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Page 530 COASTS OF S.C., GA.,AND MID.AND EAST FLA. Chapter XXVI.

THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA-Continued.

Detachment First South Carolina Infantry and McCord's and Rion's companies.

1st Battalion Cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel Black.

Rebel Troop, Captain J. Jenkins.

Cavalry on John's and Wadmalaw Islands, Captain Owen.

Marion Artillery, Captain Parker.

Virginia Light Artillery, Captain Leake.

Washington Artillery, Captain Walter.

FOURTH AND FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Colonel W. S. WALKER, commanding.

SIXTH MILITARY DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Phillips' [Georgia] Legion, Colonel William Phillips.

11th South Carolina, Colonel D. H. Ellis.

15th South Carolina, Colonel W. D. De Saussure.

Battalion South Carolina Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel C. J. Colcock.

Saint Peter's Guards, Captain H. C. Smart.

Caroline [Virginia] Light Artillery, Captain T. R. Thornton.

JAMES ISLAND.

Brigadier General S. R. GIST, commanding.

24th South Carolina, Colonel C. H. Stevens,

2nd Battalion South Carolina Artillery, Major J. W. Brown.

Charleston Battalion South Carolina Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Gaillard.

Eutaw Battalion South Carolina Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Simonton.

Palmetto Battalion South Carolina, Volunteers, Major E. B. White.

3rd Battalion South Carolina Cavalry, Company D.

1st Battalion South Carolina Artillery, Colonel Lamar.

Preston's [South Carolina] light artillery.

Fort Pemberton, Lieutenant-Colonel Huger.

MILITARY DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.

Brigadier General H. W. MERCER, commanding.

Abstract from Monthly Return of the troops of the Military Department of East and Middle Florida, commanded by Brigadier General Joseph Finegan, for May, 1862.

Present for duty

Infantry Cavalry

Troops Officers Men Officers Men

5th Regiment 29 615 - -

Florida

Volunteers

6th Regiment 31 347 - -

Florida

Volunteers

1st Special 22 340 - -

Battalion

Fifteen 46 1,003 - -

separate

companies of

infantry

Four separate - - 10 254

companies of

cavalry

Three separate - - - -

companies of

artillery

Grand total 128 2,305 10 254

Artillery

Troops Officers Men Aggregate Aggregate

present present

and

absent

5th Regiment - - 800 1,051

Florida

Volunteers

6th Regiment - - 749 998

Florida

Volunteers

1st Special - - 423 545

Battalion

Fifteen - - 1,137 1,359

separate

companies of

infantry

Four separate - - 296 385

companies of

cavalry

Three separate 14 306 385 489

companies of

artillery

Grand total 14 306 3,790 4,827


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