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YONKERS IN THE REBELLION. 
 
TIIK MONIMKNT WIIKS KKADV I'llR HKDUATH 
 
 WITH UANOII IIM.I. IN nil: IIAI'K»IIOlM>. 
 
YONKERS 
 IN THE REBELLION 
 
 OF 18()1-1S()5. 
 
 INCLUDING A HI8TORY OF 
 
 THE ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT TO HONOR THE 
 
 MEN OF YONKERS WHO FOUGHT 
 
 TO SAVE THE UNION. 
 
 BY 
 
 THOMAS ASTLEY 4TKINS 
 
 AND 
 
 JOHN WISE OLIVER. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 THE YONKERS SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 
 
NM 
 
 )pyn{;ht, 189:2. By Thomas Astlkv Atkdcs 
 and .John Wisk Oliver. 
 
 rillNTKI. AT THK I>l 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 IN preparing this memorial volume, the authors have aimed to 
 furnish as complete a history of Yonkees in the Rebellion as 
 the available material made possible — as well as a full history of 
 the erection of the Monument which has been placed in front of 
 Manor Hall, by the liberality and patriotism of the people, and 
 which is intended to honor those identified with our town who 
 faced the enemies of the Union in a long and desperate Rebellion. 
 To insure correctness, the authors consulted State archives, local 
 records, and many persons who were actors in the stu-ring events 
 of the time. 
 
 In some cases difficulty was experienced in obtaining records of 
 names, organizations, dates, etc., known to be reliable. Even in 
 official papers the same persons are recorded differently, and more 
 or less confusion exists as to the organizations in which some of 
 them served. And then, again, doubtless some names are omitted, 
 for want of information, which are justly entitled to a place in this 
 volume. No reasonable labor was spared to make the record full, 
 and to avoid errors ; and yet omissions and errors will probably be 
 discovered. While these are to be regretted, they were unavoid- 
 
(i YOSKERS 1\ TIIK ItEliELI.IOX. 
 
 able. The authors ask for leuieut criticism on what, to them, has 
 heeu a laljor of love, aiul yet, at times, a labor exceedingly arduous 
 and perplexing. 
 
 To Charles E. (Jorton, Major Frederic Shonnai-*!, J<ihii C.Sliotts, 
 Dr. a. B. Balch, Rev. Charles E. Allison, William. H. Fisher, and 
 others, who kindly aid<^d in the work, sincere acknowledgments are 
 here recorded. 
 
 YoNKERS, .IaNTAKY 1. ISitl'. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 Chapter I. The Call to Ahms. 
 
 Town-Meeting — Prompt Response — First Company of Yonkers 
 Volunteers — Provision for their Families — Presentation 
 OF A Flag — Loyalty and Patriotism — "We are Nowhere 
 Told in the Bible to Give up the Flag of Our Country" 
 — "I am Ready to Die under its Folds" — War in Earnest. 
 
 Chapter II. Company A, Seventeenth Regiment NEw-Yorav 
 Volunteers. 
 
 The Capture of the First Cannon, at Hanover Court-House— 
 The Westchester Chasseurs — Their Record from Official 
 Archi\t3S 27 
 
 Chapter III. Sixth iSTew-York Volunteer Artillery. 
 
 Union Defence Committee — Colonel William H. Morris — Sol- 
 dierly Bearing and Discipline— Heroic Fighting Qualities 
 —Colonel J. Howard Kitching— List of Battles— Com- 
 mended IN Special Orders 33 
 
 7 
 
8 YOSKERS IN THE liEliELLloy. 
 
 Chaptei! IV. TiiF. Thikty-Days Men. 
 
 Captain John Danis Hatch's Company — Valiant SER\acE at 
 Fort McHenry', Baltimoke— Captain John Padden's Com- 
 pany — Garrison Duty at Fort Riciimond, Ne\v-York 
 Harbor 51 
 
 Chaptek V. The Home Giards. 
 
 The Draft Riots in New- York— Yonkers Threatened— Dr. 
 Henry M. Baird on the Situation — The Home Guards Or- 
 ganized TO Preserve Order and Protect Property — 
 Watch-Tower of the First Presbyterian Church — "An 
 Awkward Squad" — Duties Defined by Frederick S. Cozzens 
 — An Arrest and ("oiht Martial— Good Service at a 
 Critical Time 
 
 Chapter VI. The Sanitary Fair. 
 
 A (iuEAT Success — Over Sixteen Thousand Dollars Raised to 
 Aid the Bekevolent Work ok the United States Sanitary 
 Commission G3 
 
 (■hapter VII. At the Close ok the War. 
 
 YoNKKUS AT TIIK ('l,OSK OK TlIK RkHKI.MON — (iKuWTll OK TlIK \"ll.- 
 
 LAOE — More Prohressivk — The Census — Celebration of 
 THE Fall ok Richmond— President Lincoln's Assassination 
 — Return ok Ouk liuAVK Soldiers . 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Chaptek VIII. Brevet Brigadiee-Geneeal John Howaed 
 
 KiTCHING. 
 
 A True Christian Hero— His Bravery, Military Skill, and 
 Services as a Commander — The Fatal Shot at Cedar 
 Creek — His Untimely Death at Dobbs Ferry i 
 
 Chapter IX. Some Personal Recoeds of the War. 
 
 Colonel Fisher A. Baker and His Battles— Surgeon G. B. 
 Balch — Jeremiah Burns and the White House — The First 
 ToNKERS Hero Who Died for the Union — Captain Matt. 
 H. Ellis and His Campaigns— Hand-to-Hand Encounter of 
 Captain William L. Heermance with Captain B. M. Medina 
 — The Hero and His Crutch — General Thomas Ewing at 
 Pilot Kjstob — Adjutant James Millward and the Washing- 
 ton Clay Battalion— Major James V. Lawrence and 
 Mosby's Band — Thomas Oliver's Lost Medal — Abraham J. 
 Palmer and "The Die-No-Mores"— Ralph E. Prime's Ser- 
 vices AND Promotions — Where William Riley Lost His 
 Arm — Major Frederic Shonnard's Honorable Career — 
 Captain James Stewart, Jr., Rescues Generals Hooker and 
 Williams from an Embarrassing Situation 105 
 
 Chapter X. Oue Heeoes' Last Sleep. 
 
 At Rest in St. John's, Oakland, St. Mary's and St. Joseph's 
 Cemeteries — Their Graates Kept in Reverent Remembrance. 143 
 
10 YONKEUS IN THE UEliELLION. 
 
 Chaptek XI. A Roll of Hoxoit. 
 
 Soldiers and Sailoks of the Wak now oh late RESiDtNO in 
 
 YONKERS 14!> 
 
 (!hai'tek XII. The (Ikand Ahmy of the Republic. 
 
 KiTCHiNO Post— John C. Fremont Post— Men Who Bra\'elv 
 Faced the Rebel Fire in Defence of the Union 169 
 
 Ouaptek XIII. The Sdi.dif.ks' and Sailoks' Moximext 
 Association. 
 
 Its History and Its Work — The Foirth Separate Company 
 Fair— Depew Night is:{ 
 
 Chapter XIV. Erection of the Moximent. 
 
 Arrival of the Bronze Statues. and Granite-Work — Thkir 
 Approvai — Layinci op the Corner-Stone — The Erection 19!) 
 
 Chapieu XV. The Dedication. 
 
 (iREAT Concourse of I^eofle- The Decorations— The Proces- 
 sion—The Music— The Oration— The Original Poems— 
 The Unveilino — The Dedicatory Address— The Naval 
 Salute — lMPosiN(i Services and Historic Day ' im 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. U 
 
 Chapter XVI. The Association's Work Completed. 
 
 The Enclosure — The Memorial Volume — All Obligations 
 Promptly Met 243 
 
 Chapter XVII. Contributors to the Monument Fund. 
 The Association — Its Officers and Principal Committees . . . 24.5 
 
 ENGRAVINGS. 
 
 The Monument when Ready for Dedication, Manor 
 
 Hall in the Background Frontispiece 
 
 The Infantry Statue -4 
 
 The Artillery Statue 48 
 
 General John Howard Kitching 82 ^ 
 
 The Naval Statue 140 '^ 
 
 The Cavalry Statue ICO '' 
 
 The Color-Bearer I'^O 
 
 The Monument and Enclosure -^8 i- 
 
YONKERS IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE CALL TO ARMS. 
 
 Town-Meeting — Prompt Response — Fiest Company of Yonkers 
 Volunteers — Provision for their Families — Presentation 
 OF a Flag — Loyalty and Patriotism — "We are Nowhere 
 Told in the Bible to Give up the Flag of Our Country " — 
 "I AM Ready to Die under its Folds" — War in Earnest. 
 
