Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
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Oniiptniy B contains the following : From Greenburgh : Privates, B. Armstrong, U. T. Archer, A. Sylvester, Joseph Archer, David Brown, J. W. Brown, Oscar Brown, W. H. Brown, J. H. Brewer, John Conlan, Theodore Coles, H. R. Gilbert, G. W. Lint, 0. D. King, W. H. Lush, Samuel H. Lynt, Orlando Melrose, M. McCullagh, James Mosher, William O'Brien, W. Storms, Thomas Secord, Simeon …
Snitfen, J. G. Terrell, J. A. Tompkins, Alexander Yosburgh, Jerome Weeks, Morris Welsh and F. W. Hagner. (See also Co. I.) From Scarsdale : Privates, J. M. Boultou, Asa Carpenter, Patrick Conley, Andrew Champion, James Deboe, A. L. Dobbs, Elbert Fuller, Patrick Gorman, S. V. Lake, Lawrence Lowe, Robert Ogden, Jacob Steoffen, Eli Tifford, Charles Wrede, David A. Weed. From …
Maxwell, Charles Messer, Michael Murray, Andrew Moore, Jlichael Moran, Chu8. Moran, Richard Mitchell, Patrick McCord, Thomas Nichols, James Ormeston, Samuel B. Pierce, Robert Parsons, W. K. Raymond, James B. Raymond, S. G. Ridgway, James Sloan, David H. Scofield, Jas. Sherry, H. W. St. John, James Schneider, C. H. Stanley, J. W. Taylor, W. Totman, James Thompson, John …
Matthews, William JIcGlynn, David, Frank, James and William J. Hiller, Divid Slosher, David JIuultoii, John Powers, John Kogars, Henry Schojtler, Daniel Springsteel, Charles Waterbury, W. A. Watcrhury, George W. Zar. From North Salem : Samuel S. Austin, Andrew Quick, H. B. Slauson, James B. I'ayue, Halstead Baker, Charles H. Bates, M. F. Brundage, J. N. Oree, J. E. F …
Rood, John Riley, John St. John. From Harrison : Sergeant, Theodore M. Swift ; Corporal, Henry C. Weeks ; Privates, Thomas L. Ackerman, Philander Blauvelt, Joseph Brooks, Stephen Burger, Samuel B. Farringtou, Allen M. Foster, Jlatthias Houff, Nehemiah Harris, Henry M. Hees, William Hicks, John Haiues, David King, T, W. Johnson, Harvey R. King, Henry Lowrey, W. H. Mosier …
Barnes, James Brown, Daniel Casey, Patrick Collins, Andrew Conlan, James Carroll, John Cogblan, Joseph Cain, John Darlington, Michael Donohue, John Foley, S. B. Forman, Patrick Gorman, J. D. Gilbert, Francis Goodwin, John Henry, Jacob D Haines, James Hart, Hugh Hurst, M'illiam Hamilton, Demetrius Hallett, Timothy Kelly, William Kailey, Thomas Kain, T. W. Lounsbury, William …
Sergeants, James E. Jacobs, John E. Myers, George Denerlein ; Pri- Tates, Christian .\iichler, Jos. H. Brown, John Banr, Peter Bergenger, Joaeph Behrens, E. H. Blauvelt, Jacob Bock. J. J. Callahan, W. Campbell, W. B. Conlon, George Cramer, John Cam|ibell, Frank Dick«, Jo- •eph Dawson, Phil. Deahl, T M. Dean, Henry Donohoe. Philip Fox, John J. Folks, Richard Freischbier, Wm …
H. .Vshton, from Ossining ; with First Sergeant Leonard Cronk^ from the same place. From Ossiiiiiig, besides the above : Privates Benjamin Ackerly, George W. Briggs, H. Chapman, J. M. Clare, Stephen C. Chadeayne, Martin Cavanagh, Charles Dingue, James H. Doty, Thos. Donohue, Jos. Dingue, Wm. Garrett, Alonzo Geroe, .\aron L. Griffin, Peter Ganong, Peter Hughes, Jonathan Knight …
From North Castle ; Privates, W. H. Dayton, Lewis M. White. From Mount Pleasant : Privates, John W. Farrington, Ab'm B. Hammond, Henry E. Higgins, Benjamin F. Melrose, James 0. Yerks and Theo. Y'oung. From Bedford; Privates, James Peeks, David Miller, Charles A. Miller Alfred C. Miller, William Taylor, Hiram, James E. and Jonas .\. Worden. Company K contains the following …
From Greenbiirgh : Privates, Edward F'ulun, .John Golden, George Lloyd, Michael McCulloch, Joseph O'.Malley, Francis Talaor, W. B. Adams. Compiiiii/ L was chiefly recruited in Putnam County, but it has the following names from Westchester County ; From Yorktown : Sergeant, William Emmerson ; Corporal, John Hamilton ; Privates, Jordan Ackerman, James Barnes, John D. Crawford …
Mc- Causeland, Jolm G. JIcLean, \Vm O'Xeil, Fred. Raisler, Sej'uiour H. Reynolds, ,Iohn Smith, Pati Victor, Oscar Weeks, Charles L. De Witt. From North Salem : Privates, Daniel Crane, James Dailey, George I'uller, Lewis Higgins, Henry Hawley, From North Castle : Corporal, Frederick Kratz ; Privates, David Marshal, Hudson and George Reynolds. From Bedford: Sergeant, Edward T …
The companies of this regiment in wliich the county furnished men, officially accredited thereto, were K, L and M, in which the following names appear : Compauy K. -- Privates Charles H. Ackerman, Philip Apel, Henry .\pelbaus, John Baker, John Baureis, Anthony Chichester, Robert Clark, Gustavns Dalilgren, Ernest Diezelski, Gustavus Francis, Lorenzo Hacket, Frederic Haller …
H, Connors, Thomas Cusick, Charles Coyle, James Clark, Martin Dooley, William Davidson, Michael DriscoU, Patrick Donnelly, Henry Davis, Charles Damain, James M'. Elliott, John Gilligan, W. H . fJibbs, William Gregory, Richard Hore, Conrad Hauser, Thomas Hill, Isidor Hausle, Armand Jouanne, Thomas Kearns, Charles Keenan, Peter Ledgwidge, Patrick Larkin, Charles P. Lange …
The doings of the men who went from the county to the field, their sufi'erings and losses, will be best told under a later head.' Home Affaie.s, to the Election of Governor Se\"mour. -- A history of the county during the war, which did not take notice of the bitter political divisions within its limits, would be a farce ; but it is important, in stating the facts that appear …
The reproachful terms of " Whig," " Tory," " Cowboy" and " Skinner" were changed to " Abolitionist," " Copperhead," " Nigger- Worshipper" and " Traitor." Families were divided, churches rent into factions, and actual fighting was only saved the county, during the draft riots of 1863, by the fact that the ] rioters did not get their courage to the fighting point till it was too …
The disturbing element of slaverv bad altered all this ; the old line of demarcation had vanished; but extreme partisans, on both sides, kept on talking and thinking about abstractions that had ceased to have any real existence. Under the operation of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Democrats had become advocates of " Federal Coercion," in favor of slavery, in Kansas; while the …
Individuals of the party, like Wendell Philips, openly denounced the Union as "a covenant with death, and a league with hell." Furthermore, a spirit of sectional pride, roused by the arrogant bearing of Southern members of Congress and by the assault of Brooks of South Carolina, on Charles Sumner, was gradually becoming more and more prominent. The young men of the party, not …
The Republicans, on the other hand, treated the " constitutional" arguments as not practical, and constantly shifted the ground to that of the right or wrong of slavery. They cultivated habits, which did not leave them, during the war, of decrying their opponents as "dough-faces;" "trucklers to the South;" "men devoid of proper spirit, " and, after the war had begun, even as …
The literature of the time, carefully perused, now that the film of pa.ssion has cleared from the mental sight, will show that there was not an actual "Secessionist" to be found in the county. Even the Democrats disapproved of secession, though they held to Buchanan's doctrine that the Union "rested on public opinion," and "could never be cemented by the blood of its …
