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976 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV

Page 976 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter LIII.

FORTS JACKSON AND SAINT PHILIP.

Major JOSEPH J. COMSTOCK, Jr.

10th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery (detachment).

11th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery (detachment).

TROOPS REPORTING DIRECT.

INFANTRY.

New Orleans.

77th Illinois, Colonel David P. Grier.

91st Illinois, Colonel Henry M. Day.

1st New Orleans (headquarters), Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Tisdale.

1st New Orleans (two companies),* Major Curtis W. Killborn.

1st United States, Colonel Robert C. Buchanan.

77th U. S. Colored Troops (one company), Captain Sidney S. Boyce.

7th Vermont, Colonel William C. Holbrook.

Algiers, La.

56th Ohio (four companies), Captain Henry E. Jones.

Bonnet Carre, La.

80th U. S. Colored Troops, Major William A. Hatch.

Pass Manchac and De Sair, La.

Major GEORGE WEBSTER.

77th U. S. Colored Troops, Company G, Captain Greenleaf A. Goodale.

77th U. S. Colored Troops, Company I, Lieutenant Godfrey Christen.

Fort Macomb, La.

74th U. S. Colored Troops (two companies), Captain Melville C. Linscott.

Fort Pike, La.

74th U. S. Colored Troops (three companies), Lieutenant Colonel Alfred G. Hall.

Ship Island, Miss.

74th U. S. Colored Troops (five companies), Colonel Ernest W. Holmstedt.

CAVALRY.

Hermitage Plantation, La.

31st Massachusetts (mounted) (four companies), Captain W. Irving Allen.

Kennerville.

2nd Louisiana (one company),+ Colonel Charles Everett.

ARTILLERY.

New Orleans, La.

2nd Illinois Light, Battery A, Lieutenant Frank B. Fenton.

1st Indiana Heavy (six companies), Colonel John A. Keith.

Massachusetts Light, 6th Battery (F), Lieutenant Philip Wachter.

Fort Livingston, La.

10th U. S. Colored Heavy, Company C, Captain Albert Loring.

Artillery Camp of Instruction.

Colonel J. HALE SYPHER.

1st Missouri Light, Battery A, Captain Stillman O. Fish.

Ohio Light, 2nd Battery, Lieutenant Samuel S. Eaton.

Ohio Light, 16th Battery, Captain Russell P. Twist.

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*Camp of Distribution.

+Camp of Instruction.

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