. 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 . tinguished Washington circles insured for it many guestson parade occasions, though Secretary Seward, at present, isturning his face toward Fort Foote. Many of the officers and men had their families with them,a practice prevalent among all the regiments doing garrisonduty about Washington, thereby permitting pleasures quiterare in a soldiers life. Small houses were built near the bar-racks, thus admitti
. 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 . tinguished Washington circles insured for it many guestson parade occasions, though Secretary Seward, at present, isturning his face toward Fort Foote. Many of the officers and men had their families with them,a practice prevalent among all the regiments doing garrisonduty about Washington, thereby permitting pleasures quiterare in a soldiers life. Small houses were built near the bar-racks, thus admitting a condition of privacy otherwise impos-sible. When men kept house in this manner, they did notlive in commons, but drew their rations, adding thereto suchother articles as their needs demanded. Frequently they fur-nished table-board for officers who were unmarried or who hadnot brought their partners to the fort. So comfortable wasbarrack-life thai occasionally young soldiers became almostlazy, bur woe to the boy who thought to take daylight napsundisturbed. In Company I a lad of rather indolent naturehad become a sound sleeper, even in the daytime, and roguish o o F % 3 wB ftF q So. SOLDIERING IN THE DEFENSES. 67 comrades determined to break him of his habit. Accordinglythey tied to one of his ankles a strong rope and to the otherend of said cord a heavy stone, and this they dropped througha gable window, near which the sleepers bunk was locatedWhenever he moved in his dreams, as his tormentors took goodcare that he should, the weight drew him outward and graduallyupward till at last he was footed, not headed, for the windowWaking and finding himself thus inverted, he yelled in terrortill his captain, responsive, came and cut him down. The ac-companying jeers of his comrades effectually ended middayslumbers for him. During the long summer months, morning came early andthe bugler held no sinecure. He sounded the reveille at day-break. The company-cooks had been up a long tim
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