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9th Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery, United States Civil War

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Note: Much of the text on this page and such pages as the company rosters is taken from the book, The Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. A History of Its Organization, Services in the Defenses of Washington, Marches, Camps, Battles, and Muster-out ... and a Complete Roster of the Regiment, by Pvt. Alfred S. Roe of Company A. This page would not have been possible without his work.

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9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment

Mustered in as 138th regiment of infantry: September 8-9, 1862 .
Designated 9th regiment of artillery (heavy): December 19, 1862.
Mustered out: July 6, 1865.
Garrisons: Fort Kearney, Fort Mansfield, Fort Bayard, Fort Gaines, Fort Foote, Fort Fisher (Petersburg)
Nicknames: "2nd Auburn Regiment"; "Cayuga And Wayne County Regiment" ; "Seward's Pet's" ; "Life Insurance Regiment"
Patron: Secretary of State William H. Seward
March: Belle Brandon
Weapons: Smooth-bored Muskets, model 1842 (.69 caliber)[1]
Total Enrollment: 3,227[2]
Killed and Died of Wounds: 204[3]
Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 257[4]
Died in Confederate Prisons (Previously Included): 41[5]
Total Dead: 461
Total Wounded: 363
Total Casualties: 824[6]
Total Percentage Dead: 14.29%
Total Percentage Killed (Previously Included): 6.32%
Total Percentage Wounded: 11.25%
Total Casualty Percentage: 25.53%
Casualty List from a 1902 Roster of Survivors[7][8]
(Number of wounded differs from above report.)
Total Enlistment: 3,227
Killed and Mortally Wounded: 304
Wounded: 520
Died in Rebel Prisons: 41
Died of Disease and Accidents: 216
Total Casualties: 1,081
Total Casualty Percentage according to this source: 33.496%
Burning of the Bridge at Monocacy by Company B.
"Previously, men of the company had gathered sheaves of wheat from the nearby field, and had stacked them under the bridge's southeast corner. The combustibles were fired ...and the bridge was soon engulfed in flames."
Pvt. Alfred S. Roe, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

History by the National Park Service

9th Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery

Overview: Organized at Auburn, N. Y., as the 138th Regiment New York Infantry ("2nd Auburn, Cayuga, and Wayne County Regiment") and mustered in September 8, 1862. Left State for Washington, D. C., September 12, 1862. Designation changed to 9th Heavy Artillery December 9, 1862. 22nd New York Battery assigned to Regiment as Company "M" February 5, 1863. Company "L" organized at Albany, N. Y., and mustered in December 4, 1863. Regiment attached to 1st Brigade, Defences of Washington, D. C., north of the Potomac to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Defences North of the Potomac, to February, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Haskins' Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Haskins' Division, 22nd Army Corps, to May, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to June, 1865. (2nd Battalion detached with Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, May 31 to July 10, 1864. 1st Brigade, Hardin's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to September 23, 1864. Keim's Provisional Brigade to October 3, 1864; then rejoined Regiment.) 1st Brigade, Hardin's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.


Service:Garrison duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till May, 1864, during which time built and garrisoned Forts Mansfield, Bayard, Gaines and Foote. Relieved from garrison duty and ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field May 18, 1864. Rapidan Campaign May-June. North Anna River May 26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 18-19. Siege of Petersburg June 18-July 6 Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 6-8. Battle of Monocacy, Md., July 9. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28 . Near Charlestown August 21-22. Charlestown August 29. Battle of Winchester September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty at Kernstown till December. Moved to Washington, D. C., December 3; thence to Petersburg, Va. Siege of Petersburg, Va., December, 1864, to April, 1865. Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2. Amelia Springs April 5. Sailor's Creek April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Expedition to Danville April 17-27. Duty there and at Richmond till June. Moved to Washington, D. C. Corps Review June 8. Consolidated to four Companies June 27, 1865, and transferred to 2nd New York Heavy Artillery.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 198 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 254 Enlisted men by disease. Total 461.[9]

