FORT MONROE.

Colonel S. M. ALFORD.

3rd New York, Colonel S. M. Alford.

CAMP HAMILTON.

Major JOHN A. DARLING.

3rd Pennsylvania Artillery (1st battalion), Major John A. Darling.

11th Pennsylvania Cavalry (one company).

Abstract from Tri-monthly Return of the Eighteenth Army Corps, Department of North Carolina, Major General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding, for May 31, 1863.

Present for duty.

Offi- Aggregate Aggregate

Command. cers. Men. present. present

and absent

General staff. 21

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21 21

Palmer's division. 227 4,708 6,349 7,718

Jourdan's brigade. 79 1,605 2,155 3,140

Lee's brigade. 67 1,104 1,405 1,839

Mix's cavalry 18 319 378 859

brigade.

Artillery. 41 1,103 1,306 1,721

Total at New Berne 453 8,839 11,614 15,298

District of 83 1,718 2,353 3,041

Beaufort.

District of the 121 1,567 1,892 2,259

Albemarle.

District of the 137 2,781 3,318 3,619

Pamlico.

Detached

(Department of the

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10,065

South).

Grand total. 794 14,905 19,177 34,300

Organization of the Eighteenth Army Corps, Department of North Carolina, Major General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding, May 31, 1863.*

FIRST DIVISION (New Berne).

Brigadier General INNIS N. PALMER.+

First Brigade.+

Colonel T. J. C. AMORY.

17th Massachusetts, Major Jones Frankle.

43rd Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Whiton.

45th Massachusetts, Colonel Charles R. Codman.

51st Massachusetts, Colonel A. B. R. Sprague.

Second Brigade.+

Colonel HORACE C. LEE.

5th Massachusetts, Colonel George H. Peirson.

25th Massachusetts, Colonel Josiah Pickett.

27th Massachusetts, Major W. G. Bartholomew.

46th Massachusetts, Colonel William S. Shurtleff.

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*According to corps return for the mouth of May, 1863, discrepancies between that return and those of the subordinate commands for same period noted. The names of regimental and battalion commanders taken from subordinate returns.

+The division return reports Colonel Amory commanding the Division, Colonel C. L. Holbrook commanding First Brigade, and Colonel George H. Peirson commanding the Second Brigade.

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