On the 21st of May, the editor, iu answer to a Republican paperj ust started -- the MorrUania Journal -- explains the "true sentiment " at length ; accuses the Republicans of carrying on the war for party purposes, simply, and ends with the assertion : " the Republicans stand by their administration ; the Democrats by our government." From this time to the battle of Bull Run …
Benjamin Wood in Congress, and laid on the table bj' Mr. Washburn, of Illinois. The editor asks, " When will the war end?" and says that " another administration must come in before peace is likely to be restored to the country." In August the editor indignantly repudiates the assertion that " the anti-slavery feeling is spreading at the North," but admits the " apostasy " of …
August 16th begins the bitter controversy on the suspension of the habeas corpus, when the sheriff of Kings County tried to get out of Fort Lafayette the Baltimore police commissioners, confined there under an order of General Banks, for treasonable action in Maryland. From this time it seems that the Republican papers, recently established in the county, are beginning to …
" The Grand Jury of the county of Westchester, recognizing the existence of the war in which the country is now engaged, with an armed rebellion in a portion of the confedeiacy ; and the necessity for its vigorous prosecution, until an honorable peace is conquered ; and desirous of having public opinion so fixed, and individual action so shaped, in the hitherto loyal county of …
" The Grand Inquest of the county, having had brought to their attention sundry articles, which have appeared in newspapers, published within this county, denying the justice o f the n-ar in which w'e are engaged, treiiting it as a party war, and not involving in its issues the government itself and our national existence, and therein symjiathizing with the traitors to the …
"The Yonkers Herald, Highland Democrat and Eastern Sfaffi Jnnrnul have, from the time of the issue of the President's Proclamation, immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter, steadily treated the war which has followed, in the extracts and articles they have published, as an unholy and partizan war, unjustly commenced and prosecuted by the administration. In so doing, it has …
This document naturally produced quite an excitement in the office of the Eastern State Journal, and the editor, being a White Plains man, living within a stone's throw of the court-house, and personally known to all the members of the grand jury, exerted himself to the utmost to get rid of the stain it produced on his reputation. He managed to get a letter from the foreman of …
Next week the indefatigable editor managed to get two more men who were on the grand jury to say that theg voted against the presentment, and as soon as this consummation was reached he burst out into indignant denunciation of the men who voted/o?-it, as a " corrupt and debauched clique ; " " curs who have snarled and snapped at our heels for years," who need"' a sound …
Next week the editor speaks of the "determined and loyal course of the President." After that he explains his motto in a different spirit; prints Union letters and speeches, in one of which a War Democrat declares "compromise impracticable;" and so the paper swims quietly along until the State election, at which Democrats are exhorted to "Stick to your party," "Vote the …
There are no more articles openly abusing " Abolitionists:" but the paper sticks to the doctrine, as late as April 20, 18(52, that "the general government has, even in war, no more power" to coerce a rebellious State "tlian the Constitution gives it," and therefore none to confiscate slaves or set them free- The abuse of "Abolitionists" is changed, as the summer goes on, to …
Seymour to be Governor of New York as "The Two Proclamations." The one he concludes to be mere "waste paper, impossible of enforcement," while the other is "A proclamation that the State of New York is free once more." The lines "The Democracy Triumphant," "The Administration is not the Government," came out in every issue, and it is a noticeable fact that in this paper, as in …
The figures of the election in the county are rather against the assertion of the Journal that "three-fourths of the volunteers from the county were Democrats," for the vote cast for Seymour for Governor is seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, a decrease from the Presidential vote -- given at the beginning of this section -- of only two hundred and sixty votes, while …
Tims it will be seen that, as in the case of the Fort Sumter excitement, a serious action had taken place on Saturday and that the people had all Sunday to think over it. In the first case the result of the thought had been in the direction of patriotism ; this time it was to be different, owing to the difference in the character of the individuals composing the two crowds …
Briefly catalogued, the first day's work was the burning of the jirovost marshal's offices, the destruction of the lists (under the idea that if they were once destroyed the draft could not be enforced), tearing up railroad tracks, cutting of telegraph wires, mobbing of individual soldiers found on the streets, murder of some of them, resistance to the police accompanied by …
Pierre C. Talman. A telegraph operator on this day tried to put an instrument into a store at Hunt's Bridge, near Mount Vernon, but the proprietor was intimidated by a message from sympathizers with the mob, that, if the instrument was not removed, the store would be gutted. On this, the second day, there was a complete reign of terror, though no violence seems to have been …
That it wiia not their interest to uphold the -Administration in the odious and unconstitutional Conscription .Act (cheers), but there was a way to test it, in the courts. In his opinion, the act of 17!l2, providing for calling out the militia, was fully equal to the present emergency in the history of the Rebelliou. That the men who made the Constitution passed that act, with …
Their rights would be protected, their privileges maintHined, no matter at what hazard or what cost (cheers). He referred to the exemption clause ($300.00) as being an invidious distinction between the rich and poor (Yes, yes). It was undemocratic, unwise, aud he did not wonder that they objected to it. He preferred the old law, under which all classes bore equal …
He alluded to General McClellan, who was cheered enthusiastically, and General Grant's name was also greeted with cheers, the news of Vicksburg being fresh at the time. " Mr. Pierre C. Talman followed in a similar strain, expressing his confidence that the meeting before him would be the last people in the world to violate the laws. He reminded them that the abolitionist …
