Continental Forces, Return for January 1779

Continental Forces Return for January 1779

Commanding Officer: General George Washington

North Carolina Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st North Carolina Regiment (Clark)(17/37/4/298)1 2nd North Carolina Regiment (Patten)(13/385/250) Woodford's Brigade: (New Jersey) 2nd (old 2nd & 6th) Virginia Regiment (Febiger)(10/13/2/102) 3rd (old 3rd & 5th) Virginia Regiment (Heth)(10/19/4/110) 5th (old 7th) Virginia Regiment (Webb)(6/9/3/105) 7th & 11th (old 11th & 15th) Virginia Regiment (Morgan)(2/10/4/43) Muhlenberg Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st (old 1st & 9th) Virginia Regiment (Parker)(9/33/5/100) 1st Virginia State (Gibson)(14/35/4/159) 2nd Virginia State (Smith)(6/26/1/118) 10th (old 14th) Virginia State (Davies)(7/18/5/88) Scott's Brigade: (New Jersey) 4th (old 4th & 8th) Virginia Regiment (Neville)(6/25/4/109) Delaware Regiment (Hall)(6/26/3/142) 6th (old 10th) Virginia Regiment (Russell)(9/25/2/112) 8th (old 12th) Virginia Regiment (Wood)(9/12/4/131) Additional Regiment (Grayson)(1/18/4/82) Smallwood's (former 1st Maryland) Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st Maryland Regiment (Stone)(4/17/4/141) 3rd Maryland Regiment (Gist)(4/30/4/306) 5th Maryland Regiment (Richardson)(6/25/3/135) 7th Maryland Regiment (Gunby)(8/35/2/246) 2nd Maryland Brigade: (New Jersey) 2nd Maryland Regiment (Price)(5/38/3/300) 4th Maryland Regiment (Hall)(7/30/3/246) 6th Maryland Regiment (Williams)(5/26/2/231) Wayne's (former 1st Pennsylvania) Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Chambers)(8/28/4/154) 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment (Stewart)(9/34/2/253) 7th Pennsylvania Regiment (Irvine)(10/23/4/145) 10th Pennsylvania Regiment (Humpton)(7/31/4/196) 2nd Pennsylvnaia Brigade: (New Jersey) 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment (Craig)(7/33/2/210) 5th Pennsylvania Regiment (Johnston)(5/26/2/194) 6th Pennsylvania Regiment (Magaw)(4/31/2/132) 9th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(6/24/4/133) Maxwell's Brigade: (New Jersey) 1st New Jersey Regiment (Ogden)(13/28/5/302) 2nd New Jersey Regiment (Shreve)(12/30/3/306) 3rd New Jersey Regiment (Dayton)(12/37/5/264) 4th New Jersey Regiment (Martin)(15/33/4/227)

