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this national park as part of our rich historical tradition in Saratoga County.
The park commemorates the two battles fought there during the Revolutionary
War. Of these two battles of Saratoga, known as the Battles of Freeman's Farm,
and Bemis Heights or Stillwater, the second battle was the first great victory
of the Americans and was deemed by many historians to be the turning point of
the Revolutionary War.
This web page contains the tables of
organization for both sides and was developed by Eric Schnitzer,
Ranger/Historian at the Saratoga National Park. Heritage Hunters is grateful
for his contribution. The tables include footnotes in the form of links. To
return from a footnote, click on the "back" at the top left of the
screen.
Heritage Hunters has another web
page which contains an alphabetic listing of participants located at: American Participants
From that data base, Frank Goodway
of Heritage Hunters, has developed a table of organization by regiment or other
unit, and where appropriate, these are linked to the following Tables of
Organization.
As with any such project, please
consider this a "work in progress." We would appreciate learning of
any errors or omissions and would be pleased to correct or augment any of these
records with new valid information which you may send to Lynn Calvin.
Frank Goodway
Original Publication
February 2009
Last Updated July 2009
General Gates 9/17 Table of Organization
General Gates 10/7 Table of Organization
General Gates Addendum to Table of Organization
Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne's headquarters staff
Major-General William Phillips' general staff 1
commanded by Brigadier-General Simon Fraser
British light infantry battalion, Major Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of
Balcarres 2
British grenadier battalion, Major John Dyke Acland 3
24th Regiment of Foot, Major William Agnew
3d Battalion, 7th Company Royal Regiment of Artillery, augmented by British
infantrymen of the Advanced Corps,
consisting of four 6-pounders, four 3-pounders,and two 5½-inch
"royal" howitzers, Captain Ellis Walker
staff 4
Company of British marksmen (Fraser's Rangers), Captain Alexander Fraser 5
Company of Québec militia, Captain René Amable Boucher de Boucherville
Company of Montréal militia, Captain David Monin 6
Fort Hunter Mohawk warriors and families, Chief John Deserontyon 7
Iroquoian and Algonquian Seven Nations of Canada warriors 8
9th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Hill
21st Regiment of Foot, or Royal North British Fuzileers, Major George Forster
62d Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Anstruther
20th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Lind
Royal Regiment of Artillery brigade of four 6-pounders, Captain Thomas
Jones 9
Baron von Riedesel's general staff
Brunswick Dragoon Regiment Prinz Ludwig, Captain Adolf von
Schlagenteuffel 10
Princely Hessen-Hanau Artillery Corps, consisting of four 6-pounders, Captain
Georg Päusch
commanded by Brigadier Johann Friedrich Specht
Brunswick Musketeer Regiment von Riedesel, Lieut. Colonel Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm
von Speth
Brunswick Musketeer Regiment Specht, Major Carl Friedrich von Ehrenkrook
Brunswick Musketeer Regiment von Rhetz, Major Balthasar Bogislaus von Lucke
commanded by Brigadier Wilhelm Rudolph von Gall
Hessen-Hanau Musketeer Regiment Erbprinz, Colonel and Brigadier Wilhelm Rudolph
von Gall
commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Christoph
Breymann
Brunswick Grenadier Battalion, Captain Albrecht Daniel von Löhneisen 11
Brunswick Light Infantry Battalion von Bärner, Captain Maximillian Christian
Schottelius 12
Princely Hessen-Hanau Artillery Corps detachment of two 6-pounders, Bombardier
Conrad Wall
commanded by Captain John Carter
1st Battalion, 8th Company Royal Regiment of Artillery, Captain and Major
Griffith Williams 13
1st Battalion, 5th Company Royal Regiment of Artillery, Captain John Carter
Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery detachment 14
Additional Company of the 33d Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant George Anson
Nutt 15
commanded by 2d Lieutenant Samuel Rimington
two 12-pounders and two 6-pounders
commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Thomas Blomefield
two 24-pounders, two 8-inch howitzers, and two 5½-inch "royal"
howitzers
commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Thomas Hosmer
two 12-pounders and two 6-pounders
The King's Loyal Americans (Jessup's Rangers),
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant Ebenezer Jessup 16
The Queen's Loyal Rangers (Peters' Corps), Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant John
Peters 17
The Loyal Volunteers, Captain Samuel MacKay
"Voluntiers under the Command of Daniel McAlpin," Captain Daniel
McAlpin
“Captain Samuel Adams’s Company Raised…for the Purpose of Rangers,” Captain
Samuel Adams
47th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel
Nicholas Sutherland 18
1st Battalion, Royal Highland Emigrants detachment, Captain-Lieutenant George
Lawes 19
Royal Navy detachment, Midshipman Edward Pellew 20
Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant and Sub-Engineer William Twiss
