Macnamara, Daniel George. The History of the Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June 1861-June 1864. Boston: E. B. Stillings, 1899.

CHAPTER I. Recruiting and organizing a regiment 1 THE COLUMBIAN ARTILLERY — CAPTAIN CASS — COMPANY B, 5TH M.V. M., SURRENDERS ITS CHARTER — THE COLUMBIAN ASSOCIATION — OPINIONS OP SECRET POLITICAL SOCIETIES BY GENERAL GRANT AND PRESIDENT LINCOLN MEETING TO RAISE A REGIMENT — FORT SUMTER 6th-- M.V. M. IN BALTIMORE RECRUITING IN BOSTON, SALEM, MILFORD, MARLBORO AND STOUGHTON CARE OF RECRUITS FANEUIL HALL BARRACKS " — EXAMINATIONS CAMP AT LONG ISLAND — OFFICERS--ROSTER A COMPETITIVE DRILL — SUNDAY IN CAMP READY FOR MU8TER-IN STRENGTH OF A COMPANY AND REGIMENT RUMORS.

CHAPTER II. Departure of the Ninth Massachusetts 17 MUSTERED INTO THE U.S. SERVICE — OFFICERS ROSTER — CHANGES IN OFFICERS ORDERED TO THE STATE HOUSE GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS OUR COLOR- BEARERS ON THE COMMON REVIEWED BY THE MAYOR DEPARTURE FROM LONG ISLAND MEETING THE "QUAKER CITY** "MASKED BATTERY*' AT MATHIAS POINT POTOMAC RIVER AT NIGHT MAN OVERBOARD — ARRIVAL AT THE ARSENAL YARD AT MASS ON SUNDAY — VISIT FROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN — SURGEON PINEO'S LETTER MARCH TO EMMART's FARM — WORK IN AN INFANTRY REGIMENT TWO MEN WOUNDED VISIT PROM COLONEL CORCORAN OF THE 69TH NEW YORK — ACCIDENT TO COL. P. T. HANLEY, WHEN A LIEUTENANT — THE SKILL OF ASST.-SURGEON P. A. O'CONNELL.

CHAPTER III. The First Battle of Bull Run 35 THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN. --THE CRY "ON TO RICHMOND** PREPARING FOR THE CONFLICT THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN THE NEWS OF DEFEAT PROMINENT OFFICERS ENGAGED CONFEDERATE GENERAL JOHNSTON'S FORCES ARRIVE — THE TURNING POINT IN THE BATTLE THE PANIC IN THE REAR THE RETREATING TROOPS IN WASHINGTON CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES THE NINTH MASS. VOLS. RECEIVES MARCHING ORDERS ARRIVAL ON THE ' SACRED SOIL*' OF VIRGINIA — RECEPTION OF THE NINTH GEN. ROBERT E. LEE*S PLANTATION AND SLAVES CLEARING GROUND FOR A CAMP AT ARLINGTON LIFE ON THE PICKET LINE COLONEL CASS AND THE SERGEANT ARMY ON THE INCREASE FELLING TREES — THE NINTH BUILDS A FORT — FORT CASS.

CHAPTER IV. General McClellan, Commander U.S. Army 51 MAJ.-GEN. GEO. B. McCLELLAN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE GENERAL SHERMAN’S BRIGADE — OUR BRIGADE COMMANDER ORDERED WEST SUCCEEDED BY GEN. PITZ JOHN PORTER CONFEDERATE FORCES FORWARD MOVEMENT UNION REGIMENTS FIRE INTO EACH OTHER A NIGHT IN THE WOODS — AT MINER'S HILL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE 62D PENNSYLVANIA AND THE 9TH MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL SCOTT SUCCEEDED BY GENERAL McCLELLAN CHAPLAIN FATHER Scully's *'big chapel tent" — the grand review — STRENGTH OF THE

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UNION FORCES CHRISTMAS IN CAMP DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PEARD — RECONNOISSANCES ARMY OF THE POTOMAC ORGANIZED.

