6th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment

The 6th Regiment New York Heavy Artillery, U.S. Volunteers, the "Anthony Wayne Guard", was an artillery regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was originally mustered in as the 135th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and served as both artillery and infantry.

Service

The regiment was organized under Col. William H. Morris and Lieut.-Col. J. Howard Kitching, at Yonkers, as the 135th Regiment of Infantry, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years, September 2, 1862; having been converted into an artillery regiment, it was, October 6, 1862, designated the 6th Regiment of Artillery, and two additional companies were recruited for it and mustered, December 4, 1862, in the United States service for three years; Company M was consolidated into Company A, January 26, 1864, and a new company formed of the men recruited by M. R. Pierce, for the 14th Artillery, transferred to this regiment January 13, 1864; February 2, 1864, surplus men of the 14th and 16th Artillery, about 400, were also transferred to this regiment. June 28, 1865, the men whose term of service would expire October 1, 1865, were, under the command of Col. George C. Kibbe, mustered out at Petersburg, Virginia; those remaining were organized into a battalion of four companies, A, B, C and D; and there were added to them, July 19, 1865, the men not discharged at the muster-out of their regiments, of the 10th Artillery, forming Companies L, F and G, and of the 13th Artillery, forming Companies H, I, K, L and M, thus reorganizing the regiment.

The original companies were recruited principally:

A and F at Peekskill and Yonkers;

B at Greenburgh, White Plains, Scarsdale, Harrison and Mt. Pleasant;

C at West Farms;

D at Somers, North Salem, Bedford and Poundridge;

E at Port Chester, New York, Harrison, New Rochelle, Mamaroneck and Rye;

G at South East, Kent and Carmel;

H at Morrisania;

I at Ossining, New Castle, Yorktown, Cortland, Mt. Pleasant and Bedford;

K at Orangetown, White Plains, West Farms, Clarkstown, Scarsdale and Greenburgh;

L at Cold Springs, Carmel, Yorktown and Queensborough, at Paterson and town of Kent, New Jersey; and

M at Haverstraw, Yonkers, Somers, Poundridge, Bedford, Mt.