The town of Cortlandt -- then one of the largest in the county -- raised, in the year 1862, $20,000 for bounties, of which $16,795 was expended, and 324 men sent out -- an excess of 13 over the town quota. In October, 1803, the town raised $14,000 more, besides sums paid by substitutes, and sent out its quota of 116 men. In February, 1804, it raised $85,000 to send out 73 men. In March, 1864, $20,000 was used to send out 49 men, with $5000 more, paid by drafted men for substitutes. In July, 1864, the town received, from the county bonds already mentioned, $107,800 ; raised $15,375 in town bonds; assessed the drafted men in the sum of $10,595, with a further sum of $30,175, which the drafted men thcmselvts paid, making their own bargains, and thus managed to fill the town quota of 219 men. The total cost of this draft is estimated at $164,500, or thereabout. On the last call, made after the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, 100 men were furnished at a cost of .$60,000, but the town received from the State an amount sufficient to leave it a gainer of about $7000, that being the excess of the State money furnished for bounties.

The history of all the towns, during the war, shows how, as the needs of the contest slowly but surely increased, what had been left, at first, to individual patriotism, was gradually shifted, first on the towns, then on the county, finally on the State.'