commissary departments, Commissary-General Mr. Jonathan Clarke
Quartermaster Department, Deputy Quartermaster-General Captain John Money
His Majesty’s Hospital, Acting Physician Vincent Wood
artificers
wagon-men, batteaux-men
camp followers 21
ladies, children, and servants 22
1. William Phillips had an unusual role in the Army from Canada.
By rank and seniority he was second-in-command, and was also commander of the
Department of the Corps of Engineers as well as commander of all artillery with
the army. However, because Phillips was an officer of the Royal Regiment of
Artillery, he was legally bound from commanding British infantry or cavalry
regiments. While contemporary organizational charts, proposing the organization
of the Army from Canada, do show Philips as overall commander of the 1st
British Brigade (originally, the 9th, 21st, and 47th Regiments) and 2nd British
Brigade (originally, the 20th, 53d, and 62d Regiments), the proposal was based
upon the precedent set in 1776, when Phillips was assigned to command British
infantry. Phillips' commander, General Guy Carleton, was admonished for this by
the King, who specifically demanded that the practice "must not in future
be considered as a precedent." Never the less, Phillips did serve as
second-in-command of the Army from Canada, which necessitated the command of
British infantry regiments on the field "in some cases."
2. Consisting of the light infantry companies of the 9th, 20th,
21st, 24th, 29th, 31st, 34th, 47th, 53d, and 62d Regiments of Foot.
3. Consisting of the grenadier companies of the 9th, 20th, 21st,
24th, 29th, 31st, 34th, 47th, 53d, and 62d Regiments of Foot.
4. The staff included Major John Campbell (who was Superintendent
of the Canada Indian Department), three lieutenants, one chaplain, "two
volunteers," and seven servants.
5. This unit was also known as the "company of
marksmen" under Captain Fraser of the 34th Regiment of Foot. After it was
destroyed during the 1st Battle of Bennington on 16 August, the company was
rebuilt on 2 September with 16 men and one NCO from each British Regiment.
6. Killed on 19 September and replaced by Lieutenant Baptiste
Beaubien.
7. Following the Battle of Oriskany, vengeful American militia
and their Oneida warrior allies moved to attack the Mohawk's lower castle
settlement at Fort Hunter, NY. Aware of the approaching force, most families
opted to flee and join Burgoyne's army, which they reached on September 4. They
numbered about 150 men, women, and children. Most eventually settled near
Lachine, Canada.
8. Following the battles near Bennington on 16 August,
"almost all the Savages [Indians] have gone home." By the time of the
Battles of Saratoga, less than 80 warriors from campaign participating nations
remained. The Seven Nations of Canada was composed of seven Catholic mission
communities located along the St. Lawrence River: Caughnawaga (primarily
Mohawk), Lake of the Two Mountains (primarily Mohawk, Nipissing, and
Algonquin), St. François (Sokoki, Penacook, and Algonquin), Bécancour (Eastern
Abenaki), Oswegatchie (primarily Onondagas, with Oneidas, and Cayugas), Lorette
(Huron), and Saint Regis (resettled Caughnawaga Mohawk).
9. This company-sized brigade was commanded by Captain Thomas
Jones (4th Battalion, 6th Company). While his own artillery company served with
Sir William Howe's main army, Jones himself was in Britain and subsequently
ordered to lead a detachment of 70 artillery drafts to Canada. Jones' brigade
was composed of draftees from various artillery companies, including a
detachment of an officer and Royal Artillerymen from Captain William
Borthwick's company (3d Battalion, 8th Company), which had been left behind at
Ticonderoga. Jones was mortally wounded on 19 September and the replaced as
commander by 2d Lieutenant James Hadden.
10. What remained of this regiment after most had been lost at
Bennington on August 16 was one small squadron that finally received horses,
with the men "shabbily mounted" on them. This squadron performed
scout and guard duty.
11. This unit consisted of the grenadier companies from the
Brunswick Regiments von Rhetz, Specht, von Riedesel, and Prinz Friedrich.
12. This unit, also known as the "Free Battalion von
Bärner," consisted of four companies of Brunswick "chasseurs"
(light infantrymen) and one company of Brunswick jägers ("hunters").
