The remainder, with a battalion of the 10th New York Artillery, became the consolidated 6th New York Artillery." * About a year before the termination of its period of enlistment the regiment unanimously tendered its services to the government for another term of three years. This offer was declined on the ground that the men would probably not be needed. The 6th New York Heavy Artillery is recognized by all writers on the campaigns and battles of the Civil War as one of the great fighting regiments. It is estimated that during its career of less than three years the total number of men who fought in its ranks -- the great majority of them from Westchester County -- was fully four thousand. Its surviving members retain to this day a fraternal organization, which holds annual reunions. Another regiment to which Westchester County largely contributed was the 16th New York Cavalry, better known as the Sprague Light Cavalry, mustered into the service between June and October, 1863. Companies K, L, and M of this organization consisted mostly of men hailing from the Towns of Mount Pleasant, Yonkers, Greenburgh, and White Plains. No attempt can be made in the present work to embody a complete or even a measurably thorough record of the contributions of organized bodies of men by the different localities of our county to the armies of the United States during the Rebellion. A previous writer on this phase of the comity's history stales that in entering upon his undertaking -- which specially involved the satisfaction of local readers -- he had it in view to make a complete compilation, but found that impracticable, ik while an incomplete one might give just offense to men whose names would be unavoidably left out from lack of information." ~ In a comprehensive history of the county confined to reasonable limits it is of course out of the question to introduce a precise record by localities, and none other would meet the requirements of any formal treatment of the subject.