. 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 . p throughthe 1th with the utmost speed. Our start the 5th, as usual, is early, before daybreak even,and at sunrise we halt for coffee. A paper is read before usasking us to endure a little hardship, and stating that we mustmarch twenty miles to rations. We halt at 11 A. M. and drawrations, but before wre can utilize them the bugle calls we are off, leaving abundance of food for crowrs and buz-za
. 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 . p throughthe 1th with the utmost speed. Our start the 5th, as usual, is early, before daybreak even,and at sunrise we halt for coffee. A paper is read before usasking us to endure a little hardship, and stating that we mustmarch twenty miles to rations. We halt at 11 A. M. and drawrations, but before wre can utilize them the bugle calls we are off, leaving abundance of food for crowrs and buz-zards. We inarch one and a half hours, and then halt fifteenminutes. Again a paper is read stating that Sheridan hascaptured six guns and that the enemy is only six miles cheer, the bugle sounds, and again we advance at a greatrate. A cavalryman whom we meet tells us that it is twelvemiles to camp. Another days break-neck march on the 6th,and we sample all points of the compass, ending at A. near our late camping-place. Another march of a fewhours takes us into the battle-line and the fight at Sailors creek. Though we knew it not. there was method in all this march-. Mai Qenl Philip H. Genl U. S. Grant. Maj. ueni, Geo. G. Meade. BREAKING THE LINES, AND SAILORS CREEK. 231 ing and changing. As ever, we were only pawns on a vastchess-board,, wholly ignorant of the intentions of the mightyhand that moved us. We could have done no better had eachdays intentions been revealed to us. The ancient orders to doour duty and to question not, applied. The men who fell in thisdays doings died ignorant of the great consequences followingtheir obedience, and thus it was on every battlefield. Occa-sionally, as at Winchester, we knew our ground and what thestake, but such cases were rare. Not a dozen men in the regi-ment, officers included, knew where we were and hardly whichway we were headed, except as they now and then glanced attheir shadows. We did know ful
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