Fox's History

Organized, originally, as the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Infantry. It was recruited in Cayuga and Wayne counties, and left Auburn on September 12, 1862. While stationed in the fortifications about Washington it was changed to heavy artillery November 9, 1862, and two additional companies, L and M, were added. Company M was organized originally at Lockport, N. Y, in October, 1862, as the Twenty-second Light Battery, and was transferred to the Ninth in February, 1863; Company L, was organized in 1863, and joined the regiment in December of that year. During its stay within the defences of Washington the Ninth built Fort 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 Colonel B. F. Smith's (3d) Brigade, Ricketts's (3d) Division, Sixth Corps. With the Sixth Corps it took part in the storming of the earthworks at Cold Harbor, its first experience under fire. Only two battalions were engaged there, the Third Battalion, under Major Snyder--Cos. G, 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; total, 148. The Third Battalion did not rejoin the regiment until October 3, 1864, the other eight companies, in the meanwhile, having fought in the bloody battles of the Monocacy and the Opequon. 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 total, 208. At the Opequon it lost 6 killed and 36 wounded.[10]

Regiment History - from The Union Army Vol. 2

Ninth 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 2oo. Its loss of 3o5 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.

Flags of the 9th

"September 8th, three days before the departure of the 138th from Camp Halleck, the ladies of Auburn presented the regiment with a stand of colors. When the change in regimental hues came in 1862, the blue banner bearing the escutcheon of the state was given by the officers to General Seward, in whose library it is now suspended, while a red one was substituted for it.

These banners saw the campaigns of the Ninth-and, tattered and torn, came home with us, no enemy carrying off any ensign of ours, but our return was not early enough to allow of our participation in the glorious exercises in Albany July 4. 1865, when in the presence of Grant, Wool. Wallace, Kilpatrick, Schofield, Butterfield, Sickles, Ricketts and a host of others, with addresses by Butterfield, Governor Fenton and the Rev. E. H. Chapin. the colors, then returned, were consigned to the perpetual keeping of the state.

We had not left Washington then, and not till the 20th were we paid off and our banners became seekers for custodians. Brave hands, many of them mouldering back to clay, had borne them, Imt now their journey over, they must rest with similar trophies beneath the roof of the Capitol. August 3, 1865, the flags, five in number, were carried to Albany and there deposited. In the catalogue of the Bureau of Military Record they are mentioned as one national, one regimental and three guidons.

Carefully kept within glass cases, they and those of other regiments merit and receive the admiring, almost reverential, gaze of the thousands who visit the magnificent Capitol of the Empire State. All are labeled and are inscribed with the names of the engagements in which their bearers participated. Upon our flag may be read, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Monocacy, Opequon. Cedar Creek, Petersburg, April 2d, and Sailor's Creek.

The traveler in Britain finds in church and castle some re- minder of the prowess of the fathers. In Canterbury Cathedral, for more than 600 years the coat of the Black Prince, worn by him at Poictiers, has inspired the hearts of Britons to be like him, brave, determined, true.

Battle-flags impress their lessons on the minds of youthful beholders, and serve to keep alive the spirit of national pride and love of country. It matters not who may be governor, nor what party controls the Legislature, these colors and their memories are far above and beyond politics; they represent not the passing phase of political life; they stand for country itself.

To-day with bated breath and with quickened heart-beats, the rambler beyond seas may see in Altorf, covered with glass, banners borne by liberty-loving Swiss, at Mortgarten before Columbus set forth on his westward journey. Let us hope that centuries hence, travelers from the East and from the West may stand beside these flags, still preserved, and hear some custodian say. "They were followed by men who forsook the paths of peace and by the dread ordeal of battle drove slavery from the land and made America from ocean to ocean

'The land of the free and the home of the brave.' ""[11]


