For the want of the money that kept the Port Chester company together, this fine body of young men became lost in the great city of Xcsv York, and drifted into different regiments, 80 that not a man of the sixty was ever credited to the county, and not a few of them returned home. Another party of sixteen went ofl'to AVhite Plains, under the command of Mr. William M. Bleakley, of Verplanck's Point. On the roll of Company A, Twentyseventh Regiment, they appear as credited to Elmira, of all places in the world. Mr. Blenkley afterwards became Captain Bleakley in the Twenty-seventh, and was discharged in February, 1862. The company of Mr. Joseph J. Chambers is another instance of the same state of affairs ; for, though the men undoubtedly hailed from White Plains, they are likewise credited to Elmira, their captain being made lieutenant-colonel on the 21st of May.

Yorktown also lost a great number of men in the same way, no mention of them being found in the official records of the two years' volunteers ; and of other towns there is still less trace, in any documents by which official proof can be furnished of the facts. The whole history of the two years' volunteers, in Westchester County, is one of men pressing their services on the government, which seemed not to want them ; and it cost more trouble, in the months of \April and May, 1S()1, to get into the army at all, than