While the battalion's commander, Major Ferdinand Albrecht von Bärner, was
present with Burgoyne's army, he had been so "gravely" wounded in the
2d Battle of Bennington that he could not command it. The captain of the jäger
company therefore "served as commander."
13. Williams, who was captured on October 7 during the Second
Battle of Saratoga, was commander of all British artillery with Burgoyne's
army. He held the dual rank of Captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery and
Major in the Army.
14. Seventy mattrosses of the Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery
augmented the Royal Regiment of Artillery companies with the army. Having left
Ireland in April of 1777 under the command of Captain Thomas Jones (and having
none of their own officers with them), these men were "incorporated into
the British" Royal Artillery, an altogether separate organization. The 70
drafts were then dispersed between the different companies and brigades of the
Royal Regiment of Artillery, some remaining in Canada. Although these men were
no longer in the Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery, they wore the uniforms of that
corps, as their new ones had not arrived in time for the campaign.
15. This unit consisted of about 150 "additionals, recruits
for the southern army." This detachment was made up of the Additional
company of the 33d Regiment of Foot, but some were meant for "the other
regiments" with the southern army as well—recruits for the 15th, 27th,
35th, 45th, and 54th Regiments of Foot. They were all uniformed infantrymen,
but were "attached to the service of the artillery" during the campaign.
16. Recruited from Charlotte County, N.Y. (now roughly Clinton,
Essex, Franklin, Warren Counties, upper Washington County, and about 1/3 of
upper Vermont).
17. Recruited from Albany County, N.Y. (now roughly Albany,
Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie Counties, much of Greene
and Washington Counties, and Bennington County, Vermont).
18. The 47th Regiment sent two of its eight battalion companies
to Fort George under the command of Captain Thomas Aubrey. They then moved to
Diamond Island on Lake George for safety because of an expected American
attack. The six companies that remained with Burgoyne were delegated to protect
the batteaux.
19. This was a detachment of The Royal Highland Emigrants
(designated the 84th Regiment of Foot in 1779), made up of six officers and
men, attached to the artificers as engineers.
20. The detachment of the Royal Navy numbered about 150 officers
and men, and were drafted from sailing vessels like the Ships Isis and Blonde.
While the duties of the senior Royal Naval officer present with Burgoyne's
army, Lieutenant John Schank, were to oversee overall management of bateaux
transport and floating bridge construction, Pellew (later, Lord Exmouth)
commanded the Royal Navy detachment directly. After 19 September all "the
boatmen or mariners and sailors with the army who were serving on the bateaux
or with the supply train had to drill daily for several hours so that they
could render actual military service if needs be and protect" the army's
vital food and supply train.
21. 215 British and 82 German women camp followers were present
at the surrender as well as an undetermined number of children and
non-combatant loyalist refugees. Also, sutlers (salesmen) were present with the
army.
22. One German lady (Baroness von Riedesel) and five British
ladies (Harriet Acland, Mary Honour Harnage, Anne Reynell, Mrs. Fitzgerald, and
"the wife of a commissary [officer]"), as well as their servants and
many of their children, traveled with the army.
Major General Gates' headquarters staff 1
Benedict Arnold's general staff
commanded by Colonel Daniel Morgan More Info
The Rifle Regiment (Corps of Rifle men), Lieutenant Colonel Richard Butler
The Corps of Light Infantry, Major Henry Dearborn More Info
commanded by Brigadier General Enoch Poor
1st New Hampshire Regiment, Colonel Joseph Cilley More Info
2d New Hampshire Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Winborn Adams More Info
3d New Hampshire Regiment, Colonel Alexander Scammell More Info
2d New York Regiment, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt More Info
4th New York Regiment, Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston More Info
Battalion of Connecticut militia, Colonel Thaddeus Cook More Info
Battalion of Connecticut militia, Colonel Jonathan Latimer More Info
commanded by Brigadier
General Ebenezer Learned
Colonel John Bailey's [later 2d] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel John
Bailey More Info
Colonel Michael Jackson's [later 8th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Lieutenant
Colonel John Brooks More Info
Colonel James Wesson's [later 9th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel James
Wesson
Battalion of Forces in the Service of the United States of America [former 1st
Canadian Regiment], Colonel James Livingston More Info
commanded by Major General Horatio Gates
commanded by Brigadier General John Paterson
Colonel Thomas Marshall's [later 10th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Thomas Marshall
Colonel Ebenezer Francis' [later 11th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Benjamin Tupper