Hasklu had a negro in his employment and what right he had to keep one V Haskins got up at once and replied that he had such a man, the same who hoisted the first Union flag on Roanoke Island, that it was no one's business whether he kept an Irishman, German, Swede, Xegro, or anybody else in his employment ; that he intended to keep the man as long as he pleased. The statement …
They flattered them artfully with assurances that their opposition to the draft was all right; appealed to their self-respect in the most ingenious way, and the appointment of the committee ended the whole matter. The county was quiet thereafter, the more so that the same day, the return of the troops from Pennsylvania and the report of fierce fighting in the city, in which …
His house was visited by a mob on Wednesday evening, after dark ; the enrollment papers burned, the house sacked and his wife and two children forced to take refuge in the house of Mr. Edward Haight, for fear of violence. Mr. Byrne himself was away from home at the time or the consequences might have been more serious. -- New York Herald, summary of Friday. On Wednesday the …
A mob of men, from the quarries at the village of Tuckahoe, actually set out from that place, gathering recruits from the villages near them, armed with sticks, stones and any rude weapon they could lay their hands on, and took up their march for the village of Mount Vernon, with the avowed object of " burning down the houses of all the Kepublicans in the place." These …
He met, about two miles from the village, coming out of the lane from Bronxville, towards Mount Vernon, a confused crowd of men, who stopped him and asked "where he was going." He replied " To Bronxville ; " and asked in turn "Where are you going? " The reply was " We are going to raise hell." With that they began to throw atones at him and yell, so that he was glad to wheel …
j march into Mount Vernon. They came down the [ White Plains road, w here it runs into Fourth Avenue, I Mount Vernon; threw stones at windows in First Street, at the corner of Fourth Avenue, and in Fourth Avenue itself; shouted, flourished sticks and yelled; I but after marching a little way down First Street, turned back at the bridge over the New Haven track, known as " …
The whole history of the little fracas shows the state of excitement into which the more ignorant people of the county were worked by the inflammatory appeals of the papers opposed to the war, and how nearly the county was disgraced by bloodshed. Men, who at other times would not have harmed a kitten, were frenzied with imaginary wrongs and ready for any violence, short of …
iThe above account of the part taken by the draft rioters at i Mount Vernon has been obtained with considerable difficulty, on account of the lapse of time since the events occurred, and the indisposition of most citizens of the' place to speak of what they considered a disgrace to the village, i The main facte -- that a mob was organized near Tuckahoe, with the I object of …
In Yonkers, in particular, this change was judged so necessary that, on the 7th of May, the editor of the Herald, of that town, formally resigned his place, and the Herald passed into the control of a stock company, known as the " Yonkers Democratic Publishing Association," under which the paper (which seems, from the farewell of the editor, to have been in a far from …
Lincoln, on account of his "frivolous nature " and "buffoonery." On the 21st of May, 1864, the celebrated forged pr )clamation of Joe Howard and the suppression of ihe copies of the World and Journal of Commerce, which contained them, are noticed, with much outcry for the " liberty of the press." The split in the Republican party, threatened by the nomination of Fremont, under …
The route of the mob to the village was down the extension of Fourth Avenue, and when they bad made their short march they went to Gould's Hotel, where they consumed a great deal of liijuor. They were dissuaded from fightiug by prominent citizens of the place, among whom the names of Judge Stevens, Judge Pemberton, George (iould and Darius Lyon are mentioned, as the men who …
Satterley's fence into his garden, and was kept, for some years after, by the family, as a relic of the draft riots. The witnesses exaniiued by rae, in investigating the aSaii', unite in their stories as to the above facts. They are Mr. A. B. Kitson, of 37 South St., Boston, Mass. (then a member of the Mount Vernon Home Guards) ; Mrs. Higgins, of Mount Vernon (at the time of …
"Another four years of 'Honest old Abe' would leave nothing but the shadow of a Republic on the American continent." It thanks the Eastern State Journal and Highland Democrat for the welcome extended by them to the paper under its new management. On the 4th of June the name of the paper is changed to the Gazette (under which it still exists) and a great " boom " begins in the …
" We confess to the smallest possible amount of respect for Republican professions of ' loyalty,' or Republican charges of 'disloyalty.' The word is not American, nor Republican even --here it originally expressed the treasonable attachment of the loyal Tories to George the Third, in his wanton war against .Vmericau liberty ; and, as now used, it generally means partisan …
From thence, through July and August, the Gazette is much exercised at the " progress of military despotism" in regard to the suppression of the bogus proclamation, and especially when the New York grand jury, appealed to by Judge Russell to investigate in the matter, considers it "inexpedient to enquire into the action of the general government as to certain newspapers in …
From this time to the middle of September the | Qazette is occupied with definitions of principles, such as this : " Pie who avows that he is not for the Union, i without conditions, is disunionist, let him be Abraham Lincoln or Jetlerson Davis. . . . The only Union man is he who is for the Union, without conditions." There are also a number of stories about the "branding" of …
From henceforth (October 1, 1864) to election the paper is full of reports of mass-meetings, political advertising and appeals to voters to "Register, register," till November 13th, when the conclusion is, "The grand old Democratic party of the State of New York yields the battle-field, covered with all the glory a nobly contested struggle can confer upon it." A touch of …
The full fruits of such teach- ' iagB are just now visible in the want of charity manifested by the supportere of Mr. Lincoln's administration towards their political opponents. DMferences of opinion . . . are made the subject . . . of unjust charges «f disloyalty and treason to the country. . . . This bitterness and un- ^•rity are a stain on the national character. They …
".•Vny I*resident, not wedded to a line of policy which he knows the South ' will never acquiesce in, -- the abolition of slavery, -- would see that it is just the time to e.xteud the olive-branch of peace ' ; but announces, with great relief, that the " Yonkei'squota is at last filled." Great troubleseems to have existed on this point of ipiotas during the year, for there are …
