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892 Series I Volume XXVI-I Serial 41 - Port Hudson Part I

Page 892 W. FLA., S. ALA., S. MISS., LA., TEX., N. MEX. Chapter XXXVIII.

Abstract from returns of the Department of the Gulf, &c. - Continued.

Present Pieces

for duty of artillery.

Command. Offi Men Aggreg Aggreg Heav Fiel Remar

cers ate ate y d ks.

presen presen

t t and

absent

Nineteenth

Army Corps

(Franklin):

Staff 10 - 10 12 - - New

Iberi

a,

La.

First 148 2,819 3,459 4,870 - 8 Do.

Division

(Emory)

Third 104 2,138 2,580 3,500 - 4 Do.

Division

(Grover)

Reserve 3 139 151 180 - 8 Do.

Artillery

(Closson)

Total* 265 5,096 6,200 8,562 - 20

Cavalry

Division

(Lee):

Staff 8 - 10 10 - - New

Orlea

ns,

La.

First 61 1,436 1,736 2,508 - - Near

Brigade New

(Redfield) Iberi

a,

La.

Second 23 398 526 776 - - Donal

Brigade dsonv

(Fonda) ille,

La.

Third 46 956 1,260 1,971 - 4 Near

Brigade New

(Paine) Iberi

a,

La.

Fourth 38 1,165 1,317 1,572 - - Carro

Brigade llton

(Dudley) and

Frank

lin,

La.

Detachments 4 114 143 165 - - Near

in the field New

Iberi

a,

La.

Artillery 3 147 155 188 - 6 Do.

At New 27 410 571 795 - - Do.

Orleans

(detachments

)

Total+ 210 4,626 5,718 7,985 - 10

La Fourche - - - - - - Thibo

District deaux

(Birge), La.

First 58 1,511 2,061 2,616 - -

Brigade,

Fourth

(Division),

Nineteenth

Army Corps

(Birge).

Other troops 35 814 936 1,111 - 14

Total 93 2,325 2,997 3,727 - 14

Defenses of

New Orleans

(Beckwith);

Second 39 827 1,123 4,151 - - New

Brigade, Orlea

Fourth ns,

Division, La.

Nineteenth

Army Corps

(Cahill).

Other 161 3,818 4,537 4,957 4 6

troops.

Total 200 4,645 5,660 9,108 4 6

Fort - - - - - - Garri

Jackson, La. son

(Dwight) not

repor

ted.

District of - - - - - - Baton

Baton Rouge Rouge

(Cooke), La.

Second 50 1,157 1,566 2,197 - - Do.

Brigade

First

Division,

Nineteenth

Army Corps

(Sharpe).

Post of 54 1,191 1,554 2,328 - 8

Paquemine

(Sheldon)

Other troops 38 767 977 2,084 13 8 Baton

Rouge

.

Total 142 3,115 4,097 6,609 13 16

Port

Hudson, La.

(Andrews):

Corps 193 3,422 4,596 5,212 - -

d'Afrique

Other troops 38 496 687 842 - 12

Total 231 3,918 5,283 6,054 - 12

District of 26 571 999 1,242 - - Key

Key West and West,

Tortugas Fla.

(Woodbury).

District of 52 909 1,133 1,225 127 6 Barra

Pensacola ncas,

(Asboth) Fla.

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*The Second Brigade, First Division, and the Fourth Division, elsewhere accounted for.

+The Third Massachusetts accounted for at Port Hudson; the First and Second Texas with Second Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, at Brownsville, and the Fourth Wisconsin at Baton Rouge.

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