 I ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in 
 , virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution aud the 
 laws, have thought fit to call forth, aud hereby do call forth, the 
 militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number 
 of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations 
 and to cause the laws to be duly executed. 
 
 "I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this 
 eifort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of 
 
 3 13 
 
14 YOXKKHS IX THE REBEI.LIOX. 
 
 our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, 
 and to redress wrongs already long enough endured." 
 
 So spake the President in his Proclamation, dated at Washing- 
 ton, April 15, 1861. 
 
 At four o'clock on the morning of April lli, lS(i], tlit- first gun 
 was fii-ed at Fort Sumter. The echo waked the slumbering patri- 
 otism of the Nation. When the smoke rolled away, the glorious 
 sun of liberty for all men arose upon an expectant universe. Says 
 a local chronicler, writing on the morning of April 15 : " No event 
 which has occurred within the recollection of the present genera- 
 tion, it is safe to assume, ever occasioned such profound and wide- 
 spread excitement as that which has pervaded all classes since 
 the attack upon Fort Sumter was announced. The war was the 
 absorbing topic among all classes of citizens." 
 
 The first gun changed public sentiment in a trice. There was but 
 one party now, and that the party of the Union. " There is but one 
 sentiment now toiicliini;- the duty of the citizen at tliis lionr — to sus- 
 tain the Oovernnifiit. ( )ii every corner, in every car, in every churcli 
 vestibule, could be lieard tlie remark, ' I will stand by the (rovern- 
 nient of my country when assailed, as it now is, by traitors.'" So 
 said a prominent citizen, and he but expressed the popular feeling. 
 
 The excitement in Yonkers, as everywhere, was intense. In fact, 
 nothing else but the war, which was now upon them in dead ear- 
 nest, was the subject of conversatinn. (ndinary topics ceased to 
 be of interest. The papers were lilled with news, or alleged news, 
 from the seat of war, and edition after edition was exhausted, and 
 \\v d.Tuand for news not sate<l. 
 
 I'roni All.aiiy came advices that (iovernor Edwin I ). Morgan 
 had i.roni|itly issued a call for li.^.Odd men to go to the war from the 
 
THE CALL TO ARMS. 15 
 
 State of New- York. This, with the President's call, set the town of 
 Yonkers in a ferment; for the Grovernor was the Commander-in- 
 Chief of the State Militia, and his call gave official life to the patri- 
 otic zeal of onr townspeople. 
 
 The State quota was but 17 regiments, consisting each of an 
 aggregate of 780 officers and men. They were to serve three 
 months. Such was the intensity of martial zeal those April days 
 that it seemed to one on the spot as if every able-bodied man 
 under the age of forty-five years must abandon home and busi- 
 ness and enlist. 
 
 For days after these calls the country was on fire with zeal, ablaze 
 with patriotism. For a while it seemed as if such a cruelty as a 
 draft could never be ti'ied here, and that tens of thousands must 
 necessarily be rejected as volunteers. 
 
 A town-meeting was held in Radford Hall, at which stii-ring 
 aopeals were made for volunteers to take up arms in defense of the 
 Government. Seventy-five men responded, on assurances that the 
 families would be aided while the bread-winners were at the front. 
 John T. Waring, President of the village, administered the oath of 
 allegiance to the volunteers. 
 
 Next morning several of the volunteers informed Mr. Waring that 
 they did not deem it prudent to leave their families to be cared for 
 by a town-meeting. "But," said one, " if you will give your per- 
 sonal promise that our families shall receive the promised aid, we 
 will go, cheered by the belief that our families wall not be left to 
 suffer." Mr. Waring appeared before the men, gave the desired 
 promise, and the company went off in good spirits. " I considered 
 the confidence reposed in me under the circumstances," says Mr. 
 Waring, " as the highest compliment of my life." 
 
IG YOyKEIiS JX THE KEIiELLIOy. 
 
 The next day Mr. Waring and Ethan Flagg, on investigation, dis- 
 covered that sixty-five of the enlisted men had families in varied 
 circumstances. A fixed amount was agreed upon for each family, 
 and it was an-anged that a member should call at Mr. taring's 
 oflBee every Saturday and receive the amount promised — and tliat 
 arrangement was continued for the term of the enlistment. After- 
 ward Ml-. Waring was reimbursed by the town. 
 
 A few quotations from our local press, in the early days of the 
 Rebellion, may not be amiss, and will, perhaps, enable us to under- 
 stand better the pages of history which are to follow. Said a local 
 editorial, April 20, 1861 : 
 
 We hoist at our masthead the flag we have always honored and revered, the flag: 
 under which we were bom, and Ijeneath whose starry folds we expect to draw our 
 last breath. We believe that, at a time like this, the display of any and everj" thing 
 calculated to awaken patriotic emotion is proper, and we rejoice to see the Nation's 
 banner everywhere displayed. 
 
 Again : 
 
 It is uiiquestiouably the duty of patriotic citizens, in an emergency like the 
 present, to cooperate in all proper efforts to vindicate the honor of the National 
 flag, to support the Government in all just measures for the restoration of peace, 
 and above all to join in the defense of the Capitol in Washington against invasion, 
 from whatever quarter it may come. It is the duty of every citizen, at this time, 
 to display his devotion to the Union in an unmistakable manner, and, if need be, 
 shoulder his musket for that purpose. 
 
 Such a soul-stirring ap]»eal could not be, and was not, lost upon 
 the young men of tlic village of Yonkci-s. 
 
 A local paper of April l!7, iSfil, says: 
 
 As early as Tuesday morning, April 2.3, the company of volunteers, which liad 
 been organized in so short a time, look tiieir departure from our village for the 
 
THE CALL TO ARMS. 17 
 
 purpose of enrolling their names on the muster-in roll of a regiment of New- York 
 State Volunteers then forming in New-York. Never before did we witness such an 
 outpouring of patriotic spnpathy as that which greeted them on every turn, as 
 they proceeded through the viUage — deep, reverential, heartfelt sympathy for the 
 boys who had forsaken father, mother, and friends to sustain and protect the honor 
 of the flag which they had been taught to revere and respect. 
 
 All tlirough the morniBg of this eventful day a large crowd, 
 drawn from all parts of the town, had filled Getty Square and 
 " discussed the all-absorbing topics of the day, our soldiers' pros- 
 pects and the departure of the volunteers." The scene was one 
 which has never been forgotten by those who took part in it, and 
 it had a most invigorating effect upon the departing company. 
 
 At eleven o'clock in the morning the first company of Yonkers 
 Volunteers formed in line, and, prior to their departure, marched 
 through the principal streets of the village. They were preceded 
 by the Yonkers Cornet Band, aud had for their escort a long line 
 of citizens and firemen. After the band came the members of 
 Lady Washington Engine Company No. 2, dragging their appa- 
 ratus, which, we are told, was "tastefully decorated and covered with 
 American flags, and presented quite a handsome appearance." 
 
 All Yonkers was out of doors or at the windows on that eventful 
 morning. Every window and door along the long line of march 
 was occupied by women and children, " anxious to take a last view 
 and bid a final farewell to the brave men of our village." 
 
 As the procession passed the Main Street House it was saluted 
 by the firing of guns and other patriotic demonstrations. Arrived 
 at the railroad station at the foot of Main street, it seemed as if 
 the whole town had gathered to do the volunteers honor. It was, 
 we are told, "the scene and center of the most intense and exciting 
 
18 YOXKKUS IX TIIK RKBELUOX. 
 
 iuterest, the square being as one vast sea of heads. Tlie Youkers 
 Liederkrauz sang several patriotic hymns, while the thundering 
 echoes of the cannon would occasionally drown tln-ir voices for the 
 time in the notes of war." 
 
 And so amid cheer and acclaim our brave boys left their homes 
 for the war, and, says our chronicler, " the train passed ont of 
 sight." He adds to the account of the day's doings the humble 
 prayer: "May the God of battles lead our nwii t<> lionor and 
 victory." 
 
 A notable event at this time was the success of a subscription 
 taken in a great hurry to defray the preliminary expenses of the 
 volunteers. Almost without effort $3,000 were subscribed, and at 
 once. The subscription list is a notable one, and among the donors 
 of large amounts we find the names of John T. Waring, Frederick A. 
 Coe, Ethan Flagg, Robert J. Douglass, James B. Colgate, William 
 Bell, Edward Underhill, Anson Baldwin, Edward F. Shonnard, 
 George B. Skinner, Edward Martin, William Macfarlane, St. Paul's 
 Church, Jeremiah Bobbins, Thomas C. Cornell, Charles E. Waring, 
 Samuel D. Rockwell, Francis N. Bangs, Lyman Cobb, Jr., Isaac H. 
 Knox, Walter H. Paddock, Robert J. Tojilis, Isaac V. Fowler, Ralph 
 Shipman, ajid a liost of others. "Let all wlio ean jilaee their 
 names on the list," wrote the local editor, and tlie invitation did 
 not pass unheeded. 
 
