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. Many of them are those of men who died after the close of the war, and so the records do not properly come in at this place.

It only remains to give a short list of a few of the men who were drafted and furnished substitutes for this chapter to be finished.

The Drafted Men. -- The records of the draft in West Chester County, as far as regards the names of the men drafted, are generally missing, though the bonds necessary to save them from going to the front remained, to be finally extinguished, in 1881. In the town of East Chester, however, I have succeeded in securing a copy of the names of the men drafted, and the prices paid for substitutes, which makes very interesting reading at the present day.