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555 Series I Volume XXXVII-II Serial 71 - Monocacy Part II

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POTTSVILLE, PA.

Captain JOSIAH C. HULLINGER. *

50th Company, U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, 2nd Battalion (detachment), Sergt. Jeremiah Alcorn.

21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D, Lieutenant James C. Patton.

SHIMPSTOWN, PA.

Pennsylvania cavalry (militia), one company, Captain Christian B. Hebble.

YORK, PA.

85th Company, U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, 2nd Battalion, Captain William Shields.

108th Company, U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, 2nd Battalion, Lieutenant William Mitchell.

Abstract from return of the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of July, 1864.

Present for duty.

Aggrega- Aggregate

Command. Officers Men. te pre- present a

sent. nd absent

General headquarters 17

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17 17

City and Harbor of 73 881 1,384 2,096

New York (Hunt).

Boston Harbor and

Massachusetts Sea- 35 1,042 1,383 1,481

coast Defenses

(Floyd-Jones).

Maine Sea-coast 10 287 309 392

Defenses (Dawson).

Other forts. 16 502 726 834

Total. 151 2,712 3,819 4,820

Troops in the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix,+ U. S. Army, commanding, July 31, 1864.

CITY AND HARBOR OF NEW YORK.

Brigadier General LEWIS C. HUNT.

Fort Hamilton.

Major DICKINSON WOODRUFF.

3rd United States, Captain Andrew Sheridan.

12th United States (detachment), Captain William M. Quimby.

2nd U. S. Artillery, Battery H, Captain Frank H. Larned.

2nd U. S. Artillery, Battery K, Lieutenant John A. Smith.

5th U. S. Artillery (detachment), Lieutenant Thomson P. McElrath.

Fort Lafayette.

Lieutenant Colonel MARTIN BURKE.

7th United States, Company A, Lieutenant Constant Williams.

7th United States, Company E, Lieutenant Charles A. Coolidge.

10th United States (detachment), Lieutenant Claude S. Robertson.

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*Commanding Lehigh District.

+Major General John J. Peck, U. S. Army, second in command.

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