The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out, with accounts of life in a rebel prison, personal experiences, names and addresses of surviving members, personal sketches and a complete roster of the regiment . uster on the right of the 0th Corps, andPowell, formerly Averills, on the extreme left, our lines ex-tending thus from North Mountain to the vicinity of FrontRoyal. Never was there a morning better fitted for Earlyspurposes than this. The air reeked with moisture, and not till9 oclock co


The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out, with accounts of life in a rebel prison, personal experiences, names and addresses of surviving members, personal sketches and a complete roster of the regiment . uster on the right of the 0th Corps, andPowell, formerly Averills, on the extreme left, our lines ex-tending thus from North Mountain to the vicinity of FrontRoyal. Never was there a morning better fitted for Earlyspurposes than this. The air reeked with moisture, and not till9 oclock could men be sure of where they were. His plau was to make a feint upon our right, and to attackin force the left. He had learned from his sightly signal-sta-tion on Massanuttan mountain that our left was lightly pick-eted, and that the cavalry force was small. He accordingly de- ?Just before the Battle of Cedar Creek, Early declared he would bein Pennsylvania on election day, November 8th, or in hell; a remarkcharacteristic, but as far from realization as Beauregards similar onebefore Shiloh, viz., that he would water his horse, on the given night,either in the Mississippi or in hell. These rebels appeared to be veryready to accept hell as their alternative destination. THE VALLEY AND CEDAR CREEK. 171.


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