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857 Series I Volume XLIII-II Serial 91 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part II

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Artillery.

2nd United States, Battery M, Lieutenant Carle A. Woodruff.

RESERVE HORSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE.

Captain LA RHETT L. LIVINGSTON.

New York Light, 6th Battery, Captain Joseph W. Martin.

1st United States, Batteries K and L, Lieutenant John McGilvray.

2nd United States, Batteries B and L, Captain Charles H. Peirce.

2nd United States, Battery D, Lieutenant Edward B. Willson.

3rd United States, Batteries C, F, and K, Captain Dunbar R. Ransom.

5th United States, Battery L, Lieutenant Gulian V. Weir.

Abstract from return of the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix,* U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of December, 1864.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men.

General headquarters. 115 ...

City and Harbor of New York 35 1,037

(Hunt).

Boston Harbor and Massachusetts 35 1,173

Sea-coast Defenses (Floyd-

Jones).

Defenses of Portsmouth Harbor 8 212

and Maine Sea-coast (Dawson).

Military District of Northern 14 236

New York (Robinson).

Military District of Western 97 8,898

New York (Driven).

Other forts. 11 727

Total. 315 12,283

Command. Aggre- Aggre- Pieces

gate gate of heavy

present. present arti-

and llery.

absent.

General headquarters. 115 116 ...

City and Harbor of New York 1,441 2,469 ...

(Hunt).

Boston Harbor and Massachusetts 1,484 1,576 310

Sea-coast Defenses (Floyd-

Jones).

Defenses of Portsmouth Harbor 245 382 ...

and Maine Sea-coast (Dawson).

Military District of Northern 294 517 ...

New York (Robinson).

Military District of Western 11,116 +12,411 ...

New York (Driven).

Other forts. 901 954 ...

Total. 15,596 18,425 ...

Troops in the Department of the East, Major General John A. Dix,* U. S. Army, commanding, December 31, 1864.

CITY AND HARBOR OF NEW YORK.

Brigadier General LEWIS C. HUNT.

Fort Hamilton.

Major DICKINSON WOODRUFF.

10th United States (detachment),

17th United States (detachment),
Lieutenant Lyman H. Warren.

12th United States (detachment, Lieutenant Edwin M. Coates.

12th United States (Invalid Company), Captain William M. Quimby.

Fort Lafayette.

Lieutenant Colonel MARTIN BURKE.

17th United States (battalion), Brevet Major Henry A. Swartwout.

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*Major General John J. Peck, U. S. Army, second in command.

+Of this number 8,100 were prisoners of war.

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