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. The regiment, first with General Morris's brigade of the 3d Division, 3d Army Corps, then with the reserve artillery, and afterward with Ayres's division of the 5th Corps, participated in all the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac from Gettysburg, in July, 1863, to August 13, 1861, in the siege of Petersburg, including the Bristol Station, the Mine Run, and the great Grant campaigns, and has probably the unique record of having served in battle with every corps of the Army of the Potomac, with Sheridan's Army in the Shenandoah, and with the Army of the James. . . . The last time the regiment was under fire was in a brief engagement at Bermuda Hundred, April 2, 1865. The original members were niusfrom

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tered out of the United States service June 27, 1865. The remainder, with a battalion of the 10th New York Artillery, became the consolidated 6th New York Artillery." * About a year before the termination of its period of enlistment the regiment unanimously tendered its services to the government for another term of three years. This offer was declined on the ground that the men would probably not be needed. The 6th New York Heavy Artillery is recognized by all writers on the campaigns and battles of the Civil War as one of the great fighting regiments.