New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-22
SOME NETWORK HISTORY.
THE PART THIS STATE PLAYED IN TWO
GREAT WARS.

HUGH HASTINGS STATE HISTORIAN. SHOWS THAT
OVER FORTY THOUSAND Ew-yoRKERs
FOUGHT IN THE REvoLCTroN-wHAr
THE MEN OF NETWORK DID
AT GETTYSBURG
Albany Feb oi-The second annual report OF Hugh
Hastings the State Historian. will be sent 10 'h'
Legislature tomorrow evening. All the coonia OF
fetal records from 1864 TO 1911 have been COPIED III ~"
dtlon to all musterr0lls Of troops in the province
OF New-York from 1864 and l7;5. There are from
seven thousand TO eight thousand names on these
rolls and to the lover Of Colonial history valuaoe
mine OF information IL opened by their publication
Owing to the lpc; OF funds the work OF ranscriong
the Colonial records had to be abandoned
MANY missing reports OF NewYork troops III inc
Civil War have been collected and put on record
The report squelches 1t Is hoped Tor All ,'ne' NV
sanjerous stories that have been IN crcu.a','" ~
North Carolina for thlrty-hree years In erect that
the Tuscarora indians Of the lSZd w-forK sca.p'
the Confederate wounded AZ the battle OF ba'V"e'
ders Creek In 1854 Letters are printed from 'ne 'e
General r J. Caasscn of Brooklyn. and captain
Cusick United States Army Of The i"Zi' Inc sc'P
ing theory arisss from the fact that 50 accurate was
the aim Of the Indian sharpshooiers that every Con-
federa,e who raised his body above the lne OF the IN
trenchment was shot through the head.
Tho State Historian pays his respects to those
critics in and ont OF the state who took "N'epuo"
q
which he asserted that New-York contributed ioV"
,roops 10 the PATRIOT, cause in the war OF the
Revolution state Controller Roberts In ~" sum
mer OF 1885 discovered in the attic OF the on state
Hall . great mass o. Revolutionary records mat
had lain undisturbed for nearly eighty years Real
izng their value and the necessity for putting
Them I'm shape for public use, he entered INTO an
aoroenent with Secretary Lamont. through Colonel
t-red c Answorth l. s A.. Chief Of the Record
and Pension Office. for the interchange o. 'heS'
records with those relating TO NeH-fork state on
file in the War Department. This reciprocity mas
proved o. great value u the state. so that To-Day
I'm the War Department in Washington. ana In
the state Controllers Once in this city. the muster
and navrolls OF the troops furnished by NeH-fork
state to tho War OF the Revolution are in more
complete condition as 10 names and numbers fur-
nished than at any previous time In the history
OF this State or 81 the United states FROM hocu-
mentz and rolls. whose authenticity cannot no
questioned OF which each ono bears the stamp o.
official accuracy. tho statement can be made mat
tho nurber of troops furnished by New York State
IN the War OF the Revolution aggregated between
5000 and 1900
In addition To these muster and payrolls there
are other records bearing the name OF regiments.
with their field staff and line officers. without the
name OF a single private. thus indicating that there
were skeleton regiments. duly differed. whose
ranks it is safe to assume. We're only partially
filled Then again. I'm the Controllers possession
there are the names of pensioners whose claims
are duly certified New-York soldiers. but whose
names cannot he found on any of the existing
muster or payros. The fact that they obtained
a pension is a sufficient guarantee that they must
have seen service In the consideration OF the
lists OF regiments and organizations prepared from
the official rolls there can be no question that II
all the facts could be brought to light, 1t would
be found that New-York State supplied nearer
5000 troops than 1900.
do Of u
from NewYork troops and officers credit due for
gallant service at Gettysburg in the Civil War 1t
says in part:
general slocum by an order OF General Meades
was placed In command of the right wing or
the Army OF the Potomac after the death OF
General Reynolds. July 1. 1863 General Alpheus ).
Williams succeeding General Slocum to the com
mand of the 18th Corps: yet General Meade. in his
official report carefully RETAINED from mention
ing General Willlams's name as the corps command
er, or giving General Slocum credit for command
ing the right wing OF the army. General Meade IN
his prejudlces even further than this. IL is a
notorious fact that General Meade insisted that
General Slocum should strip CUPS Hill OF all
troops except the fragments Of the ls Corps. and ne
ordered the entire l2th Corps from this almost
impregnabe position over to the Round Tops
He refused even to leave a division. and only after
the most persistent importunng on General Slo-
Gums part Meade finally consented To permit
Greenes small brigade, WHICH consisted OF nve New
New-York Volunteers to remain And every
student of Gettysburg il aware OF the fact that
under OF darkness. crept forward TO capture
culps Hill. ne found stury line of blue, whose
rapid whitening fire checked mis- advance and led
him 10 believe he had come upon the main army
The enemy were too securely intrenched and in
great numbers to be dislOdged by the force AT
my command johnson wrote in MS official report
The line which ne struck, ana winch he found in
too great numbers TO be dslodged.' was Greenes
small New-York brigade, heightened out as Skin
mishes intervals of five or ten feet between each
man. Had Johnson pushed through this fragile
the entire reserve artillery. with all the reserve
ammunition OF the Army of the Potomac: he would
headquarters. which were not more than 900 yards
in front OF him. and he would have pierced the
centre OF the Northern army
General Slocum's protes; against Mea1e's official
repOr; is given
Considerable space ls given to proving the wisdom
Of the advanced position which General Daniel f.
Sckles has been criticised for taking AZ Gettysburg
The
1T must be remembered in connection with this
matter that at the time the conflict the "a of
July began the Fifth Corps had been brought up a.
a reserve right wing. which Meade had for
time contemplated taking from its position TO attack
the Confederate forces in Gettysburg. The Sixth
sumed therefore, In driving Sickes from the En-
mettsburg Road back to the Round Tops. meant the
salvation Of the Army Of the Potomac. for by this
delay ample opportunity was given 10 Meade TO
left and o enable the Sixth Corps reach the
battle ground Had Sckes held to the original
swae which the commanding General intended he
should. but result would have followed in
eIitaby-thc Confederate horde would have swept
through the gaunt mon line as "A cyclone through
a cOrnfield. our left would have been turned. the
Round Tops would have passed into the hands Of the
enemy. and before the Fifth and Sixth Corps
rived the field would have been lost to the Union
cause forever"