 Worthy of preservation in our local records is the Hag-presenta- 
 tion by Robert J. Douglass. This flag was presented to the volun- 
 teers in Getty Square, at an out-of-door meeting at whicli Thomas 
 F. Morris was cjiairman and Ajonzo Hell was secretary. 
 
 Tile presentation speech was uukU- by the Reverend Darius K*. 
 Hre\v<T, re<-tor of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Clnnvli, in tii.' 
 
THE CALL TO ABMS. 19 
 
 course of which he said : " We are directed in the Bible that if a 
 man shall take away your coat, to give him your cloak also — but 
 we are nowhere told in the Bible to give up the flag of our 
 country." 
 
 Captain Charles H. Smith responded for the volunteers. His 
 peroration stirred the souls of his hearers. " I was born under that 
 flag," said he ; "I have lived and fought under that flag, and am 
 ready to die under its folds." 
 
 That our people were thoroughly satisfied with and proud of 
 their first company is evidenced by the following, taken from a local 
 paper of the date of May 4, 1861 : 
 
 We cannot refrain from noticing in complimentary terms the brave fellows who 
 {should the war begin in earnest) will represent our village in the contest. They 
 are all young, tough and active, compact of form and sinewy. The quiet and 
 gentlemanly manner in which they have conducted themselves at their quarters in 
 New- York has elicited the warmest commendations from aU sources. 
 
 Our local was equally proud of " Our Charlie." It says : 
 
 Captain Charles H. Smith, of the Westchester Chasseurs, made his appearance 
 among us a few days ago in his full set of regimentals. He looked Uke a true 
 soldier, and impressed every one with the conviction that he might well be regarded 
 as a descendant of the famous Captain John Smith of Virginia. 
 
 And so our boys " went to the war." And thus the war opened 
 for our village and town. 
 
 It will be noted above that the local writer of the ith of May, 1861, 
 remarks, in parenthesis, " should the war begin in earnest." This 
 merely gives phrase to what was in the minds of many at that time. 
 It was hard to believe, at that day, that actual war was intended or 
 
20 YOXKKh-S I\ THE hhBELLfO.W 
 
 would come. No doubt many volunteered with that idea. This 
 view was rudely shattered by the result of the first battle of Bull 
 Run. To Vonkers the awakening of that day was siekfMiini; and 
 terrible. Our dear ones had gone indeed to the war. 
 
 Shortly after the middle of July, the head-lines of " Dis.\ster to 
 THE Union Army," and " Retreat of Ctener.\.l McDowell's Com- 
 mand FROM Manassas," drove the iron into the .soul of our thereto- 
 fore hopeful people. Yonkers village and town were in gloom. 
 Indeed their dear ones had "gone to the war." 
 
 " But," says a winter of that date, "the feeling of surprise, sancti- 
 fied by sorrow for the gallant soldiers sadly sacrificed in this dis- 
 astrous retreat soon gave way to a stern and deep determination in 
 every bosom to spare no effort, either in men or money, at once to 
 supply theii- places and avenge their death, and further to increase 
 the efficiency of the Army of the Union with all possible despatch." 
 Another writer said, "Adver.sity is a beneficent teacher, but we 
 learn what is our first should lie our last li-sson."' 
 
 And .so Yonkers girdeil up its luins and went anew into tiie con- 
 flict, saddened but having learned well its lesson. For four long 
 and weary years our town jtonrcd into tlie lajiof the Nation gener- 
 ous donations of nifii ami moiiry. Call after call for recruits was 
 met with promptness and generosity. Every reasoiialile denumd 
 for means was responded to affirmatively. 
 
 In charities, also, were oiir townspeople in tlie van, and materials 
 and money for the sick and wounded were literally jtoured, like 
 l)alm, n]ion tlie sutTi'i'iiig soldiers, and the record of Yonkers is 
 poiiite(l to with jiride to this day. An<l from .lay to day, w.'ck to 
 week, those joiit: and dreary years, did our iiohle boys go to the war 
 — now, in earnest. 
 
THE CALL TO ARMS. 21 
 
 Among the first Yonkers men mvistered into the United States 
 service to put down the RebeUion, and who went with the Fifth 
 New- York Volunteer Infantry, known as the Duryea Zouaves, 
 commanded by Colonel Abram Duiyea, were James Finnan, Com- 
 pany C; George A. Mitchell, Charles Allen, Charles Fortescue, Henry 
 Wicker, James W. Brown, David Crofut, Greorge Hitchcock, James 
 Murphy, John G. Peene, George Post, WiUiam C. Eyer, Benjamin 
 Sullivan, James Sheridan, Frank Morgan, and William Sweeney, all 
 in Company F; Ralph E. Prime, in Company G; and Thomas Cahill, 
 musician. They all enlisted in April, 1861. The following joined 
 the same Regiment at Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, in the fall of 
 1861: James Franklin, William Stapleton, and Edward Simmons. 
 
 Ralph E. Prime, George A. Mitchell, James Sheridan, Henry 
 Wicker, George Hitchcock, Charles Fortescue, Benjamin Sullivan, 
 William Sweeney (dead), Casper Ryer (dead), James Brown (dead), 
 David Crofut, George Post, John G. Peene and Charles Allen were 
 in the battle of Big Bethel, the first engagement of the war fought in 
 line of battle — also in many skirmishes which preceded the battle. 
 
 The Fifth Regiment was engaged in the battle of Big Bethel, the 
 siege of Yorktown, the battles of Williamsburg, Hanover Court- 
 House, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, Peach Orchard, Charles City 
 Cross-Roads, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, 
 Antietam, Blackford's Ford, Petersburg, Chancellorsville, &c. 
 
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ox THE EAST SIDE. 
 
 THE INFANTRY STATUE. 
 
 The studies and drawings for this statue were made by J. E. Kelly, of 
 New-York. The soldier is shown at " iix bayonets." The attitude exhibits 
 life and action. The face is stem, and marked by determination. The 
 whole bearing of the figure shows expectation of an immediate charge 
 upon the enemy, and recalls to every old soldier the grim features of war. 
 Inscriptions : 
 
 PATRIOTISM. 
 
 TO HONOR THE 
 MEN OF YONKERS 
 WHO FOUGHT TO 
 SAVE THE UNION. 
 
 1861 - 186S. 
 
 SLAVERY ABOLISHED. 
 
 Note. — Xo part of the Monument gave the Association so much eoneem as the statues. 
 The original drafts submitted were tame and expressionless, while the Association desired 
 vigor and earnest, warlike action. After much thought and labor, and aided by artists of 
 recognized ability, success was attained. It is rare, indeed, that a group of five statues 
 are so uniformly approved. 
 
 The four bronze statues were modeled by Lorado Taft, of Chicago, and cast by the 
 American Bronze Company of Chicago. They are warranted to be of the best standard 
 and quality — ninety-five per cent, copper and five per cent. tin. Each is seven feet high. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT 
 NEW- YORK VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 The Capture of the First Cannon, at Hanover Court-House— 
 The Westchester Chasseurs — Their Record from Official 
 Archives. 
 
 ON the fifteenth day of April, 1861, Fort Sumter capitulated, 
 and on the sixteenth day of the same month the President's 
 call for troops reached Albany. A large and patriotic meeting was 
 held at Farrington Hall, Yonkers, on the evening of April 17, at 
 which volunteers were called for. In response to this call, over 
 one hundred young men were enrolled to serve in defense of the 
 flag and to preserve the Union. Of this number several joined the 
 Fifth New- York Volunteers, while the remainder, about ninety, 
 organized into a company which was known as Company A, Seven- 
 teenth New- York Volunteers, and which was mustered into the 
 United States service on the 20th of May, 1861, to serve two years, 
 unless sooner discharged. 
 
28 YONKEIiS ly THE liEBELLIOX. 
 
 This company, which was the first to leave Yonkers for the seat 
 of war, and was composed exclusively of Yonkers men, captured, 
 at Hanover Court-House, the first cannon taken by the Army of 
 the Potomac. The company was mustered out of the United States 
 service at the expiration of its term of enlistment, June 2, 1863. 
 The majority of those mustered out reenlisted and returned to the 
 war. We append items, culled from various records, relating to 
 this company. 
 
