Searles, Lewis M. Searles. Obadiah Oakley and T. .1. Head, died in service ; Peter Ames, 12th N. Y., was killed at Fair Oaks • Cyrus H. Brown (regiment unknown) was killed at Petersburg; George Poworsand Eugene M. Wright, 69th N. Y.; John Jones. 4th N. Y. Art. ; Joshua B. Young, 9.ith X. Y. ; William and ESias Searles .57th N. Y'. ; William Sheppard and William Sherwood, 87th N. Y., all died in service.

This is the most reliable list, that I have been able to obtain, of men who actually died in the service, excluding those who are marked as having " died since the war." Were there any sort of local pride, in the different towns in the county, regarding the action of its citizens during the war, the list could doubtless be extended far beyond the present limits; but the readers of this chapter will see for themselves, iu the unfortunate differences that existed in the county, on account of the war, the reason why such records were poorly kept. Save by the families of those who actually went to the front, but little interest seems to have been taken by any one in the deeds of the Union armies, and the records were not kept, principally because the majority of the voters in the county did not elect officials who cared to perpetuate the services of the soldiers.

Since the close of the war there has been a movement, in the establishment of Grand Army Posts at different places, to collect these records in something of a reliable form. The graves of Union volunteers are decorated annually, but these do not rejiresont, to any degree, men who went to the service from Westchester County, but rather those who have come to it since the war.