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. Several painstaking local historians of the county have carefully calculated the total enlistments iu their respective townships, adding other exact particulars of much interest. Yorktown, according to the Rev. W. J. Gumming, " sent out approximately 281 soldiers." He has been able to identify the regiments to which 133 of these men were attached: they were nineteen in number, the 6th New York Heavy Artillery leading with 56. It is not known in what regiments the remainder of the enlisting men from Yonkers in the Rebellion.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

Yorktown -- constituting a majority of the whole number -- served. This is a specimen case. In the hrst months of the war it was comparatively an easy matter to raise recruits, but as the struggle progressed bounties had to be paid aud drafts resorted to. " In accordance with a resolution adopted at a town meeting held on September 23, 1803, a system of mutual insurance, as it were, agaiust draft, was established, which provided that every person enrolled as liable to military service who should pay into a common fund the sum of $30 should be entitled, if drafted, to receive from the town the sum of $300 to procure a substitute or pay the government for his exemp tion." Agreeably to this plan the bonds of the town were issued at various times, according to the quotas required from the town under different calls.