 The following is the record taken from the official archives of the 
 War Department, and from the State card attached to the flags of 
 the Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers, at Albany, N. Y.: 
 
 First. — National Flag, silk, embroidered with number of Regiment. Much worn. 
 Spear-head gone. Presented to the Regiment by eight lady friends of Col. H. S. 
 Lansing. 
 
 Second.— Regimental Banner, white silk, painted on one side with arms of the 
 State of New- York, and Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. On the 
 other side, an eagle, shield, and number of Regiment. Staflf, with plate inscribed : 
 "Presented to the Westchester Chasseurs by the Ladies of Westchester County, 
 May, 1801." 
 
 Third.— Regimental Hanuer, blue silk, painted with arms of the City of Xew- 
 York and inscribed: "Seventeenth Kigimcnt N. Y. V. Presented by the City of 
 New-York." Original staff gone. 
 
 Tlie Seventeenth Kcginient, .sonu-times known as the Westchester 
 Chasseurs, was organized in the city of New-York in the spring of 
 1861. It was composed of four companies from Westchester County, 
 one from Rockland, two from New-York City, one from Wayne, 
 one from Wyoming, jni.l one from Clieiiango. It left for the seat 
 of wiir .luiie, lS(il, ;iih1 pjirlicipat.'d in tlie siege of Yorktown, and 
 battk'S of Hanover Court-lluu.<e, wliere it captured the first cannon 
 
COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 29 
 
 taken from the enemy by the Army of the Potomac, Groveton 
 (known as the second battle of Bull Run), where it lost 13 oflScers 
 and 250 men, killed and wounded, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and 
 Chancellorsville. 
 
 It was mustered out in the spring of 1863, after two years' 
 service, was immediately reorganized for three years' service, and 
 took the field in September, being the first of the thirty-nine old 
 regiments to report for duty. 
 
 " Honors of the Empire State in the War of the Rebellion," by 
 Thomas S. Townsend, compiler of "The Library of National 
 Records," on page 292 says : 
 
 SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT WESTCHESTER CHASSEURS. 
 
 The Regiment was commanded by Colonel H. S. Lansing, with Thomas F. Mon-is 
 as Lieutenant-Colonel. When Lieutenant-Colonel Morris resigned in 1862, Nel- 
 son B. Barti-am became his successor. The Seventeenth and a Massachusetts 
 Regiment constituted the entire infantry force under General Stoneman on the 
 Peninsula, when he made that hasty, timely, and terrible march. 
 
 At Hanover Court-House the Seventeenth took one of the enemy's guns. 
 General Butterfield spoke -of the splendid advance of the Brigade, led by the Seven- 
 teenth and Forty-Fom-th New- York, at the battle of Groveton. At the battle of 
 Bull Run no less than f om- color-bearers lost their lives in defense of the flag ; it 
 was saved and rigged to a new staff ; was retiu'ned to the Common Council of New- 
 York as a proof of the valor of the Regiment. The Regiment lost over 200 men at 
 Bull Run out of 550 who went into the battle. 
 
30 YONKEIiS IX THE HKBELLIOX. 
 
 MUSTER-OUT ROLL. 
 
 Officers. 
 
 Charles H. Smith, Captain. 
 
 George Reynolds, Lieutenant, discharged on account of disability 
 
 January 30, 1862. 
 RoMEYN BoGARDUS, Ensign, resigned August 8, 18G1. 
 JLvRTix SKt'LiA', First Sergeant, wounded August 30, 18G2, at the 
 
 battle of Bull Run, made Second Lieutenant. 
 John C. Coates, Sergeant. 
 Edwin James, Sergeant. 
 
 Benjamin C. Nodine, Sergeant, wounded August 30, 1862. 
 Edwin Cumberbeach, Corporal, made Sergeant. 
 John Nolan, Corporal. 
 AiiFRED Bowler, Corporal, made Sergeant. 
 Willlam J. TowNSEND, Corporal. 
 Jacob A. Glazier, Musician. 
 Richard Cook, Musician, wounded August 30, 18(i2. 
 
 AiNswoRTH, John, discharged on ac- Cain, Michael, wounded August 30, 
 
 count of disability August 29, 1861. 1862. 
 
 AiNSWORTH, Jo.SEPH, discharged on ac- Carll, James, made Corporal. 
 
 count of disability January 3, 1863. Carroll, Willlam, wounded. 
 
 Amsby, Marion. Cavanagh, Thomas, discharged on ac- 
 
 Archer, Thomas O., discharged on ac- count of disability November 11, 1861. 
 
 count of disability September 20, 1861. Cawley, Thomas, wounded August 30, 
 
 Avery, William. 1862 ; died September 29, 1862. 
 
 Barclay, John. Colwell, Atkins. 
 
 Bell, George. Coxnell, William, made Corjwral ; 
 
 Bragg, Willlvm. wounded August 3(1. I,s(i2. 
 
 Brazil, James, died March 24, IS(J2. Connkli.v. Thomas, kilUd August .Ml, 
 
 Bromley, James. 1862. 
 
 Brooks, George. Delany', Daniel, killed August 30, 1862. 
 
 Brown, Charles A. Donahue, John, woimded August 30, 
 
 Burns, Jeremiah. 1862. 
 
COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 31 
 
 Fisher, Philip. 
 
 Flood, Peter, wounded August 30, 
 
 1862. 
 FoLKER, William, wounded Aug-ust 30, 
 
 1862. 
 Foster, Jajies W. 
 Foster, William W., made Corporal; 
 
 captured August 30, 1862. 
 Garvin, Frank, wounded August 30, 
 
 1862. 
 Glasier, Newcomb B. 
 Hampson, Eli. 
 Hampson, Samuel. 
 HoRTON, Theron R., wounded August 
 
 30, 1862. 
 EJiowLES, William. 
 Kohler, John, wounded August 30, 
 
 1862. 
 Lawrence, Thomas 0., wounded Au- 
 gust 30, 1862. 
 Leary, John S. 
 Leek, Joseph. 
 Lesnon, Daniel. 
 Lobdell, Walter C. 
 LoGUE, Bernard. 
 Major, Garrett G., wounded June 30, 
 
 1862, and August 30, 1862. 
 Malloy, Thomas. 
 Marian, John. 
 
 McCabe, Dennis. 
 
 McCaul, Thomas. 
 
 McNamara, John. 
 
 Mills, Thomas. 
 
 Murphy, Cornelius, captured August 
 
 30, 1862. 
 NoDiNE, Edward. 
 NoDiNE, Peter, wounded August 30, 
 
 1802. 
 O'Keefe, Patrick, transferred Jidy 1, 
 
 1862, to Company E. 
 O'Rourke, John, transferred July 16, 
 
 1862, to Company E. 
 O'SuLLivAN, Daniel, transferred July 
 
 16, 1862, to Company E. 
 Plunkett, John. 
 Rice, Joseph, transferred Januaiy 10, 
 
 1862, to Company D. 
 Satzger, Charles C, made Corporal. 
 Shotts, John C. 
 Simmonds, Edward. 
 Tansey, Matthew. 
 Terry, Thomas F. 
 Walter, William. 
 Watson, John, died July 20, 1863. 
 Welsh, Morris F., made Corporal ; 
 
 killed August 30, 1862. 
 Whiting, John B., made Corporal ; cap- 
 tured August 30, 1862. 
 
 The following joined the Company after muster 
 
 Andrews, Joseph. 
 Aebuckle, William. 
 Austin, James. 
 
 Beardsley, E. H., First Lieuteuaut. 
 Beckett, Thomas, Captain, wounded 
 August 30, 1862. 
 
 Bell, George, No. 2. 
 
 Blauvelt, Isaac D., killed August 30, 
 1862. 
 
 Bowes, Benjamin, discharged on ac- 
 count of disability, January 9, 1862. 
 
 Brady. Charles. 
 
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 YON KK lis IX THE UK BELLI OS. 
 
