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198 Series I Volume XXXIV-II Serial 62 - Red River Campaign Part II

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DISTRICT OF LA FOURCHE.*

Colonel EDWARD L. MOLINEUX.

1st Louisiana Cavalry, Company B, Captain Richard Barrett.

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

1st Vermont Battery, Captain George T. Hebard.

DEFENSES OF NEW ORLEANS.+

Major General JOSEPH J. REYNOLDS.

12th Connecticut, Lieutenant Colonel Frank H. Peck.

2nd Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, Colonel William M. Grosvenor.

5th Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, Colonel Charles A. Hartwell.

20th Infantry, Corps d'Afrique, Colonel Eliot Bridgman.

1st New Orleans (four companies), Colonel Curtis W. Killborn.

133rd New York, Captain James K. Fuller.

1st United States, Major Maurice Maloney.

2nd U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Stark Fellows.

15th Illinois Cavalry, Company F, and 1st Indiana Cavalry, Company C, Captain James L. Carey.

36th Illinois, Company A, Captain George A. Willis.

1st Cavalry, Corps d'Afrique, Companies A and C, Captain Otto Hefty.

3rd Massachusetts Cavalry, Company A. Lieutenant Henry D. Pope.

3rd Rhose Island Cavalry, (four companies), Major George R. Davis.

1st Indiana Heavy Artillery, Colonel John A. Keith.

1st Maine Battery, Captain Albert W. Bradbury.

15th Massachusetts Battery, Lieutenant Albert Rouse.

1st Heavy Artillery, Corps d'Afrique, Company C, Captain Charles A. Bailey.

1st Heavy Artillery, Native Guards, (one company), Lieutenant Thomas McCormick.

1st U. S. Artillery, Battery F, Lieutenant Hardman P. Norris.

5th U. S. Artillery, Battery G, Lieutenant Jacob B. Rawles.

MADISONVILLE, LA.++

Brigadier General CUVIER GROVER.

THIRD DIVISION, THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS.

Brigadier General GEORGE F. McGINNIS.

First Brigade.@

Colonel DANIEL MACAULEY.

11th Indiana, Major George Butler.

46th Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel Aaron M. Flory.

Second Brigade.#

Colonel WILLIAM H. RAYNOR.

24th Iowa, Major Edward Wright.

28th Iowa, Colonel John Connell.

56th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Sampson E. Varner.

83rd Ohio, Major Stephen S. L'Hommendieu, jr.

Artillery.

1st Missouri Light, Battery A, Lieutenant Elisha Cole.

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*Troops at Brasher City, Donaldsonville, Napoleonville, Thibodeausx, and on New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad.

+Troops at Algiers, Bayou Saint John, Company Canal, Forts Macomb, Pike, and Saint Philip, and at Kennersville, Madisonville, New Orleans, and Ship Island.

++Sub-post in the Defenses of New Orleans.

$The 24th Indiana on veteran furlough, the 34th Indiana and the 29th Wisconsin in Texas.

#The 47th Indiana on veteran furlough.

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