Robert Gray
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2012
Washington, D.C., vicinity. Seven officers by a big gun in a fort.
No further identification is available, but there is a clue. The two officers near the breech of the gun have the number "22" on their hats. The only artillery unit this could refer to is the 22nd Independent Battery New York Light Artillery.
This battery was organized at Lockport and was mustered into the U.S. service October 28, 1862 at Elmira, for three years. Commanded by Capt. John D. Numan, it left the State November 23, 1862 for garrison duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. On February 5, 1863 it was assigned to the 9th New York Heavy Artillery as Company M. This regiment remained in Washington during which time it built and garrisoned Forts Mansfield, Bayard, Gaines and Foote. On May 18, 1864 it was relieved from garrison duty and ordered to join the Army of the Potomac in the field. Companies from the 9th New York participated in Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign and served with Grant to the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Returning to Washington it was honorably discharged and mustered out July 6, 1865.
The regiment sustained a total loss by death during service of 453, of whom 7 officers and 196 men were killed and mortally wounded; 4 officers and 246 men died of disease and other causes, including 41 who died in Confederate prisons. Its total of killed and wounded amounted to 824, and it was one of the nine heavy artillery regiments in the war whose loss in killed exceeded 200.
Sources:
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H. Dyer.
New York in the War of the Rebellion, 22nd ed. by Frederick Phisterer.
Photo credits:
Library of Congress (LC-DIG-cwpb-04296)
MOLLUS Collection, Volume 36, Page 1800.
No further identification is available, but there is a clue. The two officers near the breech of the gun have the number "22" on their hats. The only artillery unit this could refer to is the 22nd Independent Battery New York Light Artillery.
This battery was organized at Lockport and was mustered into the U.S. service October 28, 1862 at Elmira, for three years. Commanded by Capt. John D. Numan, it left the State November 23, 1862 for garrison duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. On February 5, 1863 it was assigned to the 9th New York Heavy Artillery as Company M. This regiment remained in Washington during which time it built and garrisoned Forts Mansfield, Bayard, Gaines and Foote. On May 18, 1864 it was relieved from garrison duty and ordered to join the Army of the Potomac in the field. Companies from the 9th New York participated in Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign and served with Grant to the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Returning to Washington it was honorably discharged and mustered out July 6, 1865.
The regiment sustained a total loss by death during service of 453, of whom 7 officers and 196 men were killed and mortally wounded; 4 officers and 246 men died of disease and other causes, including 41 who died in Confederate prisons. Its total of killed and wounded amounted to 824, and it was one of the nine heavy artillery regiments in the war whose loss in killed exceeded 200.
Sources:
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H. Dyer.
New York in the War of the Rebellion, 22nd ed. by Frederick Phisterer.
Photo credits:
Library of Congress (LC-DIG-cwpb-04296)
MOLLUS Collection, Volume 36, Page 1800.
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