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ROANOKE ISLAND.

Colonel THEODORE F. LEHMANN.

16th Connecticut (detachment), Captain Joseph H. Barnum.

101st Pennsylvania (two companies), Lieutenant Edgar Lee.

103rd Pennsylvania (detachment), Colonel Theodore F. Lehmann.

5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company D, Lieutenant Moses O. Darling.

5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company K, Captain Emelius De Meulen.

New York Light Artillery, 24th Battery, Lieutenant William S. Camp.

SUB-DISTRICT OF BEAUFORT.

Colonel JAMES STEWART, Jr.

17th Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Splaine.

9th New Jersey, Major Samuel Huffy.

1st North Carolina (detachment), Colonel Joseph M. McChesney.

1st North Carolina Colored Heavy Artillery, Major William A. Moore.

3rd New York Artillery, Battery C (section), Leiut. Enoch Jones.

PLYMOUTH.

2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (four companies), Colonel Jones Frankle.

PROVISIONAL DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,

Brigadier General THOMAS F. MEAGHER.

Abstract from returns of the Department of the South, Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, U. S. Army, commanding, for February 28, 1865. *

[Compiled mainly from subordinate returns.]

Present for duty. Pieces of artillery.

Command. Officer Men. Aggrega Aggrega Heavy Field.

s. te te .

present present

. and

absent.

General 59 82 142 147 . . . . . .

headquart . . . .

ers. .

First New 7 559 584 600 . . . . . .

York . . . .

Engineers

(battalio

n,

Place). .

First 60 2,340 3,375 6,543 . . . . . .

Separate . . . .

Brigade

(Hatch).

.

Second 52 1,655 1,925 2,203 . . . . . .

Separate . . . .

Brigade

(Guernsey

). .

Third . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854 . . . . . .

Separate . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Brigade

(Littlefi

eld). .

Fourth 47 1,336 1,652 3,993 . . . . . .

Separate . . . .

Brigade

(Scammon)

. .

District 160 3,856 5,054 8,846 . . . . . .

of . . . .

Savannah

(Grover).

.

Total. . 385 9,828 12,732 24,186 . . . . . .

. . . . .

Total 384 9,596 12,474 23,881 . . . . . .

according . . . .

to

departmen

t return.

.

Organization of troops in the Department of the South, commanded by Major General Quincy. A. Gillmore, U. S. Army, February 28, 1865.

FIRST SEPARATE BRIGADE. +

Brigadier General JOHN P. HATCH.

54th Massachusetts (colored), Major George Pope.

55th Massachusetts (colored), Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Fox.

54th New York, Major Stephen Kovacs.

56th New York, Major Eliphas Smith.

52nd Pennsylvania, Major John A. Hennessy.

21st U. S. Colored Troops, Captain Henry Sharp.

33rd U. S. Colored Troops, Captain Niles G. Parker.

3rd New York Light Artillery, Battery B, Captain Thomas J. Meserau.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, First Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel William Ames.

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*The troops constituting the Provisional Division, commanded by Brigadier General Edward E. Potter, are not indicated on the returns.

+Or Northern District. Brigadier General Alexander Schimmelfenning commanding Defenses of Charleston.

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