809 Series I Volume XXVII-III Serial 45 - Gettysburg Campaign Part III
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FORT WASHINGTON.
Col Charles S. Merchant.
Indiana Light Artillery, 16th Battery, Captain Charles R. Deming.
Camps Convalescent, Paroled Prisoners, and Distribution.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel McKelvy.
KING'S DIVISION. *
Brigadier General Rufus King.
Iris Legion.
Brigadier General Michael Corcoran.
69th [182d] New York, Colonel Matthew Murphy. 155th New York, Colonel William McEvily. 164th New York, Colonel James P. McMaHonorable 170th New York, Colonel James P. McIvor.
Not Brigaded.
4th Delaware, Colonel Arthur H. Grimshaw. 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, Colonel Charles R. Lowell, jr. 6th New York Cavalry (two companies), Major William P. Hall. 17th New York Battery, Lieutenant Hiram E. Sickles.
CAVALRY. +
Colonel Percy Wyndham.
Abstract from return of the Department of Washington. Major General Samuel. P. Heintzelman, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of July, 1863.
Present for Pieces of
duty artillery
Command Officers Men Aggregate Aggregate Aggregate Heavy Field
pre-sent pre-sent last
and return
absent
General 30 161 195 205 73 --- ---
headquarters
Artillery 41 1, 1, 1, 1, --- 60
Camp of 107 307 586 608
Instruction
Railway 25 676 877 903 915 --- ---
Guard
City Guards: 69 1, 1, 2, 3, --- 6
Alexandria, 094 327 636 414
Va.
Washington, 118 2, 3, 4, 4, --- ---
D. C. 147 367 344 945
Provisional 29 1, 1, 1, 842 --- ---
brigades 034 193 233
Defenses 192 5, 6, 7, 7, 320 94
North of the 483 831 233 037
Potomac
Defenses 208 5, 6, 7, 7, 310 115
South of the 104 515 863 662
Potomac
Fort 5 108 142 146 148 70 3
Washington,
Md.
King's 143 2, 2, 3, --- --- ---
division 363 799 444
Cavalry, 55 1, 2, 3, --- --- ---
++Department 108 011 243
of
Washington
Camps 90 3, 7, 7, 8, --- ---
ConvalescentParoled 238 554 867 295
Prisoners,
and
Distribution
TOTAL 1, 23, 34, 40, 34, 700 278
005 423 118 703 939
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* Organized, July 18 (see p. 722). Troops at Centreville and Fairfax Station.
+ Composition not indicated in returns.
++ Including 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, reported in King's division on roster, but not in figures.
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