The legislature immediately passed an act providing not only for furnishing that number from the State HIRAM PAULDING.1 militia to the government, but for the enlistment of 30,000 volunteers more, to serve for two years; these 30,000 to be " in addition to the present military organization of the State, and as a part of the militia thereof," and to be "liable at all on the times' to be turned over to the service of the United States,upon the order of the governor, as a part of the militia of the State, States." United requisition of the president of the It appears that the first military body dispatched from Westchester County was a company organized in Yonkers as the result of a call for a public meeting issued on the Kith of April, the day after the president's proclamation. This call was signed by two hundred and fifty-four citizens. The meeting was held at Farrington Hall on the evening of the 18th, and a large number of men came forward as volunteers. The next day Mr. John T. Waring and Mr. Ethan Flagg made inquiries as to the circumstances of the families of the enlisting men, and found that sixty-live of them would need regular assistance 1 Hiram Paulding, ai admiral in the Unit* Rebellion, was a sc States Navy during tl

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of various amounts. Mr. Waring therefore pledged his word that this aid should be forthcoming, a pledge which he faithfully kept. He was subsequently reimbursed by the town. The company left Yonkers on the 25th of April, and was incorporated in the Westchester Chasseurs. Its original officers were: captain, Charles IT. Smith; lieutenant, Gardner S. Hawes; ensign, Romeyn Bogardus; orderly sergeant, George Reynolds; sergeants, John C.