CHAPTER V. Siege of Yorktown 69 GENERAL McCLELLAN RETURNS TO DUTY THE CONFEDERATE ARMY MOVES SOUTH THE SPY SYSTEM BAD ROADS AND LABORIOUS MARCHING — STRENGTH OF THE SOUTHERN FORCES GENERAL McCLELLAN’S COMMAND REDUCED — FAIRFAX COURTHOUSE OUR MARCH TO ALEXANDRIA STEAMER ''STATE OF MAINE' IN CAMP NEAR HAMPTON RECONNOISSANCE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN EVACUATION BY THE ENEMY BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG THE ARMY PUT INTO FIVE CORPS EXPLOITS OF THE FOURTH MICHIGAN CAMP OF THE NINTH AT GAINES MILL RICHMOND IN SIGHT OBSERVATIONS FROM THE BALLOON '* INTREPID."

CHAPTER VI. Court House 89 ORDERS TO MARCH — MEETING THE ENEMY CLEARING THE WAY FOR GENERAL MCDOWELL — THE BATTLE — THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS IN ACTION GENERAL McCLELLAN ARRIVES "THE FIGHTING NINTH " — OUR LOSSES — COLONEL CASS* REPORT OP THE NINTH IN ACTION — LIST OF CASUALTIES — BURYING THE SLAIN — COMPANY E CAPTURES A FLAG — GENERAL McDOWEL’S ARMY HELD BACK SUCCESS OF GENERAL JACKSOn's '' SCARE " IN THE VALLEY BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS — CASUALTIES — BAD CONDITION OF THE CHICKAHOMINY RIVER — TWO MEN OF THE NINTH SWIM THE RIVER GENERAL PRIM OF SPAIN — GENERAL STUART's CAVALRY RAID — THE POSITION OF THE GENERAL LEE's AND JACKSON'S PLANS.

CHAPTER VII. Battle of Gaines' Mill 109 THE UNION FORCES — THE CONFEDERATE FORCES — BATTLE OF OAK GROVE — BATTLE OF MECHANICSVILLE UNION FORCE WITHDRAWN — BATTLE OF GAINES' MILL — DESCRIPTION OF THE FIELD — COLONEL CASS ORDERED TO HOLD THE BRIDGE GENERAL MoCALL's DIVISION — MAJOR HANLEY IN COMMAND OF THE SKIRMISH LINE — A THRILLING INCIDENT — GENERAL PORTER'S REFERENCE TO THE NINTH — UNION AND CONFEDERATE LINES OF BATTLE THE MAIN BATTLE DESPERATE FIGHTING — GENERAL SLOCUM's REINFORCEMENTS FINAL CHARGE OF THE CONFEDERATES UNION LINES OVERWHELMED GALLANT ACTION OF THE NINTH — SECOND LINE OF ARTILLERY REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE THE ENEMY FALLS BACK — UNION FORCES CROSS THE RIVER — LIST OF HEAVY CASUALTIES IN NINTH MASSACHUSETTS.

CHAPTER VIII. The Seven Days' Battles Continued 132 TRIBUTES OF PRAISE TO TIIK NINTH MASSACHUSETTS THE " GREEN FLAG " OF THE NINTH CENERAL JACKSON AND THE FIFTH CORPS GENERAL MGRUDER’S TACTICS — HEROIC EFFORTS OF THE FIFTH CORPS — THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS ON TRENT FARM ON THE MOVE THE MARCH TO MALVERN HILL HATTLE AT GOLDING'S FARM BATTLE AT ALLEN's FARM, OR PEACH OIK'HARD BATTLE AT SAV- AGE's STATION — GENERAL JACKSON's ARRIVAL

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AND A RTILLEBT ATTACK WHITE OAK STREAM AND SWAMP BATTLE AT GLENDALE THE AFFAIR AT TURKEY BRIDGE.

CHAPTER IX Battle of Malvern Hill 147 GENERAL LEK's AGGRESSIVE PLANS — GENERAL McCLELLAN'S CHANGE OF BASE NO MATERIAL SUCCESS IN GENERAL LEE'S ASSAULTS DESCRIPTION OF MALVERN HILL — LINE OF BATTLE OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC ARTILLERY FIRING SKIRMISHING AND SHARPSHOOTING — INFANTRY LYING UNDER FIRE THE ENEMY’S POSITION OUR RESERVE ARTILLERY WATCHING THE ENEMY THE CONFEDERATES CHARGE — REPEATED AND DESPERATE CHARGES — GREAT SLAUGHTER COLONEL CASS MORTALLY WOUNDED MAJOR HANLEY IN COMMAND AND WOUNDED CAPTAIN O’LEARY IN COMMAND THE BATTLE ENDED LIST OF CASUALTIES IN THE NINTH — EXTRACT FROM GENERAL PORTER'S RECENT LETTER — ACCOUNT OF LOSSES OUR COLOR BEARERS FATHER SCULLY's THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

