Union Forces Department of the East 31 August 1864 Commanding Officer: Major General J.A.Dix Chief of Staff: Major General J.J.Peck City and Harbor of New York: Brigadier General L.C.Hunt (57/835) Fort Hamilton: Major D.Woodruff 69th New York Infantry Regiment 3rd U.S.Infantry Regiment 12th U.S.Infantry Regiment (invalid company) Det/5th U.S.Artillery Fort Lafayette: Lt. Colonel M.Burke A/,E/7th U.S.Infantry Regiment Det/l0th U.S.Infantry Regiment Fort Columbus: Cpt. J.D.Wilkins Det/New York Light Artillery, 20th Battery U.S.General Service Recruits Fort Richmond: Colonel J.Bagley 69th New York State National Guard Sandy Hook: Lt. Colonel E.Stern New York Light Artillery, 28th Battery Fort Schuyler: Major H.D.Wallen 7th U.S.Infantry Regiment (8 cos) Det/31st U.S. Colored Troops Fort Wood: Colonel C.S.Merchant 6th U.S.Infantry Regiment Permanent Party Battery Barracks: Cpt. H.S.Hawkins Det/6th U.S.Infantry Regiment Det/New York Light Artillery, 20th Battery Hart's Island: Brigadier General N.J.Jackson (745) Det/31st U.S.Colored Troops Garrison Battalion Recruit Battalion Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Sea Coast Defenses: Lt. Colonel De Lancey Floyd­Jones (40/1,419) Clark's Point, New Bedford: Cpt. C.E.Niebuhr 1st Bn, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company B Eastern Point (Fort Gloucester): Cpt. F.E.Porter 2nd Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Fort Independence: Lt. Colonel De Lancey Floyd­Jones A Co, 3rd Bn, 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment H Co, 2nd Bn, 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment Invalid Company A, 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment 1st U.S. Artillery, Invalid Company A 1st Bn, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company D Long Point Batteries (Provincetown): Cpt. D.H.Dyer 21st Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Forts Pickering & Lee (Salem): Cpt. J.G.Barnes 17th Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Fort Sewall (Marblehead): 20th Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Fort Warren: Major S. Cabot 15th Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Militia 19th Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Militia 1st Bn, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company A 1st Bn, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company C 1st Bn, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company E 1st Bn, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company F Defenses of Portsmouth Harbor and Main Sea Coast: Lt. Colonel S.K.Dawson (11/283) Fort Constitution: Cpt. G.C.Houghton New Hampshire State Militia, Company A Lafayette Artillery, New Hampshire State Militia, Company B Fort McClary: Cpt. G.C.Houghton Maine State Guard, Company A Fort Knox: Lt. T.H.Palmer Det/1st Maine Heavy Artillery Fort Sullivan: Cpt. T.P.Hutchinson Maine Coast Guard, Company C Miscellaneous: (15/634) Fort Adams, Rhode Island: Colonel O.L.Sheperd D Co., 3rd Bn, 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment Fort Ontario, New York: Cpt. R.E.A.Crofton Det/l6th U.S. Infantry Regiment Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island: Cpt. C.Blanding Rhode Island Hospital Guards, Company A Forts Preble and Scammel, Maine: Major G.L.Andrews Invalid Cos A & B, 17th U.S. Infantry Regiment Fort Trumbell, Connecticut: Cpt. J.D. O'Connell Det/l4th U.S. Infantry Regiment 3rd U.S. Artillery, Battery I Fort Porter, N.Y.: Cpt. E.C.Wilson Detachment of Veteran Reserve Corps and Recruits U.S. War Department, The War of the Succession, A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Government Printing Office; Washington D.C. 1882 .