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469 Series I Volume XLII-III Serial 89 - Richmond-Fort Fisher Part III

Page 469 Chapter LIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

DISTRICT OF EASTERN VIRGINIA.

Brigadier General GEORGE F. SHEPLEY.

PORTSMOUTH.

Colonel NEWTON B. LORD.

85th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Campbell.

4th U. S. Colored (detachment), Captain Samuel G. Sewall.

20th New York Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Davis M. Evans.

1st U. S. Colored Cavalry (five companies - dismounted), Major Harvey W. Brown.

2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 3rd Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Augustus B. R. Sprague.

New York Light Artillery, 8th Battery, Lieutenant Peter Morton.

13th New York Heavy Artillery (four companies), Colonel William A. Howard.

2nd U. S. Colored Light Artillery, Battery B, Captain Francis c. Choate.

NEWPORT NEWS.

Colonel JEPTHA GARRARD.

1st U. S. Colored Cavalry, Colonel Jeptha Garrard.

FORT MONROE.

Colonel JOSEPH ROBERTS.

3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (battalion), Colonel Joseph Roberts.

FORT MAGRUDER.

Colonel JOSEPH J. MORRISON.

76th Pennsylvania (detachment), Lieutenant James J. McCormick.

4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Company G, Captain Edward T. Bouve.

20th New York Cavalry, Company H, Lieutenant John D. Lee.

1st U. S. Colored Cavalry, Company A, Captain Charles W. Dey.

1st New York Mounted Rifles, Company G, Lieutenant David Earle.

16th New York Heavy Artillery, Colonel Joseph J. Morrison.

EASTERN SHORE.

Captain ROBERT E. DUVALL.

Purnell Legion (Maryland) Cavalry, Company A, Captain Robert E. Duvall.

11th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company L, Captain James D. Mahon.

1st Virginia, Loyal, Company A, Lieutenant Oliver G. Thomas.

3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (detachment).

DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA.

Brigadier General INNIS N. PALMER.

SUB-DISTRICT OF THE ALBEMARLE.

Colonel DAVID W. WARDROP.

16th Connecticut (two companies), Captain Joseph H. Barnum.

85th New York (two companies), Major Walter Crandall.

101st Pennsylvania (two companies), Colonel David B. Morris.

103rd Pennsylvania (two companies), Captain Thomas A. Cochran.]

5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company D, Captain James Moran.

5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company K,* Captain Emelius de Meulen.

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*Detachment 24th Battery New York Light Artillery attached.

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