 Bretenshaw, Joshua, wounded. 
 Brown, Joseph, transferred to Company 
 
 G, One Hundred and Forty-Sixth 
 
 Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 Carny, Michael. 
 Clark, Abner H. 
 Clark, Peter, wounded August 30, 
 
 1802, age 32. 
 Clark, Peter, wounded August 30, 
 
 1862, age 20. 
 Coffey, Michael. 
 Cook, W. H., discharged on account of 
 
 disability. May 30, 1862. 
 CosTELLO, John. 
 Craft, Isaac, wounded December IG, 
 
 1862. 
 CuLLiN, Paul, died September 2, 1861. 
 Doran, John. 
 Fenner, Henry D., wounded August 30, 
 
 1862. 
 Ferguson, Thomas. 
 Fitch, Charles W., Com. Sergeant. 
 Foley, T. Vincent, Captain, twice 
 
 wounded August 30, 1862. 
 Fox, Jajies, Second Lieutenant. 
 Gallagher, Martin. 
 Hardy, John R. 
 Harrison, Bernard, wounded August 
 
 30, 1862. 
 Hill, Thomas, Sergeant. 
 Hughes, Patrick. 
 Irving, Arthur. 
 Ives, Wiltjam. killed August 30, 
 
 1862. 
 Kemp, Joseph, wounded August 30, 
 
 1862. 
 KiLi.KiiN, Daniel, made Sergeant. 
 
 McNamara, John, No. 2, made Cor- 
 poral. 
 
 Mills, John, made Corporal. 
 
 Mitchell, Peter, captured at Manassas 
 August 30, 1862. 
 
 Mitchell, Thomas, transferred to the 
 Twelfth Regiment New-York Volun- 
 teers, May 14, 1862. Died August 20, 
 1878. 
 
 MoFFATT, Andrew, wounded August 
 30, 1862. 
 
 Murphy, Willlvm, transferred to Com- 
 pany G, One Hundred and Forty- 
 Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers, June 25, 1863. 
 
 Neil, Walter B. 
 
 NoDiNE, Frederick A., Sergeant, trans- 
 ferred to Company G, One Huneb'ed 
 and Forty-Sixth Regiment New-York 
 Infantry Volunteers, June 2, 1863. 
 
 O'Mara, John, Sergeant. 
 
 Seddin, Willlvm, Musician. 
 
 Shaw, Willlam. 
 
 Sleight, C. T. 
 
 Smith, Irvlng D., Second Lieutenant, 
 transferred to Company F, Seven- 
 teenth Regiment New-York Volun- 
 teers, January 1, 1863. 
 
 Stanspield, Thomas. 
 
 Taylor, De Witt. 
 
 Thompson, George W., transfenvd to 
 One Hundred and Forty-Si.Mh Regi- 
 ment New- York Infantry Volunteei-s, 
 Marcli 8, 1H(>3. 
 
 Van Okden, Alfred, transferred t<> 
 Company G, One Huiuhvd and F>>r- 
 tietlj Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteei"s. .Imu' 26, ISii.'f. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 SIXTH NEW- YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 
 
 Union Defence Committee — Colonel William H. Morris — Sol- 
 dierly Bearing and Discipline — Heroic Fighting Qualities 
 — Colonel J. Howard Kitching — List of Battles — Com- 
 mended in Special Orders. 
 
 IN the summer of the year 1862, when the numerous reverses to 
 the Union arms had caused a profound anxiety among the 
 people of the North as to the outcome of the great conflict, in 
 obedience to a call from the President of the United States for 
 three hundred thousand volunteers for three years, the Hon. 
 E. D. Morgan, Governor of the State of New- York, appointed a 
 Union Defence Committee for the Eighth Senatorial District of 
 the State, then consisting of the counties of Westchester, Eockland, 
 and Putnam — the names of Lewis G. Morris of Fordham, 
 Chauncey M. Depew of Peekskill, Gouverneur Morris of Morrisania, 
 William H. Robertson of Katonah, Saxton Smith of Putnam, and 
 Edward F. Shonnard of Yonkers being among those so chosen. 
 
 5 33 
 
34 YONKERS IX THE REBELLION. 
 
 This Committee was charged with the duty of obtaining rein- 
 forcements for the Union Avmj'. It began its work by promptly 
 effecting the organization in that district of an infantry regiment 
 of ten full companies of more than one hundred men each, enlisted 
 to serve for three years, which was designated by the authorities of 
 the State of New-York as the One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth New- 
 York Volunteer Infantry, and was named by the Committee, The 
 Anthony Wayne Guard. 
 
 Those who thus associated themselves together in defence of the 
 Union were prompted by the same true spirit of patriotism which 
 animated their forefathers in the "War of Independence, At that 
 jjeriod in the war no large bounties had been offered to stimulate 
 enlistment, and these men, who so promptly responded to the call 
 of the President, fairly represented the best bone and sinew and 
 many of the most substantial families of the three counties. 
 
 The following are the names of tlie original line officers and of 
 the plac(-s where they ovgaiii/cd their coiiij.anies : 
 
 Company A, Pefkxkill : Captain A. A. Crookstox, Lieutenants (iEuKOK W. 
 Smith and Richard M. Gilleo. 
 
 Company Ji, White Plains: Captain E. W. Anherson, Lieutenants Thomas W. 
 Dick and Horton R. Pratt. 
 
 Company C, West Farms : Captain B. B. Valextixe, Lieutenants .James Smith 
 and George C. Kibbe. 
 
 Company D, Somers : Captain Eowahd .Joxes, Lieutenants W. S. Sckiiinkk and 
 Platt Benedict. 
 
 Company E, Port Chester: Captain C. H. Palmer, Lieutenants \V. T. Mukse and 
 FoRDHAM Morris (son of Lowns G. Morris of the Couiiuittee). 
 
 Company F, Yonkcrs: Captain EnMUXK Y. MoRRIs, Lieutenants Samiki, Bassktt 
 and Henry A. Chadeayne. 
 
 Company G, Carmel: Captain Weuster Smith, Lieutenants Stei-hex Baker and 
 Charles F. ILvzex. 
 
SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLUNTEEB ARTILLERY. 35 
 
 Companxj H, Morrisania: Captain H. B. Hall (wounded), Lieutenants David 
 Harmel (mortally wounded) and Gouverneur Morris, Jr. (son of Gouverneur 
 Morris of the Committee). 
 
 Company I, Sing Sing: Captain Clark Peck, Lieutenants Charles C. Hyatt 
 and J. H. Ashton. 
 
 Company K, Nyack : Captain WiLSON Defendorp, Lieutenants John Davidson 
 and Frederic Shonnard of Yonkers (son of Edward F. Slionnard of the Com- 
 mittee). 
 
 * 
 
 THE YONKERS COMPANY. 
 
 The following named non-commissioned officers and men, all of 
 Yonkers, were mustered into the United States service in Company 
 F, on September 2, 1862. 
 
 Officers; 
 
 Thomas R. Price, First Sergeant. 
 Patrick Kelly, Second Sergeant. 
 Abel Waters, Foui-th Sergeant. 
 Samuel B. Kniffen, Fifth Sergeant. 
 John J. Brady, First Corporal. 
 James T. Earle, Second Corporal. 
 James E. Beasley, Third Corporal, killed. 
 Benjamin Price, Foui-th Coi-poral. 
 Judson Abbott, Fifth Corporal. 
 Edgar C. Nodine, Sixth Corporal. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Archer, Nathaniel, killed. Bragg, William, killed. 
 
 Barnes, Frederick E., died in hospital. Brown, James. 
 
 Bennett, Michael. Burke, James. 
 
 Boyle, James. Cain, Joseph, wounded. 
 
36 
 
 YOXKElm IS THE REBELLION. 
 
 Casey, Daniel. 
 
 Cahkoll, Jajies. 
 
 Collin, Patrick. 
 
 CoNLiN, Anthony. 
 
 CouGHLiN, John. 
 
 Donahue, Michael. 
 
 Foley, John. 
 
 FoRMAN, Schuyler B. 
 
 Gilbert, James D. 
 
 Goodwin, Francis. 
 
 Gorman, Patrick. 
 
 Hallett, Demetrius. 
 
 Hamilton, William, taken prisoner, 
 
 died of wounds. 
 Harris, Jacob L. 
 Henry, John. 
 Hunt, James. 
 Kiley, WiLLLiM, killed. 
 Keanily, Jeremiah. 
 Kelly, Timothy. 
 Lane, Thomas, died of wounds. 
 Laphaji, Solon, wounded. 
 Lal'NY, Thomas. 
 Lind.say, William. 
 LouNSBURY, Paul. 
 McGann, Philip, killed. 
 
 McMahon, John. 
 Morris, John T. 
 NoRRis, Michael. 
 O'Doxneli,, John. 
 O'RouRKE, Michael, wounded. 
 
 PiLSON, J.V3IES. 
 
 Pope, Willlam, dead. 
 
 Reed, James. 
 
 Reiff, Jacob. 
 
 Rein, Geor(;e, wounded and 
 
 died in prison. 
 Ryan, Thomas. 
 Sherwood, James E., died in 
 
 prison of wounds. 
 Sherwood, Richard H. 
 Smith, Thomas A. 
 Thompson, William, killed. 
 Vail, William. 
 Vandervlant, Cornelius. 
 Van Wart, Stephen. 
 VoLZ, George. 
 Watson, Williaji. 
 Welsh, James. 
 Welsh, Richard. 
 Whitlock, Aaron, dead. 
 
