The National tribune., 1896-04-02
The 9Th ". ". Cav.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBuSE: In your
issue of Feb. 20 you give in their Records"
| column what purports to be the war record
OF the 9th N. Y. Cav, as taken from the
records of the War Department; which is
evidently mistake, as the 9Th n. Y Cav
was not at Big Bethel or in the PeniBsuIar
campaign; aud is so fagranay wrong that,
| in justice, the 9Th N. Y. Cav. is eatisled to
a hearing in ITS own behalf The regiment
was mustered into the service of the United
States by companies al New York City from
| August to October, 1861, for three years.
Field and staff were mustered on the first
| Of October of that year by Capt. L. s. Lar
ned, of the u. S. Army. The Field Officers
were as follows Col, 0thniel DeForest :;
Lieut.-COl., Robert tombstone; Majs., Philip
G. Vought, James Davidson, Geo. III. Gard
ner; Surg, John K. Cooper; Asst Surg,
Lucius p. Woods; Chap, Robert X. Thomp-
son. The record of the regiment, as COM
piled from the official journal of the same
by Chaplain l.. N. Baudrye, is briefly as
follows: The regiment took its departure
from the State, Nov. Is, 1861, and arrived
in Baltimore on the 10Th; marched thence
tmounted) to Annapolis, Md, on the 25th,
where it remained in camp of instruction IN
der Gen. John p. Hatch until the last day of
April 2. From that time on to the close of
the war, traversed the following Counties in
Virginia, some of them many times over:
Jefferson, Berkeley, Clark, Frederick, Shen-
andoah, Rockingham, Augusta, ROckbridge,
Page, Warren, Loudoun, Hampshire, Hardy,
Fauquier, Rappahannock, Madison, Greene,
Orange, Louisa. Albemarle, SPottsylvania,
Stafford, Prince William, King George, Caro-
line, King William, Hanover, HenFico,
Charles City, New Kent, James, York,
Prince George, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Prince
Edward, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Mecklen-
burg, Brunswick, Sussex, Gloucester, and
spent one Winter in each of the following
Counties: Fairfax, Culpeper, and Frederick.
Alse traversed Montgomery, Frederick,
Carroll, and Washington, in Maryland, and
York and Adams in Pennsylvania. 1t |
served under the following commanders:
Gen. N. p. Banks, Army of the Shenandoah |
Gen. John Pope, Army Of the Potomac; Gen. |
defenses of Washington; Gems
Hooker, Meade and Grant, Army of the
Gen. z. III. Sheridan, Army of |
the Shenandoah Gems. Stoneman, Pleason-
ton and Torbert, commanding Cavalry Corps;
Gen. John p. Hatch, commanding cavalry
with Gen. Banks; Gen. John Buford, COM
cavalry with Gen. Pope; Gen.
otahel, commanding division under Gen.
Gems. Fitzpatrick, Wilson and
Custer, commanding Third Division, Cavalry
Corps; Gen. Elon j. Farnsworth, command
ing brigade (kiiled at Gettysburg); Gen.
Henry E. Davies, jr., commanding brigade;
Gen. j. b. Mcintosh, (wounded at Winchester
IN left leg and amputated Sept. 10, 1861
First Brigade, Third Division,
Cavalry Corps Also, under the following
Colonies: Wyndham De Forest, John Ham,
nond and G. NJ. Pennington. At no time
Turing the war was the regiment under
of Gen. McClelland, as indicated
,y the Lists of battles credited by the War De-
The list of battles that it par
icipated in is as follows: Front Royal,
Sewtown Crossroads, Winchester, Orange
Courthouse, Cedar Mountain, Kelley's
FORD, Waterloo Bridge, Groveton, Bull
Run, Chantilla, Hanover, Hunterstown. Get
ysburg, SmitRsburg, Hagerstown, Boons-
,oro, Culpeper Courthouse, Summerville '
FORD, James City, Brandy Station, Back
and Mills, Raccoon Ford, Defenses of Rich
lOnd, Parker's Store, Wilderness, Milford
tation, Mt. Carmel Church, Ashland Sta
ion, Salem Church, White Oak Swamps,
'ottoway Courthouse, Roanoke Station,
Iaryland flights, Stony Creek, Ream's
tatiOn, Smokers Ferry, Kernstewn, Sum-
lit Point, kerneysvllle Station, Win
hester, Milford, Luray Valley, Waynes-
ORC, Toms Brook, Cedar Creek. Total, 45 4
attles and 100 skirmishes, besides being
epresented by Orderlies and scouts in seven
theirs, as follows: Antietam, Dinwiddie :
courthouse, Five Forks, Sweet House Creek,
[arper's Farm, AppomattOx Station, and
ppomattox Courthouse. The losses as re- =
orted by the War Department are correct.
F. S. DICKINSON, Captain, 5th n. Y. Cav, d
eres, N. Y. |
The 144th Ind. -
The regiment was organized at Indian
polls, Ind, during February and March, c
365, to serve one year, and was mustered p
1T Aug. 5, 1865. George w. Riddle was Il