9th Vermont Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Brattleboro and mustered in July 9, 1862. Moved to Washington, D.C., July 15-17. Attached to Piatt's Brigade, Winchester, Va., to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September, 1862. Camp Douglas, Ill., to April, 1863. Wardrop's Reserve Brigade, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to June, 1863. Wistar's Independent Brigade, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to October, 1863. District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to July, 1864. Defences of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1865. 2nd Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Virginia to December, 1865.
SERVICE.--Moved from Washington, D.C., to Cloud's Mills, Va., July 19, 1862; thence to Winchester, Va., July 23, and duty there until September 2. Retreat to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 2. Defence of Harper's Ferry September 13-15. 
* September 13-September 14, 1862 - Action at Bolivar Heights, West Virginia
Surrendered September 15. Paroled September 16, and sent to Annapolis, Md.; thence to Chicago, Ill., September 25. Guard Rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., until March 28, 1863. Declared exchanged January 10, 1863. Guard Rebel prisoners to City Point, Va., March 28-April 7. Moved to Fortress Monroe April 7-9, thence to Suffolk, Va., April 12. Siege of Suffolk April 13-May 4. Edenton Road April 24. Siege of Suffolk raised May 4. Duty at Suffolk until June 17. Operations on Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad May 15-18. 
* May 23, 1863 - Skirmish at Antioch Church, Virginia 
Moved to Yorktown June 17, thence to West Point June 25, and outpost duty there until July 7. Duty at Yorktown until October 23. Expedition to Gloucester Court House July 25. Ordered to New Berne, N. C., October 23, and reached Morehead City October 26. Duty at Newport Barracks until July, 1864. Cedar Point December 1, 1863. Destruction of salt works on Bear Inlet, N. C., December 25 (Detachment). Expedition to Onslow County January 27, 1864. Newport Barracks February 2. Bogue Sound Blockhouse February 2 (Cos. "B" and "II"). Gale's Creek, near New Berne, February 2 (Detachment). Ordered to New Berne, N. C., July 11, and duty there until September 17; "A" at Evans Mills, "B" and "C" near Fort Spinola, "D" and "G" at Red House, "E" and "I" at Rocky Run, "F" at Fort Spinola, "H" at Buckwood and "K" on the Trent, Moved to Bermuda Hundred September 13-15. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond September 15, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Duty at Bailey's Cross Roads September 20-26, 1864. (A Detachment in Fort Dutton, Bermuda Hundred front, September 27 to November 28, 1864.) Battle of Chaffin's Farm and Fort Harrison September 28-30. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Detached for duty at New York City November 2-17 during presidential election of 1864. Duty in trenches before Richmond until April, 1865. Occupation of Richmond April 3. Provost duty there until August. Non-Veterans mustered out June 13, 1865. Regiment consolidated to a Battalion of four Companies, and provost duty at Norfolk, Drummondsville and Portsmouth until December. Mustered out December 1, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
* Oran E. Baird (Company B)
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
* Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 22 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 278 Enlisted men by disease. Total 305.
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 918, 973, 1652-1653)
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