‘The Russo-Turkish War. 1877. Operations in Europe.’ [‎4v] (8/66)

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Officers.
Non-Commis
sioned Officers
and Men.
Non-
combatants.
Wagons.
Horses.
Guns.
Corps
Staff
14
..
48
4
34
..
^Divisional Staff
5
22
3
27
Two Brigade Staffs..
4
. #
10
• •
• •
..
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Four Regiments
304
12,264
636
164
696
• •
£ .2
Artillery Brigade Staff
3
• •
21
2
10
..
Six Batteries
36
1,500
225
219
1,156
48
£ d
Field Artillery Park
5
228
40
56
252
• .
Rifle Battalion
26
829
96
14
61
^Cossack Regiment ..
21
790
42
2
877
••
Total of Division
404
15,611
1,092
460
3,079
48
Total of Two Divisions ..
808
31,222
2,184
920
6,158
96
Divisional Staff
5
21
26
H 1
Two Brigade Staffs.. .. ..
4
10
«•! I
Four Regiments
124
2,929
472
41
2,836
1
Horse Artillery Brigade Staff
3
. .
26
10
Two Batteries Horse Artillery
12
438
65
40
502
12
l
Horse Artillery Park
5
284
40
86
290
••
Total Cavalry Division
149
3,651
624
167
3,664
12
Total, Army Corps ..
971
34,873
2,856
1,091
9,856
108
Of the above six corps, the four forming the field army were at first,
according to December information, ordered (head-quarters) to Kischenev in
Bessarabia, forming about there a force estimated at 200,000 men. The Coast
Army was then intended for the coast defence of the Crimea, and the parts
about Odessa.
The total number of conscripts drawn for the year 1870 is officially given
(ft 190,000.
Further, December information announced the probable mobilization of
the military district of St. Petersburg!!; the actual mobilization at St. Peters-
burgh, of four half-battalions of pontoniers for the Southern Army, and the
formation for the same force of two new mountain batteries, and of a siege park
of 400 guns, varying in calibre from nine to eighty-four pounders and six-inch
mortars.
As regards the Southern Army, it would appear that all the regular troops
are armed with the Berdan rifle.
A park of siege artillery of 92 guns was in process of formation at Chotin
on the north-west frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. of Bessarabia, Whether these are included in, or
are exclusive of, the above 400 guns, does not appear.
It was reported at the end of the year that there were at Kischenev and
its neighbourhood 100,000 men—40,000 between Balta aud Biltsy. There
were also with the active army 40,000 non-combatants, e.g., ambulance
attendants, telegraphists, postal employees, &c.
The total of the Southern Army at the close of last year was said to be
214,000 men, and that it was the Commander-in-Chief’s desire to have in
Bessarabia a reserve corps of 70,000 or 80,000 men. This would necessitate the
extension of mobilization to the second half of the Moscow District and to St.
Petersburg!!.
The field Gendarmerie had commenced its functions, and 160 men were
attached to head-quarters.
Much snow had fallen in Bessarabia.
A division of the Russian Army was at Ungheni, and a large force distri-
oiucu on the Rower Pruth and Danube, where provisional barracks were beiim
erected. &