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9th New York
Artillery Heavy
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9th New York
Artillery Heavy Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 12 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Ninth New York Artillery (Heavy). — Cols., Joseph Welling, William
H. Seward, Jr., Edwin P. Taft, J. W. Snyder; Lieut. -Cols., William H. Seward, Jr, Edwin
P. Taft, James W. Snyder, William Wood; Majs,. Edwin P. Taft, Truman Gregory, William
Wood, Anson S. Wood, William R. Wasson, Charles Burgess, Sullivan B. Lamoreaux, James
Snyder, Irwin Squyer. This was one of the most gallant regiments sent out by the Empire
State. It was recruited in Aug., 1862, by Col. Welling as the 138th infantry in the
counties of Cayuga and Wayne, Co. M, originally organized at Lockport as the 22nd light
battery, being transferred to the 9th in Feb., 1863. The regiment was organized at Auburn
and was there mustered into the U. S. service for three years, Sept. 8-9, 1862. Co. L was
organized at Albany in 1863, and joined the regiment in December of that year. The
regiment — ten companies — left the state on Sept. 12, 1862, and was stationed
in the fortifications about Washington, where it was converted into an artillery regiment
on Dec. 9, and designated the 9th regiment of artillery ten days later. Its active service
in the field commenced in May, 1864, after which it took part in the following battles:
Cold Harbor, Monocacy, the Opequan, Cedar creek, siege of Petersburg, fall of Petersburg,
Sailor's creek, Fort Stevens, Snicker's gap, Charlestown, Halltown, Smithfield, Hatcher's
run and Appomattox. Col. Fox, in his "Regimental Losses in the Civil War,"
includes it in the list of three hundred fighting regiments, and says: "During its
stay within the defenses of Washington, the 9th built Forts Simmons, Mansfield, Bayard,
Gaines and Foote. On May 18, 1864, the regiment left Alexandria, Va., for the front, where
it was assigned soon after its arrival, to Col. B. F. Smith's (3d) brigade, Ricketts' (3d)
division, 6th corps; with which it took part in the storming of the earthworks at Cold
Harbor, its first experience under fire. Only two battalions were engaged there, the 3d,
under Maj. Snyder — Cos. C, I, L and F — having been ordered on detached service
with the artillery brigade; the other two battalions were armed and drilled as infantry
— loss at Cold Harbor, 16 killed, 126 wounded and 6 missing. The 3d battalion did not
rejoin the regiment until Oct. 3, 1864, the other eight companies, in the meanwhile,
having fought in the bloody battles of the Monocacy and the Opequan. At Cedar creek the
three battalions were again united, the gallant bearing of the regiment in that battle
evoking special mention in the official report of the division general. It lost in that
action, 43 killed and 165 wounded, and at the Opequan it lost 6 killed and 36
wounded." The regiment sustained a total loss by death during service of 453, of whom
7 officers and 196 men were killed and mortally wounded; 4 officers and 246 men died of
disease and other causes, including 41 who died in Confederate prisons. Its total of
killed and wounded amounted to 824, and it was one of the nine heavy artillery regiments
in the war whose loss in killed exceeded 200. Its loss of 305 killed, wounded and missing
was the greatest sustained by any regiment in the battle of Monocacy. The regiment was
mustered out, under Col. James W. Snyder, at Washington, D. C, July 6, 1865, those not
entitled to discharge having been consolidated into four companies and transferred to the
2nd N. Y. artillery on June 27. The total enrollment of the Ninth was 3,227. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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