Colonel Samuel Brewer's [later 12th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Samuel
Brewer
Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's [later 14th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Gamaliel Bradford
commanded by Brigadier General John Nixon
Colonel John Greaton's [later 3d] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel John
Greaton More
Info
Colonel Rufus Putnam's [later 5th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Rufus
Putnam
Colonel Thomas Nixon's [later 6th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Thomas
Nixon
Colonel Ichabod Alden's [later 7th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Lieutenant
Colonel William Stacey More Info
commanded by Brigadier General John Glover
Colonel Joseph Vose's [later 1st] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Joseph
Vose More
Info
Colonel William Shepard's [later 4th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
William Shepard More Info
Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's [later 13th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Major
John Porter
Colonel Timothy Bigelow's [later 15th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Major David
Bradish
Battalion of Albany County, New York militia ("the First Regiment"),
Colonel Abraham Wemple
Battalion of Albany County, New York militia ("the Second Regiment"),
Colonel William Whiting 2
Battalion of Dutchess and Ulster County, New York militia, Colonel Morris
Graham 3 More Info
2nd Troop, 2nd Continental Dragoons, Captain Jean Louis
de Vernejoux
2nd Regiment of Connecticut Light Horse, Major Elijah Hyde
commanded by Major Ebenezer Stevens
Stevens' Provisional Artillery Battalion, consisting of one 9-pounder, four
6-pounders, fifteen 4-pounders, and two 3-pounders, Major Ebenezer Stevens
More Info
Department of Engineers,
Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin More Info
Quartermaster Department, Colonel Morgan Lewis
Hospital Department, Doctor Jonathan Potts
commissary departments
artificers
wagon-men, batteaux-men
camp followers
1. A general's staff includes both personal and command support
personnel needed to help the general manage the command under his direction.
Such a staff may include, but is not limited to, aids-de-camp, clerks,
adjutants, personal retainers, and a body guard.
2. Governor George Clinton wrote to General Abraham Ten Broeck
on August 1 about the necessity of calling out the militia to stop Burgoyne's
advance. Clinton ordered two battalions to be formed, commanded by Colonel
Abraham Wemple (of the 2d Albany County militia) and Colonel William Whiting
(of the 17th Albany County militia). These two battalions were called "the
First Regiment" and "the Second Regiment" respectively. They
were made up of draftees from Albany County militia regiments, and were to
serve as such until November 15th.
3. Governor George Clinton also wrote to Colonel Morris Graham
on August 1 about the necessity of calling out the militia to stop Burgoyne's
advance. Draftees from Colonel Frear's (4th Regiment), Colonel Humfrey's (5th
Regiment) Colonel Sutherland's, and Graham's 6th Regiment of Dutchess County,
as well as Colonel Snyder's (1st Regiment), and Colonel Pawling's (3rd
Regiment) from Ulster County, N.Y. were to form a battalion to be put
"under the Command of his Hnor., Major General Schuyler." The
battalion was to be commanded by Colonel Graham, and the men "drafted by
ballot or other equitable manner." They were ordered to serve until
November 1st.
Major General Horatio
Gates' headquarters staff
commanded by Colonel Daniel
Morgan 1 More Info
The Rifle Regiment (Corps of Rifle men), Lieutenant Colonel Richard
Butler 2
The Corps of Light Infantry, Major Henry Dearborn 3 More Info
Benedict Arnold's general
staff
commanded by Brigadier
General Enoch Poor
1st New Hampshire Regiment, Colonel Joseph Cilley More Info
2d New Hampshire Regiment, Captain John Drew 5 More Info
3d New Hampshire Regiment, Colonel Alexander Scammell More Info
2d New York Regiment, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt More Info
4th New York Regiment, Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston More Info
Battalion of Connecticut militia, Colonel Thaddeus Cook More Info
Battalion of Connecticut militia, Colonel Jonathan Latimer More Info
commanded by Brigadier
General Ebenezer Learned
Colonel John Bailey's [later 2d] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel John
Bailey More Info
Colonel Michael Jackson's [later 8th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Lieutenant
Colonel John Brooks More Info
Colonel James Wesson's [later 9th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel James
Wesson
Battalion of Forces in the Service of the United States of America [former 1st
Canadian Regiment], Colonel James Livingston More Info
Battalion of New Hampshire militia, Colonel Stephen Evans 6 More Info
Battalion of New Hampshire militia, Colonel Abraham Drake 6 More Info
commanded by Brigadier
General Abraham Ten Broeck
Battalions of Albany County, New York militia, Brigadier General Abraham Ten
Broeck 7 More Info
commanded by Major General
Benjamin Lincoln 8
Benjamin Lincoln's general staff
commanded by Brigadier
General John Paterson
