The towns of West Farms and White Plains made no report and are not, therefore, included in the above summary.

The towns and county together thus expended, for war purposes,the total sum of 84,871,37^.81, or very nearly live millions of dollars. Of this sum, the county and towns received from the State Paymaster General in cash, $172 4o0.0U ; in State bonds, $458,600.00; and for interest on State bonds. $4802.49 ; a total of $035,912.49 ; thus leaving the actual expense to the towns and county, $4,235,400.32.

The reports on which the above table is founded were made as fellows;

Bedford, January, 1808 ; Cortlandt, December, 1800 ; East Chester, October, 1800 ; Greenburgb, February, 18G6 ; liarrisou, December, 1805 ;

The facts shown by the enormous expenditure, in contrast with the number of men actually sent to the front, are also very instructive as to the way in which the political disturbances that marked the county and a part of the Northern States during the war increased the cost and made the victory more difficult of achievement. The price of substitutes steadily rose as the election of 1864 approached, while the last draft, after the contest was settled, was effected without difficulty and left some of the towns actual gainers by the affair.

It is further worthy of remark, though this is outside of a local history, that the substitutes, obtained at a cost of from five to six hundred dollars a man, seldom went to the front at all, but remained at home, breeding that odious class of men denominated "bountyjumpers," who drifted from regiment to regiment, and from broker to broker, till the figures of men enlisted into the United States service, on paper, must probably be diminished by at least one-third, if not onehalf, to allow for the number of re-enlistments and desertions.