1 Numbers are officers, NCOs, staff officers, and rank & file present under arms.

1 Other in Haverstraw, New York: Malcolm's Additional (Malcolm)(11/18/3/68) Patton's Additional (Patton)(6/17/0/40) Hand's Brigade: 2nd New York Regiment (van Cortlandt)(14/32/3/252)(Rochester, NY) Pennsylvania Independent Company (Schott)(3/6/0/28)(Neversink, NY) Independent Corps (Armand)(7/24/4/81)(Upper Smithfield, PA) Additional Regiment (Spencer)(8/14/3/96)(Minisink, NJ or NY) Pulaski's Legion (Pulask9)(6/8/0/120)(Minisink, NJ or NY) Northern Department: 1st New York Regiment (van Schaick)(12/38/1/240)(Ft. Schuyler, NY) 4th New York Regiment (Regnier de Roussi)(14/30/2/221)(Ft. Plank New York) 7th Massachusetts Regiment (Alden)(11/35/3/197)(Cherry Valley, NY) 5th New York Regiment (DuBois)(5/41/1/146)(Schoharie, NY) 4th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(21/48/6/227)(Schoharie, NY) Warner's Additional (Warner)(11/23/2/75)(Ft. Stark, VT) 3rd New York Regiment (Gansevoort)(16/29/6/250)(Albany, NY) Nixon's Brigade: (The Highlands, New York) 3rd Massachusetts Regiment (Greaton)(9/39/5/244) 5th Massachusetts Regiment (Putnam)(17/36/3/275) 6th Massachusetts Regiment (Nixon)(10/25/2/269) Massachusetts Militia (Wood)(16/36/4/222) Paterson's Brigade: (The Highlands, NY) 12th Massachusetts Regiment (Brewer)(13/33/4/187) 10th Massachusetts Regiment (Marhsall)(8/30/3/183) 14th Massachusetts Regiment (Bradford)(9/24/3/193) 11th Massachusetts Regiment (Tupper)(12/24/2/197) Learned's Brigade: (The Highlands, NY) 2nd Massachusetts Regiment (Bailey)(7/25/2/142) 8th Massachusetts Regiment (Jackson)(11/28/2/177) 9th Massachusetts Regiment (Wesson)(10/26/3/156) Putnam's Division: (Reading, CT) Parson's Brigade: 3rd Connecticut Regiment (Wyllys)(8/18/3/146) 4th Connecticut Regiment (Durkee)(9/26/3/77) 6th Connecticut Regiment (Meigs)(9/27/2/228) 8th Connecticut Regiment (Russell)(12/27/3/123) Huntington's Brigade: 1st Connecticut Regiment (Starr)(6/26/4/189) 2nd Connecticut Regiment (Butler)(6/16/4/114) 5th Connecticut Regiment (Bradley)(8/30/3/156) 7th Connecticut Regiment (Swift)(8/22/3/187) Poor's Brigade: 2nd Canadian Regiment (Hazen)(13/42/2/291) 1st New Hampshire Regiment (Cilley)(6/16/4/243) 2nd New Hampshire Regiment (Reid)(6/16/3/166) 3rd New Hampshire Regiment (Scammell)(5/20/2/144) Other: (in Easton Pennsylvania) Gemran Battalion (Weltner)(14/30/5/221) Sullivan's Division: (in Rhode Island) 1st Canadian Regiment (Livingston)(10/20/2/77) Additional Regiment (Sherburne)(12/23/2/166) Additional Regiment (Webb)(15/23/2/172) 2nd Rhode Island Regiment (Angell)(13/32/3/221)

4th Massachusetts Regiment (Shepard)(12/32/2/155) 13th Massachusetts Regiment (Wigglesworth)(12/24/5/137) 15th Massachusetts Regiment (Bigelow)(11/23/3/129) 1st Massachusetts Regiment (Vose)(14/27/3/162) 2nd Rhode Island State Regiment (Crary)(18/37/3/195) 1st Rhode Island State Regiment (Topham)(13/31/7/197) 1st Rhode Island Regiment (Greene)(16/34/1/138) Lee's Additional Regiment (Smith)(5/19/1/67) Additional Regiment (Henley)(3/8/0/31) Additional Regiment (Jackson)(3/19/1/69) Cavalry 2nd Continental (Sheldon)(14/45/5/62) (Durham, CT) 3rd Continental (Baylor)(5/9/3/89) (Frederick, MD) 4th Continental (Moylan)(9/32/5/91) (Lancaster, PA) Marechaussie (von Heer)(3/9/0/33) (Somerset Court House, NJ) Artillery: (in Rhode Island) 2 Companies, 3rd Continental (Crane)(8/35/1/42) 1 Company, 1st Continental (Harrison)(2/10;0/18) Rhode Island State (Elliot)(9/39/2/125) Artificers: (at Middlebrook, NJ) Artificers (9/16/0/138)

Southern Department under Major General B. Lincoln: (Partial Report as of 1 February 1779) Huger's Brigade: (in Purysburg, SC) 1st South Carolina Regiment (Pinckney)(20/33/5/129) 3rd South Carolina (Rangers) (Thompson)(11/28/3/197) 5th South Carolina (Rifles) (Huger)(4/19/90/99) 6th South Carolina (Rifles) (Henderson)(11/29/4/129) Williamson's Brigade: Georgia Continental Troops (Elbert) (100 total) South Carolina Independents (50 total) Light Troops (Lytle) (250 total) South Carolina Militia (370 total) Georgia Militia (100 total) Rutherford's Brigade: North Carolina New Levies (Sumner)( 370 total) North Carolina Militia (Sanders)(70 total) North Carolina Militia (Locke)(120 total)

Lesser,C.H., The Sinews of Independence, Monthly Strength Reports of the Continental Army, 1976, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press