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

it afterwards did to get out of the draft. Captain Bartram, being a man of sense and experience, with a pride in his place of residence, managed to identify Port Chester, officially, with the movement, but no other town in the county could boast an equal record, either in volunteering or in patriotic efforts to help soldiers by private means. But the two years' volunteers were not long in being filled up ; and the serious nature of the war, with the equally serious way in which it was regarded by the Legislature of the State, appeared, almost before the last man was mustered into the United States service. The first order of the adjutant-general, April 18th, called for "seventeen regiments of infantry or rifles." A second order appeared, on the 25th of the same month, calling for twenty-one regiments more; so that the complete quota of two years' volunteers, in the State of New York, included all regiments, up to the Thirtyeighth. Within a week from the time the Port Chester company was finally mustered into the United States service -- May 22d -- the Thirty-ninth Regiment was mustered in as an additional force, and the term of service of the men enlisted was three, instead of two years.