It was entitled one of the military districts of Westchester County, and in it a regiment of militia was organized, with headquarters in the vicinity of Tarrytown, which was then the place of greatest interest on the Manor, the old Dutch Church being here located, and consequently a large number of the soldiers of the Revolution here found their last resting place. Hence it was pre-eminently fitting that a monument to their memory should be here erected. The appellation of "Neutral Ground," as commonly applied to all this region, is a strange misnomer, for from the beginning to the end of the Revolution partisan warfare so waged here that it may well be said that every field was embattled, every rock a fortress, and every highway and byway was a line of assault or retreat.

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Nowhere else was the country so devastated, nowhere greater suffering, severer trials, but to the everlasting praise of the patriots of this manor be it said, they "yielded not"; their endurance was like the granite of these hills.

An old redoubt thrown up during the Revolution, evidently to protect the legendary and historic bridge over the Pocanlico, just on the verge which overlooks the old burying ground where so many of those heroes sleep, offered the ideal site for such a memorial.

The circumstances were favorable. The men, the deeds, the spot, were all worthy of commemoration, and the time had come. Ouhr action was needed. Only the recalling of the history of those trying times, only the re-telling of the thrilling tales of those heroic days, only the reviewing of the memory of the men of the Revolution by the Sons of the Revolution, and it may also well be added, by the Daughters of the Revolution, and the flow of patriotic thought and feeling would soon crystallize in the enduring granite which should rise as a testimonial to those patriot heroes.