6th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment The 6th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment , the " Anthony Wayne Guard " , was an artillery regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War . It was originally mustered in as the 135th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment , and served as both artillery and infantry . Service . The regiment was organized under Col . W . H . Morris and Lieut . - Col . J . Howard Kitching , at Yonkers , as the 135th Regiment of Infantry , and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years , September 2 , 1862 ; having been converted into an artillery regiment , it was , October 6 , 1862 , designated the 6th Regiment of Artillery , and two additional companies were recruited for it and mustered , December 4 , 1862 , in the United States service for three years ; Company M was consolidated into Company A , January 26 , 1864 , and a new company formed of the men recruited by M . R . Pierce , for the 14th Artillery , transferred to this regiment January 13 , 1864 ; February 2 , 1864 , surplus men of the 14th and 16th Artillery , about 400 , were also transferred to this regiment . June 28 , 1865 , the men whose term of service would expire October 1 , 1865 , were , under the command of Col . George C . Kibbe , mustered out at Petersburg , Virginia ; those remaining were organized into a battalion of four companies , A , B , C and D ; and there were added to them , July 19 , 1865 , the men not discharged at the muster - out of their regiments , of the 10th Artillery , forming Companies L , F and G , and of the 13th Artillery , forming Companies H , I , K , L and M , thus reorganizing the regiment . The original companies were recruited principally : The regiment ( ten companies ) left the State , September 5 , 1862 , and served in the Railroad Division of the 8th Corps , Middle Department , from September , 1862 ; Companies L and M joined it at Baltimore , Maryland , in December , 1862 ; the regiment served at Harper ' s Ferry , West Virginia , defenses of the Upper Potomac River , from January , 1863 ; in the 2d Brigade , 1st Division , 8th Corps , from March 27 , 1863 ; in the 1st Brigade , 1st Division , 8th Corps , from June , 1863 ; in the 1st Brigade , 3d Division , 3d Corps , Army of Potomac , from July 10 , 1863 ; with the Reserve Artillery , Army of Potomac , as Ammunition Guard from August , 1863 ; in the 1st Brigade , Reserve Artillery , Army of Potomac , from April , 1864 ; in the Heavy Artillery Brigade , 5th Corps , from May 13 , 1864 ; in the 3d Division , 5th Corps , from May 30 , 1864 ; in the 3d Brigade , 2d Division , 5th Corps , from June 2 , 1864 ; in the 1st Brigade , Harden ' s Division , 22d Corps , from July , 1864 ; in the 1st Brigade , Kitching ' s Provisional Division , Army of the Shenandoah , from September 27 , 1864 ; in the 2d Brigade , Ferrero ' s Division , Army of the James , at Bermuda Hundred , Virginia , from December , 1864 . It served as heavy artillery and infantry . Total strength and casualties . The regiment was honorably discharged and mustered out August 24 , 1865 , near Washington , D . C . , having during its service lost by death , killed in action , 1 officer , 62 enlisted men ; of wounds received in action , 5 officers , 68 enlisted men ; of disease and other causes , 6 officers , 278 enlisted men ; total , 12 officers , 408 enlisted men ; aggregate , 420 ; of whom 57 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy .