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ARTILLERY BRIGADE.

Lieutenant Colonel J. ALBERT MONROE.

Maine Light, 7th Battery (G), Captain Adelbert B. Twitchell

Massachusetts Light, 11th Battery, Captain Edward J. Jones.

New York Light, 19th Battery, Captain Edward W. Rogers.

New York Light, 27th Battery, Captain John B. Eaton.

New York Light, 34th Battery, Captain Jacob Roemer.

Pennsylvania Light, Battery D, Lieutenant George W. Silvis.

CAVALRY.

SECOND DIVISION.

Brigadier General DAVID MCM. GREGG.

First Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM STEDMAN.

1st Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel E. Chamberlain.

1st New Jersey, Colonel John W. Kester.

10th New York, Major M. Henry Avery.

6th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Norman A. Barrett.

1st Pennsylvania, Colonel John P. Taylor.

Second Brigade.

Colonel CHARLES H. SMITH.

1st Maine, Major Sidney W. Thaxter.

2nd Pennsylvania, Captain George C. Eckert.

4th Pennsylvania, Captain Joseph Andrews.

8th Pennsylvania, Captain Alexander McCallum.

13th Pennsylvania, Colonel Michael Kerwin.

16th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel John K. Robison.

Artillery.

2nd United States, Battery A, Lieutenant Robert Clarke.

Abstract from returns of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Major General Benjamin F. Butler, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of August, 1864.

[Compiled mainly from subordinate returns.]

Present for duty

Command Officers Men Aggregate

present

General headquarters 26 ..... 26

Signal Corps 23 154 184

(Norton)

Naval Brigade* ..... ..... .....

(Graham)

First New York 5 113 276

Engineers (Eaton)

Siege Artillery 46 1.037 1.257

(Abbot)

Unattached troops 36 884 1.138

Tenth Army Corps 456 10.772 14.288

(Birney)

Eighteenth Army 372 8.807 11.416

Corps (Ord)

Cavalry Division 66 1.541 2.019

(Kautz)

District of Eastern 131 3.638 4.704

Virginia (Shepley)

District of North 274 5.282 7.505

Carolina (Palmer)

Grand total 1.435 32.228 42.813

Grand total 1.429 32.119 42.702

according to

department return

Pieces of artillery.

Command Aggregate Heavy Field

present and

absent

General headquarters 29 ..... .....

Signal Corps 214 ..... .....

(Norton)

Naval Brigade* ..... ..... .....

(Graham)

First New York 754 ..... .....

Engineers (Eaton)

Siege Artillery 1.476 22 54

(Abbot)

Unattached troops 1.372 ..... 2

Tenth Army Corps 24.704 ..... 76

(Birney)

Eighteenth Army 30.382 6 38

Corps (Ord)

Cavalry Division 3.672 ..... .....

(Kautz)

District of Eastern 9.359 ..... 12

Virginia (Shepley)

District of North 9.262 149 61

Carolina (Palmer)

Grand total 81.224 177 243

Grand total 81.653 177 249

according to

department return

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*Not accounted for on returns.

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