James River, near Newport News 

Company F lost 5 men captured

Battle of Roanoke Island

The regiment lost 2 enlisted men mortally wounded, Lieutenants George Debvoise and Preston Webster and 13 enlisted men were wounded

Battle of Camden, South Mills

Adjutant Charles Gadsden and 10 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, Colonel Hawkins, Major Jardine, Captains Andrew Graham and W.W. Hamill, 3 other officers and 51 enlisted men were wounded, and 6 men were captured.

Battle of South Mountain

Battle of Antietam

The regiment was commanded at Antietam by Lieutenant Colonel Edgar A. Kimball while Colonel Hawkins was absent on leave.

From the monument:

Toujours Pret (Always ready)

Erected by the State of New York to the memory of the 9th New York Infantry – Hawkins’ Zouaves – who fought on this Field, Sept. 17, 1862.

Members present for duty in action 373, killed 54, wounded 158, missing 28, total loss 240. Two Companies were detailed and engaged elsewhere and did not participate in the advance.

The greatest mortality occurred near this position, where the regiment contended with a superior force of infantry and artillery.

About 2 P.M. having forded the Antietam Creek, the regiment meeting with desperate resistance, advanced to this position and held it until ordered elsewhere.

Among the casualties were Lieutenant Edward Cooper, killed, and Lieutenant Matthew Graham, wounded.

From the War Department marker for Fairchild’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield:

On the morning of the 17th, Fairchild’s Brigade moved from its position southeast of the Burnside Bridge, down the left bank of the Antietam, which it crossed at Snavely’s Ford about 1 P.M., and forced the right of Toombs’ Brigade from its position on the high ground above the ford and, moving up the right bank of the creek, formed line on the left of Willcox’s Division a short distance northwest of the bridge. About 3 P.M. the Brigade, under a heavy fire of Artillery from Cemetery Hill and the adjacent heights, advanced from the ridge 450 yards east of this, reached the open fields west and gained the high ground about 400 yards northwest of this point, forcing the Brigades of Kemper and Drayton through the streets of Sharpsburg. Its position being endangered by the advance of A.P. Hill on its left and rear, it was withdrawn by the ravines to the Sharpsburg Road and thence to the bank of the Antietam near the Burnside Bridge.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Private John McCosker was killed, 8 enlisted men were wounded and 6 were missing