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Page 706 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter XLIX.

CHELTON HILL (CAMP WILLIAM PENN), PA.

Lieutenant Colonel LOUIS WAGNER.

43rd U. S. Colored Troops, Connecticut H, I, and K, Major Horace Bumstead.

45th U. S. Colored Troops (three companies), Captain Wilhelm von Bechtold.

CARLISLE BARRACKS, PA.

Cavalry Depot, Captain William B. Royall.

Draft Rendezvous, Captain David P. Hancock.

YORK, PA.

Surg. HENRY PALMER.

108th Company U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, 2nd Battalion, Lieutenant William Mitchell.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.

U. S. Signal Corps (detachment), Lieutenant Amos M. Thayer.

Abstract from return of the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of June, 1864.

Present for duty

Command Officers Men Aggregate Aggregate

present present

and absent

General 75 .... 75 75

headquarters

City and Harbor 73 1,220 1,747 2,108

of New York (De

Trobriand)

Garrison 39 1,264 1,506 1,580

Massachusetts

coast

Other forts 34 870 1,120 1,330

Total 221 3,354 4,448 5,093

Troops in the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix, U. S. Army, commanding, June 30, `864.

CITY AND HARBOR OF NEW YORK.

Brigadier General P. REGIS DE TROBRIAND.

7th New York (battalion), Captain Jacob Scheu.

15th New York State National Guard.*

3rd United States, Lieutenant Isaac A. Helm.

6th United States, Captain Montgomery Bryant.

7th United States, Companies A, B, D, E, G, I, and K, Major Henry D. Wallen.

31st U. S. Colored Troops (detachment), Lieutenant Henry L. Lawton.

20th New York Battery, Captain Arthur Wiecker.

28th New York Battery, Lieutenant Robert F. Joyce.

[Note on original return.]-The balance of the troops borne on the face of this return is composed of small detachments from various regiments, militia, &c.

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*Commander not of record.

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