. 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 . vely the work of ourhands. The works are well located as connecting links be-tween Forts Sumner and Reno; are well built and deemedadequate for their purposes. Fort Simmons, very near Mansfield, was peculiarly a work ofour making, and preserved in its appellation the memory ofColonel Seneca G. Simmons of the 34th Pennsylvania Infantry,killed at the Battle of Glendale June 30th, 1862. It was oneof the lat
. 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 . vely the work of ourhands. The works are well located as connecting links be-tween Forts Sumner and Reno; are well built and deemedadequate for their purposes. Fort Simmons, very near Mansfield, was peculiarly a work ofour making, and preserved in its appellation the memory ofColonel Seneca G. Simmons of the 34th Pennsylvania Infantry,killed at the Battle of Glendale June 30th, 1862. It was oneof the later works, and with Mansfield constituted a part of theline connecting Sumner and Reno. Though above the valley,they were a hundred feet lower than Fort Gaines. Fort Bayard came, also, within the claims of the Ninth, andwas the outgrowth of an almost circular fortification, knownfor some time as Battery E-llipse, but eventually was honoredwith the name of Brigadier General George D. Bayard, a nativeof Seneca Falls, N. Y.; West Point, 1856; killed at Fredericks-burg. December 13, 1862. This fort was rendered necessary bythe northern location of Sumner and the need of connectionwith FORT STEVENS IN 1899. i king North, Through Embrasure. Interior. Looking West. Looking West. Parapet at North, Parapet at Right. MISCELLANEOUS. 299 Our regiment was not ignorant of the making of Fort Reno,which at first was called Fort Pennsylvania, on account of thetroops who early worked upon it. After the death of GeneralJesse L. Reno at South Mountain, his name was fittingly pre-served here. Situated just north of Tennallytown, it occupiedone of the most commanding sites about Washington, and its100-pound Parrott ranged to hillsi beyond the scope of Sumnerand DeRussey. Fort Stevens grew from Fort Massachusetts, which was it-self an outgrowth from the camps of the 10th and 7th Massa-chusetts, the 2d Rhode Island and the 36th New York, whichwere at Brightwood in 1861. These regim
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