General JlcC'lellan would have treated with the States of the Confederacy, separately, for a return to the Union ; would have appealed to the people ; would have concerted with the generals of the Confederacy to detach their armies from the dynasty at Richmond." JIarch llth the paper rejoices over the rejection by New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky of the Constitutional …
His well-known kindness of heart. ..." The editor, in conunenting on the assassination, admits that if'might i have l)een a wise move at the beginning of the war or during the darker I days of the struggle ;" but regrets it as being so " foolish and useless" at the moment when it occurred. lie pleads for mercy to the South,, and so closes the connection of the l'oiii>Ts …
Later in the year (July, 1S65), in the Toronto Globe, appeared a letter from this sjime Wallace or Conover, in which he, on 20th March of that year, makes to Thompson the proposition to have the dam destroyed, on the ground that " one of my aunts, a Virginia lady, an enemy of everything Yankee, owns the land on which the dam is built, and her residence and out-buildings are …
The Aid Societies. -- We have noticed, under the head of the "Two Years' Volunteers," the patriotic manner in which all parties joined, in Port Chester, in the effort to avert suffering from the families of the first company that went from the county. Other towns were by no means idle in the g;ood work ; but it is much to be regretted that the records of these societies have …
Conrad Quin, Mrs. Edward Mills, Mrs. Joseph Mason, Misses Amanda Wright and Augusta Taylor. This association held weekly meetings throughout the war, sent out large supplies of lint, bandages, clothing and supplies for the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, and otherwise did noble work, being one of those bands of noble women in the Northern States who, together, managed to …
Satterlee appears to have taken up the business of collecting, for he brought in two hundred and six dollars in a lump, all of which was paid out the same day, for the families of soldiers, or to the military committee for expenses of recruiting. The balance sunk, by the 7th of July, to seventeen dollars and ninety cents, the payments made being in small sums to wives or …
Merritt gave a hundred dojlars ; but these are the only items worthy of particular notice, and the aspect of the account was by no means encouraging -- the givers being few, while the wives of soldiers, on the other side of the page, increased in number, as the weeks went on and the war progressed. By the 25th of September the balance sunk to sixty-six dollars. All the efforts …
By the end of the year the fact is revealed that the members had raised, by voluntary subscription, in the village of Port Chester, the sum of $3289.25, and had expended, for relief, $3215.57, almost of all which was given in sums of from three to six or seven dollars per week. During the early months of 1862 the amounts contributed for the relief increased notably, and …
At the close of the " voluntary period," as it may be called, when the system of helping the families of volunteers gave way to the juster and more practical method of relief by town and county bonds, the record shows that there had been raised, in Port Chester, $4403.75, of which the balance remaining on hand, when the first bonds were received, wa-s $218.53 -- a result that …
The account of this change brings us naturally to the facts on record, in regard to the cost of the war to the county, made necessary by the unconcealed aversion of a part of the people to engage in a struggle from which the romance had departed, and where nothing remained but the grim reality of death, to be faced as best the heart might be found therefor. The work of the …
It must be remembered that nearly an equal amount bus been given in garments, materials and hospital stores, and during tbe past year, also, the Christian Conmiission has had in active operation ■ Society in this village, sending constiintly to the front supplies of clothing and hospital stores. Taking all this into consideration, Sing Sing hw great reason for congratulation …
It would occnpy too much time and space to thank all who have aided in this noble work, but the nutnagers must express their grateful obligations to the clergy of the village for their co-operation and hearty good-will, and ■bo to the editors of the two papers who have constantly published all their reports and notices free of expense. They also desire heartily to thank …
United in our common ('hristian work, wo can never in after days forget the bond of union that kept us together during the four years of the war. " (Signed by) Mrs. .Jesse Ryder, first directress ; Mre. Pentz, second directress ; Mrs. J. M. Smith, thinl directress ; Mrs. J. Van Wyck, fourth directress ; and Mnies. Van Hoesen, .1. S. King, G. Brandreth, Dr. Provost, Cunningham …
" List of articles sent from Sing Sing Union Relief Association from the spring of 1801 to July 25, 180.5 :-- 1080 flannel shirts, 501 flannel drawers, 581 cotton shirts, 57 double gowns, 53 Canton flannel bedgowns, 982 pairs of socks, 58 pairs of mitts, 171 havelocks, 12 pairs Canton flannel drawers, 15 blankets, 92 quilf.s, 505 sheets, 84 surgical shirts, 472 towels, 1303 …
The Bounty Bonds. -- The first burden which was officially taken on itself by the county of Westchester during the war came in the shape of bonds issued by the Board of Supervisors under the provisions of an act passed by the Legislature March 1, 1862, "to relieve the families of volunteers in the field." The amount issued was fifty thousand dollars, which was placed in bonds …
The sum of five hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars was raised in county bonds ; distributed to the supervisors of the towns, as in the case of the first set of relief bonds, the rate of interest being seven per cent. ; the principal payable in periods ranging from twelve to sixteen years. The first hundred of these bonds was cancelled at the end of the year 1876, and the …
The town of Cortlandt -- then one of the largest in the county -- raised, in the year 1862, $20,000 for bounties, of which $16,795 was expended, and 324 men sent out -- an excess of 13 over the town quota. In October, 1803, the town raised $14,000 more, besides sums paid by substitutes, and sent out its quota of 116 men. In February, 1804, it raised $85,000 to send out 73 men …
Lincoln, 100 men were furnished at a cost of .$60,000, but the town received from the State an amount sufficient to leave it a gainer of about $7000, that being the excess of the State money furnished for bounties. The history of all the towns, during the war, shows how, as the needs of the contest slowly but surely increased, what had been left, at first, to individual …
The towns of West Farms and White Plains made no report and are not, therefore, included in the above summary. The towns and county together thus expended, for war purposes,the total sum of 84,871,37^.81, or very nearly live millions of dollars. Of this sum, the county and towns received from the State Paymaster General in cash, $172 4o0.0U ; in State bonds, $458,600.00; and …
