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States volunteers. To General Morris belongs the honor of having attained the highest rank awarded to any citizen of Westchester County during the War of the Rebellion. The appointment of lieutenant-colonel ofthe regiment was given to Captain Ralph E. Prime, then of White Plains, now of Yonkers, a gallant officer of the 5th New York Volunteers. But for various reasons Captain Prime did not assume this command, and the lieutenant-colonelcy fell to Captain J. Howard Kitching, of Dobbs Ferry, an officer in the 2d NewYork Light Artillery. By the promotion of Colonel Morris to the rank of brigadier-general, Kitching became colonel of the regiment (April 11, 1863). He was at that time only twenty-live years old. His services as commander of the regiment were most brilliant. At the battle of Cedar Creek, August 19, 1801, he received a wound from which he died at Dobbs Ferry on the 16th of January, 1865. He was succeeded in the command of the regiment by Lieutenant-Colonel George C. Kibbe, who was commissioned colonel ; :~ March 17, 1865. Jl __ O Although instituted as an infantry organization, this regiment took the name of the 6th New York M^^W if.-JS\^^ '" Heavy Artillery. "Nevertheless, during its whole three years of arduous service with the 8th Corps, •'■^^^idtt: *f "_ ' "^v! v with the Army of the Potomac, with the Army of the "' ,v , U:'j)ykA> -lames, and with Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah, " Y& "' ~ it continued to serve as infantry. On and after Degex. wm. h. morris, cember 26, 1862, the regiment was sent to Harper's Ferry in detachments. . . . After six months or more of very varied service in the Shenandoah Valley with other troops, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, performing skirmishing, scouting, and general outpost duties, the regiment formally joined the Army of the Potomac during the Gettysburg campaign, becoming part of French's 3d Corps, which was held in the neighborhood of Frederick City as a reserve to protect Washington, by the orders of the war department.