page_title: Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York
section_title: Commandants of the Veteran Corps of Artillery
hierarchical_section_title: Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York / Commandants of the Veteran Corps of Artillery
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo S Ryan
context_page_description: The Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York is an American historic militia organization founded at the end of the American Revolutionary War for the purpose of preventing another British invasion of New York City.
  At the time of the American Revolution, the British Colonies in North America did not have a regular standing army. Instead the colonies depended on an independent militia made up mostly of civilian farmers, with few weapons and controlled by the individual colony. While the Continental Congress established a regular army in June 1775, this was more of a formality rather than a reality. In 1776 George Washington wrote "I am wearied to death all day with a variety of perplexing circumstances, disturbed at the conduct of the militia, whose behavior and want of discipline has done great injury to the other troops, who never had officers, except in a few instances, worth the bread they eat" In other words, while the success of the militia itself is debatable, both the regular army and local militia were used to win American Independence.
  The official end to the American Revolutionary War did not occur until 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed.
context_section_description: June 2011 – Present - Stephen J. Ryan, COL FA VCASNY - (COL USAR)
   
  
  2008–June 2011- Charles C. Lucas, Jr., COL FA VCASNY
  2002–2008 – David J. Ramsay, Major General
  
  1998–2002 – John Edward Connelly, III, Major General 
  
  1996–1998 – Ralph Arthur Olson, Brigadier General 
  
  1985–1996 – John Edward Connelly, II, Major General  
  
  1975–1985 – James Watson Gerard, II, Major General  
  
  1970–1975 – Sherman Post Haight, Jr., Colonel
  
  1965–1970 – William Ely Chambers, Colonel
  
  1958–1965 – Joseph Baird Magnus, Colonel
  
  1957–1958 – William Grandy Goodwin, Colonel
  
  1950–1957 – Frances Florian Steers, Colonel
  
  1947–1950 – Edwin Bertan Conklin, Colonel
  
  1946–1947 – Chandler Smith, Colonel  
  
  1922–1946 – Charles Elliot Warren, Major General, U.S. Ret 
  
  1919–1922 – William Groves Bates, Brigadier General 
  
  1908–1919 – Asa Bird Gardiner, Bvt Major General 
  
  1890–1908 – Rev. Morgan Dix, S.T.D., D.D., D.C.L 
  
  1878–1890 – Abraham Daly, Jr., Brigadier General**–Last veteran "Original Member" to hold post of Commandant 
  
  1855–1878 – Henry Raymond, Brigadier General 
  
  1853–1855 – James B. Murray, Colonel 
  
  1850–1853 – Nicholas Haight, Colonel 
  
  1845–1850 – Richard Raynor, Captain 
  
  1826–1845 – Dr. George Warren Chapman, Captain 
  
  1816–1826 – George Mills, Captain 
  
  1813–1816 – Dr. George Warren Chapman, Captain 
  
  1809–1813 – John McLean, Captain 
  
  1807–1809 – William Boyd, Brigadier General 
  
  1790–1807 – John Delamater, Captain
caption: Commandant June 2011-Present
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