"What is this you have been about to
day?"
The New Jersey Brigade at the Battle of
Monmouth
John U. Rees
© 2003
APPENDIX
E
“A large Number of troops …”
Continental and British Army Field Returns, 28 June 1778Continental Army
A “Field Return of Troops under the Command of His Excellency General Washington at Coryall’s Ferry. June 22, ‘78,”1 gives the strength (present fit for duty) for sixteen brigades.
Field Officers: 102 Company Officers: 841 N.C.O’s, Rank and File: 12,561 Grand Total: 13,504
General George Washington’s Main Army
(Not including Major General Lee’s detachment: see Appendix C)“Field Return of Troops under the immediate command of his Excellency Gen’l Washington,”
“Exclusive of detachment under General Lee” Lt. Col. Alexander Scammell1
Ponolopon [Manalapan] Bridge, 28 June 1778 Commissioned Rank and File Brigades Col. Lt. Col. Maj. Capt. Subs. Serjt. Present
Fit for
DutyWoodford
(3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th Virginia Regiments)3 2 9 30 46 385 N. Carolina
(1st and 2nd North Carolina Regiments)2 2 1 7 16 28 369 Poor
(1st, 2nd, 3rd New Hampshire, and
2nd, 4th New York Regiments)3 2 16 37 57 639 Huntington
(1st & 5th, 2nd & 7th Composite Connecticut Regiments)2 2 3 14 22 80 509 1st Maryland
(1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th Maryland and Delaware Regiments)2 1 2 9 47 72 657 2nd Maryland
(2nd, 4th, 6th Maryland Regiments)2 2 2 9 17 41 529 Muhlenberg
(1st, 13th Virginia Regiments,
5th & 9th Composite Virginia Regiment,
Virginia State Regiment, and German Battalion)2 4 2 13 35 80 575 Weedon
(2nd, 6th, 10th, 13th, 14th Virginia Regiments)3 2 3 15 56 59 449 1st Penna.
(1st, 2nd, 7th, 10th Pennsylvania Regiments)3 3 2 9 14 46 352 2nd Penna.
(4th, 5th, 8th, 11th Pennsylvania Regiments)2 2 1 10 20 51 401 3rd Penna.(“Late Conway’s”)
(3rd, 6th, 12th Pennsylvania,
Malcolm’s and Spencer’s Additional Regiments)3 4 10 22 56 343 Glover
(1st, 4th, 13th, 15th Massachusetts Regiments)3 3 1 19 37 61 512 Learned
(2nd, 8th, 9th Massachusetts Regiments)1 1 2 12 21 42 294 Patterson
(10th, 11th, 12th, 14th Massachusetts Regiments)2 2 2 19 34 69 357 Total 24 33 29 171 408 788 6,371
Field and Company Officers: 665 Sergeants, Rank and File: 7,159 Grand Total: 7,824
British Army
Derived from "Return of the Number of Men, Wagoners, Women & Children victualled at Monmouth the 27 & 28th June 1778 inclusive."3
Men Wagoners Women Child Commander-in-Chief's suite 39 10 0 0 2d Div. Gen Knyphausen's suite 69 0 2 0 Jaeger Corps
(Hessian Jaegers, Anspach Chasseurs)793 9 18 0 17th Light Dragoons 333 5 12 0 2d Battalion Light Infantry 799 5 30 0 1st Brigade
(4th, 23d, 28th, 49th Regiments of Foot)1,450 19 64 0 2d Brigade
(5th, 10th,27th, 40th, 55th Regiments of Foot)1,432 21 68 0 Stirn's Brigade
(Lieb Infantry, Regiment von Donop)1,165 0 26 6 Loos Brigade
Fusiler Regiments: von Alt Lossberg, von Knyphausen;
Grenadier Regiment von Woellwarth786 0 38 0 Provincial Infantry
(Guides and Pioneers, Roman Catholic Volunteers,
Maryland Loyalists, Pennsylvania Loyalists,
New Jersey Volunteers, Bucks County Volunteers)1,238 7 46 0 Provincial Horse
(Philadelphia Light Dragoons, Bucks County Light Dragoons)176 2 6 0 Provincial Recruits
(New Jersey Volunteers {3rd Battalion?}, Caledonian Volunteers, Volunteers of Ireland, Emmericks Chasseurs)57 0 0 0 1st Div. Gen. Cornwallis's suite 0 0 0 0 Division Troops
(Queen's American Rangers, 16th Light Dragoons, 1st Battalion Light Infantry, 1st & 2nd Battalions British Grenadiers)3,047 27 127 0 Hessian Grenadiers
(Linsing, Minnegerode, Lengerke)1,291 18 25 0 Brigade of Foot Guards 982 10 20 0 3d Brigade
(15th, 17th, 42d, 44th Regiments of Foot)1,672 21 75 0 4th Brigade
(33d, 37th, 46th, 64th Regiments of Foot)1,496 12 64 0 5th Brigade
(7th, 26th, 63rd Regiments of Foot)952 6 44 0 Artillery (Royal Artillery, Drivers, 2nd Battalion NJ Volunteers, Hessian Artillery) 1,063 0 34 3 Non
Combatants(see list at site below) 1,070 8 3 0 Totals 19,940 180 709 9 Grand Total 20,838 A more detailed version of the above information is available of the website of the Monmouth Battlefield State Park
Sources
1. William S. Stryker, Battle of Monmouth (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1927), 120, 279.
2. American army returns, May and June 1778, Charles H. Lesser, Ed., The Sinews of Independence: Monthly Strength Reports of the Continental Army (Chicago, Il., 1976), 68-69, 72-73.
3. State of the Forces under . . . Sir Henry Clinton, 3 July 1778 (Library of Congress, Mss. Division: PRO CO 5:96, p. 77). Return of the Number of Men, Wagoners, Women & Children victualled at Monmouth the 27 & 28th June 1778 inclusive. (Sir Henry Clinton Papers, vol. 36, No. 5, William L. Clements Library, the University of Michigan.) Edited by Todd W. Braisted, James L. Kochan, Donald M. Londahl-Smidt, and Garry Wheeler Stone.