It is further worthy of remark, though this is outside of a local history, that the substitutes, obtained at a cost of from five to six hundred dollars a man, seldom went to the front at all, but remained at home, breeding that odious class of men denominated "bountyjumpers," who drifted from regiment to regiment, and from broker to broker, till the figures of men enlisted …
A summary of the figures in the town of Cortlandt shows that it cost, to send out each man who was enlisted, as follows: In 1861, nothing ; in 1862, $51.82 per man ; in 1863, $120.70 per man, from the town, with a probable hundred more from each drafted man for asubstitute ; in 1864, an average of $519.60 per man, before election ; and nothing for the last draft, in which the …
Lewisborough, January, 1868 ; Mamaroneck, December, I860 ; Morrisania, December, 1800; Mount Pleasant, Febi'uary, 1868 ; Newcastle, July, 1865 ; New Rochelle, March, 1800 ; North Castle, March, 1806 ; North Salem, January. 1808; Ossining, December, 1805 ; Pelham, June, 1808 ; Poundridge, October, 1800 ; Rye, December, 1805 ; Scarsdale, June, 1806 ; Somers, October, 1806 …
This regiment, being also a two years' organization, had already been mustered out; but the recruits for three years, with a part of the Twelfth New York iNIilitia, with which it had been consolidated February 3, 18(j2, were formed into a battalion, which, in its turn, was mustered into the Fifth New York Veteran Volunteers on the 2d of June, 1864. The whole force remained in …
The Sixth Heavy Artillery-, being a three years' regiment, was mustered out June 25, 1865; but the re-enlisted veterans and the recruits whose terms were not yet out were formed into a battalion of four companies. The remaining members of the Tenth and Thirteenth Regiments of artillery, in the same condition, were added to the Sixth two days after; and the whole force remained …
The following names are given from the town of Cortlandt, on the authority of Post Abraham Voshurgh, of Peekskill, No. 95, Department of New York, G. A. K. Ihi'rU Liijht Cavalry^ Compamj F. Sergeant Thomas McCiitcliiMi, killeil in action at Culpeper, Va., OctoliiT, 1S03 ; Piivate William Haines, killed in action at Brandy Station, on tlie same day, during tlie advance from …
Privates .lohn (.'ouklin, Frank Bieakley, John Henry Lent and .\brahani Lent ; Private John Terbnsh died at home from disease contracted in the army. Firet LieutJinant Richard Slontgomery Clilleo, died at home, on sick leave ; Private (^harles Conklin was killed at I'o River. Va., May 12, 186i. Hawkins'' Zouaves, Kiiith New Yorlc VoluiiUers. Color-Sergeant William Patterson …
Fisher, killed with the colors at Petersburg, Va., Juiy 29, 1864 ; Private James D. Odell, killed at Roanoke Island. Fifty-ninth New York Volunteers. Privates Edgar Sutton and Pierce Miller, killed at Antietam; John Fitch and Benjamin Gandcer, died at Andersonville; George Fowler, died at .\nnapolis, after being paroled. Seventieth New York Volunteers. Joseph …
Searles, Lewis M. Searles. Obadiah Oakley and T. .1. Head, died in service ; Peter Ames, 12th N. Y., was killed at Fair Oaks • Cyrus H. Brown (regiment unknown) was killed at Petersburg; George Poworsand Eugene M. Wright, 69th N. Y.; John Jones. 4th N. Y. Art. ; Joshua B. Young, 9.ith X. Y. ; William and ESias Searles .57th N. Y'. ; William Sheppard and William Sherwood, 87th …
Save by the families of those who actually went to the front, but little interest seems to have been taken by any one in the deeds of the Union armies, and the records were not kept, principally because the majority of the voters in the county did not elect officials who cared to perpetuate the services of the soldiers. Since the close of the war there has been a movement, in …
The Drafted Men. -- The records of the draft in West Chester County, as far as regards the names of the men drafted, are generally missing, though the bonds necessary to save them from going to the front remained, to be finally extinguished, in 1881. In the town of East Chester, however, I have succeeded in securing a copy of the names of the men drafted, and the prices paid …
Others furnished the substitutes at a definite cost; but the greater part let the town military committee do all the work, through the bounty brokers, who settled the whole business. Of the whole two hundred and thirteen, only two entered the service, taking the bounty money themselves. Their names will be found in the list. The following men were paid the commutation of three …
The following men furnished their own substitutes, at a cost of four hundred dollars : Charles Leland, .\aron R. Haiglit, Isiuic Richards, A. M. Hungerford, George Ferris, Samuel Horton, Robert Hall, Gideon Mead, Warren Ackernian, Timothy Bennett, Samuel Burpo, W. H. Hustis, Constantine Weiss, Edgar Schiefllein, John Boda, Alexander Masterton, Henry A. Bowerman, Janus H.ay …
Timothy Rain, Lawrence Daniels, Nicholas Bowden, Sanford Fleming, Henry Grant. At a cost of four hundred and forty-five dollars : Carl Moser, E. A. Phelps. At a cost of four hundred and fifty dollars: William Traband, Bernard Hufnagel, Lawrence Clemens, William E. Howe, William Purcells, Charles V. Morgan, Frederick Boda, John King, G. W. L. Underhill, Isaac Secor, Joseph D …
Charles Lamar, Ernest Krbert, William Murphy, Jacob Putney, John Williams, David Jones, Joaquin Jones, Charles E. Manning, William Brown, George Francis, Patrick JIdS'ully, John .Starr, Jolin I'. Minnich, Edward Dill. Thomas Davis, John A. lliitcliin.'ion, Hugh Callahan, Philip H. Harsiiiger, Henry Haniill, Carey P. Poplin, John Rigby, Tobias .\kerB, John Jolly. Charles …
The only item in the account that is perplexing is one which states that "one recruit" was furnished under the second call for five hundred and ninety dollars, this being, probably, at a time when the draft was nearly over and matters carelessly managed. The Grand Army Post.s.-- This chapter would, by many, be judged to have been properly completed with the disbandment of the …
The first " post " of the order was formed in one of the Western States, in the year after the close of the war, but it was not till the year 18()7 that the idea was developed into a harmonious whole, with a regular system of military discipline, and the different units of " post," "department" and " national " headquarters. In its hierarchy, the familiar routine of military …
These degrees were abolished by the National Encampment, a few years after the first formation of the order, and the rules have been simplified in regard to initiations and other points of ritual, till the Grand Army of the Republic can hardly be said to be in any sense a " secret " society, any more than an army in the field, in which the countersign forpa.'^sing a sentry at …
The persons eligible to membership are all Ao«orably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, " who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865, " and the members of State regiments that were mustered into United States service between those dates, and became "subject to the orders of United States general officers." No person who has at any time, even under compulsion …
