Third Brigade.

Colonel CHARLES H. SMITH.

1st Maine, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan P. Cilley.

6th Ohio, Major George W. Dickinson.

21st Pennsylvania, Major Oliver B. Knowles.

Artillery.

1st United States, Battery I, Lieutenant Edwin L. Garvin.

2nd United States, Battery A, Lieutenant William N. Dennison.

Abstract from returns of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Major General Benjamin F. Butler, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of October, 1864.

[Compiled mainly form subordinate returns.]

Present for duty.

Command. Officers Men Aggregate

present.

General headquarters 24 --- 24

Signal Corps (Clum) 19 127 146

Naval Brigade (Graham) 23 679 967

First New York Engineers 15 275 471

(Serrell)

Tenth Army Corps (Terry) 431 13,315 15,890

Eighteenth Army Corps 415 12,952 15,393

(Weitzel)

Cavalry Division (Kautz) 72 2,286 2,838

District of Eastern Virginia 107 3,099 4,399

(Shepley)

District of North Carolina 212 5,871 8,920

(Palmer)

Separate Brigade* (Carr) 43 1,076 1,324

Provisional Division (Graham) 208 4,238 5,259

Grand total 1,569 43,918 55,631

Grand total, according to 1,547 43,397 54,830

department return.

Pieces of artillery.

Command. Aggregate Heavy Field

present

and

absent

General headquarters 25 --- ---

Signal Corps (Clum) 174 --- ---

Naval Brigade (Graham) 1,223 --- ---

First New York Engineers 866 --- ---

(Serrell)

Tenth Army Corps (Terry) 27,821 --- 54

Eighteenth Army Corps 30,231 --- 58

(Weitzel)

Cavalry Division (Kautz) 4,924 --- ---

District of Eastern Virginia 10,383 178 12

(Shepley)

District of North Carolina 11,681 152 62

(Palmer)

Separate Brigade* (Carr) 1,752 --- 6

Provisional Division (Graham) 8,853 27 53

Grand total 97,933 357 245

Grand total, according to 96,892 357 211

department return.

Organization of troops in the Department of Virginia and North carolina, commanded by Major General Benjamin F. Butler, U. S. Army, October 31, 1864.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.

SIGNAL CORPS.

Captain HENRY R. CLUM.

NAVAL BRIGADE.

Brigadier General CHARLES K. GRAHAM.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company I, Captain Warren Hallett.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company K, Lieutenant Stewart J. Donnelly.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company L, Captain Amaya L. Fitch.

13th New York Heavy Artillery, Company M, Lieutenant Frederick S. Paul.

3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (four companies), Major Franz von Schilling.

3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (detachment), Captain Joseph W. Sanderson.

ENGINEERS.

1st New York, Colonel Edward W. Serrell.

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*Embraces troops at Harrison's Landing and Forts Pocahontas and Powhatan.

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