9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment

9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, U.S. Volunteers
9th New York Heavy Artillery Flank Marker
ActiveSeptember 6, 1862 – July 6, 1865
DisbandedJuly 6, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery
TypeHeavy Artillery
RoleHeavy Artillery and Infantry
Size3,227 (Total Enrollment)
Part ofXXII Corps
and VI Corps
Garrison/HQFort Kearney, Fort Mansfield, Fort Simmons, Fort Bayard, Fort Gaines, Fort Foote, Fort Reno, Fort Summner, Fort Thayler, Fort Fisher (Petersburg),[1] other forts
Nickname(s)Second Auburn Regiment, Second Wayne and Cayuga Regiment, Seward's Pets,[2] Life Insurance Regiment
PatronSecretary of State William H. Seward[3]
ColorsRed and gold
MarchBelle Brandon[4][5]
RifleSmooth-bored Muskets, model 1842 (.69 caliber)[6]
EngagementsOverland Campaign

Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Siege of Petersburg

Appomattox Campaign
Battle honoursCold Harbor, Petersburg, Monocacy, Opequon, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, April 2d, and Sailor's Creek[7]
Commanders
Regimental CommanderColonel James W. Snyder
(November 28, 1864 – July 6, 1865)
Regimental CommanderColonel Edward P. Taft
(May 21, 1864 – September 15, 1864)
Regimental CommanderColonel William H. Seward Jr.
(May 21, 1864 – September 15, 1864)
Regimental CommanderColonel Joseph Welling
(August 22, 1862 – May 20, 1864)
Notable
commanders
Colonel William H. Seward Jr.


Company M in 1865 in one of the Washington, DC forts

The 9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, U.S. Volunteers was a regiment in the American Civil War. It was one of the nine Heavy Artillery regiments to suffer over 200 killed.[8] It is also mentioned as one of Fox's 300 Fighting Regiments.[9]

  1. ^ "Fort Fisher: Assessment of the Principal Earthworks: The Federal "Fish Hook" Line, Petersburg, VA, Heritage Documentation Programs--HABS, HAER, HALS, CRGIS--of the National Park Service".
  2. ^ Roe, "The Ninth New York heavy artillery" pg. 34
  3. ^ "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, Mass., The author. 1899.
  4. ^ "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, Mass., The author. 1899.
  5. ^ "Belle Brandon".
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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, pg. 287
  8. ^ The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers, Volume 2, pg. 215
  9. ^ 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 , pg. 189