Battleflag and Standard of the 9th New York Heavy Artillery


9th New York Heavy Artillery Guidon at the Seward House Museum


9th New York Heavy Artillery Flank Marker


9th New York Heavy Artillery Flank Marker with blood

Roster of the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery

"The basis of the data given is the material, preserved in the office of the adjutant general in Albany, described as transcripts of rolls now in the custody of the War Department, Washington. To insure accuracy, every name should have been compared with the latter collection, but this privilege, though earnestly sought, was unqualifiedly denied. Each company roll, however, has been submitted to the inspection of one or more members of the same; in this way numerous corrections have been made; notwithstanding this, they must still abound in errors. The sole comment in sending out the compilation is that under the circumstances it is the very best possible. In the record of transferrals to the 2d N. Y. H. A. it is thought unnecessary to name the company to which transferral is made, it being remembered that Company I of the 2d was made up of men from I, B and C of the Ninth; K of those of K, F, E and H; L took the "left overs" of L, A and G, in part, while M had M. D and the remainder of G. The original 138th N. Y. Infantry, with the exception of Company B and the field and staff, was mustered into the U. S. service Sept. 8, 1862. The exceptions, as above, were mustered in September 9. In taking data for officers, read the date following promotion as that of Muster-in; the next, or that of rank, explains itself. For privates and non-commissioned officers the name is fol- lowed by age; next date of enlistment and town to which enlistment is ascribed; then date of Muster-in and period if for less than three years (unless otherwise stated the soldier is mustered in as private); next, any incident in service, as wounded, taken prisoner, or promotion; finally date and manner of leaving service, thus:

Doe, John, age 20; enlisted Aug. 22, '62, Galen; mustered in Sept. 8, Corp.; wd. June 1. '64, Cold Harbor; mustered out July 6. '65.

To economize space, abbreviations are used as much as possible. Observance of the following list will facilitate the reading of the rolls:

Corp. = Corporal; Sergt.= Sergeant; d. = died; dis. = discharged; k. = killed; wd. = wounded; hosp. = hospital; M. O. = mustered out; trans. = transferred; Vet. or V. R. C. = Veteran Reserve Corps; H. A. = Heavy Artillery."[12]

Companies and Staff

Cayuga County Soldiers and Sailors Memorial

The regiment was mostly recruited from Cayuga and Wayne counties, except for Company L, which was recruited from Albany county.

Note: No regiment in the US has a comany J, because J and I look to much alike and can cause confusion.

Field and Staff, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company A, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company B, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company C, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company D, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company E, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company F, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company G, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company H, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company I, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company K, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company L, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Company M, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Unassigned Recruits, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Cayuga County Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, Back
"It is an old belief,
That on some solemn shore
Beyond the sphere of grief,
Dear friend shall meet once more.
"Beyond the sphere of time
And sin and fate's control.
Serene in changeless prime
Of body and of soul.
"That creed I fain would keep;
That faith I'll not forego.
Eternal be the sleep,
If not to waken so."
-Roe.

Sources

  1. ↑ Volume 14 (Ordnance Returns for the Second Quarter, April-June, 1864); 9th New York Heavy Artillery Entry, Page 12; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/reglossescivilwar00foxwrich
  3. ↑ https://archive.org/details/reglossescivilwar00foxwrich
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/reglossescivilwar00foxwrich
  5. ↑ https://archive.org/details/reglossescivilwar00foxwrich
  6. ↑ https://archive.org/details/reglossescivilwar00foxwrich
  7. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~springport/pictures75/9thny1902web/pages/7532.htm
  8. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~springport/pictures75/9thny1902web/
  9. ↑ National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database
  10. ↑ Taken from; William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 1888
  11. ↑ https://archive.org/details/ninthnewyorkheav00roea
  12. ↑ https://archive.org/details/ninthnewyorkheav00roea
  • New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.
  • Roe, Alfred S. The Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. A History of Its Organization, Services in the Defenses of Washington, Marches, Camps, Battles, and Muster-out ... and a Complete Roster of the Regiment. Worcester, MA: Author, 1899. Print. https://archive.org/details/ninthnewyorkheav00roea THIS IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
  • Fox, William F., Regimental losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. A treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, 1889. Print https://archive.org/details/reglossescivilwar00foxwrich
  • The Union Army Vol. 2




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