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One with same and artillery musketoons 50
One with six 12-pound howitzers and light artillery sabres 80
Armed 780
Thirteen unarmed 650
Total artillery i,430
LIGHT INFANTRY.
Seven companies armed with rifled muskets 440
Eighty-one companies armed with percussion muskets 4,050
Twenty-six companies armed with flint-lock muskets 1,300
Armed 5,790
Five companies unarmed 250
Total infantry 6,040
RIFLEMEN.
Four companies armed with long-range rifles 330
Twenty-eight companies armed with percussion rifles 1,400
Ten companies armed with flint-lock rifles 500
Armed 2,230
Seventy-six companies unarmed 3,800
Total riflemen 6,030
This varies in some degree from my report of 27th February last, by some additional troops and companies in each arm having re ceived arms, and some new companies having been commissioned since then. Except in a few cases where the actual strength of par- ticular troops and companies is known at this office, I have estimated all other troops and companies at the minimum number required by law, discarding the return, which would increase the force. The cavalry force is unnecessarily large ; the artillery much too small. The additional companies are organizing. It is far too weak in the tide- water region.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Wm. H. Richardson, Adjutant-General.
RECAPITULATION.
Cavalry, armed 3,35o
do. unarmed 1,450
4,800