Colonel Thomas Marshall's [later 10th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Thomas Marshall
Colonel Ebenezer Francis' [later 11th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Benjamin Tupper
Colonel Samuel Brewer's [later 12th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Samuel
Brewer
Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's [later 14th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Gamaliel Bradford
Battalion of south Berkshire County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel John
Ashley, Jr. 9 More Info
Battalion of York County, Massachusetts militia, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph
Storer 9
commanded by Brigadier
General John Nixon
Colonel John Greaton's [later 3d] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel John
Greaton More Info
Colonel Rufus Putnam's [later 5th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Rufus
Putnam
Colonel Thomas Nixon's [later 6th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Thomas
Nixon
Colonel Ichabod Alden's [later 7th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Ichabod
Alden More Info
Battalion of Hampshire County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel Ezra May 10
commanded
by Brigadier General John Glover
Colonel Joseph Vose's [later 1st] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel Joseph
Vose More Info
Colonel William Shepard's [later 4th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
William Shepard More Info
Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's [later 13th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Major
John Porter
Colonel Timothy Bigelow's [later 15th] Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Colonel
Timothy Bigelow
Battalion of Albany County, New York militia ("the First Regiment"),
Colonel Abraham Wemple
Battalion of Albany County, New York militia ("the Second Regiment"),
Colonel William Whiting
Battalion of Dutchess and Ulster County, New York militia, Colonel Morris
Graham More Info
commanded by Brigadier
General Jonathan Warner 11
Battalion of middle Berkshire County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel John
Brown More Info
Battalion of Middlesex County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel Samuel
Bullard More Info
Battalion of Suffolk County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel Benjamin Gill
More Info
Battalion of Hampshire County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel Benjamin
Woodbridge More Info
Battalion of Essex County, Massachusetts militia, Colonel Samuel Johnson More Info
commanded by Brigadier
General Oliver Wolcott
Battalion of Connecticut militia, Brigadier General Oliver Wolcott 12
2d Troop, 2d Continental
Light Dragoons, Captain Jean Louis de Vernejoux 13
2d Regiment of Connecticut Light Horse, Major Elijah Hyde
commanded by Major Ebenezer
Stevens 14
Steven's Provisional Artillery Battalion, consisting of one 9-pounder, four
6-pounders, fifteen 4-pounders, and two 3-pounders, Major Ebenezer
Stevens More Info
Iroquoian
Oneida and Tuscarora warriors, Hon Yerry Tewahangarahken (Doxtater), Louis
Atayataronghta, and Peter Bread (Kaunaudauloonh) 15
Algonquian Mohican (Stockbridge) warriors 16
Department of Engineers, Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin More Info
Quartermaster Department, Colonel Morgan Lewis
Hospital Department, Doctor Jonathan Potts
commissary departments
artificers
wagon-men, batteaux-men
camp followers
1 Morgan's Corps, originally assigned to Arnold's division of
the army, was re-assigned on September 22 and placed "not…in any Brigade
or Division of this Army." Morgan, the commander of the corps, also
personally commanded the Rifle Regiment.
2 This battalion joined the Northern Department on September 3.
It was a provisional unit sent by Washington because "The people in the
Northern Army seem so intimidated by the Indians…[the Corps of Rifle Men] will
fight them in their own way." The officers and men were drafted from the
1st New Jersey Regiment, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 11th Virginia Regiments,
as well as the 5th, 8th, and 12th Pennsylvania Battalions (and perhaps others).
3 Dearborn was appointed to command the near 300-man light
infantry battalion, divided into five companies, which was formed by draftees
from "the Several Regements in the Northern Army," on September 11,
1777. Fifteen men, one corporal, one serjeant, and "one officer" were
drafted from each of all Continental infantry regiments with the army (the
Rifle Regiment excepted). By October 2, however, "The Quotas of Colo
Livingstons [4th New York] and [Van] Courtlands [2d New York] regiments joined
& afterwards returned to their regiments."
4 With the arrival of Major General Benjamin Lincoln, Arnold was
superceded as second-in-command of the army. Although Gates and Arnold had a
falling out since September 19, Arnold was never removed or officially relieved
of his command of the left wing of the army. Although given permission to
leave, Arnold decided to stay even though he received "repeated ill
Treatment" and felt he was "never consulted; or acquainted with one
occurrence in the army" after the Battle of Freeman's Farm. While technically
in command of this division, he was not allowed to actively command it.
