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. This matter brings us to the history of a movement started at the same time, in which, also, the town of Port Chester set the rest of the county a good example.

Before the Bartram company was fairly organized, it became plain that something was necessary to^supply the families of the volunteers of the town, who were, in many instances, married men with children. Therefore, on the 30th of April, Mr. James H. Titus, a well-known citizen of the place, set the ball rolling by subscribing a hundred dollars towards a fund for this purpose, with twenty-nine dollars additional, to pay the fares of the men to the camp of the Seventeenth Regiment in New York. He was closely followed. May 3d, by Mr. W. P. Abendroth, with a hundred dollars, and, by the 9th of May, the subscriptions amounted to four hundred and forty-four dollars. All this money, and much more afterwards, was raised by a " Union Defense Committee," of which Mr. Titus, an ardent Republican, was chairman, and Mr. John, E. Marshall, an equally uncompromising Democrat, >