1/9 Bn - 88th Brigade New York Guard

HISTORY: The 9th Regiment, nicknamed "The City Guard," has its origins in several independent companies raised in 1786. Its organizational history until the Civil War may be summarized in tabular form:

Date	Activity
24 Jun 1799	16 companies ordered merged as 6th Infantry
27 Mar 1805	Reorganized as the 2nd Artillery
13 Jun 1812	Redesignated the 9th Artillery
13 Dec 1813	Reorganized as the 1st Bn., N.Y. Artillery
6 Jun 1816	Expanded and redesignated the 9th Artillery
29 May 1850	Reorganized as the 9th Infantry ("The Irish 9th")
3 May 1858	Temporarily Disbanded
25 Jun 1859	Reactivated as the 9th Infantry

During the war of 1812 the 9th helped man the New York harbor forts and for a time maintained a detached battery at Sag Harbor, near the eastern end of Long Island.

On the outbreak of the Civil War the Regiment volunteered for Federal service, and was mustered in on 15 July 1861, becoming the 83rd New York Volunteer Infantry on 7 December of that year (except for Company K, which became the 6th New York Battery). The regiment served until mustered out, 7 June 1864, having lost 164 men killed in action or mortally wounded, as well as 91 others dead of diseases and accidents. During the war the 83rd N.Y. fought at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (in the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division, of the First Corps), the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor. The 83rd New York is listed in William F. Fox’s Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 as one of the "300 fightingest" regiments in the Union Army. After the Civil War the regiment continued in the New York National Guard, under its old number, the 9th. Activated for the Spanish-American War, it saw no overseas service.

In 1908 the regiment was reorganized as coast artillery, becoming a federally recognized unit of the New York National Guard. When the 9th Coast Artillery Command was federalized in World War I it became the 244th Coast Artillery, while its depot battalion was activated as the 9th Coast Artillery Command, N.Y.G., embodying the Veteran Corps of Artillery, and served through the war.

During World War II the 244^th Coast Artillery Regiment served until mid-1944, when it was broken up into separate 155-mm artillery battalions. The 1^st Bn was disbanded, the 2^nd became the 289^th CA Bn, but saw no overseas service, and the 3^rd became the 259^th CA Bn, and served in the Pacific. During the war a new 9^th Regiment was formed in the New York Guard. It is from this unit that the present 9^th Regiment descends.