 It is not now possible to give an accurate statement of the names 
 of the killed, wounded, and missing, or even of all those who were 
 members of this Com] la 1 1 y 1 1 mi 1 1 <r t hese throe yeans' service. Almost 
 to the time of the muster no iiernianent fiehl-ofiicers were cho.><en, 
 biit, pending their appointment, Lewis G.Morris, of the Committee, 
 acted as the Provisional Colonel. 
 
SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLUNTEER AUTILLEBY. 37 
 
 The experiences of actual war having demonstrated the necessity 
 for liaving either thoroughly educated or veteran soldiers as field- 
 officers of volunteer regiments, the Colonelcy was first offered to 
 Thomas Arden, of Cold Spring, a graduate of West Point. Upon 
 his declination, the position was tendered to and accepted by Cap- 
 tain William Hopkins Morris, also a graduate of West Point, and 
 an officer then in active service in the Army of the Potomac, as 
 Chief of Staff to Major-General John J. Peck. 
 
 Captain Ralph E. Prime, then of White Plains, now of Yonkers, 
 a gallant officer of the Fifth New- York Volunteers, who had been 
 wounded in one of the battles on the Peninsula under McClellan, 
 was appointed its Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Prime being unable 
 to immediately secure his transfer from the War Department, 
 J. Howai'd Kitching, of Dobbs Ferry, a bi'illiant young officer in 
 the Second New- York Light Artillery, who had also been wounded 
 on the Peninsula, was made the acting Lieutenant-Colonel, until 
 Captain Prime could obtain his transfer. 
 
 Captain Prime having finally decided not to accept the position, 
 J. Howard Kitching became the actual Lieutenant-Colonel, and a 
 few months later, after the promotion of Colonel Morris to the rank 
 of Brigadier-General, he became the Colonel of the Regiment, and, 
 either as its Colonel or the commander of the Brigade of which it 
 formed a part, he led it in all of the battles in which it was engaged 
 up to and including Cedar Creek, where he received a wound which 
 proved fatal. 
 
 J. H. Robinson, of New-York City, was chosen the Major, liut re- 
 signed after a few weeks' service. Charles H. Leonard, of Rockland, 
 was appointed Adjutant, Frederick Tompkins, also of Rockland, the 
 Quartermaster, and Jared G. Wood, M. D., of Brewsters, Surgeon. 
 
38 YoxKKiis IX THE hehelliox. 
 
 The Regiment was first assembled in Yonkers on or about August 
 20, 18fj'2, in the old building on the river bank south of the Railroad 
 Station, then known as the Bedstead Factory, but now as part of the 
 Plough Works. The first dress-parade took place in the open 
 fields then existing south of the old Pistol Factory, now known as 
 the Carpet and Hat Works of the John T. Waring Company. The 
 Regiment was not then fully uniformed, and was without arms or 
 other equipments, except that it had received a full stand of 
 National and State colors, which was then for the first time un- 
 furl..!. 
 
 Captain William H. Morris was, on that occasion, presented to 
 the Regiment as its Colonel, by Lewis G. Morris, iu a brief address 
 which elo(iuently expressed the Committee's appreciation of the 
 great responsibility resting upon it in the choice of the field-ofiicers, 
 and the great care taken in the selections which had been made. He 
 then gi-acefuUy touched upon the salient features of the l)rilliant 
 career of Captain Morris, and closoil Viy warmly (•iiiuiin'iiiling liim 
 to the confidence of the Regiment. 
 
 Colonel Morris made a soldierly reply, expressing his pride aud 
 pleasure in being permitted to command a Regiment composed of 
 his lifelong neighbors and friends, closing with the announcement 
 that the mustering officers would arrive on September 2, and that 
 after the formalities of the muster into the service of the United 
 States, the Regiment was expected to proceed immediately to the 
 seat of war — an announcement that was n^eeived with cheers. 
 
 After the ceremonies of the muster by Cajitaiu W. S. Ivlgcrtoii, 
 United States Army, in the presence of Cliaun.-fy M. Drprw and 
 Lewis G-. Morris of tlic rninn Drl'mc.' ("nnimitte«\ the (•(.niiiiand 
 was rnibarkc<l u]>om a liarge, taken to Perth Amboy. and theiK-c by 
 
SIXTH NEW -YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 39 
 
 vail by way of Philadelphia to Baltimore, where it was ordered to 
 report to Major-General Wool. It was a period of intense excite- 
 ment, because of the misfortunes to the Union arms and the then 
 approaching invasion of the North by the Rebel army. Philadel- 
 phia itself had been shocked by the close approach to its suburbs 
 of a band of Rebel rough-riders, who had safely ridden around the 
 city of Baltimore, flanking our forces stationed there, and had made 
 vigorous attempts to destroy the railroad bridges between Balti- 
 more and Philadelphia. 
 
 Few such scenes were ever witnessed in any Northern city dur- 
 ing the war as those participated in by this Regiment and the 
 other bodies of troops marching through the city at that exciting 
 period. The streets through which they passed from the New 
 York to the Baltimore depots were crowded with people of all ages 
 and conditions, all in a state of frantic excitement, vying one with 
 another in eager efforts to swell the grand proportions of the wel- 
 coming ovation. 
 
 At Baltimore the Regiment was assigned by Major-Geueral Wool 
 to a Camp of Instruction, where, under Colonel Morris's masterly 
 handling, ably assisted by Lieutenant-Colonel Kitching and the 
 other officers, it made such i"apid progress in its military duties that 
 General Wool made public mention of " its soldierly bearing and 
 its proficiency in drill and discipline," and upon his recommenda- 
 tion the War Department raised it to the Artillery service, and de- 
 signated it the Sixth New- York Volunteer Artillery. A third Bat- 
 talion and two additional Company organizations were added, viz. : 
 
 Company L, Cold Spring: Captain A. B. Truesdell, Lieutenants George D. 
 Spencer and William G. Ferris. 
 
40 YONKEIiS IX rilK UKliKLLlOX. 
 
 Company M, Elmira: Captain MiAL R. Pierce, Lieutenants James T. Price and 
 C. B. Robinson. This Company did not, however, join the Reffiment until early in 
 the sprinp of 1864. 
 
 The Regimeut, although wearing the i-ed triiximings of the Artil- 
 lery service and having the peculiar organization of that branch, 
 nevertheless during its whole three years of arduous service with 
 the Eighth Corps, with the Army of the Potomac, with the Army of 
 the James, and with Sh.'iidaii's Army of tlic Sliciiandoali, (•ontimicil 
 to serve as Infantry. 
 
 On and after December 26, 18()2, the Kegimeut was sent to 
 Harper's Ferry, in detachments, upon the receipt by Major-Gen- 
 eral Schenck, who had in the mean time succeeded General Wool in 
 the command of the Eighth Army Corps, of the following despatch : 
 
 War Department, Washington, December 26, 1862 . 
 Major-General Schenck, Baltimore, Md. : 
 
 You must defend Harper's Ferry with your command. If necessary, concentrate 
 your forces there. Almost everything available about Washington has been sent 
 to General Burnside. Keep me advised of the enemy's movements. 
 
 H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chiff. 
 
 After six months or more of very varied service in the Shenan- 
 doah Valley with other troops, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio 
 Railroad, performing skirmishing, scouting, and general outpost 
 duties, the Regiment formally joined the Army of the Potomac 
 during the Gettysburg campaign, ]>ecoming pai-t of French's Third 
 Corps, which was held in the neighborhood of Frederick City as a 
 reserve to protect Washington, by the onlcrs of the War Dcjiart- 
 mcnt. 
 
 'I'hf K'r,-:iinciil, tirst with (Iciwral Morris's Briga<lf of the Third 
 Division, Third .\riiiy Corps, then witli tlie K'cscrve Artillery, an<l 
 
SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLVNTEEB ARTILLERY. 41 
 
 afterward with Ajres's Division of the Fifth Corps, participated 
 in all of the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, from Gettys- 
 burg, in July, 1863, to August 13, 1864, in the siege of Petersburg, 
 including the Bristoe Station, the Mine Run, and the great Grant 
 campaigns, and has probably the unique record of having served in 
 battle with every Corps of the Army of the Potomac, with Sheri- 
 dan's Army in the Shenandoah, and with the Army of the James. 
 The following is a list of its more important engagements with the 
 enemy: 
 
 With thb Army of the Potomac. —Wapping Heights, July 23, 1863. The Grant 
 campaign — WUderness, May 5, 6, and 7, 1864 ; Spottsylvania, May 8, 9, 10, 11, and 
 12, 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Fox, in his work entitled " Regimental Losses 
 in the Civil War," states that the Regiment was one of thirty-four regiments 
 at the same time engaged which suffered the heaviest losses of any in the Army of 
 the Potomac on those days. Hanis Farm, Spottsylvania, May 19, 1864. In recogni- 
 tion of the services of the troops engaged on this occasion, the following order was 
 issued : 
 
 Headquarters Army of the Potomac, 
 May 20, 1864, 8 a. m. 
 
