"What is this you have been about to day?"
The New Jersey Brigade at the Battle of Monmouth

John U. Rees
© 2003

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“A large Number of troops …”
Continental and British Army Field Returns, 28 June 1778

Continental 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
Duty
Woodford
(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 Woellwarth
     786     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.


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Appendix F