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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 301 words

The First Regiment Mounted Rifles, which was mustered into the service in squadrons and companies, all the way from August 31, 1861, to September 9, 1862, can be noticed here, although a little out of its order, to make room for the only regiment in which Westchester County could be said to be fully represented during the war. The rolls of the First Mounted Rifles contain, in Company F, the names of John Blatchley, Charles Polhemus and Peter See, of Tarrytown ; Thomas Gerhardt, James D. Nation, George D. Newman, James W. Porteous, Albert Sherwood and William Wallace, of Mount Pleasant ; and Frederick Gertman, of Harrison.

This concludes the three years' volunteers raised in Westchester County as organizations, of which the records are accessible, in an official form, up to the raising of the regiment whose rolls are next in order.

The Sixth Heavy Artillery was originally raised at 'ionkers for the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth New York Infantry, and mustered into the service from the 2d day of September, 1862, for three years. It then consisterl of eight companies, but, in December of the same year two more were added, and the whole was mustered in as the Sixth Heavy Artillery at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.

Gompany A contains the following names :

From Peekskill; Privates, Gabriel S. Adams, Charles E. Orne, J. H.

Wright, C. P. Crueger, W. N. Lent, D. R. Goethius, W. T. Travis, J. C. Halstead, John Smith, W. H. Dutcher, C. E. Snedicor, T. Garrison, D. A. Lent, W. M. Austin, Aug. Acker, Lewis Blakely, J. Bartlett, Val. BeninghoB, Daniel Couklin, John Cook, G. A. Cruger, T. A. Conklin, Harvey Conklin, Patrick Curtis, Patrick Conly, Emmanuel Dadson, Willett Deuike, Howard Diveu, D. H. and M'. B. Dykmans, Martin Dallaway, John Dobson, Levi Ellis, W.