Culver finds thirty-five records of enlistment.'' Mr. George Thatcher Smith, in his contribution to Scharfs History on the Town of Poundridge, presents a variety of interesting particulars. At the election of 1860 there were only 328 votes cast in the township, yvt " before the close of the war 94 residents had enlisted in the army and three in the navy," there being also ten reenlistments; and in addition about thirty-six non-residents were procured by the supervisors as substitutes. The really remarkable circumstance isstated that of the ninety-seven residents who went to the war sixty-one were shoemakers, only twenty-eight being farmers. A payment of $10 sufficed in Poundridge to exempt from draft. The total indebtedness incurred by the township on account of the war was $35,280.4 In New Castle, says Barrett, the war debt amounted to about $48,000,5 and in North Castle to $50,000.6 lie gives the names of 161 soldiers (including eleven colored men) from North Castle. " P,ve," says the able historian of that town (the late Rev. C. W. 1 Scharf,

ii., 452.

- Ibid., ii., 477.

3 Ibid., ii., 502.

' Ibid., ii., 568.

5 Ibid., ii., 619.

'; Ibid., ii., 635.

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Baird), kk furnished from the opening of the Rebellion about 350 men for the war. Of these, 126 were residents of the town and wore volunteers under the first call; 138 enlisted under Governor Morgan's proclamation of August 13, 1802; one man was drafted; forty-one substitutes were provided, and forty-five recruits obtained. The town responded promptly to every call made for troops, either by national or by State government, and provided bountifully for the families of those who went forth to sustain the honor of the country. It is supposed that in addition to the numbers already stated, as many as fifty persons from the town enlisted in Connecticut regiments." ] From Harrison, according to Mr.