5 With the capture of the regiment's colonel, Nathan Hale, on 7
July, the death of Lieutenant Colonel Winborn Adams on 19 September, and the
severe wounding and furlough of the regiment's major, Benjamin Titcomb, the
command of this regiment fell to one of its eight captains. However, because
Captains Norris, Robinson, and Carr were also captured on 7 July, Captain
Blodget was severely wounded and on furlough, and Captain Bell was severely
wounded on 19 September (and died soon thereafter), the regiment's most senior
officer and commander of the 5th company, Captain Drew, commanded the regiment.
6 These regiments arrived on October 7.
7 This brigade was composed of draftees from 16 of the 17
regiments of Albany County, New York militia, who were called to service on
September 18. They would "trickle in," but most would be present by
October 4. The Governor did not call for draftees from Colonel Peter Vroman's 15th
Albany County Militia Regiment, as it had duties in the Schoharie Valley. This
brigade numbered about 1,300 officers and men.
8 Lincoln, who was second-in-command of the Northern Department,
assumed command of the right wing of the army on September 25.
9 These regiments were assigned to Paterson's Brigade on October
3.
10 This battalion arrived on October 4, "remained in
camp" on October 7, and "went home" October 14.
11 This brigade primarily arrived on September 24. Only one of
the named colonels was actually present, with the other four battalions
commanded by lieutenant colonels or majors.
12 This single battalion, officered by a brigadier general, two colonels, two
lieutenant colonels, two majors, and 34 company-level officers, had about 250
enlisted men. This battalion was present by October 4.
13 [1]
This was a detachment of one troop of "very nicely uniformed light
dragoons" originally commanded by a French officer, Captain Jean Louis de
Vernejoux, who "ran away" on October 15. He was dismissed by Gates on
the 20th, and replaced by Lieutenant Thomas Young Seymour.
14 Ebenezer Stevens, commander of the Corps of Artillery, was
brevetted to the rank of major in the Continental Army in May, and his
artillery corps was considered a detachment of the Continental artillery. This
four company battalion, one company of which was artificers, was also composed
of two separate detachments from Colonel John Crane’s 3d Regiment of
Continental Artillery; one commanded by Captain Lieutenant James Furnival and
the other by Lieutenant James Hall. Steven’s corps became part of the 3d
Continental Artillery Regiment in 1778.
15 Philip Schuyler wrote to Gates from Albany on September 15
that "some of the Oenidas, Tuscarroras and Onondagoes have arrived,"
and although they wished to return promptly to Fort Schuyler (Fort Stanwix),
Schuyler would try to persuade some of them to join Gates. Along with Reverend
Samuel Kirkland, missionary to the Oneida Nation, about 110 "Onyda
Indians" joined the army on the 20th. Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin wrote on
September 26 that "30 indians went of this day." and on the 27th that
"the greatest part of the Indians went of home." These "friendly
Indians when in Battle" were "distinguished by a red wollen
Cap."
16 These were Christianized Mohican (or Mahican) Indians from
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. They served as soldiers in the Massachusetts
Continental line.
Some troops may have been
mobilized as a result of the first battle but arrived too late for the second
battle. However, they were there prior to Burgoyne's surrender, were prepared
to do battle and are therefore included in this addendum.
commanded by Brigadier
General William Whipple
Col. Daniel Moore, New Hampshire Militia Regiment More Info
Col. Jonathan Chase, New Hampshire Militia Regiment More Info
Col. Joseph Welch, New Hampshire Militia Regiment More Info
Col. Benjamin Bellows, New Hampshire Militia Regiment More Info
Col. Jonathan Moulton, New Hampshire Militia Regiment More Info
Some regiments sent detachments and, at this point, it is
unkown to which regiment they were attached.
Col. Thomas Stickney, New Hampshire Militia Regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col.
Henry Cerrish More Info
Col. Samuel Denny, Worcester Co. MA militia regt., detachment commanded by 2nd
Major Asa Baldwin More Info
Col. James Converse, Worcester Co. MA militia regt., company detachment
commanded by Capt. Asa Danforth More Info
Col. James Converse, Worcester Co. MA militia regt., company detachment
commanded by Capt. Joseph Cutler More Info
Col. Job Cushing, 6th Worcester Co. MA militia regt., May have been part of
Brig. Gen. Warner's brigade More Info