. 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 . dge. Colonel T. W. Hyde,commander of 3d Brigade, 2d Division, claims the honor offirst entering the city. With genuine Yankee curiosity (he wasa .Maine man) he looked up the office of the Danville Rcgixlrr,and finding forms and type and a part of a page set up, he sentMoses Owens to complete and print, issuing the first numberthat evening. The Sixth Corps as long as we remained was aregular article at tw
. 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 . dge. Colonel T. W. Hyde,commander of 3d Brigade, 2d Division, claims the honor offirst entering the city. With genuine Yankee curiosity (he wasa .Maine man) he looked up the office of the Danville Rcgixlrr,and finding forms and type and a part of a page set up, he sentMoses Owens to complete and print, issuing the first numberthat evening. The Sixth Corps as long as we remained was aregular article at twenty-five cents a copy. It was not much,only a broadside 11x16 inches, but it was funny. Witness someof its facetiae: We have the Wright man in the Wright place. Treason can not Hyde itself. I met with no opposition except the river, which, by the way,was running rapidly. The citizens were delighted to see us, and many were seento cross themselves before our glorious banner. Signed Oweu-sisko. Colonel C. S. Porter of the 1st Maine was appointed provostmarshal. Just one-half of the page was given to advertise-ments already set up, including Two runaway slaves. The THE DANVILLE RAID. 245. < z 246 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. paper was run on a very funny basis. If Editor Owens didntfeel like getting out a new paper, he reproduced that of thedav befmv. The owner of the paper was joined with Owensin this venture, and he got more money out of it than he hadever made before. They faked their Northern despatches, andnews agencies were not of the least account. A bit of originalpoetry on Sedgwick is given in Miscellaneous chapter. The lastnumber issued bore <lat♦• May , and contained the notice ofJeff. Davis capture. Those who liked fun—and who didnt?—tell wondrous81 :ies of the diversions the place afforded. Certain ones donot refrain from repeating the following, though the joke ap-pears to be on themselves: They found no end of pleasure in
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