. 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 . in-fantry and artillery. But this they would not do. The escortseemed to understand that their duty was to guard the train,and they stuck it. Our own detachment was under the com-mand of Captain S. F. Lamoreaux of Company F. The capture of General Duffle made some stir, and the eventwas the subject of several dispatches, one of them being fromour late Colonel Seward, now brigadier general in commanda
. 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 . in-fantry and artillery. But this they would not do. The escortseemed to understand that their duty was to guard the train,and they stuck it. Our own detachment was under the com-mand of Captain S. F. Lamoreaux of Company F. The capture of General Duffle made some stir, and the eventwas the subject of several dispatches, one of them being fromour late Colonel Seward, now brigadier general in commandat Martinsbuig. Sheridan had little sympathy for the capturedofficer.* saying, lie was captured by his own stupidity.* Our boys reached their old camp without further adventuresat sundown of the 26th; also Captain Squyer reported sameday. Meantime, on the 22d, the beautiful horse that had borneColonel Snyder so gallantly in the great battle, and that hadbeen to our boys what the white plumes of Henry of Navarrewere at Ivry. succumbed to his wounds, regretted by every manin the regiment. -De you remember the colonels cream-col-ored horse? is a query heard to this day where comrades From Hardtack and Coffee, by permission. •Brigadier General Alfred N. Duffig was born in France in 1835; sawdistinguished service in the Crimea and in the Franco-Austrian War of1859. Coming to America at the beginning of our Civil War, he earlytook sides with the North. Governor Sprague of Rhode Island madehim colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry, and he was later promo-ted. During his captivity he was held in Danville, where so many ofthe Ninths men were confined. He was the leader in the attemptedbreak in December, 1864. After his parole in February, 1865, he wassent to the department of the Missouri, and there served until the endof the war. The last ten years of his life were spent as United Statesconsul at Cadiz, Spain, where he died in 1880. FROM CEDAR CREEK TO PETERSBURG. 199 October
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