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. The ladies of Yonkers presented it with seven hundred havelocks. Captain Nelson B. Bartram, of Port Chester, ultimately became its lieutenantcolonel. " It left for the seat of war June, 1861, and participated in the siege of Yorktown and battles of Hanover Court House -- where it captured the first cannon taken from the enemy by the Army of the Potomac, -- Groveton (known as the second battle of Bull Run), where it lost thirteen officers and 250 men, killed and wounded, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. It was mustered out in the spring of 1863 after two years' service, was immediately reorganized for three years' service, ami took the field in September, being the first of the thirty-nine old regiments to report for duty:" The number of men lost by the regiment at the second Bull Run was almost half the whole number who went into the battle.

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Mr. Frederick Wkittaker, author of the article on the Civil War in Scharfs History, after giving the particulars of the organization of the Port Chester company (he docs not mention the Yonkers company), says: The Town of Cortlandt, almost at the same time, sent out sixty men, raised by Mr. Benjamin R. Simpkins. For the want of the money that kept the Port Chester company together, tins tine body of young men became lost in the great City of New York, and drifted into different regiments, so that not a man of the sixty was ever credited to the county, and not a few of them returned home.