CHAPTER X. Harrison's Landing 169 THE MORNING AFTER THE BATTLE ARRIVAL OF THE 32D MASSACHUSETTS — REVIEW OF THE ARMY PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT HARRISON'S LANDING GENERAL McCLELLAN's ADDRESS TO HIS SOLDIERS MALARIA AND SICKNESS DEATH OF COLONEL CASS — REVIEW OF THE FIFTH CORPS — GENERAL HALLECK APPOINTED COMMANDER U.S. ARMY — BOMBARDING HARRISON*S LANDING COMMUNICATIONS FROM GOVERNOR ANDREW AND GENERAL PORTER COLONEL GUINEY AND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HAN LEY ARRIVE GENERAL McCLELLAN ORDERED TO ABANDON THE PENINSULA REGIMENTAL BANDS MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE ORDERS TO MARC^ — MARCHING THROUGH WILLIAMSBURG — PASSING BY YORKTOWN AT HAMPTON — AT NEWPORT NEWS ON BOARD THE "JOHN BROOKS " — SAIL FOR AQUIA CREEK, VA. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF COLONEL CASS.

CHAPTER XI. The Second Battle of Bull Run 186 (GENERAL Pope's ARMY GENERAL JACKSON's FORCE FORCES ENGAGED AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN GENERAL LEE AT GORDONSVILLE THE enemy's raid — GENERAL POPE'S ARMY ON THE MARCH GENERAL LONGSTREET FOLLOWS JACKSON — FIGHTING NEAR SCDLEY'S SPRINGS THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS ON DETACHED DUTY THE FIFTH CORPS COMES TOGETHER — GENERALS PORTER AND MCDOWELL OUR BRIGADE NEAR CENTREVILLK SECOND RATTLE OF BOLL RUN SECOND BRIGADE AND MARTIN's BATTERY — THE FIFTH CORPS LOSSES CHANTILLY AND GENERAL KEARNEY — GENERAL LONGSTREET ON (GENERAL porter's FIFTH CORPS — UNION FORCES OUT-GENERALLED — THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL McCLELLAN THE FORCES ENGAGED IN BATTLE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES — THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS AT miner's HILL ON THE OLD CAMP- GROUND THE EFFECT OF GENERAL McCLELLAN's ARRIVAL.

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CHAPTER XII The Battle of Antietam 202 THK CONFEDERATE ARMY IN MARYLAND GENERAL MCCLLLAN IN COMMAND — THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS MARCHES INTO MARYLAND — CONFEDEKATE PLANS DISCOVERED BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN — THE FORCES ENGAGED — THE SURRENDER OF HARPER'S FERRY — LOSSES AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AT SHARPSBURG — THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AT ANTIETAM THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM THE NIGHT AFTER THE BATTLE DESPATCHES SENT TO (GENERAL M« CLELLAN — MARCHING THROUGH SHAKPSBURG — UNDER FIRE ON THE POTOMAC RIVER OUR TROOPS FORD THE RIVER A SUCCESSFUL ASSAULT — GENERAL GRIFFIN'S OLD BATTERY PICKET DUTY ON THE POTOMAC — UNION LOSSES CONFEDERATE LOSSES.

CHAPTER XIII. General McClellan superseded by General Burnside .... 225 IN CAMP IN MARYLAND — PICKET DUTY ON THE POTOMAC PRESIDENT LINCOLN VISITS AND INSPECTS THE ARMY RAID BY GENERAL STUART’S CAVALRY — ON A RECONNOIRSANCE -^ GENERAL MORELL ASSIGNED TO ANOTHER COMMAND THE ARMY MOVES INTO VIRGINIA GENERAL SYKES' DIVISION FEELS THE ENEMY ARRIVAL AT SNICKBRS GAP GENERAL McCLELLAN AND GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTER RELIEVED FROM COMMAND GENERAL McCLELLAN LEAVES THE ARMY GENERAL porter's DEPARTURE GENERAL BURNSIDE TAKES COMMAND THE ARMY REORGANIZED INTO THREE ' GRAND DIVISIONS" SPIES AND DESERTERS THE ARMY IN CAMP ALONG THE RAPPAHANNOCK A COLD WINTER — MEN DIE FROM EXPOSURE AND DISEASE — PREPARING TO MOVE ON THE ENEMY AT FREDERICKSBURG.

