. 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 . ty without delay. By command of COLONEL J. WARREN KEIFER. By J. T. Korer. captain and A. A. A. G. Official. William I. Parrish, lieutenant and acting adjutant. After the advancement of Comrade Howard, his place wastaken in the regiment by H. H. Wheeler of Company A, latera lieutenant in Company E, who remained till promoted. Whoever tilled the place, he had duties to perform, sometimesexceedingly heavy,
. 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 . ty without delay. By command of COLONEL J. WARREN KEIFER. By J. T. Korer. captain and A. A. A. G. Official. William I. Parrish, lieutenant and acting adjutant. After the advancement of Comrade Howard, his place wastaken in the regiment by H. H. Wheeler of Company A, latera lieutenant in Company E, who remained till promoted. Whoever tilled the place, he had duties to perform, sometimesexceedingly heavy, but pride in his work usually kept him upto til. faithful discharge of his obligations. FLAGS OF THE NINTH. September 8th, three days before the departure of the 138thfrom Camp Halleck, the ladies of Auburn presented the regi-ment with a stand of colors. When the change in regimentallines came in L862, the blue banner bearing the escutcheon ofthe state was given by the officers to General Seward, in whoselibrary it is now suspended, while a red one was substitutedtor it. These banners saw the campaigns of the Ninth and, tatteredand torn, came home with us. no enemy carrying off any en-. BATTLE-FLAG AND STANDARDS OF THE 9th NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. MISCELLANEOUS. 287 sign of ours, but our return was not early enough to allow oiour participation in the glorious exercises in Albany July 4,1865, when in the presence of Grant, Wool, Wallace, Kilpatrick,Schofield, Butterfleld, Sickles, Ricketts and a host of others,with addresses by Butterfleld, Governor Fenton and the H. Chapin, the colors, then returned, were consigned to theperpetual keeping of the state. We had not left Washington then, and not till the 20thwere we paid off and our banners became seekers for custo-dians. Brave hands, many of them mouldering back to clay,had borne them, but now their journey over, they must restwith similar trophies beneath the roof of the Capitol. August3, 1865, the flags, five in number,
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