.NjE.MTUyMg

may be; observing however, that no battalion will consist of a greater number than 320, nor lefs than 160 rank & file.

    The Detachment will form 3 Divisions & 6 Brigades, as 

follows:

[ Each division, names, counties and towns are underlined.]

          First Division,   Major General Brooks.

First brigade to comprehend the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk,Plymouth Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes' county & Nantucket.------2767 Second Brigade. Efsex and Middlesex. ---------------2612

                                                                                  ______5379

        Second Division, Major General Shepard. 

First Brigade, Hampshire & Berkshire, -------------- 2313 Second Brigade, Worcester, ------------------------1567

                                                                                _____3880

       Third Division,  Major General Ichabod Goodwin. 

Firft Brigade, York & Cumberland, ------------------1469 Second Brigade, Lincoln, Hancock & Washington,1157

                                                                              _____ 2626 
                                                                                      _______
                                                                                       11885

     Each Division will have one Major General, with two 

Aid deCamps, and one Deputy Adjutant General.

    Each Brigade will have 1 Brigadier General and 1 Brig-

ade Inspector.

     Each Regiment (to be composed of two battalions) will

have 1 Colonel (or Lieutenant Colonel commanding a regiment