CHAPTER XIV. The Battle of Fredericksburg 248 OUR ARMY IN LINE ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK — THE ENEMT IN FREDERICKSBURG PONTOON BRIDGES — BOMBARDING THE CITY THE CITY CAPTURED — OUR ARMY CROSSES THE RIVER POSITION OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY — THE LEFT GRAND DIVISION PARTLY ENGAGED LOSSES — THE RIGHT GRAND DIVISION IN BATTLE — THE IRISH BRIGADE — LOSSES GENERAL GRIFFIN's DIVISION CROSSES THE RIVER THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS UNDER FIRE A NIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD RELIEVED SUNDAY NIGHT — TOTAL LOSSES IN BOTH ARMIES LIST OF CASUALTIES IN THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS IN THE CITY PREPARED FOR AN ATTACK PRESENTATION OF GREEN FLAGS IN THE IRISH BRIGADE LEAVING THE CITY RETURN TO THE OLD CAMP — LOSSES — BURYING UNION DEAD.

CHAPTER XV. General Hooker supersedes General Burnside 269 ONE VIEW OF THE SOUTHERN CAUSE STRATEGY OF GENERAL LEE GENERAL MEADB COMMANDS THE FIFTH CORPS — ON A RECONNOISSANCE REVIEW OF THE FIFTH CORPS THE " MU'D MARCH " — GENERAL BURNSIDE COMMUNICATES WITH THE PRESIDENT AND IS RELIEVED GENERAL HOOKER PLACED IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY THE president's LETTER TO GENERAL HOOKER — THE ARMY REORGANIZED THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS CELEBRATES ST. PAT-RICK'S DAY HORSE RACING AND OTHER SPORTS

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QUARTERMASTER MOONEY'S FATAL ACCIDENT CORPS BADGES — THE PRESIDENT REVIEWS THE ARMY FATHER TISSOT ACTING CHAPLAIN OF THE NINTH REGIMENT GENERAL 3IEAGHER PRESENTS A GREEN FLAG TO THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MA J. GEO. W. DUTTON.

CHAPTER XVI. The Battle of Chancellorsville .... 287 THE STRENGTH OF BOTH ARMIES OUR FIRST AGGRESSIVE MOVEMENT OUR ARMY ON THE MOVE PROFESSOR LOWERS BALLOON JACKSON'S FLANK MOVEMENT — THE ELEVENTH CORPS ROUTED THE MIDNIGHT BATTLE DEATH OF STONEWALL " JACKSON THE ASSAULT AT HAZEL GROVE GENERAL HOOKER INJURED THE ARMY FALLS BACK — CHANCELLORSVILLE HOUSE ON FIRE THE SIXTH CORPS MOVEMENTS THE FIFTH CORPS CROSSING ELY'S FORD GENERAL Griffin's DIVISION WAITING FOR ORDERS — HEARING DISTANT BATTLES LEE'S army DIVIDED AND GIVING BATTLE — CONSULTATIONS OF GENERALS GENERAL COUCH IN COMMAND — RECROSSING THE RIVER FIFTH CORPS REAR GUARD — LIST OP CASUALTIES AND LOSSES WORDS OF PRAISE FOR THE FIFTH CORPS OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE NINTH COMMENDED BY THEIR COLONEL.

CHAPTER XVII. The 305 THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC NOT DESPONDENT EXPIRATION OF SERVICE IN SOME REGIMENTS THE NINTH ON DUTY AT THE FORDS CONFEDERATE ARMY REORGANIZED CONFEDERATES MARCH INTO MARYLAND THE UNION ARMY FOLLOWS — THE NINTH ON THE MARCH — LOCATION OF OUR ARMY CORPS — GENERAL HOOKER RELIEVED AND GENERAL MEADE IN COMMAND ON THE MARCH TO GETTYSBURG--THE FIRST Day's BATTLE THE FIFTH CORPS AT GETTYSBURG THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS AT THE SECOND DAY'S BATTLE GENERAL LEE’S UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS THE BATTLE ON THE THIRD DAY — GENERAL PICKETT's CONFEDERATE CHARGE (GENERAL lee's RETREAT ACROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER LOSSES IN BATTLE ON BOTH SIDES.

