Main Continental Army structure (August 1777)
operating in the former Middle Department (NY, NJ, PA, DE & MD)
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[General’s] PERSONAL STAFF
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CONTINENTAL ARMY
Commander-in-Chief
General George Washington
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SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
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Aides de Camp
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Deputy Adjutant General
Col. Timothy Pickering
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Lt.Col. Robert Hanson Harrison
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Deputy Quartermaster General
Col. O’Beal
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[Col.] Tench Tilghman
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Col. John Fitzgerald
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Commissary General of Military Stores
Col. Benjamin Flowers
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Col. Alexander Hamilton
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Col. Richard Kidder Meade
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Director of FlyingHospital
unnamed
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[Lt.Col.] John Laurens
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[Lt.Col.] Peter Presley Thornton
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Deputy Postmaster
position listed in General Orders
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MG Marquis de Lafayette
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Life Guard
Capt. Caleb Gibbs
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Engineers Department [mostly French]
Col. Duportail
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“Cavalry of Life Guard”
detached from 3rd Light Dragoons
Lt. George Lewis
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* Officers of the Day from below
(MG, BG, 2 field officers, Brigade Major)
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1st DIVISION
MG Nathanael Greene
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2nd DIVISION
MG Adam Stephen
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4th DIVISION
[MG Benjamin Lincoln]
BG Anthony Wayne
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5th DIVISION
Lord Stirling (MG Wm Alexander)
Aide de camp Capt.Jas. Monroe
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in northern Jersey
3rd DIVISION
MG John Sullivan
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1st VA BRIGADE
BG Peter Muhlenberg
VA 1, 5, 9 & 13 Regts
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3rd VA BRIGADE
BG William Woodford
VA 3, 7, 11 & 15 Regts
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1st PA BRIGADE
Col.Thomas Hartley
PA 1, 2, 7, 10
& Hartley’s Regts
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3rd PA BRIGADE
BG Thomas Conway
PA 3, 6, 9 & 12 Regts
Spencer’s NJ Regt
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1st MD BRIGADE
MD a. 3. 5 & 6 Regts
& DE Regt
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2nd VA BRIGADE
BG George Weedon
VA 2, 6, 10 & 14 Regts
PA State Regt
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4th VA BRIGADE
BG Charles Scott
VA 4, 8, 12, Grayson
& Patton Regts
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2nd PA BRIGADE
Col.Richard Humpton
PA 4, 5, 8 & 11 Regts
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NJ BRIGADE
BG William Maxwell
NJ 1, 2, 3 & 4 Regts
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2nd MD BRIGADE
BG Preudhomme de Borre
MD 2, 4 & 7 Regts
German Battalion
Hazen’s Canadian Regt
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CORPS OF ARTILLERY
BG Henry Knox
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Co. of Artillery Artificers
Capt. Rowe
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CONT. LIGHT DRAGOON REGTS
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NC BRIGADE (5th DIV)
Col. Francis Nash
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1st Col.Theodorick Bland
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MG
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Major General
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2nd Col.Sheldon
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4th CONT.ARTILLERY REGT
Col. Thomas Proctor
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BG
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Brigadier General
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3rd Col. Baylor
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CORPS OF RIFLEMEN
Col. Daniel Morgan
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4th Col.Stephen Moyland
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Additioanl information on the organization and operations of this Army may be reached using the drop-down menu for this page. A partial roster of known individuals (primarily officers) at the encampment is available. A significant number of these persons were identified in Washington's General Orders covering court martials as either presiding over these hearings or the offenders being tried.
* * * * * EXPLORE yOUR PAST * * * * *Read John B. B. Trussell, The Pennsylvania Line: Regimental organization & operations, 1775-1783 (2nd ed), Harrisburg, PA: PA Historical & Museum Commission, 1993. This comprehensive book provides brief regimental histories on all the PA regiments which were encamped around the Little Neshaminy Creek in August 1777 including the 4th Continental Dragoon Regiment and Hartley's 'Additional' Continental Regiment. The 4th Continental Artillery Regiment (also known as the PA State Artillery Regiment) was positioned at Trenton, NJ. The Independent PA Artillery Company is presumed to have also been in or moving towards Trenton. Appendices cover recruiting regions for the individual regiments and statistics on unit strength and casualties during the course of the American War for Independence.Michael Cecere, They Behaved Like Soldiers: Captain John Chilton & the 3rd Virginia Regiment 1775-1778, Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2004. This regimental history describes the unit's involvement in the Philadelphia Campaign (1777-78) and contains two letters written home by Capt. Chilton while encamped as part of Stephen's division along the southern bank of Little Neshaminy Creek in August 1777.Our local browsers can search the Bucks County Library System.
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