The Tarrytown post was lately organized, to replace an older post (Acker, No. 182) which had given up its charter to the Department Encampment, owing to the lack of interest manifested by the citizens of the place ; but reorganized with its present name and number, under the energetic management of a veteran who had formerly commanded the Peekskill post, but had moved to …
Schotts, 1880; F. A. Curran, 1881 ; James V. Lawrence, 1882; S. C. Van Tassel, 1883; G. B. Baich, 1884; James Sheridan, 1885. The officers for 1886 are: Commander, James Sheridan; S. V. C, A. Kipp; J. V. C, James Taylor;- Surgeon, George Lockwood; Chaplain, Wm. H. Yerkes; Officer of the Day, John Rice; Officer of the Guard, Oscar T. Barker; Adjutant, C. D. Betts; Q. M., Henry …
Where no rank is given " private " is meant. Memhers, E. Y. Morris,* capUiin, (ith N.Y. Art. (two yeara, ten and a half niontlis); S. C. Van Taseel, second class fireman, U. S. Navy (ten months); James Stewart, f 5tb Conn., wounded ; Oco. W. Faruliam, corporal, 'I'M Conn. ; E. C. Nodine, Cth N. Y. Art. ; I*. Kelly,* Gtli N. V. Art. ; Wni. Riley, f 5l6t N. Y. (loss of left arm …
Y. ; John Kuester, 12")tli N. Y. ; John W. Coons, second class fireman, U. S. Navy ; Chas. M^olff, bd N. Y. ; D. L. Barton, loth N. Y. Cav. ; David Blauvelt, captain, 22d N. J. ; P. H. Merwin, 22d N. Y. ; Wm. W. Yerks, 6th N. Y. ; Andrew J. Joslyn, 139th N. Y. ; Sherman Smith, musician, 17tli Conn. ; Henry B. Ferguson, 6th N. Y. ; Daniel Batty, 132d N. Y. ; Alfred M. Bowler …
Savage, 72d N. Y. ; Jame< .Sheridan, 5th N. Y. ; L. C. Minor, drum major, 7th Conn. ; Jas. H. Cable, private, 1st N. Y. Engineers ; Matthew Faulds, musician, 79th N. Y. ; James Keeler, private, 15th N. Y. ; Clark Nodine, private, 6th N. Y. ; Robert Allison, private, 36th N. Y. ; E. J. Oliver, landsman, U. S. Navy; E. R. Keyes, chaplain, 6th N. Y. ; Thomas McKay, 6th N. Y. Ait …
Y. ; Augustus Bailey, musician, 7th Mass. ; Thomas Scofield, 39th N. J. ; LewLs F. Clark, 1st Conn. ; Chas. H. Carlton,* 4th Ver. ; Julius 0. Hicks, 150th N. Y. ; James Pilson, corporal, (ith N. Y. Art. ; Thos. Feathei-stone, 1st N. Y. Cav. ; C. W. Br.ggs, 6th N. Y. ; James Andrews and Geo. A. Barker, 17th N. Y. ; Edward Knowlden, 31st N. Y. ; Isaac A. Brewer and Johu Loftus …
Y. ; Jere. S. Clark, captain, 2d U. S. Art. ; Jas. W. Brown, oth N. V. ; Wm. Pope, 6th N. Y. ; John C. Light, 150th N. Y. ; James McVicker, 67th N. Y. ; Chas. Grimshaw, 22d N. Y. ; Nelson R. Wood, landsman, U. S. Navy ; E. Edward Wildnian, captain, 1st Conn. Vol. ; Wm. R. Jarman, 7th N. J. ; H. P. Weimar, 3d N. Y. Art, ; Wm. Arbuckle, musician, 17th N. Y. ; John Fyfe,* …
Y. ; James G.Stevens, 12th Jlass. ; Chrystie Sheridan, 96th N. Y. ; Geo. H. King, 49th N. Y. ; Jlichael Sullivan, 96th N. Y. ; John H. Matthews,* sergeant, 12th N. Y. ; John Wallace, sergeant, 23d U. S. Inf. ; Louis Friede, sergeant, 41st N. Y. ; Geo. Voltz, 6th N. Y. Art. ; Peter Whalen, 22d N. Y. ; John Hammond, fireman, U. S. Navy ; Wm. Fulton, 4th N. Y. ; Thomas Reynolds,* …
Navy ; Alirani Hinchilitr, nth N. Y. Art. ; Chas. B. Nelie, 74th N. Y. ; I'hilip Fisher and John C. Shotts. 17th N. Y. ; Wni. W. Yerks, eth N. Y. Art. ; Daniel Murray and E. A. Jackson, 2d N. Y. Rifles ; Arthur Stewart, 41st N. Y. ; Jacob Gilleo, Gth N. Y. Art. ; John Carey, GUth N. Y. ; Chas. II. 0. Rease, 68th Mass. ; Wm. J. Gardinier, U. S. Navy ; Calvin C. Brown, 0th N. Y …
Lawrence, Albert Roos and Patrick O'Donnell, 2d N. y. Art. ; Thomas T. Daly, loth N. Y. ; S. 0. Van Ta.ssel, (second muster) Kavy ; John Zimmcr, loth N. Y. Art.; Michael Murphy, Gist N. Y. : John II. Rein, 79th N. Y. ; Conrad Dietrick, 48th N. Y. ; Edward J. Mitchell, 37th N. J.; Andrew Dixon, 3d N. Y. Art. ; John Zeller, 20th N. Y. ; James B. Everest, 51st Mass. ; Daniel …
Y. ; David J. Miller, 128th N. Y. ; John Baldwin. I02d N. Y. ; George Humphreys, Hist Mass. ; John F. Doremus, ."jCtli N. Y. ; Conrad Roth, 183d Ohio; li. C. Uickerson, llth N. J. ; G. B. Balch, assistant surgeon, 9Sth N. Y. Abraham Vosburgh Post, Ko. 95, of Peekskill. -- This post was organized at Peekskill, July 25, 1879, by Comrade Francis M. Clark, of Barbara Freitchie …
The officers of the post remained unchanged for two years, after which Commander Robertson retired and John Smith, Jr., became Commander, all the other officers being promoted one step. In 1882, Abraham ^Conkling became Commander and a further promotion took place. In 1883, Charles McCutcheu became Commander, and held the office for one year. In 1884, William J. Sipperly …
Augustus Acker, Gth N. Y. H. Art.; John W. Acker, corporal, .lOth N. Y., prisoner at .\ndersonville ; Oscar Acker, Gth N. Y. H. Art., ten months; Horace .\nderson, 3d N. Y., si.\ months; John Acker, Gtli N. Y. H. Art., eighteen months; Charles Balluffl,* hospital steward, 1st N. J. Art.; Smith A. Barker, 2d Penn. Res., wounded Sept, 17, 18G2; Josiah Bartlett, Gth N. Y. H …
M., three months ; Patrick Curtis, Gth N. Y. H. Art.; William H. Denike, 47th N. Y.; ThomUs G. Depew, musician, lG8th N. Y.; James Downes, UOth Ills.; William H. Dutcher, Gth N. Y. H. Art.; Jefferson Dyckman, 2d N. Y. M. Vols.; Harvey S. Elkins, 48tli N. Y.; John Evans, 27th N. Y.; Thomas Flockton, Otli N. Y.; J. Foster, 88th Oliio ; H. S. Free, landsman, U. S. S. " …
S. '" Isonomie ; " John M. Hilliker, .59th N. Y. (twenty-eight months; ten months iu U. S. Navy) ; Wm. H. Hughes, 0th N. Y ; John Jarrold, 5th N. Y. ; Julius John, first sergeant, 103d N. Y. ; John Kane,* corporal, Gth N. Y. H. A. ; Jacob Keifer,* 14th N. J. ; Anthony Kevan, corporal, I70th N. Y. ; David La Fountain, seaman, U. S. Navy (twenty-one months); Robert D. Lent, Gth …
M. (eight mouths) ; Emmett Sarles, Gth N. Y. H. A. ; James H. Seabury, Gth N. Y. 11. A. ; Cornelius V. Simjikins, 9th N. Y. ; W ui. .\. Sipperly, sergeant, 2d N. Y. Cav. (wounded June 2, 18G4) ; Wm. E. Sloat, Gth N. Y. H. A. ; Charles W. Smith, Gth N. Y. H. A. ; George H. Smith, 91st N. Y. ; George W. Smith, captain, 90th N. Y. ; John Smith, Jr., second lieutenant, Gth N. Y …
Valk, 95th N. Y. (woiuidefl October 27, 1864) ; Cornelius B. A'an Horn, sergeant, 139th N. Y. ; Warren Vau Scoy, 9th N. Y. ; Charles Wiley, drum niajiir, 9th N. Y. ; John N. Williams, 9th N. Y. (five months) ; Samuel Williams, Gth N. Y. H. A. ; William L. Wood, 6th N. Y. H. A. (nine months) ; Charles J. Wright, lieutenant-colonel, 39th U. S. C. T. (two years and seven mouths) …
" Vanderbilt ;" Thomas K. Tompkins, 5Gth N. Y.; Wm. G. Hull, 26th N. Y.; Thos. C. Mealing, U. S. S. "Augusta;" William Ward, U.5th N. Y.; Patrick Cullen, 17th N. Y.; James Wilson, 6th N. Y.; William Tuustall, 13th N. Y.; James S. Van Cortlandt, 155th N. Y.; George Nichols, Gth N. Y. H. A.; Charles Schoomaker, 20th N. Y.; Neheniiah Sperry,t "lOth N. Y.; James Young, Gth N. Y …
Patrick Readdy.f 6th N. Y. H. A.; Nelson Baker, 1st U. S. C. T.; Michael Seitz,* 1st N. Y. Engineers; Abraham Tuttle, 6th N. Y. H. A.; George E. Van Wart.f* 5th N. Y. ; Thomas Swords, 1st N. Y. Engineers ; , James Hyland, 13th N. Y. 11. A.; John Connolly, 17th N. Y.; Abrani Jones, 1st N. Y. Cav.; Hemy ('. Symonds, 2d U. S. .\rt.; William W. Ryder, 17th N. Y.; Wm. Nolan, U. S …
