Abstract from Tri-monthly Return of the Eighteenth Army Corps, Major General John G. Foster commanding, for April 30, 1863 (headquarters New Berne, N. C.).

Present for duty.

Command Office Men Aggregat Aggregate Aggregat

rs e present e last

present and return

absent

Eighteenth 20 ......... 20 21 21

Army Corps,

Major-

General

Foster

First 146 2,923 3,765 7,170 7,216

Division,

Brigadier-

General

Palmer......

Second 103 1,861 2,382 6,503 6,514

Division

Brigadier-

General

Naglee......

Third 25 544 695 5,609 5,609

Division

Brigadier-

General

Ferry ......

Fourth 192 2,604 3,286 5,568 5,824

Division

Brigadier-

General

Wessells....

Fifth 200 3,967 4,881 6,148 6,192

Division,

Brigadier-

General

Prince......

Artillery 33 609 816 2,077 2,091

Brigade,

Brigadier-

General

Ledlie......

Cavalry, 25 347 463 874 905

Colonel S.

H.

Mix.........

First North 10 391 477 544 544

Carolina

(Union)

Volunteers,

Lieutenant-

Colonel

McChesney.

Grand total. 754 13,246 16,785 34,514 34,916

Organization of the Eighteenth Army Corps, Department of North Carolina, Major General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding, April 30, 1863.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General INNIS N. PALMER.

First Brigade.

Colonel T. J. C. AMORY.

17th Massachusetts.

43rd Massachusetts.

45th Massachusetts.

51st Massachusetts.

Second Brigade.

Colonel H. C. LEE.

5th Massachusetts.

25th Massachusetts.

27th Massachusetts.

46th Massachusetts.

SECOND DIVISION.

Brigadier General HENRY M. NAGLEE.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General CHARLES A. HECKMAN.

23rd Massachusetts.

9th New Jersey.

81st New York.

98th New York.

Second Brigade.*

Colonel W. W. H. DAVIS.

11th Maine.

100th New York.

52nd Pennsylvania.

104th Pennsylvania.

Independent New York Battalion.

THIRD DIVISION.*

Brigadier General O. S. FERRY.

First Brigade.

Colonel J. B. HOWELL.

56th New York.

58th Pennsylvania.

85th Pennsylvania.

174th Pennsylvania.

Second Brigade.

Colonel FRANCIS A. OSBORN.

39th Illinois.

62nd Ohio.

67th Ohio.

176th Pennsylvania.

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*Detached, in Department of the South, with the exception of the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania.

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