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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
THE POl'l LATION OF WESTCHESTER COl'NTY EROM 1782 TO 1880.
Year. Population.
1782 8,524
1786 20,554
1790 24,003
1800 27,373
1810 30,272
1814 26,367
1820 32,638
1825 33,l.'il
1830 36,456
1835 38,789
Year. Population.
1840 48,686
1845 47,394
1850 58,263
1855 80,678
1860 99,497
1865 101,197
1870 131,348
1875 103,5641
1880 108,9881
THE CIVIL WAR, 1860-65.'
BY FREDERICK WHITTAKER. Late second lieutenant and brevet captain Sixth New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry.
From Lincoln's Election to the Takingof Sumter-- The Two Y'ears' Volununteers-- The Three Years' Volunteers-- Home Affairs to the Election of Governor Seymour -- The Draft Kiots-- From the Riots to the Close of the War -- The .\id Societies-- The Bounty Bonds-- The Return of the Volunteers-- The Roll of the Dead-- The Drafted Men-- The Grand Army Posts.
From Lincoln's Election to the taking of Sumter. -- From the day when the votes were counted, after the famous election of 1860, the question of Civil War was reduced to one of time. The party that then came into power affected to believe that it would not