Y.; Pennington Watson, 186th Pa.; Thomas Donohue, Gth N. Y.; Wm. N. Dands, 1st N Y. Engineei-s ; Henry Hunter, llth N. Y. H. A.; George Augesdorler, GGth N. Y.; Silas W. Edgerton,t 34th Mass.; Orser Sarles, S. S. "Owasco;"' Jas. P. Holmes, F. S..S. -'Vicksburg "; Jno. Daly and Norman Minnerly, Gth N. Y. H. A.; Chellis D. Swaine,t llth N. Y. Cav.; Eli Valentine, 18th N. Y …
McGee, 5th Conn.; Arthur Bushel, 1st N. i'. Cav.; Alexander Helsey, 7th N. Y. H. A.; George Wheeler, 14Gth N. Y.; John J. Murphy, 7th N. Y. H. A.; Joseph C. Newman, 40th N. J.; Joseph Roderiques, U. S. S. "Mississippi;" Albert Drehfall, 58th N. Y.; S. J. Chambers, 7th N. Y. S. M. (three months); Hugh Murphy, U.S.S."Anacosta ;" Michael Smith, 1st N. Y. Engineers; Charles B …
Newman ; for 1882, Edgar Hilt ; for 1883, W. L. Hull ; for 1884, E. S. Folsom ; for 1885, E. A. Reynolds. The officers for 188b are as follows : Commander, Abraham Knapp; Senior Vice-Conimander, A. P. Quick; Junior Vice-Comnuinder, W H. Dingee ; Surgeon, D. F. Avery ; Chaplain, C. Corbyn ; Officer of Day, Edgar Hitt ; Officer of Guard, G. M. Avery ; Adjutant, E. S. Folsom …
Turner, U.S.S. ' Gi^fysburg ;" Chas. Corbyn, 170th N. Y,; E. H. Avery, Gth N. Y. H. .V.; C. W. Varian, sergeant, 165th N. Y.; J. A. Tuttle, 2d N. Y. Cav.; D. F. Avery, 38tli N. Y.; J. N. Purdy.t Gth U. S. Inf ; George M. Avery, 5th N. Y.; W. 11. Dingee, 150th N. Y.; Richard Wheatley, chaplain, 28th Conn.; C. M. Sarles, 4th N. Y.; Jarvis Pugsley, 48th N. Y.; L. E. Miller, 84th …
Commander Edgerton w as wounded at Mine Run, Va., on the 20th of July, 1864, a piece of shell taking effect in liis right breast and rendering amputation of the right arm necessarj'. Since the war he has become a clergyman, and is respected wherever he is known. Senior Vice-Commander: Hiram Osboril, first lieutenant of the 75th N. Y. ; promoted from the ranks, with three …
The nieinbcrs are as tullows : Joseph B. Eaton, lieuteuaut, Ttli Conn., three years ; .\brani .loncs, captain, 1st N. Y. t'av., three and a ijuarter years : Abraham 11. Miller, 6th N. Y. II. A., eighteen months; John J. Gritlin, sergeiiut, Otli N. Y. H. A; two and a half years ; William II. Clark, 51st \. Y'., discharged after eighle<'n months tor wound received at Second Bull …
J. (Ihamliers, 7th N. Y. S. M., three months ; Charles K. Lewis, U. S. S. "Nyack,'' nine months ; Pennington Watson, sergeant, IStith Pa., two jreai's;liilnian Rico. l.Sdth I'a., tw o year« ; Geo. .\yles, 17th N.Y., two years; Clement C Moon, tint lieutenant, iOth Mass., six months ; Wm. Kelsey, Coriioral, IXIlth Pa., two years; Oscar Knajip, tii-st sergeant, 4tli N. Y. H. \ …
George W. lieil, K. T. Bailey, William Bird, O. Clark, Geo. W. Cutler, Matthew Cutler, Edward ( liapin, I riali Dingee, .\le.\ander Hamilton, Henry E. lltitchins, James llill, .\rthur Matthews, James Matthews, Benjamin E. Merritt, .\. J. Osborne, Wesley Piei-sall and Franz Seitz. The officers of the post to date are as follows : Commanilers: E. T. I};iiley, lor 18811, 1881 and …
Cvitler, 1880, 1881 and 1882 ; Daniel Wood, 1883, 1884 and 18S.5. Officers of the Guard : Uriah Dingee, 1880, 1881 ; Daniel Wood, 1882, 1883 and 1884; Henry E. Hutchins, 18S5. Quarterma.<!ters : George Beil, 1880, 1881 and 1882 ; Silas D. Louden, 1883 and 1884 ; George Beil, 1885. Attjutants : Benjamin E. Merritt, 1880 ; Edward Cliapin, 1881, 1882 Mid 1883; Benjamin E …
Art. (one year) ; James Hill, :56th N. Y. V. (two years) ; James Slatthews, 5th \. Y. Vet. Vol. (two years) ; Uriah Dingee, 4th N. Y. H. Art.; William F. Banks, 6th N. Y. 11. Art.; P. Cormick,t 7th N. Y. II. Art. (served, altogether, fourteen years in U. S. service, woundeil and a pensioner) ; William Matthew s, 17th N. V. V. (two years) ; Samuel W. Palmer, sergeant, ls( N …
V.; Philip Ilon'inan, 3i'th N. J. V. (one year) ; James Feeks, 12th N. Y. V. (wounded and a pensioner) ; Tliom:is Ryan, 7th N. Y'. Y. (eighteen months) ; C. Van Tassell, 5th N. Y'. V. ; E. Reilly, 5th N. Y. H. Art. (eighteen months) ; Edward Tucker, 16tli Veteran Reserve Corps ; .\brah. Forkhill, 1st N. Y. Mounted Rifles (two years) ; Wm. A. Beekinan, 4th N. Y'. H. .\rt …
This closes the record of the post, for which I am indebted to the kindness of Comrade Beil, its first organizer. No list of officers for 1886 furnished. Comrade Beil has been since transferred to Farnsworth Post. Farnsworth Post, No. 170, of Mount Vernon. -- This post was organized on the 22d day of July, 18S0, and mustered into service by Comrade Henry Osterheld, of Kitching …
Chaplains : Nathan Van Horson, 1880 and I88I ; Joseph 11. Porter, 1882 and 1883 ; Stephen P. Hunt, 1884 and 1885. t Wounded. HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Surgeons : George W. Bertholf, 1880 ; Charles J. Nordquiet, 1881 ami 1882; Julius Dieckman, 1883; J. Q. A. Hollister, 1884 and 1885. Officers of tlif Day : Wm. Wilson, Jr., ISSO, 1881 aiid 1882; Samuel Tieliaut, 1883 ; J …
Junior Vice Commander : John H. Davis. Cliaplain : Stephen P. Hunt (third term). Officer of the Day : J. L. D. liiker. Snrgeon: J. Q. A. Hollister (third term). Officer of the Guard : \Villi:im H. Mercer (second term). .Adjutant: William Wilson, Jr. (second term). Qnarternia-ster : Henry S. SprouU. Past Commanders : Nathau Van Uorson, George W. lieil. The names of the comrades …
M., three months ; Wni. A. .Anderson, hospital steward, V. S. A., three and one-half years; Samuel Tiebant, second lieutonant, .'itli N. \. Inf.. two years ; James B. Spici'r, private, 22d N. Y. M., three niuntlis ; Simon Sternhagen, sergeant, 1st N. Y. M. R., three years and four months ; Michael Redmond,* sergeant, 127th N. Y. Inf., three years ; Leonard D. Tice, captain …
Pond, private, 10th Conn., four months ; (Jeorge II. Urown, sergeant, Gth Ind. N. Y. liiittery, three years ; Valentine M. Hodgson, first sergeant and brevet captain, <i7tli X. Y.Res. Corps, live years ; John Koedding, private, .'iSth N. Y'., three years; William Mitchell, private, lllSth N. Y., two years and eight months, det. serv. 2d V. S. II. .\rt.; Nicholas Wilhelm …
S., three years ; L. -\. Van Buskirk, private, :«d N. J., two years ; Nelson Jenkins, private, 39th N. J., nine months ; Chas. J. Chatfield, first lieutenant, 23d N. Y., three years and four mouths ; George W. Cooper, captain. 71st N. Y., two years and three months ; John SIcier,t sergeant, 52dN. Y., three years ; Oscar II. Riker, private, oth X. J. Battery, one year and eight …
Pinckney, first lieutenant, 131st X. Y.; Oswald Bergen, U. S. S. "Santee ; Joseph H. Glazier, 84th N. Y.; William Sconsbough, U. S. S. " Wissahickou ; " Henry Buhre t ^Sth N. Y.; Theodore Bishop, r. S. S. " San Jacinto ; " Eugene Heed, 32d " Maine ; " S. T. Graham, r. S. X.; William K. Miller, oth X. Y.; George W. Banta, 17t;th X. Y.; and Jerome Bell, 1st X. Y. Cav. Since …
