The following is an extract of a document prepared by the War Department which is a snapshot in time. The Secretary of War titled the document "A Report of the Army, its strength and distribution, previous to the 1st of July, 1814." It is clear that the war Department did not have a good handle on actual strengths of its regular regiments because monthly strength returns as well as recruiting returns were notoriously late or never sent. Most likely, actual strengths at the recruiting stations were higher than reported here. Volunteer and militia formations are not illustrated in this report. This document is also useful because it shows which regiments and bodies of recruits were ordered to join either the Right Division or Left Division of the Ninth Military District - the two divisions expected to carry the bulk of the 1814 campaign. District No. 1 20th Infantry 359 Artillerists 363 Total: 615 Station: Boston, Portsmouth, Portland & Eastport District No. 2 Artillerists 127 37th Infantry 490 Total: 517 Station: New London District No. 3 Artillerists 378 32nd Infantry 335 41st Infantry 628 42nd Infantry 331 Sea Fencibles 77 Total: 1849 Station: New York City District No. 4 Artillerists 108 Dragoons 200 Total: 308 Station: Fort Mifflin and recruiting rendezvous District No. 5 Artillerists 210 Station: Norfolk 20th, 35th, and 1st Bn. 38th 873 Station: Norfolk Artillerists 65 Station: Baltimore 2nd Bn. 38th Infantry 300 Station: Baltimore Sea Fencibles 167 Station: Baltimore Artillerists 40 Station: Annapolis Artillerists 79 Station: Fort Washington 36th Infantry 320 Station: St. Mary's Total: 2154 District No. 6 Dragoons 135 Artillerists 413 8th Infantry 688 18th Infantry 443 43rd Infantry 261 1st Rifles (1 company) 87 Sea Fencibles 100 Total: 2197 Station: North and South Carolina and Georgia District No. 7 Artillerists 339 2nd Infantry 408 3rd Infantry 408 7th Infantry 670 39th Infantry 370 44th Infantry 89 Total: 2276 Station: New Orleans, Mobile, and Creek Nation District No. 8 Artillerists 142 17th, 19th, 24th, 28th Infantry 1591 Rangers 388 Total: 2121 Station: Detroit, Sandwich, Sandusky etc. District No. 9 Light Artillery 459 Right Division Dragoons 97 Right Division Artillerists 181 Right Division 4th Infantry 655 Right Division 5th Infantry 275 Right Division 6th Infantry 250 Right Division 10th Infantry 254 Right Division 12th Infantry 482 Right Division 13th Infantry 194 Right Division 14th Infantry 137 Right Division 15th Infantry 317 Right Division 16th Infantry 299 Right Division 29th Infantry 374 Right Division 30th Infantry 274 Right Division 31st Infantry 90 32nd Infantry 165 34th Infantry 183 2nd Bn. 1st Rifles 223 Total: 4908 Recruits of the above regiments, the 48th Infantry, 300 dragoons, and 264 Light Artillerists under orders to join the Right Division amount to 4,687 additional troops. Left Division Light Artillerists 60 Dragoons 443 Artillerists 624 9th Infantry 227 11th Infantry 492 21st Infantry 458 25th Infantry 392 1st Bn. Rifles 345 Total: 3041 Troops under orders to join the Left Division. Recruits from the above infantry regiments 910 Artillerists 248 1st Infantry 200 22nd Infantry 359 23rd Infantry 600 Total: 2317 Back to Table of Contents -- War of 1812 #2 Back to War of 1812 List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Rich Barbuto. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com