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987 Series I Volume XLIII-I Serial 90 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part I

Page 987 Chapter LV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

Artillery.

1st United States, Batteries K and L, Lieutenant Franck E. Taylor.

2nd United States, Battery D, Lieutenant Edward B. Williston.

THIRD DIVISION.

Brigadier General JAMES H. WILSON.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General JOHN B. McINTOSH.

1st Connecticut, Colonel Erastus Blakeslee.

3rd New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Suydam.

2nd New York (four companies), Captain Walter C. Hull.

5th New York, Lieutenant Colonel William P. Bacon.

2nd Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Purington.

18th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel William P. Brinton.

Second Brigade.

Brigadier General GEORGE H. CHAPMAN.

3rd Indiana (detachment), Lieutenant Benjamin F. Gilbert.

1st New Hamsphire (seven companies), Colonel John L. Thompson.

8th New York, Lieutenant Colonel William H. Benjamin.

22nd New York, Major Caleb Moore.

1st Vermont, Colonel William Wells.

RESERVE HORSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE.

Captain LA RHETT L. LIVINGSTON.

2nd United States, Batteries B and L, Lieutenant Charles H. Peirce.

2nd United States, Battery M,* Lieutenant Carle A. Woodruff.

3rd Unites States, Batteries C, F, and K, Captain Dunbar R. Ransom.

4th United States, Batteries C and E,* Lieutenant Charles L. Fitzhugh.

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

Present for

duty.

Command. Officer Men. Aggrega Aggreta Pieces

s. te te of

present present heavy

. and artill

absent. ery.

General 89 --- 89 89 ---

headquarters

City and Harbor of 57 835 1,279 2,249 ---

New York (Hunt)

Hart's Island 7 45 56 99 ---

(Jackson)

Boston Harbor and 40 1,419 1,705 1,760 242

Massachusetts Sea-

Coast Defenses

(Floyd-Jones)

Defenses of 11 283 310 392 ---

Portsmouth Harbor

and Maine Sea-

Coast (Dawson)

Other forts 15 634 893 967 ---

Total 219 3,216 4,332 5,556 ---

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

CITY AND HARBOR OF NEW YORK.

Brigadier General LEWIS C. HUNT.

Fort Hamilton.

Major DICKINSON WOODRUFF.

69th New York State National Guard, Companies D and H, Captain Michael O'Boyle.

3rd United States, Lieutenant Joseph Hale.

12th Unted States (invalid company), Lieutenant Edwin M. Coates.

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

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*Serving with Third Cavalry Division.

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

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