 The Major-General Commanding desires to express his satisfaction with the good 
 conduct of Tyler's Division and Kitching's Brigade [this Brigade consisted of two 
 regiments, the Sixth and the Fifteenth New- York Artillery, both acting as In- 
 fantry] of Heavy Artillery, in the affair of yesterday evening. The gallant man- 
 ner in which those commands, the greater portion being for the first time under fire, 
 met and checked the persistent attacks of a Corps of the enemy led by one of its 
 ablest Generals, justifies the commanding General in the special commendation of 
 troops who henceforth will be relied upon, as were the tried veterans of the Second 
 and Fifth Corps, at the same time engaged. 
 
 By command of Major-General Meade, 
 S. S. Williams. 
 
 Battles at the Ford of the North Anna River, May 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27. In these 
 battles the Sixth Artillery lost more in killed and wounded than any other regiment 
 in the Army of the Potomac at the same time engaged. ( Vide " Regimental Losses 
 in the Civil War.") Bethesda Church, May 30. 
 
 The New- York Herald of June 1 said, in reference to one of these 
 battles: "A despatch from the Army of the Potomac, dated on 
 
42 yosKEKs ry the hebellios. 
 
 Tuesday i)ight, says that the day before the Fifth Corps, advanciug 
 from the Havre's Store toward Bethesda Church, drove the enemy 
 about two miles. At sunset, while the men were engaged in dig- 
 ging rifle-pits, Rhodes's and Early's Divisions made an attack on 
 Warren's right flank, causing him to fall back from his first line. 
 The enemy then advanced and charged the second liue. Kitching's 
 Brigade of Heavy Artillery w^as posted there, and opened a heavy 
 fire in conjunction with batteries on both flanks, which nearly de- 
 molished the Rebel column of attack. The enemy fell back in ter- 
 rible disorder, and left tlieit- (lead and wounded on the field." 
 
 Meehanicsville Pike, June 1 ; Mechanicsville Pike (second position), June 2 ; battle 
 of Cold Harbor, June .3 ; Cliickahominy, near Long Bridge, June 13 ; assault on 
 Petei"sburgr, June 18 ; more or less continuously engaged during June 19, 20, 21, 
 22, 23, 24, and 25, 18G4; siege of Petersburg, June 23 to August 13, 18&4, including 
 tlie Mine Explosion on July 30. 18(U. 
 
 With General Sheridan's Army in the Shenandoah Valley.— Battle of 
 Cedar Creek, near Winchester, October 14, 1864. J. Howard Kitching, the beloved 
 Colonel of the Regiment, here received a wound which caused his death ; Major 
 Jones and Lieutenant Raspljerry were killed ; and tlie command of the Regiment 
 devolved upon Major George C. Kibbe, a gallant and efficient officer. 
 
 With the Army of the James.— Defences of Bermuda Hundred; sharp en- 
 gagement, January 22, 1865; repelled assault, January 24; repelled assault on 
 picket-line, Febi-uary 13. 1865. 
 
 Licutfiiaiit-Cokiucl George C. Kiblic, who had ably and irallaiitly 
 commanded the Regiment since Colonel J. Howard Kitihinii^ was 
 wounded, was commissioned Colonel March 17, lS(;r). The last time 
 the Regiment was under fire was in a liriel' enij;;ip'nii'iit at ISerniuila 
 llniMlie.l. .\i.iil •_', lS(i.-). 
 
SIXTH NEW-YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 43 
 
 The original members of the One Hundi'ed and Thirty-Fifth Regi- 
 ment New- York Volunteer Infantry were mustered out of the United 
 States service June 27, 1865. The remainder, with a Battalion of 
 the Tenth New- York Artillery, became the consolidated Sixth New- 
 York Artillery, of which Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Baker, of the 
 Sixth Artillery, was chosen Colonel, on account of brave and meri- 
 torious services, and was mustered out July 13, 1865, after having 
 done General Provost-Marshal duty about Petersbui'g subsequent 
 to the surrender of Lee. 
 
 The following letter was recently received from Colonel Wm. F. 
 Fox, author of the famous woi'k entitled " Regimental Losses During 
 the Civil War," acknowledging a mistake in his treatment of the 
 record of the Sixth New- York Artillery, by which the Regiment 
 was omitted from the list of his selected " Three Hundred Fight- 
 ing Regiments," a position to which it was entitled by " the ti'ail 
 of blood." 
 
 August 1, 1891. 
 Major Feedebic Shonnard, Yonkers, N. Y. : 
 
 Bear Sir : In reply I would say that there is no question but that your old Regi- 
 ment, the Sixth Artillery, was a fighting Regiment in every sense of the word, and 
 I am fully aware of its heroic record. Another edition of the work is to be pub- 
 lished soon, in which the omission will be rectified 
 
 Yours fraternally. William F. Fox. 
 
 The following extract from the report of Brigadier-Greneral 
 
 Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery, Ai-my of the Potomac, dated 
 
 October 31, 1864, in which the Regiment is honorably mentioned, 
 
 will be of interest: 
 
 The Reserve Artillery, May 4, 1864, under the command of Colonel H. S. Bui-ton, 
 Fifth United States Artillery, consisted of two Regiments of foot Artillery, — the 
 Sixth New- York, Colonel J. Howard Kitching; the Fifteenth New -York, Colonel 
 
44 YOyKEli.S IX THE UKBELUOX. 
 
 L. Schirmer,— twelve batteries of field artillerj-, twenty-six Napoleons, eighteen 
 3-inch, twelve 10-pounder, and six 20-pounder Parrotts,and eight 24-pounder Coe- 
 horn mortars. The troops of the reserve were organized into three brigades. The 
 first, under the command of Colonel J. Howard Kitcliing, Sixth New- York Artillery, 
 consisted of the Sixth and Fifteenth New- York Regiments, six battalions of foot 
 ArtUlery armed as Infantry, 84 officers, and 2,901 men. This Brigade formed the 
 escort and furnished the guards for the reserve and the park attached to it, and 
 was at all times disposable as a reserve and to reinforce the Corjjs in battle. 
 Ill this way it did valuable service, taking its full .share of the marching and 
 fighting of the anny in addition to its special duties. 
 
 That afternoon (the 7th), the Reserve Artilleiy marched to Piney Branch Church, 
 which place it reached on the morning of the 8th, when Kitching's Brigade of foot 
 Artillerj- was ordered to report to Major-General Hancock, at Todd's Tavern. 
 General Hancock ordered it back to the reserve the same night, and again called 
 for it the next morning. From this time this Brigade was marched to and fro from 
 one Corps to another, being either always in action or on the march, until it was 
 finally, on the breaking up of the reserve, attached to the Fifth Corps, Major- 
 General Warren. 
 
 Tile survivors of tliis l)ravc Rcgiiiifiit, tlic iiifinlicrs of wliich so 
 signally flistinguished tlicinsclvcs liy their patrintic promptness in 
 leaving their homes to risk tlieir lives in the defence of tlie Gov- 
 ernment, and in their conduct on many havd-fought battle-fields 
 of the war, again made manifest their sterling (jualities as men, 
 and their patriotism as citizens, by tlieir orderly return to the 
 avocations of peace. 
 
 On September 2, 1890, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the mus- 
 t.r-in to tlie riiited States service, the first reunion of tlie 
 Kegiineut, was held in Turn Hall, Yonkers. Over three hundred 
 survivors attended, clasped hands for the liist time in a iiuartei- of 
 a ci'iitury, made s])eerlies, sang songs, laughed, crie<l, elieered, and 
 mibraced carli otii.r around the supper-table, after having organ- 
 ized tlieniselves into a soeietv entitled Tin- Frati'rnitv of the Sur- 
 
SIXTH NEW-YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. 45 
 
 vivors of the Sixth New -York Volunteer Artillery, and elected the 
 following officers : 
 
 Frederic Shonnard. President, late Major U. S. V. 
 George C. Kibbe, Fii-st Vice-President, late Colonel U. S. V. 
 Stephen Baker, Second Vice-President, late Colonel U. S. V. 
 Henry B. Hall, Third Vice-President, late Captain and Brevet 
 
 Major U. S. V. 
 William H. Morris, Fourth Vice-President, late Brigadier-General 
 
 and Brevet Major-General U. S. V. 
 J. B. Eakins, Treasurer, late Sergeant U. S. V. 
 John Smith, Jr., Secretary, late Lieutenant U. S. V. 
 John Forsyth, Resident Secretary, late Sergeant U. S. V. 
 Samuel Bassett, Corresponding Secretary, late Captain U. S. V. 
 
