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Organization of troops in the Middle Military Division, commanded by Major General Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. Army, October 31, 1864.
ESCORT.
6th U. S. Cavalry, Captain Ira W. Claflin.
DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON.
Major General CHRISTOPHER C. AUGUR.
SIGNAL CORPS.
Captain WILLIAM B. ROE.
LIGHT ARTILLERY DEPOT AND CAMP OF INSTRUCTION.
Brigadier General ALBION P. HOWE.*
CAMP BARRY, D. C.
LieutenantColonel JAMES A. HALL.
Massachusetts Light, 16th Battery [detachment], LieutenantAlonzo B. Langley.
Pennsylvania Light, Battery C, Captain James Thompson.
1st United States, Batteries A and F, LieutenantHardman P. Norris.
2nd United States, Batteries C and E, LieutenantJames S. Dudley.
3rd United States, Batteries L and M, LieutenantErskine Gittings.
4th United States, Battery A, LieutenantRufus King,jr.
PROVISIONAL BRIGADES.
Major General SILAS CASEY.
Detachment 43rd U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Stephen B. Yeoman.
Detachment 45th U. S. Colored Troops, Captain Wilhelm von Bechtold.
Detachment 28th,29th,30th,32nd,34th,and 36th U. S. Colored Troops, LieutenantDaniel Brooks.
Detachments 5th,7th,9th,19th,22nd,23rd,and 27th U. S. Colored Troops, LieutenantEdmund L. McCalley.
Detachments 2nd and 102nd U. S. Colored Troops, LieutenantDaniel Hitchcock.
HARDIN'S DIVISION.+
Brigadier General MARTIN D. HARDIN.
First Brigade.
Major GEORGE S. WORCHESTER.
8th Company Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Captain Loring S. Richardson.
11th Company Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Captain Thomas Herbert.
12th Company Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Captain James M. Richardson.
Michigan Light Artillery,13th Battery, Captain Charles Dupont.
2nd U. S. Artillery, Battery I, LieutenantWilliam P. Graves.
3rd U. S. Artillery, Battery G, LieutenantCharles S. Medary.
Provisional detachment, Captain J. W. Graves.
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*Inspector of artillery, U. S. Army.
+Headquarters at Washington City. Troops at Forts Baker, Bayard, Bunker Hill, Carroll, Davis, De Russy, Du Pont, Foote, Gaines, Greble, Kearny, Lincoln, Mahan, Mansfield, Meigs, Reno, Ricketts, Simmons, Slocum, Smead, Snyder, Stanton, Stevens, Summer, Wagner, and Batteries Cameron, Kemble, Parrott, and Vermont.
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