"The regiment went out with their State uniforms and State guns, the latter of several different sorts. These were afterward changed for better guns. They only remained in Washington for a short time, and then went across the Long Bridge into Virginia and joined the troops gathering there for the real fighting. Now the state had already planned for another Fourteenth Regiment of Volunteers, and the papers for it had already been made out when the Fourteenth of Brooklyn stole away to Washington, and consequently, when the later had been sworn in, it was officially known as the Eighty-fourth New York. But it was known throughout the war as the Fourteenth of Brooklyn, and was so reported by the papers whenever it was in battle. The other Fourteenth served two years and was disbanded. We served through three years of the worst fighting and came home and the regiment is still in existence as the Fourteenth of the New York National Guard, and cherishes its historic and glorious record."

"As our regiment had made its reputation at the first battle of Bull Run, the regiment appointed a committee to wait on President Lincoln and ask that thereafter it should be known as the Fourteenth of Brooklyn, which was granted."

"All through the war the regiment shied at the name of the Eighty-fourth, and to speak of it in the presence of any of the men was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull. I remember when a new surgeon came down to join the regiment and had Eighty-fourth New York printed across his kit. He went into the officers' tent to talk with the colonel, and when he came out the kit, which he had left outside, didn't have the lettering on it, to his great surprise."