. 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 . re soon to do great works. General Keifer says the brigade was in position at 2 P. M.,with the Ninth forming the second and third lines, and thatthe advance was not made till 6 oclock. It certainly was near-ly dark when we charged. Of our regiment in this battle ofthe 1st of June, the 3d Battalion, Companies F, I, G and L,were out through having other duties. Companies D. M and apart of E. with Major Bur
. 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 . re soon to do great works. General Keifer says the brigade was in position at 2 P. M.,with the Ninth forming the second and third lines, and thatthe advance was not made till 6 oclock. It certainly was near-ly dark when we charged. Of our regiment in this battle ofthe 1st of June, the 3d Battalion, Companies F, I, G and L,were out through having other duties. Companies D. M and apart of E. with Major Burgess, through some misunderstand-ing, were not up, so less than one-half had a part. The expe-rience of the coming hours was to be entirely novel to these *By different writers the name has been written Cool Arbor,Coal Harbor, etc., but the English origin of the settlers appears inCold Harbor, an appellation for places where travelers, in lieu ofinns, could be harbored, i. e., housed while they provided their ownentertainment. Taylor says that in the vicinity of ancient lines ofroads in England, there are no less than seventy of these places. PROM THE NORTH ANNA THROUGH COLD HARBOR. 97. Cold Harbor UNION WOSK9CONTEO »■ BarkersMill . COLD HARBOR, JUNE 1-11, 1864. country boys. At our left as we stood in line was a Pennsyl-vania regiment wearing hairy appendages to their caps, and weknew we were near one of the famous bodies of men knownas Bucktails.* Possibly some nervousness on our part drewout the query as to who we were, and on informing them thatwe were so and so, and that we had never been in a fight, we were *The 87th Pennsylvania in the second line of the 1st Brigade. 7 98 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. graciously told that we would probably get our bellies fullbefore morning, a prophecy that was fulfilled in every lay down while an artillery duel was filling the air withiron, but we could not see that any particular harm was noise was an excellent
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