Further to the PM:
Appendix 2: Staff of Canada Command on station Jan 62
Maj Gen (Lt Gen in BNA) William Fenwick Williams (On the staff, commanding Canada Command and nominal CinC BNA)
Col Wetherall (Chief of the Staff)
Col Hon Robert Rollo (Military Secretary)
Col (Lt Col) Daniel Lysons (Assistant Adjutant General)
Lt Col Garnett Wolseley (Assissant Adjutant General)
Col (Lt Col) Kenneth Douglas MacKenzie (Deputy QMG)
Maj Gen Randell Rumley (On the staff)
Maj Gen Lord Frederick Paulet (On the staff)
Maj Gen George TC Napier (On the staff)
Maj Gen (Lt Col) David Russell (On the staff)
Col (Lt Col) Alexander Low (Particular Service, Organising Cavalry)
Col (Lt Col) Charles F Fordyce (Particular Service)
Capt and Lt Col Augustus Henry Lane Fox (Particular Service)
Lt Col Henry Ralph Brown (Particular Service)
Lt Col Thomas Rose (Particular Service)
Lt Col Edward Newdigate (Particular Service)
Lt Col Henry Hope Creadlock (Particular Service)
Lt Col GB Shakespear (Particular Service, organising artillery)
Lt Col RP Mountain (Particular Service, organising artillery)
Maj Chas. F Torrens Daniell (Particular Service)
Maj Fitzwilliam F Hunter (Particular Service)
Maj Taylor Lambard Mayne (Particular Service, organising cavalry)
Maj John Wimburne Laurie (Particular Service)
(i.e. 9 Infantry Brigadiers, 2 Artillery Brigadiers and 2 Cavalry Brigadiers for the Canadian Militia)
Col FM Eardley Wilmott (Commanding Artillery Brigade, Montreal)
Col DW Paynter (Commanding Artillery Brigade, Quebec)
Col JW Gordon (Commanding, RE)
Col H Servante (Commanding RE at Montreal)
Lt Col W Menzies (Commanding RE at Quebec)
Lt Col CD Robinson (Commanding RE at Kingston)
Lt Col J Conolly (DAG at Montreal)
Col KD Mackenzie (DQMG at Montreal)
In my own TL I did this, but would change it now:
From "Military Intelligence" in The Times, 5th January 1862:
Word has reached us that the following troops have been dispatched to Canada to join Lieutenant General William’s forces at Montreal, which will be become the 2nd Division of the Army. General Williams himself is to be given command of a Corps de Armee on the arrival of Field Marshal Campbell, and Major General Rumley will take command of the Division. He has the 30th, 47th, 62nd, 63rd and 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. These Corps are still at the Foreign Service establishment of 1,000 Rank and File and the Division has not more than 5,000 bayonets.
The 1st, or Guards Division has embarked for Canada under the command of Major General Lindsay. His first brigade will consist of the 1st Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, and the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Fusiliers. The 2nd brigade consists of the 2nd Battalions of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards. These regiments are complete to the 1,200 Rank and File establishment ordered recently, although the three remaining Guards battalions have been much reduced to make up these numbers.
The troops currently in Halifax will be designated the 3rd Division, and will be under the command of Major General Doyle, currently GOC Nova Scotia. For his stirling service the last month he is to be promoted Lieutenant General in North America. His troops are the 1st Battalion of the 15th, 2nd Battalions of the 16th and 17th, the 96th and the 4th Battalion of the 60th Rifles. These regiments embarked at 800 man establishments, but have since been reinforced by drafts to 1,200. It seems the 60th Rifles may be a temporary attachment, awaiting the creation of a Corps de Armee in that area.
The following Divisions will not embark until the Spring and have been ordered to recruit service battalions of 1,200 Rank and File instead of the 800 or 1,000 Rank and File the majority of the regiments already abroad have. In consequence their brigades will one have two regiments instead of three.
Major General Hutchinson’s Southwestern Command will form the 4th Division. His regiments are the 32nd, 37th, 73rd, plus the 1st Battalion of the 24th joining them from Southern Command.
The 5th Division will be formed from the regiments in Eastern Command (1st Brigade) and Cork Command (2nd Brigade) and will be under the command of Major General Eyre. The 2nd Battalion of the 20th and the 45th are already in Halifax, and awaiting drafts to be brought up to their war establishment. The 2nd Battalion of the 12th and the 36th are concentrating at Cork and will sail as soon as they are recruited to strength.
The 6th Division will be under the command of Lieutenant General Pennefather, although it is rumoured he has a Commission for command of a Corps de Armee with the rank of General. His regiments are the 29th, 53rd, 61st and 84th Regiments.
The 7th Division will be formed under Gough from Scottish (1st Brigade) and Northern (2nd Brigade) Commands. The 1st Brigade will consist of the 26th and 76th Regiments, while the 2nd Brigade consists of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st and 2nd Battalion of the 8th.