Charles Lairrence Post, No. 378. -- This post was organized on the 29th of May, 1883, and mustered into service by Comrade Frederick Whittaker, of Farnsworth Post No. 170, of Mount Vernon, in time for Decoration Day. The charter members were : liicbanl Enoch, Charles De Mott, J. J. Martin, Matthew Dougbtss, Whitman Sackett, .lohn E. Weed, W. II. Mosier, J. A. Louden. George …
Ouarterinaster-Sergeant : A. Barnes, first appointment, 1885. The officers for 188() are as follows : t Wounded. THE CIVIL WAR, 18(j0-65. ConimanJer, John Foraa ; Senior Vice-Coiiiniander, Nicholas i'ox,; Junior Vico-C'uninmnilor, Cliarlcs Hughes ; Surgeon, Dr. N. J. SanJs ; Chaplain, Rev. W. F. Wakofleld ; Officer of tlie Day, George \V. Hiilkley; Officer of the Guard, .(ohn …
Y. Vol., three years; Stephen lUuxomel.t 127th N. Y: Vol., three yeare ; Alex. McBride, 4'.lth X. Y. Vol., three years ; A. J. Maris. 65th X. "k. Vol , three yeai> ; U. L. IMace, 127th N. Y. Vol., three yeai-s; Fred. Brittnor, 74tli X. Y. Vol., three years ; diaries De Mott, 22d X Y. Vol., three years ; W. H. Madden, liOd X. Y. Vol., throe years ; Wallace McBride, KWth N. Y …
Sullivan tiockwood and John Hughes, all of the (>th X. Y. H. Art., three years ; B. Foskey,'.lth N. Y. Cav., Kdwin Cluiicli,f 2d N. Y. 0»v., (i. K. Blackniaii,t lid X. Y. Cav., all three years ; William II. liy- IcrwHS in the l.'iOth N. Y'. Vol., and also in the V. S. S. " Wateree, " for the whole jieriod of the war, and after ; Thomas G. Sutton belonged t j the Veteran …
Snedeker, Richard Roach, Charles Whiston and George Lewis. Valentine M. Hodgson Wiis Commander for 1884, and the officers for 1885 were Commander, Edward B. Long; S. V. C, Crawford N. Smith; J. V. C, Cleorge W. Coventry ; Surgeon, David P. Barness ; Chaplain, David W. Bogart ; Officer of Day, George W. Brown ; Officer of Guard, Henry J. Williams ; Adjutant, Edward W. Bogart …
Y'.; George H. Morse, 2'.ltli Mass.; Oscar Stephens, .Ith N. Y.; Crawford X. Smith, lid V.S. Inf.; Thomns Rush, lt«4th N. V.; Henry A. Maynard, 21st X. Y.; .lolin I.owry, lid Refjt. I'rov. X. Y. (,'av.; John Simnioiis, 49tli N.Y.; Alexander Jones, 12Xth \. V.; Itenjainin S. Dick, 22d X. V. S. M.; Mervin Sniffin, I'ltli X. Y. H. Art.; J. (i. Spencer, yeoman, U. S. S., "Katahdin …
Ciishiiig, Jacob Wood, Ilenry Humphreys, tJeorge B. <!ypher and James D. See. Since organization of the post the following members have been mustered in : Thomas Birdsall, Thomas Taxter, Sylvester Gesner, B. Frank Davis and Elias Bryant. The list sent by the Commander of the post did not give the regiments of the members in full. B. F. Davis and (". J. Carpenter belonged to …
Galusha H. Balch, assistant surgeon, 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav.; Chaplain : John Forsyth ; Officer of the Day : James V. Law rence ; brevet-major. Gen. Stall'; Officer of the Guard: Augustus W. Xichol ; tjuartermaster : William Welsh, captain, (iSth N. Y. Vol. (by proxy of (y'oinrade Matt. Ellis, formerly of Kitching I'ost) ; .\<ljutaiit ; James F. t'arrell, aiptaiu, .'>tli X. Y …
These great water highways necessarily interpose a formidable obstacle to the spread of population in either direction, and although the introduction of steam ferriage and the construction of the Brooklyn bridge have modified the inconveniences of tran.sit across broad rivers, the general trend of population continues to the northward. Elevated railroads and the development of …
That will be the day for the now neglected west side of the island. The poetical prophecy, ' Westward the star of empire takes its way,' and which is fast becoming historical truth, will receive another illustration." Much of this prediction has already been realized and a comparatively brief period in the future may be expected to work a wonderful transformation in the …
Traversed by picturesque ridges and romantic streams, with the blue expanse of Long Island Sound on the one side and the lordly Hudson on the other, the county is exceptionally favored by nature, and there is no strip of territory of equal extent in the whole country which combines in the same degree advantages of location and beauty of surface with the artificial adornments …
Notable examples were the Philipse and Livingston Manors, the titles to which came directly from the crown. Gradually these extensive tracts were sub-divided, leaving still, however, large areas in the possession of single individuals. Many of these smaller estates have undergone a process of improvement and embellishment, until the lordly mansions on the Hudson have become …
The first point of interest is High Bridge, now within the corporate limits of New York, winch carries the waters of the Croton Reservoir across the valley of tiic Harlem River at an elevation of one hundred feet, and is one of the noted engineering triumphs of the world. The hamlet of King's Bridge is charmingly located in a beautiful valley, near the point where the Harlem …
At Riverdale Station, on the Hudson liiver Railroad (the first station beyond the Spuyten Duyvel), a splendid view is had of the Hudson, with the villiis clustered along the eastern bank and the Palisades showing their perpendicular fronts against the swelling outlines of the Ramapo Range. The city of Yonkers is seen in the distance, and near at hand are the convent of Mount …
Washington Heights, which crown the ridge near the site of Fort Washington, are the site of many fine residences. The Spuyten Duyvel, it is said, derives its name from a legendary anecdote narrated by Washington Irving, who ascribes the performance from which it arose to Anthony Van Corlaer, trumpeter to the doughty Governor Stuyvesant. The original legend asserts that a …
In front of the mansion a handsome view is obtained of the valley of Yonkers, and at the foot of the hill flows Tii)i)et's Brook. On the west side of the ridge is a charming view of the Hudson River, the Palisades and adjacent hills. The ancient residence of the Cortlandt fiimily stands in the valley below, about a mile from King's Bridge. A portion of the estate has been laid …
It is of stone, with many gables, the eastern side being clothed with ivy from slips presented to Irving by Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. The original structure was the " Woolfert's Roost," which gives its title to one of Irving's sketches. On the opposite bank is Tappan, memorable as the scene of the massacre of Baylor's regiment by the British under General Grey, and from …
Here also is the famous old Dutch Church, lieavy with the marks of more than two centuries, and Sleepy Hollow, described by Irving in his well-known legend narrating the luckless courtsliip of Ichabod Crane. The neighborhood is rich in interesting associations growing out of the residence here for many years of Washington Irving and members of his household ; and the romantic …
About two miles above Sing Sing is the source of theCroton River, which furnishes the water supply for New York City. It is conveyed by an aiiueduct forty miles long, with sixteen tunnels and forty-four bridges. Croton Point, four miles above Sing Sing, is a tongue of land projecting into the river and covered with vineyards and orchards- It separates Tappan Zee from …