This page is all about Forts and the Artillery within them. You will learn the names of the forts and the artillery regiments there, and the person in command the Garrison. This information should be helpful to those looking for a civil war fort or knowing were a artillery regiment was station.
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Authors note. As there was so much information in the inspection report I was limited to how much information I could give, so I dicded to just to state the name of the fort and the artillary companies that were station there. As to why there are so many of the same companies in different forts, is that a fort may have only one company while other will have two or four, companies. A fort could have up to nine companies of artillary.
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HEADQUARTERS INSPECTOR OF ARTILLERY,
Washington, May 17, 1864.
Major-General HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
SIR: In compliance with the directions of the Secretary of War, received on the 29th ultimo, I have made an inspection of the works in the defenses of this city, and beg leave to submit the following report of the inspection: My line being broken by court duties, I was unable to make but little progress in the inspection until the 10th instant, and since that time the movement of troops within the line of defenses has somewhat embarrassed the completion of the inspection. The character and strength of the troops garrisoning the different forts, their discipline,drill and efficiency, the kind and extent of the armament, the condition and supply of the magazines, ammunition, and implements are found int his report under the names of the respective forts.
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1. Fort C. F. Smith, Major W. A. McKay commanding, Second New York Heavy Artillery.
2. Fort Strong, Major Maguire commanding, Second New York Heavy Artillery.
3. Fort Bennett, Major Maguire commanding, Second New York Heavy Artillery
4. Fort Corcoran, Lieutenant Colonel J. Palmer commanding, Second New York Heavy Artillery.
5. Fort Haggerty, Captain Charles L. Smith commanding, Second New York Heavy Artillery.
6. Fort Woodbury, Major N. Shatswell commanding, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
7. Fort Cass, Major N. Shatswell commanding, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
8. Fort Whipple, Major Rolfe commanding, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
9. Fort Tillinghast, Major Rolfe commanding, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
10. Fort Craig, Major Holt commanding, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
11. Fort Albany, Captain Rhodes commanding, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
12. Fort Scott, Major Trumbull commanding, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
13. Fort Richardson, Major Trumbull, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
14. Fort Rodgers, Major Meservey commanding, First Wisconsin Volunteers.
15. Fort Lyon, Major Campbell commanding, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery.
16. Fort Weed, Major Campbell commanding, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery.
17. Fort Farnsworth, Major Campbell commanding, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery.
18. Fort O' Rorke, Captain Armstrong commanding, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery.
19. Fort Willard, Major Abell commanding, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery.
20. Fort Ellsworth, Major Rice commanding, Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
21. Fort Williams, Major Ells commanding, Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
22. Fort Worth, Major Hubbard commanding, Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
23. Fort Ward, Major Hemingway commanding, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
24. Fort Garesche, Lieutenant Logan commanding, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
25. Fort Reyonolds, Major Hemingway, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
26. Fort Barnard, Major Cook commanding, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
27. Fort Berry, Major Cook commanding, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.
28. Fort Ethan Allen, Colonel A. A. Gibson commanding, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.
29. Fort Marcy, Major J. L. Anderson commanding, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.
30. Fort Sumner Colonel Daniel Chaplin commanding, First Maine Heavy Artillery
31. Fort Kearny, Major E. A. Springsteed commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
32. Fort Bayard, Major J. M. Murphy, commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
33. Fort Gaines, Captain Charles Maguire commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
34. Fort De Russy, Lieutenant Colonel John Hastings commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
35. Fort Reno, Colonel Lewis O. Morris commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
36. Fort Reno, Captain S. E. Jones commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
37. Fort De Russy, Lieutenant Colonel John Hastings commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
38. Fort Reno, Colonel Lewis O. Morris commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
39. Fort Reno, Captain S. E. Jones commanding, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery.
40. Fort Carroll, Captain Loring S. Richardson commanding, Eighth Unattached Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers.
41. Fort Slemmer, Major Charles Hunsdon commanding
42. Fort Totten, Major Charles Hunsdon commanding, First Vermont Artillery.
43. Fort Slocum, Lieutenant Colonel R. C. Benton commanding, First Vermont Artillery.
44. Fort Stevens, Lieutenant Colonel R. C. Benton commanding, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers (First Vermont Heavy Artillery) one company New Hampshire Heavy Artillery (unattached.)
45. Fort Meigs and Extension, Captain E. Schubert, commanding, Ninth New York Independent Battery, Ninth Company Unattached Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers.
46. Fort Saratoga, Captain Andrew Fagan commanding, Battery H, First Pennsylvania Artillery.
47. Fort Du Pont, Lieutenant Marcus Conant commanding, Ninth Unattached Company Massachusetts Artillery.
48. Fort Mahan. - Garrison, one company Unattached Heavy Massachusetts Artillery
49. Fort Davis, Lieutenant D. D. Dana, commanding, Ninth Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery.
50. Fort Lincoln and Battery Jameson, Captain A. W. Bradbury commanding, First Maine Battery.
51. Fort Bunker Hill, Captain Charles Heine commanding, Fourteenth Michigan Battery.
52. Fort Thayer, Captain H. D. Scott commanding, Sixteenth Massachusetts Battery.
53. Fort Stanton, Captain C. C. Bumpus commanding, Heavy Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery.
54. Fort Snyder, Captain James M. Richardson commanding, Twelfth Company Heavy Artillery Massachusetts Volunteers.
55. Fort Baker, Lieutenant William Cook commanding, Sixth Unattached Heavy Artillery Massachusetts Volunteers.
56. Fort Ricketts, Lieutenant Joseph M. Parsons commanding, Twelfth Unattached Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers.
57. Fort Wagner, Lieutenant Lewis R. Whittaker commanding, Twelfth Unattached Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers.
58. Fort Greble, Captain George S. Worcester commanding, Seventh Unattached Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers.
59. Fort Foote, Captain L. B. Whiton commanding, Unattached Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers.
The garrisons of the works throughout the line have been exercised at artillery practice and the results of the firing show a commendable degree of skill and proficiency. The magazines are furnished with the necessary materials for replenishing the ammunition, except that which is more readily obtained from the arsenal. The facilities for supplying the magazines from the arsenal are all that is necessary.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. P. HOWE,
Brigadier-General, Inspector of Artillery.
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