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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