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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. Coates, Thomas Ilill, and George Andrews; corporals, Edwin Cumberbeach, C. Wigo French, Alfred Bowler, and W. J. Townsend. Another village which gave an almost instantaneous response to the president's appeal was Port Chester. It contributed a body known as Company B of the 17th Infantry -- the kk Westchester Chasseurs." This company consisted of seventy-eight officers and men. Its officers were: captain, Nelson B. Bartram; 1st lieutenant, John Tickers; 2d lieutenant, Charles Hilbert; 1st sergeant, James Fox; sergeants, Thomas Beal, Louis Neething, and August Dittman; corporals, William Crothers, John Beal, Joseph Beal, and Robert Magee. The response of the Port Chester company was to the call for two years' volunteers, and the men left on the 30th of April. Meantime several patriotic citizens of the place joined in a " Union Defense Committee," of which James H. Titus, a prominent Republican, was president, and John E. Marshall, a prominent Democrat, was treasurer, having for its object to raise sufficient money to forward the men to camp and to make weekly payments to such of their families as required help during their absence. The 17th Infantry, or Westchester Chasseurs, to which both these first companies of Yonkers and Port Chester (together witn the volunteers from Westchester County) belonged, was a mixed organization, including troops not only from our county, but from New York, Rockland, Wayne, Wyoming, and Chenango Counties.