New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-27
British shot. The story of the murder was SEN
tentousy told in The Evening Post of April 20,
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1905 in these words:
When the sloop Richard. Captain Pierce was coming
n the HOOK yesterday afternoon from the Delaware
der After the first shot the soop hove TO, when John
Pierce brother OF the captain, who standing OF the
helm, was killed instantly by the second shot
The Leander of three British warvessels
that had appeared off Sandy Hook a few DAYS be-
fore and asserted right, denied by the United
States Government, to board American vessels and
search for British subjects serving them.
great commoton followed the outrage. The body
of the murdered sailor was exposed to public view
in Burling-slip; indignation meeting was held
in tho Tontine Coffee House; the City Council took
charge of the funeral of Pierce and the militia COM
panes already in existence speedily received numer
GUS accessons, for the resolutions adopted at the
indignation meeting had prohibited all intercourse
with British vessels and called on the Government
to defend the city and maintain the honor and
dignity of the Nation. On Tuesday OF the next
week. May 6, 1905, eleven young men met in st.
Johns Hall and organized the Masonic New-fork
Artillerie," which, in the course of years became
the "crackn I'd Company of the crack" 7th Regi-
ment.
For six years the insults to American commerce
continued, and then came the declaration OF war
against Great Britain in June 1912. In the strug-
gle that followed the citizen soldiers found work to
do in the Notifications in the harbor and
they were animated by something else than ho.
day spirit A few months before the outbreak OF
the war the Sd Regiment to which the Masonic
New-YOrk Artillery had been attached, had been
changed to the 11th Regiment. The present reg-
mental organization not the descendant OF this,
however, but begins its distinctive history with the
| formation of the Battalion of National Guards in
1924. The impulse to this organization came from
the last visit of Lafayette to the United States In
| that year. The title of the National Guard was
| chosen in emulation of the famous National Guard
of Paris and 1t renamed the exclusive property OF
the 7th Regiment until 1862. when the Legislature
gave 1t to all the militia OF the State.
In 1925 the National Guard Battalion having
withdrawn from the regiment with which 1t had
been for time associated was made a. separate
organization. and such it remained until another
company having been raised in April 1926, Cover
nor Dewitt gave it a regimenta organization under
the title " 9th Regiment of Artillery" This num-
Der was worn by the regiment until 1S41. IN May
of that year an act was passed by the Legislature
for the organization of the First Division OF the
New-York State Militia. Pursuant to this act
which assigned all uniformed companies to regl-
ments and all regiments to brgades, OF which there
four forming the First Division. Governor J9nn
Young issued an order III July changing the nunipef
from 81 TO 7. =,
Drills, camp-life. target expeditions parades din,
ners receptions celebrations and other EPISODES OF
interest TO the participants chiefly hed most OF ING
time between the last war between the United
States and Great Britain and the outbreak OF me
Rebellion IN 1861. but there were also occasions for
the display of sodery qualities and some events
that had in them the taste of hardship Such were
the Abolition Riots of 1884; the Croton wa,
of fr ,s E9 the "Qaaraantins me War;" IN Tomp
kinsyille. in 1858, and especially the Astor-pace
Riot of 1919. 1t was in the last disgraceui upris
ing that the 9TH made double exhibition OF
its mettle first by enduring the taunts, insults ana
blows of the mob without show of retaliation ana
then by brayely obeying orders and putting ia saSn
crowd and vindicated the authority and
power of law More than n,a q score hsty.s Oh
a desperate mob aud 21l Guardsmen. and though
none of the killed were soldiers the violence OF the
attack on the Guardsmen was shown by the IacI
that $50 OF them were injured by the missiles
thro WI by the rioters. The unfortunate analr
caused deep feeling of antipathy to spring up IN
the mind. of the bn ant the great
good done by tue prompt though severe action Oh
the citizen soldiers was seen subsequently III JUG
Police Riot " OF 1887 and the Dralt hio's VI
1868. -,
In the Rebellion the members of the 9TH rendered
services to the country Of which the city can Wen
be proud. Their readiness to march AT tne llrSI
sign of rebellion expressed to Governor Morgan
early in January. 1861 and though they dld not
start for Washington nntii April ~ .n's ntcb
its tents IN front of the enemy. and
Alexander Shaler, the seventeenth captain Oh the
second company and Major of the regiment, was the
Grsf militia officer who volunteered his services TO
the Government after the first rebel gun sent It's
omInous message into sumter. ne marcn u
| Washington was accomplished by the regiment IN
der great difficulties and the Capital was not
reached until the OF April %. After spending
| nearly a month in Camp Cameron and at work IN
the trenches at Arlington Heights the term OF en-
iistment having expired the regiment returned to
| New York on June l. Fifteen days later seventy
| members Of the regiment had been commissioned
as eutenants in the regular forces aud the records
| of the regiment show that III the war 600 lnem-
beers served officers in the regular and volunteer
| Army and Navy, in confirmation OF General
McDOwelPs remark to CAPTAIN Emmons ClarA al
Washington: Sir, you have company Oh ON
| GERS Three of the COG became MaJoi-Generais.
nineteen Brigadier- Generals, twenty nine Coonels
and,forty-slx observation-disclosures. bronze statue
| i'll Central Park perpetuates the memory Oh nit!-
| ,l..,a nf IN NJ
| lives in defence of the Union. Ihe regllnenI
was again In the field when in 1867 Stonewat.
| Jackson raded the Shenandoah Valley, and III looo
II fastened to the defence of Pennsy wanna against
| General Lees advance :,
| The 7th Regiment is recruited principally from
vounR business and professional men OF good sOclai
| connection aud far incomes. Together VITA us
Veteran Organization, which was established Iii
| 1859 and now numbers 300 members 1t represents
much wealth, and Its armOIy, filling the Oock
bet ween SIxty-slxth and Sixty seventh sts, anu
| Lexington and Park ayes, is one OF the hnest
| monuments of a citizen s0ldlery to be seen any
| where-a building that is perfect military par
| racks in all but appearance and almost perfect
club house III its appointments. III was ouul anu
furnished at a cost of nearly SSOOOO0. ColOnel
EmmOns lark has been in command of the regiment
since june 1864, and has been MEMBER SINCE
lS57 4 ne company spirit is very strong IN the
regiment and each company organization mas It's
distinctive, ambition and PRIDE. The Inlrd Com
pany is the oldest and takes great satisfaction on
that score the Second and Ninth Companies are
always III competition for the palm OF superiority
an drill and spirit the Tenth lis the most arstocfalc;
the Eighth has the largest number oil rnemen Inc
regiment numbers close on to 300 men,
Following is the roster of reglmental ohlcerS:
Colonel Enmons Clark. go
Lieutenant Colonel, George NJ. smith,
Major. Richard Allison.
Adutant, George W. Rand
Quartermaster James L. Burial
Commissary of subsistence. Charles II Coyeli
Inspector of Rife Practice, William III. Palmer.
Surgeon Daniel VI. Stinson, Nj. ID.
Assistant Surgeon, MOreau Morris, VI. ID.
Chaplain, the Rev. ). II. Weston, ID. ID.
EIGHTH REGIMENT.
The Sth Regiment. Washington Greys is the
Oldest organization IN the State National Guard,
its history dating back to the founding OF the First
Brigade First Division. in 1856. 1t remained
battalion up to the year 1914. when 1t became
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