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.

This part of the history of the county is one in which few of its citizens can take much pride, and, to explain it, we must go to such records as exist of the state of political feeling in the county, as shown by the columns of its political organs, already referred to.

A summary of the figures in the town of Cortlandt shows that it cost, to send out each man who was enlisted, as follows: In 1861, nothing ; in 1862, $51.82 per man ; in 1863, $120.70 per man, from the town, with a probable hundred more from each drafted man for asubstitute ; in 1864, an average of $519.60 per man, before election ; and nothing for the last draft, in which the cost fell on the State, and the towns were gainers to the extent of about $70 per man enlisted.

The Return of the Volunteer.s. -- From the moment that General Lee surrendered his army, at Appomattox Court-House, the thoughts of the volunteers in the field were turned, with a unanimity seldom seen in the history of war, towards the homes they had left so readily at the beginning of the contest, at the call of their country.