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Third Brigade.
Colonel HENRY CAPEHART.
1st New York, Lieutenant Colonel Jenyns C. Battersby.
1st West Virginia (detachment), Captain Shesh B. Howe.
2nd West Virginia (seven companies), Lieutenant Colonel James Allen.
3rd West Virginia, Major John S. Witcher.
RESERVE HORSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE.
Captain JAMES M. ROBERTSON.
New York Light, 6th Battery, Lieutenant Moses P. Clark.
1st United States, Batteries K and I, Captain Henry W. Closson.
2nd United States, Batteries B and L, Lieutenant John McGBilvray.
2nd United States, Battery D, Lieutenant Edward B. Williston.
2nd United States, Battery M, Lieutenant Carle A. Woodruff.
3rd United States, Battery C, Captain Dunbar R. Ransom.
4th United States, Batteries C and E, Captain Marcus P. Miller.
5th United States, Battery L, Lieutenant Wallace F. Randolph.
REMOUNT CAMP, PLEASANT VALLEY, MD.
Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES FITZ SIMONS.
FIRST DIVISION.
Major SAMUEL W. McPHERSON.
SECOND DIVISION.
Captain ALBERT S. CLOKE.
THIRD DIVISION.
Major DUDLEY SEWARD.
NOT BRIGADED.
6th West Virginia Cavalry, Major Peter J. Potts.
Abstract from return of the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix,* U. S. Army, commanding, for February 28, 1865.
Present for duty.
Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate
present.
General headquarters. 118
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118
City and Harbor of New 34 1,360 1,649
York (Hunt).
Boston Harbor and
Massachusetts Sea-coast 42 1,313 1,710
Defenses (Floyd-Jones).
Defenses of Portsmouth
Harbor and Maine Sea- 15 494 565
coast (Dawson).
Military District of
Northern New York 20 801 955
(Robinson).
Military District of 111 1,670 2,394
Wester New York (Diven)
Other forts. 14 551 760
Total. 354 6,189 8,351
CONTINUATION:
Pieces of artillery.
Aggregate
Command. present and Heavy. Field.
absent.
General headquarters. 118
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City and Harbor of New 2,771
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York (Hunt).
Boston Harbor and
Massachusetts Sea-coast 1,803 317
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Defenses (Floyd-Jones).
Defenses of Portsmouth
Harbor and Maine Sea- 679
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coast (Dawson).
Military District of
Northern New York 1,316
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(Robinson).
Military District of 3,774
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Wester New York (Diven)
Other forts. 812 4
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Total. 11,273
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*Major General John J. Peck, U. S. Army, second in command.
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