the 8th senatorial district -- then comprising the Counties of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam -- which proceeded to raise the troops required to make up the quota of the district. " It began its work by promptly effecting the organization of an infantry regiment of ten full companies of more than one hundred men each, enlisted to serve for three years, which was designated by the authorities ofthe State of New York as the 135th New York Volunteer Infantry, and was named by the committee the Anthony Wayne Guard." The original line officers were: Company A. (Peekskill): Captain A. A. Crookston, Lieutenants Ceorge W. Smith and Richard M. Gilleo. Company B. (White Plains): Captain F. W. Anderson, Lieutenants Thomas Horton R. Piatt.
W. Dick and
Company C. Kibbe.
C. (West Farms): Captain B. B. Valentine, Lieutenants James Smith and Georee
Company Benedict.
D.
(Somersj: Captain Eward
Jones, Lieutenants W. S. Scribner and Piatt
Company E. (Port Chester): Captain C. H. Palmer, Lieutenants W. T. Morse and Fordham Morris. Company F. (Yonkers) : Captain Edmund A. Chadeayne.
Y. Morris, Lieutenants Samuel Bassett and Henry
Company G. (Carmel, Putnam County) : Captain Webster Baker and Charles F. Hazen.
Smith, Lieutenants Stephen
Company H. (Morrisania) : Captain H. B. Hall (wounded), Lieutenants David Harmel (mortally wounded) and Gouverneur Morris, Jr. Company I. (Sing Sing): Captain Clark Peck, Lieutenants Charles C. Hyatt and J. H. Ashton. Company K. (Nyack, Rockland County): Captain Wilson Defendorf, Lieutenants John Davidson and Frederic Shonnard, of Yonkers.
The villages mentioned in this list were the places where the various companies were raised. Absolutely every township of the county, and probably every hamlet, was represented among the volunteers. It was distinctively a Westchester County regiment. Yonkers was the headquarters of the enlisting officers. The regiment Mas first assembled there about the end of August, 1862, and it was mustered into the United States service on the 2d of September.