The persons eligible to membership are all Ao«orably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, " who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865, " and the members of State regiments that were mustered into United States service between those dates, and became "subject to the orders of United States general officers." No person who has at any time, even under compulsion, borne arms against the United States can be admitted to membership, even though otherwise eligible.

The last roster of New York (1885) shows a total of five hundred and forty-one posts in the State, with an average of fifty members or over. Of these, the county of Westchester counts as her own the following : Post Kitching, No. GO, of Yonkers ; Post Vosburgh, No. 95, of Peekskill; Post Powell, No. 117, of Sing Sing; Post McKeel, No. 120, of Katonah ; Post Morell, No. 144, of Sing Sing : Post Stewart llart.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

No. 169, of Mount Kisco; Post Famsworth, No. 170, of Mount Vernon ; ;Post H. B. Hidden, No. 330, of City Island ; Post Charles Lawrence, No. 378, of Port Chester; Post Cromwell, No. 466, of White Plains ; Post W. B. Burnett, No. 496, of Tarrytown, and Post Horatio Seymour, No. 590, of Yonkers, making a total of twelve posts at the present writing. The Tarrytown post was lately organized, to replace an older post (Acker, No. 182) which had given up its charter to the Department Encampment, owing to the lack of interest manifested by the citizens of the place ; but reorganized with its present name and number, under the energetic management of a veteran who had formerly commanded the Peekskill post, but had moved to Tarrytown, after his term of office in Peekskill had expired. Horatio Seymour Post is an off-shoot of Kitching, No. 60.