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Continental Forces, 1 October 1778 Continental Forces 1 October 1778 Commanding Officer: General George Washington McIntosh's North Carolina Brigade: (Danbury, CT) 1st North Carolina Regiment (Clark)(16/44/2/330)1 2nd North Carolina Regiment (Patten)(11/42/4/340) Woodford's Brigade: (in New Jersey) 2nd Virginia Regiment (Febiger)(14/36/6/144) 3rd & 7th Virginia Regiment (Heth)(11/38/9/254) 11th & 15th Virginia Regiment (Morgan)11/58/5/276) Muhlenberg Brigade: (near West Point, NY) 1st, 5th & 9th Virginia Regiment (Parker)(9/57/8/162) 1st Virginia State (Gibson)(9/25/4/117) 2nd Virginia State (Smith)(17/20/2/106) 14th Virginia State (Davies)(9/30/3/118) Scott's Brigade: (near West Point, NY) 4th, 8th, & 12th Virginia Regiment (Wood)(19/55/10/340) 6th & 10th Virginia Regiment (Green)(17/29/4/153) Delaware Regiment (Stone)(4/20/4/83) Additional Regiment (Grayson)(9/25/5/164) Smallwood's (former 1st Maryland) Brigade: (Fishkill, NY) 1st Maryland Regiment (Stone)(16/28/6/235) 3rd Maryland Regiment (Gist)(5/28/5/156) 5th Maryland Regiment (Richardson)(5/28/5/156) 7th Maryland Regiment (Gunby)(14/32/5/187) 2nd Maryland Brigade: (Fishkill, NY) 2nd Maryland Regiment (Price)(7/38/2/292) German Battalion (Weltner)(12/39/4/254) 4th Maryland Regiment (Hall)(13/28/5/307) 6th Maryland Regiment (Williams)(11/26/3/239) Wayne's (former 1st Pennsylvania) Brigade: (Fredericksburg, NY) 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Chambers)(7/27/4/151) 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment (Stewart)(11/43/4/306) 7th Pennsylvania Regiment (Irvine)(10/24/4/132) 10th Pennsylvania Regiment (Humpton)(9/34/3/205) 2nd Pennsylvnaia Brigade: (Fredericksburg, NY) 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment (Craig)(7/40/4/163) 5th Pennsylvania Regiment (Johnston)(7/32/4/163) 6th Pennsylvania Regiment (Harmer)(7/30/4/159) 9th Pennsylvania Regiment (Butler)(4/20/3/95) Clinton's Brigade: (near Continental Village, NY) 1st New York Regiment (van Schaick)(13/36/3/239) 2nd New York Regiment (van Cortlandt)(10/27/2/210) 5th New York Regiment (DuBois)(10/21/1/187) 4th New York Regiment (Livingston)(7/38/3/183) 1 Numbers are officers, NCOs, staff officers, and rank & file present under arms. 1 Parson's Brigade:(Fredericksburg, NY) 3rd Connecticut Regiment (Wyllys)(16/42/4/311) 4th Connecticut Regiment (Durkee)(13/35/4/311) 6th Connecticut Regiment (Meigs)(15/43/4/365) 8th Connecticut Regiment (Chandler)(11/25/5/144) Huntington's Brigade: (Fredericksburg, NY) 1st Connecticut Regiment (Sill)(5/34/4/199) 2nd Connecticut Regiment (Sherman)(7/41/2/142) 5th Connecticut Regiment (Bradley)(14/35/5/197) 7th Connecticut Regiment (Swift)(22/38/6/260) Nixon's Brigade:(Danbury, CT) 3rd Massachusetts Regiment (Greaton)(22/38/6/260) 5th Massachusetts Regiment (Putnam)(23/42/4/361) 6th Massachusetts Regiment (Nixon)(24/47/5/300) Massachusetts Militia (Wood)(24/38/4/230) Paterson's Brigade: (Danbury, CT) 12th Massachusetts Regiment (Brewer)(18/39/3/264) 10th Massachusetts Regiment (Marhsall)(15/29/5/233) 14th Massachusetts Regiment (Bradford)(13/28/5/263) 11th Massachusetts Regiment (Tupper)(17/35/3/295) Learned's Brigade: (Danbury, CT) 2nd Massachusetts Regiment (Bailey)(17/32/4/254) 8th Massachusetts Regiment (Jackson)(12/34/4/253) 9th Massachusetts Regiment (Wesson)(20/42/4/273) Poor's Brigade: (Danbury, CT) 2nd Canadian Regiment (Hazen)(18/49/2/272) 1st New Hampshire Regiment (Cilley)(17/27/2/240) 2nd New Hampshire Regiment (Hale)(14/323/2/186) 3rd New Hampshire Regiment (Scammell)(10/26/2/150) Maxwell's Brigade: (in New Jersey) 1st New Jersey Regiment (Ogden)(17/23/4/253) 2nd New Jersey Regiment (Shreve)(14/31/4/247) 3rd New Jersey Regiment (Dayton)(5/31/4/181) 4th New Jersey Regiment (Martin)(9/23/5/161) Other: (at West Point, NY) Malcolm's Additional Regiment (Malcolm)(10/18/1/90) Patton's Additional Regiment (Parke)(10/25/1/52) 3rd North Carolina Regiment (Hogun)(19/45/4/379) Massachusetts Militia (Poor)(26/44/4/214) Varnum's Brigade: (68/131/12/787)(in Rhode Island) 2nd Rhode Island Regiment (Angell) Additional Regiment (Sherburne) Additional Regiment (Webb) 1st Canadian Regiment (Livingston) Glover's Brigade: (74/146/12/785)(in Rhode Island) 4th Massachusetts Regiment (Shepard) 13th Massachusetts Regiment (Wigglesworth) 1st Massachusetts Regiment (Vose) 15th Massachusetts Regiment (Bigelow) Cornell's Brigade: (67/149/13/982)(In Rhode Island) 1st Rhode Island State Regiment (Topham) 2nd Rhode Island State Regiment (Crary) Massachusetts Militia (Jacobs) Connecticut Militia Brigade: General Tyler (35/51/7/333)(In Rhode Island) organization unknown Green's Brigade: (59/123/10/711) 1st Rhode Island Regiment (Greene) Massachusetts Militia (Wade) New Hampshire State Regiment (Peabody) Other: (in Rhode Island) Det/Additional Regiment (Jackson)(24/67/6/272) McIntosh's Massachusetts Militia (McIntosh)(10/9/4/97) Other: (In Boston, MA Gerrish's Massachusetts Militia (Gerrish)(28/66/3/431) Allen's Massachusetts Militia (Allen)(8/7/4/144) In Fort Schuyler, NY: Ft. Schuyler Garrison (Gansevoort)(24/43/2/331) At King's Ferry, NY New York Militia (Graham) (strength unknown) Artillery: 7 Companies, 3rd Continental (Crane)(11/41/4/52) 2nd Continental (Lamb)(30/116/2/139) 11 Companies, 1st Continental (Harrison)(12/40/4/47) 3 Companies (Stevens)(8/42/1/33) 3 Independent Companies (3/6/0/9) 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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