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[Inclosure.]
Names. Perime Guns. Men to Total
ter. man guns. garrison
North of the Potomac
Yards
Battery Cameron --- 2 --- ---
Battery Martin Scott --- 2 --- ---
Battery Vermont --- 3 45 ---
Fort --- 5 75 400
Fort (north of --- 5 75 300
reservoir)
Fort --- 5 75 300
Fort Gaines 105 4 75 250
Fort Pennsylvania 440 12 180 600
Fort (Schwatz's house) 190 7 105 250
Fort Massachusetts 168 10 150 200
Fort Slocum 250 13 195 300
Fort Totten 272 14 180 350
Fort Bunker Hill 205 8 120 270
Fort Saratoga 109 6 120 220
Fort --- 4 60 200
Fort Lincoln 446 16 140 600
Fort (Benning's Bridge) 354 10 150 500
Fort --- 8 120 300
Fort --- 8 120 300
Fort --- 8 120 300
Fort Stanton 322 18 270 483
Fort --- 10 150 400
Fort Carroll --- 12 180 400
Fort Greble 327 15 255 420
Total north of the --- 205 2,960 7,343
Potomac
South of the Potomac
Yards
Fort Lyon 937 41 570 1,200
Fort Worth 463 14 210 630
Fort Ward 576 17 255 780
Fort Ellsworth 618 17 255 843
Fort Blenker 360 10 150 510
Fort 172 6 105 225
Fort Scott 226 6 108 487
Fort Albany 429 13 183 585
Fort Runyon 1,484 21 315 2,120
Fort Jackson --- 4 60 200
Fort Richardson 316 8 120 444
Fort Craig --- 7 105 400
Fort Tillinghast --- 7 105 300
Fort Ramsay --- 5 75 300
Fort Woodbury 161 5 75 300
Fort De Kalb 196 9 135 450
Fort Corcoran 576 12 180 800
Fort Bennett 146 5 75 200
Fort Haggerty 128 4 60 172
Fort Ethan Allen 736 21 375 1,000
Fort Marcy 338 7 105 500
Total south of the --- 239 3,621 12,446
Potomac
Grand total --- 444 6,581 19,789
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WILLIAM F. BARRY,
Brigadier-General, Chief of Artillery.
J. G. BARNARD,
Brigadier-General, and Chief Engineer.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Baltimore, Md., October 25, 1861.Major General GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
Commanding Army of Potomac:
GENERAL: A great deal of anxiety is felt in this State in regard to the voters in the Maryland regiments. I have had several delegations from the Union men and to-day a communication from the State Central Committee on the subject. There are some 6,000 men now embodied in regiments and corps raised in this State. About half the number are in this city, and it was expected they would remain until after the election. I saw an order in Quartermaster Belger's office last evening ordering five companies of Colonel Purnell's regiment to Salisbury, Md., although it has not been sent to me. This order has produced a good deal of solicitude among the Union men in Baltimore. They wish to show their whole strength. Some even apprehend that there may be danger of losing the State if the votes in the military service are not secured. I do not think there is just ground for this apprehension. At the same time I think it very important for our future quietude that the Union ticket should not merely be carried, but that it should have an
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