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747 Series I Volume XLVI-II Serial 96 - Appomattox Campaign Part II

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Third Brigade.

1st Maine, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan P. Cilley.

2nd New York Mounted Rifles, Captain Peter B. Kelchmer.

6th Ohio, Captain John Saxon.

13th Ohio, Captain Joshua Gore.

Abstract from return of the Department of Virginia, Major General Edward O. C. Ord, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of February, 1865.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers Men Aggregate

present.

General headquarters 28 ......... 28

Signal Corps (Norton) 13 94 107

Naval Brigade (Graham) 31 506 838

First New York Engineers 9 397 482

(Serrell)

Fourth Massachusetts 12 258 310

Cavalry (Washburn)

Twenty-fourth Army Corps 593 15,317 18,290

(Gibbon)

Twenty-fifth Army Corps 398 12,572 14,347

(Weitzel)

Cavalry Division (Kautz) 108 2,975 3,630

District of Eastern 143 3,714 5,340

Virginia (Gordon)

Separate Brigade+ (Carr) 53 1,352 1,557

Defenses of Bermuda 120 3,662 4,406

Hundred (Graham)

Total 1,508 40,847 49,335

Grand total according to 1,477 40,545 48,497

department return.

Pieces of artillery.

Command. Aggregate Heavy Field.

present

and absent

General headquarters 30 ......... .......

Signal Corps (Norton) 147 ......... .........

Naval Brigade (Graham) 1,114 ......... .........

First New York Engineers 816 ......... ..........

(Serrell)

Fourth Massachusetts 886 .......... ..........

Cavalry (Washburn)

Twenty-fourth Army Corps 44,141 ......... 70

(Gibbon)

Twenty-fifth Army Corps *31,277 .......... 54

(Weitzel)

Cavalry Division (Kautz) 5,477 ......... 4

District of Eastern 11,377 194 12

Virginia (Gordon)

Separate Brigade+ (Carr) 2,106 ......... 6

Defenses of Bermuda 7,168 ....... .........

Hundred (Graham)

Total 104,539 194 146

Grand total according to 103,425 194 146

department return.

Organization of troops in the Department of Virginia, commanded by Major General Edward O. C. Ord, U. S. Army, February 28, 1865.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.

SIGNAL CORPS.

Captain LEMUEL B. NORTON.

NAVAL BRIGADE.

Brigadier General CHARLES K. GRAHAM.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company I, Lieutenant William G. Hart.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company K, Lieutenant Stewart J. Donnelly.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company L, Lieutenant Jacob Leonard.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company M, Captain Edward C. Parkinson.

3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, (four companies),++ Major Franz von Schilling.

ENGINEERS.

1st New York, Colonel Edward W. Serrell.

CAVALRY.

4th Massachuetts (detachment), Colonel Francis Washburn.

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* Includes 9,328 men belonging to Third Division, serving in Department of North Carolina.

+ Embraces troops at Harrison's Landing and Forts Pocahontas and Powhatan.

++ Companies E and G attached to Siege Artillery, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred.

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