The 8th Division will be under the command of Lieutenant General Dalzell, and will consist of the 1st Battalions of the 21st Fusiliers, 25th, 59th and 64th. The brigadiers are Garvock and Sutton.
The 9th Division is to be dispatched from Dublin Command under Major General Ridley, with the 1st Battalion of the 11th, the 2nd Battalion of the 19th, and the 86th and 87th Regiments. These latter two regiments will be designated the “Irish Brigade”, and are recruited from Belfast and Dublin respectively.
In Mediterranean Command, Major General Buller has been ordered to assemble a division for embarkation as soon as possible. This we believe will be the 10th Division and consist of the following regiments: 1st Battalions of the 9th and 22nd and the 2nd Battalions of the 2nd Queen’s, 4th, 7th Fusiliers and 23rd Fusiliers. These battalions are at 1,000 R&F establishment rather than 1,200.
A large force of cavalry will accompany the army Lieutenant General Lawrenson has been appointed commander of the cavalry, both the force already in Canada, and additional forces from home. In Canada at the moment are Major General Key’s brigade of Hussars (11th, 14th and 15th Hussars), Major General Lord Paget’s brigade of Lancers (9th, 12th and 16th Lancers). To be added to his command are another two brigade of heavy cavalry, while two more brigades of light cavalry will remain at Home Stations awaiting relief from the Yeomanry and regiments returning from India.
The heavy cavalry will consist of the 1st, or Dragoon Brigade and the 2nd, or Union Brigade. The Dragoon brigade will consist of a composite regiment of 3 squadrons drawn from the 3 regiments of the Household Brigade (the 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards), and the 4th and 5th Regiments of Dragoon Guards. The Union Brigade consists of a regiment raised in England, one in Scotland and one in Ireland, being the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, the 1st Royal Dragoons and the 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys). Their commanders will be assigned by Horse Guards shortly.
Remaining at home will be the Household Brigade, a brigade of Hussars at the Curragh (3rd, 4th and 18th Hussars) and a brigade at Aldershot (5th Lancers, 10th and 13th Hussars). In Canada Lawrenson will have a force of over 6,000 sabres, which is to be reinforced by the 2 brigades of Mounted Rifles being organised in the Canadian Militia under Brigadier General Low and Brevet Colonel Mayne.
Canada Command has now been divided into several military districts. The easternmost is Quebec District, headquartered at the Citadel in Quebec City. To the immediate west is Montreal District and Williams Army in the Field, what will become the 2nd Division with some of its Canadians posted to other formations. To its west is Kingston District, then Toronto District, then Hamilton District and London District.
Upper Canada is under the command of Colonel Napier, who is promoted Major General. He has the 1st Battalions of the 10th and 16th, plus a considerable force of Canadians. In Quebec, the 1st Battalion of the 17th are in garrison, while the 39th are to remain in Bermuda.
Canada has not stood idle. The 5,000 Active Militia have been reinforcement by vast numbered of volunteers and now number over 30,000. General Williams General Order calling out the Flank Companies of the Service Militia has been incredibly successful, with at least 35,000 Rank and File now under arms. In the Maritime Provinces over 10,000 Militiamen have been embodied and are drilling so as to meet the American threat. Perhaps only the want of uniforms, arms and equipment prevent another 50,000 men in British North America being put under arms.
Notes
Establishment strength of the service battalion varied. In the Napoleonic Wars they used 5 different establishments, all based on Rank and File (Privates and Corporals in the Bayonet Line, excluding Sgts, Offrs and attachments). They were 400, 600, 800, 1,000 and 1,200. The lower establishments were for home service troops etc., while foreign service troops were generally on 1,000 or 1,200 establishment (800 was for colonial garrisons). In the Crimea the same general process repeated. The battalions at home in 1852 were on 600 men establishments, but recruited up and embarked for the Crimea mostly on 1,000 man establishments (while those that went into rear area security in the Med went on 800 man), these were raised to 1,200 and 1,000 respectively, whilst new 2nd battalions on initially 600 man (eventually 1,000 man) establishments were raised to replace each battalion (and acted as feeder units). A similar thing happened in the Mutiny, each battalion leaving Home was replaced by a newly raised battalion at Home establishment (24 of these battalions survived and many of those are now being dispatched to America).
The General Officers are as accurate as I can get for the time. The 1,200 instead of 800 man battalion means that to keep a brigade constant (it was found about 2,400 R&F was the most any BG could actually control in the field, 3,000 man brigades tended to mean one of the battalions was too far away from the brigadier to be controlled by him in a linear formation).
The districtisation (is that a word?) of Canada is as per OTL, and the military districts of the UK mentioned are as per OTL too.