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Organization of troops in the Middle Department (Eighth Army Corps), Brigadier General Henry H. Lockwood, U. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1864.

FIRST SEPARATE BRIGADE. *

Brigadier General ERASTUS B. TYLER.

3rd Delaware, Colonel Samuel H. Jenkins.

3rd Maryland, Potomac Home Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Gilpin.

9th Maryland, Colonel Benjamin L. Simpson.

Purnell (Maryland), Legion, Colonel Samuel A. Graham.

1st Delaware Cavalry, Company C, Captain Charles Corbit.

5th New York Heavy Artillery, Company F, Captain Eugene McGrath, sr.

SECOND SEPARATE BRIGADE. +

Colonel PETER A. PORTER. ++

5th New York Heavy Artillery (seven companies), Lieutenant Colonel Edward Murray.

8th New York Heavy Artillery (ten companies), Lieutenant Colonel Willard W. Bates.

2nd U. S. Artillery, Battery I, Lieutenant James E. Wilson.

DISTRICT OF DELAWARE.

Major HENRY B. JUDD. #

5th Maryland,^ Colonel William L. Schley.

1st Delaware Cavalry, Company D, Lieutenant Solomon Townsend.

1st Delaware Cavalry, Company E, Captain John B. W. Aydelott.

Purnell (Maryland) Cavalry, Company C, Lieutenant Charles W. Palmer.

U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps (detachment), Lieutenant James Lewis.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Artillery Reserve.

Captain FREDERIC W. ALEXANDER.

Baltimore Light Battery, Captain Frederic W. Alexander.

3rd Pennsylvania, Battery H, Captain William D. Rank.

Cavalry Reserve.

Major ERASTUS BLAKESLEE.

1st Connecticut, Major Erastus Blakeslee.

1st Delaware, Major Napoleon B. Knight.

FORT DELAWARE, DEL.

Brigadier General ALBIN SCHOEF.

Delaware Heavy Artillery Company, Captain George W. Ahl.

Pennsylvania Artillery, Battery A, Captain Stanislaus Mlotkowski.

Pennsylvania Artillery, Battery G, Captain John J. Young.

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*At Relay House (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad), Chapel Point, and Ellicott's Mills.

+At Forts McHenry, Marshall, and Federal Hill.

++Bvt. Brigadier General William W. Morris, the proper commander, on detached duty.

#Brigadier General Daniel Tyler, the proper commander, on detached duty.

^On veteran furlough.

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