. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . r me. Said thegentleman, We have never sat at this board, during all theii it tilths of your being with the rebels, without wishing youmight have some of the food before us; and we have neverknelt at the family altar without bearing you in our prayersto the throne of the Heavenly Grace. Behind the most of imperiled health and life, there were just such prayersconstantly ascending, and whatever our
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . r me. Said thegentleman, We have never sat at this board, during all theii it tilths of your being with the rebels, without wishing youmight have some of the food before us; and we have neverknelt at the family altar without bearing you in our prayersto the throne of the Heavenly Grace. Behind the most of imperiled health and life, there were just such prayersconstantly ascending, and whatever our own lives, we were notsorry that this praying contingent was ceaseless in its battling was that home in the broadest and deepestsense might exist in all this fair land; that no nominal ownermight separate the father from his children, a wife from herhusband. Our fight was a winning one, and with the end ofour fighting was the end of the glaring and flaunting lie thatone man could hold and enslave his fellow man. Henceforththe flag that we had followed was to float over a race of freemen, free to come and go, free to make and hold, what I havetried to picture here, a o ■J 3P3 VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 367 CHAPTER XXVII. Veteran Association of the Ninth Heavy Artillery. For more than twenty-five years annual gatherings of thesurvivors of the regiment have been had. It is claimed that theassociation had its birth in a camp pitched at Briscoes Cove,on the southern shore of Great Sodus bay, August 26, 27 and 28,1874. i This meeting had been decided upon at a preliminary run-together of certain veterans of the regiment held in LyonsMarch 4th, 1874. Of this preparatory meeting Lieutenant Com stock of Auburn was the secretary. The camp itself was a great success, and is to this day referredto as a time to be remembered. So successful was it that anenlargement of its scope was determined upon, and the Wayneand Cayuga Veterans Association was formed, which for many
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