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591 Series I Volume XLIV- Serial 92 - Savannah

Page 591 Chapter LVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -UNION.

Organization of troops in the Department of the South, Major General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding, November 30, 1864.

NORTHERN DISTRICT. January

Brigadier General JOHN P. HATCH.

MORRIS ISLAND.

Colonel EDWARD N. HALLOWELL.

54th Massachusetts (colored),+ Lieutenant Colonel Henry N. Hooper.

56th New York,+ Lieutenant Colonel Rockwell Tyler.

52nd Pennsylvania, Major Thomas B. Jayne.

21st U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Augustus G. Bennett.

3rd New York Light Artillery, Battery B,+ Captain Thomas J. Mesereau.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, 1st Battalion, Captain Jeremiah Lanahan.

FOLLY ISLAND.

Colonel EUGENE A. KOZLAY.

55th Massachusetts (colored),+ Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Fox.

54th New York, Major Stephen Kovacs.

33rd U. S. Colored Troops, Major Charles T. Trowbridge.

DISTRICT OF BEAUFORT. ++

Brigadier General RUFUS SAXTON.

127th New York,+ Colonel William Gurney.

26th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel William Stillman.

102nd U. S. Colored Troops,+ Colonel Henry L. Chipman.

3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Company A,+ Captain William H. Hamner.

2nd U. S. Colored Light Artillery, Battery G, Captain Jeremiah S. Clark.

DISTRICT OF HILTON HEAD. #

Colonel PHILIP P. BROWN, Jr.

144th New York,+ Colonel James Lewis.

157th New York,+ Lieutenant Colonel James C. Carmichael.

25th Ohio,+ Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Haughton.

32nd U. S. Colored Troops,+ Colonel George W. Baird.

DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. ||

Brigadier General ELIAKIM P. SCAMMON.

17th Connecticut, Colonel William H. Noble.

75th Ohio, Colonel Andrew L. Harris.

107th Ohio, Captain Edward S. Meyer.

3rd U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Benjamin C. Tilghman.

34th U. S. Colored Troops,+ Lieutenant Colonel William W. Marple.

35th U. S. Colored Troops,+ Colonel James C. Beecher.

4th Massachusetts Cavalry,+ 2nd Battalion, Captain George R. Hurlbut.

3rd New York Light Artillery, Battery F,+ Lieutenant Edgar H. Titus.

UNATTACHED.

1st New York Engineers (battalion), Major James E. Place.

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*Or First Separate Brigade.

+Constituted the Coast Division, commanded by Brigadier General John P. Hatch, and engaged in expedition against the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. The First Brigade of this division was commanded by Brigadier General Edward E. Potter, and the Second Brigade by Colonel Alfred S. Hartwell, Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry (colored).

++Or Second Separate Brigade.

#Or Third Separate Brigade.

||Or Fourth Separate Brigade.

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