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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