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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War preparations. (search)
rming an estimate of the number of troops shipped on the Atlantic on Saturday. The only company of which we have any certainty is Company A, Second regiment, United States Flying Artillery, commanded by Captain Barry, and which numbered sixty men. The other companies were Company C, Captain Allen; Company H, Captain Brooks, and Company M, Major Hunt, all of the Second artillery. There are also some companies of the Third regiment. A company of Sappers and Miners, under the command of Lieutenant Balch, from West Point, also embarked. The total number of these troops has been moderately estimated at five hundred men.--Then there were a number of soldiers of the line from Fort Hamilton, which cannot be estimated at less than three hundred men. The artillery horses were seventy-eight in number. In addition to the above troops, the Powhatan, on Saturday evening, took on board a company of artillery from Governor's Island, and another from Fort Hamilton. On Saturday, when the roll