. 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 . he remem-bers best, and the chances are hewill answer, Honey. They be-came expert capturers of thesame, though the accompanyingpicture shows what sometimes: befell the careless prices current are From Hardtack and Coffee, by permission. interesting: sugar, 2o cents per pound; cheese, 40; butter, 60; milk, 10 cents per quart. November 5th came the first snow-fall, but the camp-dutygo
. 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 . he remem-bers best, and the chances are hewill answer, Honey. They be-came expert capturers of thesame, though the accompanyingpicture shows what sometimes: befell the careless prices current are From Hardtack and Coffee, by permission. interesting: sugar, 2o cents per pound; cheese, 40; butter, 60; milk, 10 cents per quart. November 5th came the first snow-fall, but the camp-dutygoes on just the same; Companies H and L on picket; four menand a corporal on a post. The vidette is thirteen rods awayfrom the post in the daytime and three rods away in the posts are about fourteen rods apart. The momentous pres-idential election of 1864 came on the 8th of November, just aslate as possible, and it is not improbable that the movement ofthe Ninth was delayed till after the voting was done. Our mengave Lincoln a large vote, as might have been expected. On the 9th of November begins the falling back, moving A. M. and camping between Newtown and 200 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. possibly four miles from the latter place. Except as exactcamp location was varied, we remained here till December 3d,the change of place being eaused by a desire to be nearer thebase of supplies. There are the daily foraging expeditions, andthe wonder is that then- was anything left worth taking. Some-how or other the enemy managed to make a deal of noisearound us on occasion. On the 10th we change our position,bringing our regiment on extreme right of corps, division andbrigade. The 11th sees the tents going up in systematic man-ner with carefully made chimneys and fireplaces. In the after-noon an alarm calls the boys out with orders to pack up; buttiring ceased after dark. The next morning we were stirred upbefore daylight, form battle-line and march to cre
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