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. Pending the appointment of field officers, Lewis G. Morris acted as provisional colonel. The position of colonel was tendered to Thomas Arden, a graduate of West Point, but he declined it. Thereupon Captain William Hopkins Morris, also a West Point graduate, was made colonel. He had previously been an officer in active service in the Army of the Potomac. Colonel Morris subsequently rose to the grades of brigadier-general and brevet major-general of United Morrisania; Munson I. Lockwood, of White Christie, of Nyack (Rockland County); John B. Plains: Robert H. Ludlow, of Westchester; Wandle, of Piermont (Rockland County); AnJobn W. Mills, of White Plains: Chauncey R. drew E. Suffern, of Haverstraw (Rockland Weeks, of Carmel (Putnam County); Abraham County): Edward J. Straut, of Nanuet (RockB. Conger, of Rockland (Rockland County'!: land County), and Daniel Tomkins, of Stony William Bleakley, Jr., of Cortlandt; Aaron L. Point (Rockland County).
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States volunteers. To General Morris belongs the honor of having attained the highest rank awarded to any citizen of Westchester County during the War of the Rebellion. The appointment of lieutenant-colonel ofthe regiment was given to Captain Ralph E. Prime, then of White Plains, now of Yonkers, a gallant officer of the 5th New York Volunteers. But for various reasons Captain Prime did not assume this command, and the lieutenant-colonelcy fell to Captain J.