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Continental Forces, Return for April 1779 Continental Forces Return for April 1779 Commanding Officer: General George Washington North Carolina Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st North Carolina Regiment (Clark)(12/38/4/273)1 2nd North Carolina Regiment (Patten)(5/24/3/142) Woodford's Brigade: (New Jersey) 2nd Virginia Regiment (Febiger)(8/22/3/140) 3rd Virginia Regiment (Heth)(8/263/16/4/64) 5th Virginia Regiment (Russell)(7/27/3/129) 7th Virginia Regiment (Morgan)(8/15/2/106) 11th Virginia Regiment (Buford)(8/15/2/106) Muhlenberg Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st Virginia Regiment (Parker)(8/33/3/82) 1st Virginia State (Gibson)(16/40/4/158) 2nd Virginia State (Smith)(6/34/4/184) 10th Virginia State (Davies)(10/23/5/120) Scott's Brigade: (New Jersey) 4th Virginia Regiment (Neville)(4/26/4/103) Delaware Regiment (Hall)(6/27/4/160) 6th Virginia Regiment (Green)(9/26/5/144) 8th Virginia Regiment (Wood)(9/27/5/143) Additional Regiment (Grayson)(3/21/4/88) Smallwood's (former 1st Maryland) Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st Maryland Regiment (Stone)(9/25/3/189) 3rd Maryland Regiment (Gist)(3/24/3/316) 5th Maryland Regiment (Richardson)(2/27/5/181) 7th Maryland Regiment (Gunby)(10/30/5/212) 2nd Maryland Brigade: (New Jersey) 2nd Maryland Regiment (Price)(7/33/3/250) 4th Maryland Regiment (Hall)(6/25/3/293) 6th Maryland Regiment (Williams)(7/25/5/195) Wayne's Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Chambers)(4/32/4/187) 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment (Stewart)(13/36/5/303) 7th Pennsylvania Regiment (Irvine)(9/40/3/232) 10th Pennsylvania Regiment (Humpton)(7/38/5/221) 2nd Pennsylvnaia Brigade: (New Jersey) 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment (Craig)(9/40/3/232) 5th Pennsylvania Regiment (Johnston)(5/27/3/206) 6th Pennsylvania Regiment (Magaw)(10/33/4/156) 9th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(5/29/6/148) Maxwell's Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st New Jersey Regiment (Ogden)(21/41/4/208) 2nd New Jersey Regiment (Shreve)(18/39/4/256) 3rd New Jersey Regiment (Dayton)(18/41/6/226) 1 Numbers are officers, NCOs, staff officers, and rank & file present under arms. 1 Nixon's Brigade: (The Highlands, New York) 3rd Massachusetts Regiment (Greaton)(12/32/2/176) 5th Massachusetts Regiment (Putnam)(10/35/3/256) 6th Massachusetts Regiment (Nixon)(13/37/4/224) Paterson's Brigade: (The Highlands, NY) 12th Massachusetts Regiment (Brewer)(14/38/5/113) 10th Massachusetts Regiment (Marhsall)(9/32/4/149) 14th Massachusetts Regiment (Bradford)(11/31/5/151) 11th Massachusetts Regiment (Tupper)(12/34/4/197) Learned's Brigade: (The Highlands, NY) 2nd Massachusetts Regiment (Bailey)(10/30/3/156) 8th Massachusetts Regiment (Jackson)(13/27/2/117) 9th Massachusetts Regiment (Wesson)(9/34/5/133) Poor's Brigade: 1st New Hampshire Regiment (Cilley)(12/21/4/205) 2nd New Hampshire Regiment (Reid)(8/22/2/154) 3rd New Hampshire Regiment (Scammell)(5/25/2/131) Putnam's Division: Parson's Brigade: 3rd Connecticut Regiment (Wyllys)(4/24/5/100) 4th Connecticut Regiment (Durkee)(5/18/5/78) 6th Connecticut Regiment (Meigs)(3/26/1/145) 8th Connecticut Regiment (Russell)(7/24/4/90) Huntington's Brigade: 1st Connecticut Regiment (Starr)(6/17/1/85) 2nd Connecticut Regiment (Butler)(2/21/1/68) 5th Connecticut Regiment (Bradley)(3/14/2/78) 7th Connecticut Regiment (Swift)(4/15/3/71) Clinton's Brigade: 1st New York Regiment (van Schaick)(17/44/4/281)(Ft. Schuyler, NY) 4th New York Regiment (Regnier de Roussi)(16/24/2/108) (Ft. Plank, NY) 3rd New York Regiment (Gansevoort)(14/34/4/254)(Albany, NY) 5th New York Regiment (DuBois)(4/31/2/117)(Schoharie, NY) 7th Massachusetts Regiment (Alden)(14/36/2/183)Cherry Valley, NY) Additional Regiment (Warner)(9/20/3/56)(Ft. Edward,NY) 4th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(6/36/4/99)(Schoharie, NY) Other: 2nd New York Regiment (van Cortlandt)(15/34/4/180) Western Department: (in Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania) 8th Pennsylvania Regiment (Brodhead)(3/22/2/152) 9th Pennsylvania Regiment (Gibson)(19/35/0/200) Virginia Independent Company (Heth)(2/6/0/43) Independent Company (O'Hara)(1/6/0/20) Independent Company (Moorhead)(2/4/0/19) Gate's Division: (in Rhode Island) 4th Massachusetts Regiment (Shepard)(14/33/4/186) 13th Massachusetts Regiment (Wigglesworth)(20/38/4/184) 15th Massachusetts Regiment (Bigelow)(12/23/2/116) 1st Massachusetts Regiment (Vose)(11/33/4/170) 1st Canadian Regiment (Livingstone)(12/22/4/70) Additional Regiment (Webb)(17/41/4/197) Rhode Island Militia (Hathaway)(14/30/2/212) Additional Regiment (Sherburne)(13/26/4/206) 2nd Rhode Island Regiment (Angell)(13/34/4/238) 1st Rhode Island Regiment (Greene)(16/34/2/145) Additional Regiment (Jackson)(10/50/0/166) Cavalry 2nd Continental (Sheldon)(9/44/4/129) 3rd Continental (Baylor)(8/18/2/107) Partizan Corps (Lee)(7/24/3/94) Marechaussie (von Heer)(2/5/0/26) Artillery: (in Pluckemin, NJ) 4 Companies, 3rd Continental (Crane)(5/40/4/49) 7 Companies, 2nd Continental (Lamb)(16/57/2/84) 11 Companies, 1st Continental (Harrison)(21/79/4/121) 3 Independent Companies (no return) Artillery in Rhode Island: Det/3rd Continental Artillery (Crane)(10/34/1/37) (in Providence) Det/1st Continental Artillery (Harrison)(3/8/1/14) Invalids: Philadelphia Unit (Nicola)(6/38/0/224) Boston Detachment (McFarland)(1/8/0/108) Southern Department under Major General B. Lincoln: (Partial Report as of 1 May 1779) Pinckney Brigade: (in Georgia) 1st South Carolina Regiment (Pinckney)(20/39/5/156) 3rd South Carolina (Rangers) (Thompson)(15/30/1/348) 6th South Carolina (Rifles) (Henderson)(15/29/3/112) Other: Brigadier General A.Williamson (195/196/2/2,076) (organization unknown) 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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