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Artillery.

Third Regiment New York Volunteer Artillery, Colonel Charles H. Stewart (four companies present), Batteries C, E, I and K, stationed at New Berne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Fifth Rhode Island Volunteer Artillery, Colonel Henry T. Sisson (seven companies present):

Company B, stationed at Fort Spinola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Company D, stationed at Fort Totten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Company F, stationed at Fort Rowan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Company G, stationed at Fort Amory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Company H, stationed at Fort Stevenson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Company I, stationed at Fort Totten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Company K, stationed at Fort Gaston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813

Second Battalion, Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Major S. C. Oliver (two companies), Companies E and F, stationed at Fort Totten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Infantry.

Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Major Luther Day (ten companies):

Five companies on provost-guard duty; five companies in rear of Fort

Totten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

One hundred and thirty-second New York Volunteer Infantry, Colonel P. J. Chassen (ten companies), stationed at Batchelder's Creek. . 457

One hundred and fifty-eighth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Captain Hyron Kalt (five companies present), stationed at Red House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Ninety-ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Colonel D. W. Wardrop(ten companies), stationed at New Berne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Ninety-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Hiram Anderson, jr. (ten companies):

Ten companies stationed at Fort Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

A detachment to garrison Fort Chew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Nineteenth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel R. M. Strong (ten companies):

Six companies stationed at New Berne, south side Trent. . . . . . . 235

One company stationed at Evans' Mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

One company stationed at Brice's Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

One company stationed at Fort Gaston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

One company stationed at Fort Spinola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Fifteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Tolles (ten companies), stationed at New Berne Fair Grounds. . 564

First Regiment U. S. Colored Troops (ten companies), stationed in New Berne, south side Trent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790

Armaments of forts.

Fort Rowan: One 100-pounder Parrott; two 32-pounders, long; one 3-inch rifle, brass; one 3-inch rifle, steel; two 8-inch mortars.

Fort Anderson: One 32-pounder rifle; three 32-pounders, smooth; one 32-pounder carronade; one 24-pounder howitzer; one 12-pounder howitzer.

Fort Stevenson: One 32-pounder rifle; four 32-pounders, long.

Fort Gaston: Four 32-pounders, long; three 32-pounders, short.

Fort Totten: Four 32-pounder howitzer; nine 32-pounders, long; two 32-pounder rifles; nine 32-pounder carronades; one 8-inch columbiad; two 8-inch mortars.

Fort Amory: Three 32-pounders, long.

Fort Spinola: Six 32-pounders, long; two 32-pounder rifles.

Fort Chew: Three 24-pounders.

Fort Union: One 100-pounder Parrott; one 32-pounder, long; one 32-pounder, short.

Monitor Car, Batchelder Creek: Two Wiard, two 6-inch.

Third Regiment New York Volunteer Artillery: Ten pieces 3-inch, four pieces 3. 67-inch, six pieces 4. 62-inch.

Twelfth Regiment New York Cavalry: Two mountain howitzers.


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