|-----------------|---------|--------------|------------|-------- | Brigades | Present | Sick, Absent | On Command | Total |-----------------|---------|--------------|------------|-------- |North Carolina | 42 | 10 | 6 | 58 |Woodford | 36 | 3 | 1 | 40 |Muhlenburg | 64 | 26 | 8 | 98 |Smallwood | 20 | 3 | 1 | 24 |2d Maryland | 43 | 15 | 2 | 60 |Wayne | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |2d Pennsylvania | 33 | 1 | 1 | 35 |Clinton | 33 | 2 | 4 | 62 |Parsons | 117 | 12 | 19 | 148 |Huntington | 56 | 2 | 4 | 62 |Nixon | 26 | .. | 1 | 27 |Paterson | 64 | 13 | 12 | 89 |Late Learned | 34 | 4 | 8 | 46 |Poor | 16 | 7 | 4 | 27 |-----------------|---------|--------------|------------|-------- | Total | 586 | 98 | 71 | 755 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Alexander Scammell, _Adjutant-General_.[52a] But this report neither included the Negro soldiers enlisted in several other States nor those that joined the army later. Other records show that Negroes served in as many as 18 brigades. Some idea of the number of Negroes engaged may be obtained from the context of documents mentioning the action taken by States. Rhode Island we have observed undertook to raise a regiment of slaves. Governor Cooke said that the slaves found there were not many but that it was generally thought that 300 or more would enlist. Four companies of emancipated slaves were finally formed in that State at a cost of £10,437 7s 7d.[53] Most of the 629 slaves then found in New Hampshire availed themselves of the opportunity to gain their freedom by enlistment as did many of the 15,000 slaves in New York. Connecticut had free Negroes in its regiments and formed also a regiment of colored soldiers assigned first to Meigs' and afterward to Butler's command. Maryland resolved in 1781 to raise 750 Negroes to be incorporated with the other troops. Massachusetts thought of forming a separate battalion of Negroes and Indians but had no separate Negro regiment, the Negroes having been admitted into the other battalions, after 1778, to the extent that there were colored troops from 72 towns in that State. In view of these numerous facts it is safe to conclude that there were at least 4,000 Negro soldiers scattered throughout the Continental Army.