthey.

Artillery.

Captain GEORGE W. FOX.

Massachusetts Light, 7th Battery (G), Captain Newman W. Storer.

New York Light, 26th Battery, Captain George W. Fox.

1st United States, Battery F, Lieutenant Hardman P. Norris.

2nd United States, Battery C, Lieutenant John I. Rodgers.

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* Marched from Franklin March 16; arrived at Alexandria March 25; encamped March 31 at Alexandria and on Cane River; the Third Division in Defenses of New Orleans.

+ The Thirtieth Massachusetts on veteran furlough.

# The Eighth Vermont on veteran furlough.

$ The First Brigade at Carrollton. Grover assumed command March 14.

^ The Ninetieth New York (except three companies) in La Fourche District, and One hundred and thirty-first New York at Brashear City.

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