History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
liemurke. -- Captain Bartram was promoted to major November 2, 1861, and to lieutenant-colonel June 20, 18G2, being mustered out with the regiment June 2, 1863, from the expiration of the term of service, which was two yeai-s. Lieutenants Vickers and Hilbert were both promoted to be captains, and mustered out at the expiration of term. i
Sergeant James Fox was promoted to second lieutenant, but resigned! in a few months ; Thomas Beal was promoted to a commission August 3,1 1862, and mustered out with the regiment as second lieutenant in thM following year. I
Captain Bartram, at the time of his enlistment, waa vice-principal of one of the New York public schoolsJ earning a good salary ; and many people thought him one of the most foolish of men, to throw up a good place, merely for the purpose of " serving his country," so low had then become the popular estimate of the value of patriotism. The effect of such publications as we have briefly noticed in the case of the White Plains paper, echoed, in terms of the same or greater strength, by other papers of the county, had certainly not tended to encourage good feeling ; and it reflects on Bartram and the town of Port Chester a credit that no other town in the county can share, that he managed to get his company mustered into the service, in its entirety, as he did. He appears to have begun his work, almost the day the law was promulgated-- April 18th -- in the form of a general order from the adjutant-general of the State, -- and had his men ready to leave Port Chester before the end of the month. Even then, however, they might never have been mustered in as a company, had it not been for the energy and patriotism of a few men in Port Chester, who took hold of the matter and held up his hands.