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Continental Forces, 2 May 1778 Continental Forces 2 May 1778 Forces under Washington: General George Washington Woodford's Brigade: 3rd Virginia Regiment (Heth)(*/27/4/85)1 7th Virginia Regiment (McClanachan)(*/10/1/50) 11th Virginia Regiment (Morgan)(*/28/3/123) 15th Virginia Regiment (Mason)(*/31/3/63) * Total officers for brigade = 42. Scott's Brigade: 4th Virginia Regiment (Vacant)(7/13/3/60) 8th Virginia Regiment (Bowman)(11/27/4/68) 12th Virginia Regiment (Wood)(17/29/5/238) Additional Regiment (Grayson)(9/25/2/62) Additional Regiment (Patton)(8/23/2/55) 1st Pennsylvania Brigade: 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Chambers)(11/21/3/172) 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment (Bicker)(10/24/3/75) 7th Pennsylvania Regiment (Irvine)(15/21/1/100) 10th Pennsylvania Regiment (Nagel)(11/36/2/104) 2nd Pennsylvnaia Brigade: 4th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(9/29/3/98) 5th Pennsylvania Regiment (Johnston)(7/23/4/150) 8th Pennsylvania Regiment (Brodhead)(3/18/0/117) 11th Pennsylvania Regiment (Humpton)(7/14/2/51) Poor's Brigade: 1st New Hampshire Regiment (Cilley)(18/24/2/176) 2nd New Hampshire Regiment (Hale)(10/25/2/150) 3rd New Hampshire Regiment (Scammel)(10/24/3/88) 2nd New York Regiment (van Cortlandt)(14/30/2/122) 4th New York Regiment (Livingston)(14/19/4/103) Glover's Brigade: 4th Massachusetts Regiment (Shepard)(19/365/3/174) 13th Massachusetts Regiment (Wigglesworth)(16/32/3/184) 1st Massachusetts Regiment (Vose)(21/30/2/201) 15th Massachusetts Regiment (Bigelow)(17/32/4/164) Learned's Brigade: 2nd Massachusetts Regiment (Bailey)(14/27/4/195) 9th Massachusetts Regiment (Wesson)(16/31/5/202) 8th Massachusetts Regiment (Jackson)(14/32/4/124) Paterson's Brigade: 10th Massachusetts Regiment (Marhsall)(10/29/3/117) 12th Massachusetts Regiment (Brewer)(15/43/4/163) 14th Massachusetts Regiment (Bradford)(10/23/4/111) 11th Massachusetts Regiment (Tupper)(19/22/5/176) 1 Numbers are officers, NCOs, staff officers, and rank & file present under arms. 1 Weedon's Brigade: 2nd Virginia Regiment (Febiger)(12/29/3/97) 6th Virginia Regiment (Vacant)(3/9/2/13) 10th Virginia Regiment (Green)(20/29/3/51) 14th Virginia Regiment (Lewis)(17/33/4/76) 13th Pennsylvania Regiment (Stewart)(19/24/4/145) Muhlenberg Brigade: 1st Virginia Regiment (Parker)(12/20/4/61) 5th & 9th Virginia Regiment (Parker & Mathews)(8/19/4/46) 13th Virginia Regiment (Russell)(8/10/3/65) 1st Virginia State (Gibson)(17/34/3/156) German Battalion (Weltner)(18/14/3/168) Maxwell's Brigade: 1st New Jersey Regiment (Ogden)(14/28/4/113) 2nd New Jersey Regiment (Shreve)(detached to New Jersey) 3rd New Jersey Regiment (Dayton)(15/30/4/115) 4th New Jersey Regiment (Martin)(10/27/4/126) Conway's Brigade: 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment (Craig)(8/13/4/100) 6th Pennsylvania Regiment (Magaw)(10/26/2/96) 9th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(13/28/2/117) 12th Pennsylvania Regiment (Cooke)(4/19/3/85) Additional Regiment (Malcolm)(6/16/3/48) Additional Regiment (Spencer)(27/64/5/402) Huntington's Brigade: 1st & 5th Connecticut Regiment (Prentiss & Bradley)(27/64/5/402) 2nd & 7th Connecticut Regiment (Webb & Swift)(21/68/6/357) Varnum's Brigade: 4th & 8th Connecticut Regiment (Durkey & Chandler)(25/73/3/352) 1st & 2nd Rhode Island Regiment (Green & Angell)(18/41/2/216) McIntosh's North Carolina Brigade: 1st North Carolina Regiment (Clark)(11/35/4/127) 2nd North Carolina Regiment (Patten)(15/36/5/115) 3rd North Carolina Regiment (Sumner)(11/38/4/143) 1st Maryland Brigade: (in Wilmington, Delaware) Delaware Regiment (Hall)(11/25/5/125) 3rd Maryland Regiment (Gist)(12/19/3/125) 5th Maryland Regiment (Richardson)(14/19/3/119) 7th Maryland Regiment (Gunby)(18/25/5/126) 2nd Maryland Brigade: (in Wilmington, Delaware) 2nd Maryland Regiment (Price)(11/28/2/199) 4th Maryland Regiment (Hall)(12/17/5/246) 6th Maryland Regiment (Williams)(12/12/3/124) Other: Det/Lee's Additional Regiment (Smith)(27/42/2/200) 1st New York Regient(van Schaick)(26/49/4/347) Independent Corps (T.C.Armand)(5/7/0/23) Forces at Fishkill 3rd Connecticut Regiment (Wyllys)(16/39/4/229) Additional Regiment (Webb)(5/20/0/89) Additional Regiment (Sherburne)(12/23/5/147) 5th Massachusetts Regiment (Putnam)(22/39/3/277) 6th Connecticut Regiment (Meigs)(15/42/2/297) 5th New York Regiment (DuBois)(9/24/3/78) 2nd Canadian Regiment (Hazen)(18/58/2/251) 6th massachusetts Regiment (Nixon)(21/43/3/122) 1st Canadian Regiemnt (Livingson)(22/35/5/120) Artillery: 7 Cos, 3rd Continental (Crane)(18/88/2/99) 5 Cos, 2nd Continental (Lamb)(15/52/0/56) 4th Continental (Procter)(21/68/5/62) 5 IndependentCompanies(15/64/0/109) Detachment at Wilmington (11/57/0/94) Forces in South Carolina: 1st South Carolina Regiment (Pinckney)(21/45/3/242) 2nd South Carolina Regiment (Motts)(27/44/5/255) 3rd South Carolina Regiment (Thompson)(34/42/5/210) 5th South Carolina Regiment (Huger)(19/27/5/110) 6th South Carolina Regiment (Sumter)(17/29/5/125) 4th South Carolina Artillery (Roberts)(7/27/3/43) Lesser,C.H., The Sinews of Independence, Monthly Strength Reports of the Continental Army, 1976, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press Copyright GFN 1993 3 .
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