Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-06-29
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, JUNE 81, 1865.
The Ninth Regiment.

was organized unuer the call Tor oUO,-
600 volunteers which was rendered nee.
essary by the disasters of the Peninsula
campaign.
The Ninth Regiment was mustered
into service about the 10th of July 1862,
and left for the war on the 10Th. 1t was
ordered 20 Winchester, and formed a
portion of Gen. Whites command. Our
forces were compelled TO fall back be-
fore Lees advance TO Harper's Ferry.
On the 10Th of September this place,
contrary to the earnest protestations of
Col. Sannard who commanded the Ninth
and whose regiment did its full share
Of fighting, was disgracefully surrend-
cred, aud its entire garrison taken pris-
oners and paroled. This regiment was
taken TO Parole Camp at Chicago where
it renamed till the following April 1868,
when it was ordered to the Peninsula,
and assisted in repelling Longstreet In
his ottack on Suffolk. From this place
the Regiment was ordered to Yorktown,
remaining there till October, and suffer
ing so greatly from NAL. ial disease that
at one time, out of $50 men present, on
ly SO men were able to report for duty.
On the oath of October the Regiment
was ordered to Newbern, N. c., and on
the second of December it suffered Sc
we're loss in the death of Maj. Jarvis, who
fell in a skirmish with the rebels This
lamented officer deserves something more
of notice than the mere mention of his
name. He was the son of the late Con-
sui Jarvis of Weathersfeld. He was
engaged in large and profitable bust
ness in that town, but at the call of his
country, he left all, raised company OF
men in Weathers6eld and adjoining
towns, and was appointed captain. His
first thoughts were for his country and
his men-his last for himself. If ever a
man engaged in the war from motives of
pure patriotism it was Maj. Jarvis. On
the second of February the rebels at
tackled the Newport Barracks with total
force of $500. The Colonel of the 9th
Regiment happening to be absent on
important business, Capt. Kelley, who
had the temporary command, with his
band of only about 200 men held out
till dark, and then fell back, tearing the
bridges behind, to Morehead city, losing
two lieutenants and ga men, most of
whom were captured,
The Regiment was subsequently re-
cruited to 875 men, ordered to Join the
8th corps at Bermuda Hundred, and in
the action Of September goth, near Cha
pins Farm, charged the enemy over an
eJattis and captured two guns and fifty
prisoners.
The Ninth was subsequently attached
to the oath army corps, and when Rich
mond was captured, a detachment of
this regiment under Capt, Leavenworth
were the first to enter the city, and Capt.
L. was subsequently made Assistant Pro-
vost Marshal. He will be recognized
bp many of our readers as the first edit
or Of the Vermont School Journal, and
as successful teacher in Hinesburg
and Brattleboro.
This Regiment, confessedly the best
disciplined of any in the Army of the
James, has of late been doing garrison
duty in Richmond.
In 1853, Col. Stannard was promoted
Brigadier General and was succeeded by
Lieutenant Colonel Andres, who shortly
afterwards resigned, and Lieut.. Col. e. H.
Ripley was appointed Colonel, who has
continued in command till the present
time.