CHAPTER XVIII. Mine Run 337 OCR ARMY CROSSES INTO VIRGINIA AFFAIR AT WAPPING HEIGHTS IN CAMP AT BEVERLY FORD — EXECUTION OF DESERTERS OUR NEW CHAPLAIN A FORWARD MOVEMENT NEAR CULPEPPER MUSKETS CHANGED FOR RIFLES — GENERAL LEE’S ARMY REDUCED GENERAL MEADE's ARMY REDUCED — GENERAL LEE ATTEMPTS A FLANK MOVEMENT THE MOVEMENT BAFFLED THE CONFEDERATE ARMY FALLS BACK BATTLE OF RAPPAHANNOCK STATION — AT KELLY'S FORD GUARDING THE RAILROAD AGAIN ON THE MOVE RAIN AND MUD COLD WEATHER WAGONS CAPTURED AT MINE RUN PREPARING FOR AN ASSAULT ZERO WEATHER MINE RUN ABANDONED OUR ARMY RECROSSES BOTH RIVERS AT BE ALTON STATION.

CHAPTER XIX Camp Near Bealton Station 355 IN WINTER QUARTERS EXCELLENT DISCIPLINE — BAD MANAGEMENT IN

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THE BRIGADE COMMISSARY — THE RUSSIAN METHOD THE QUARTER- MASTER DEPARTMENT — PICKET DUTY MOUNTED RAIDERS ATHLETIC GAMES, ETC. — THE HICKORY CLUB — A CIRCLE OP THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD — ITS HISTORY IN PART OFFICERS* WIVES IN CAMP — ORDER ON RE-ENLISTING THE 3 2D MASSACHUSETTS RE-ENLIST CHRISTMAS DAY — GENERAL GRANT COMMANDER OP OUR ARMIES GENERAL MEADE REAPPOINTED GENERALS GRANT AND SHERMAN Grant's OPINION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATED THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC CONSOLIDATED AND REORGANIZED THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY ENTERING ON THE SPRING CAMPAIGN — THE NINTH LEAVES CAMP AGAIN ON THE MARCH WITH THE FIFTH CORPS.

CHAPTER XX. The Battle of the Wilderness .... 370 BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS DESPERATE FIGHTING HEAVY LOSSES LIST OF CASUALTIES IN THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS — MOVEMENT SOUTH BY THE LEFT FLANK — BATTLE OF LAUREL HILL OUR INFANTRY AND CAVALRY MOVEMENTS GENERAL SHERIDAN SUCCEEDS IN DEFEATING GENERAL STUART — MOVEMENT ON SFOTTSYLVANIA — ASSAULT AT PO RIVER — BATTLE OF SFOTTSYLVANIA LOSSES MOVEMENT BY THE LEFT FLANK MAY 1 3 UNSUCCESSFUL ASSAULT — CONFEDERATE RAID ON WAGON TRAINS MET AMD DEFEATED LIST OF CASUALTIES IN THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GENERAL GUINEY.

CHAPTER XXI. North Anna to Cold Harbor and Home 395 MOVE BT THE LEFT FLANK GENERAL LER'S ARMT MOVES SOUTH — THE NINTH AT JERICHO FORD — BATTLE AT NORTH ANNA GENERAL Lee's strong position — GENERAL MEADE'S ARMT WITHDRAWN A NEW BASE OF SUPPLIES — RECONNOISSANCE IN FORCE GENERAL Lee's LINE OF BATTLE UNION LINE OF BATTLE ASSAULT AT COLD HARBOR — ARRIVAL OF THE EIGHTEENTH CORPS THE LAST ASSAULT AT COLD HARBOR OUR HEAVY LOSSES — LIST OP CASUALTIES IN THE NINTH — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF COLONEL HANLET DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLEGROUND — CHANGE OF BASE IN BIVOUAC NEAR bottom's BRIDGE THE NINTH'S TIME EXPIRES MUSTER OUT.

Addenda, diary, Peninsula cmapaign 412

Flags, 420 Color Bearers, 421 Reunions, 423 Monuments, 423 Deserters, 424 The Roster of the Ninth Mass. Vols 429 Company A 482 B • 444 C 454 D 465

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E . . . . 476 F 486 G 495 H 506 I 516 K 527 Unassigned Recruits . 538 Numerical Strength, etc., of the Ninth Regiment . . . 543

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