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wm 
 
ON THE NORTH SIDE. 
 
 THE ARTILLERY STATUE. 
 
 This statue was designed aud drawn by J. E. Kelly, of New- York. It 
 presents a gunner in action looking attentively to note in the distance 
 the effect of a shot just fired. Fidelity of conception, lofty motive, con- 
 scientious, skilful execution, and high artistic qualities are conspicuous. 
 Inscriptions : 
 
 (Under the Statue) 
 ENDURANCE. 
 
 THE UNION IS 
 
 THE PALLADIUM OF 
 
 OUR SAFETY 
 
 AND PROSPERITY. 
 
 CREDIT MAINTAINED. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE THIRTY-DAYS MEN. 
 
 Captain John Davis Hatch's Company — Vai^iant Service at Foet 
 McHenry, Baltimoee — Captain John Padden's Company — 
 Garrison Duty at Fort Richmond, New- York Harbor. 
 
 CAPTAIN hatch's COMPANY. 
 
 ON the 8tli day of July, 1863, the thirty-days meu enlisted by 
 John Davis Hatch were mustered into the ser\nce of the 
 United States, at Yonkers, and did valiant service at Fort McHenry, 
 Baltimore, Maryland. Their full official designation was Company 
 H, Seventeenth Regiment, National Guard State New -York. The 
 following names are copied fi-om the muster-in roll : 
 
 Officers. 
 
 John Davis Hatch, Captain. 
 James Stewart, Second Lieutenant. 
 Edward P. Bobbins, First Sergeant. 
 Stephen R. Struthers, Second Sergeant. 
 51 
 
YOSKERS /A' IHE REBELLION. 
 
 John McClain, Third Sergeant. 
 Walter H. Paddock, Fourth Sergeant. 
 Robert A. Getty, First Corporal. 
 Co>r\VAY PiLSON, Second Corporal. 
 JosiAH Rich, Jr., Third Corporal. 
 William Macparlane, Fourth Corporal. 
 John Cahill, Musician. 
 James Kennedy, Musician. 
 
 Adams, Charles H. 
 Archer, Samuel. 
 Archer, William S. 
 Baird, Edward P. 
 Baird, William C. 
 Bashford, James, Jr. 
 Beale, Willllm R. 
 Belknai', Ethelbert. 
 Bell, Alonzo. 
 Blauvelt, Daniel, Jr. 
 Bro\vn, James H. B. 
 Brown, Haviland S. 
 Campbell, John C. 
 Campbell, John C, Jr. 
 Chamberlain, George. 
 Chamberlain, Isaac E. 
 Coen, Thomas F. 
 CoEN, John J. 
 
 EicKEMEYKR, Rl-DOLK. 
 
 Fisher, Philip W. 
 Frisbie, George H. 
 Garrison, George 0. 
 Haight, Henry. 
 Haley, Thomas H. 
 Jenley, John W. 
 
 Morrison, DA\^D M. 
 Murphy, John. 
 Odell, James B. 
 Otis, Charles R. 
 Porter, William B. 
 Post, James V. 
 Proseus, Joseph L. 
 Radclijt, Abram S 
 Redding, John F. 
 Rice, Benjajiin. 
 Sawyer, Benjamin F., Jr. 
 Sawy'er, Henry C. 
 Silke, Freeman J. 
 Smith, Samuel L. 
 Thayer, Stephen H.. Jr. 
 TH0M.S0N, William. 
 Tindall, Richard B. 
 Tyler, Edward H. 
 Von Storch, Henry F. 
 Ward, James. 
 Waring, Cscar. 
 Wilcox, Richard E. 
 WiLSEA, James P. 
 Woodworth, James G. 
 
THE THIRTY-DAYS MEN. 53 
 
 CAPTAIN PADDEN\S COMPANY. 
 
 On the 4th of June, 1864, the thivty-days men enlisted by John 
 "W. Padden were mustered into the service of the United States, at 
 Yonkers, and marched the same day over historic ground on Val- 
 entine's Hill, to the village of Mount Vernon, where they found 
 transportation to Mamaroueck, at which place they joined their 
 Regiment. Their full official designation was Company B, Fif- 
 teenth Regiment, Sixth Brigade, National Guard, State New- York 
 Volunteers. On Sunday morning, June 5, 1864, the Fifteenth Regi- 
 ment sailed on a Government transport to Fort Richmond, New- 
 York Harbor, returning home July 6 the same year. The following 
 names are copied fi'om the muster-in roll: 
 
 Officers. 
 
 John W. Padden, Captain. 
 A. J. WiLLARD, First Lieutenant. 
 Clement T. Dcrgin, Second Lieutenant. 
 George W. Brown, First Sergeant. 
 Charles A. Chapin, Second Sergeant. 
 Robert B. Cantrell, Tliird Sergeant. 
 James Edie, Fourth Sergeant. 
 WiLLLAM E. Hindals, Fifth Sergeant. 
 James Keeler, First Corporal. 
 Alfred M. Bowler, Second Corporal. 
 Richard Edie, Third Corporal. 
 Jajies Gaffney, Fourth Coi-poral. 
 George C. Post, Fifth Coi-poral. 
 Mark Spencer, Sixth Corporal. 
 Joseph A. George, Seventh Corporal. 
 Albert Johnson, Eighth Coi-poral. 
 
YONKEJiS IN THE liEBELLlON. 
 Prittiies. 
 
 Archer, Charles E. 
 
 BaKKK, .lAilES M. 
 
 Brady, Michael. 
 Brow-n, Caleb V. 
 Cahill, John. 
 Carv, Patrick. 
 Casuan, James. 
 Chamberlain, Charles W. 
 CiLVJiPNEY, Edward. 
 CoEN, John. 
 Coon, John W. 
 Crane, John. 
 Crowtheb, Timothy. 
 Daly, Micil^kl. 
 Daly, Thomas F. 
 Daly, Thomas J. 
 Danks, Eli L. 
 Donohue, Cil\rles. 
 DooLEY, John. 
 DooLucKTY, John. 
 DoiouERTY, John. 
 Ellor, Joseph. 
 Fisher, Charles R. 
 Fisher, Philip. 
 Fisher, William H. 
 Francis, Kellogo. 
 Gaury, Michael. 
 Gorman, John. 
 Gr^uiam, John 
 Greitz, Frederick. 
 Grunsbrall, Henry. 
 GuioN, William M. 
 Hallihan, John. 
 Ha.mpson, Thomas. 
 
 JdiiNSox, Charles L. 
 Jordan, Thomas. 
 Kennedy, James. 
 Kernan, James. 
 La^vhence, Chahles. 
 Lawrence, Thomas C. 
 Limbert, Benjamin. 
 Marshall, John. 
 McCready, Thomas. 
 Miller, Franklyn. 
 Mills, Joseph. 
 Mitchell, Benjamin. 
 Moody, Robert. 
 MoRUAN, Henry D. 
 Myers, Henry S. 
 Parkinson, George N. 
 Pethic, Charles. 
 Post, Charles J. 
 Post, Samuel. 
 Regan, Michael. 
 Ryan, Thomas. 
 Schneider, Frederick. 
 SiMMONDS, George. 
 
 SlJIMONS, WiLLUM. 
 
 Smith, Willlam. 
 Stephens, George. 
 Stevens, Edward. 
 Tansey, Roger. 
 Tracy, Patrick. 
 Van Tassell, S. C. 
 Wilsea, James P. 
 Wing, Michael. 
 Woodruff, Freukkkk H. 
 
 «M|iL 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE HOME GUARDS. 
 
 The Draft Riots in New- York — Yonkers Threatened — Dr. 
 Henry M. Baird on the Situation— The Home Guards Or- 
 ganized to Preserve Order and Protect Property — Watch- 
 Tower OF the First Presbyterian Church — "An Awkward 
 Squad" — Duties Defined by Frederick S. Cozzens — An 
 Arrest and Court Martial — Good Service at a Critical 
 Time. 
 
 DURING the draft riots in New- York, in July, 1863, the law- 
 less spirit reached Yonkers. A company of roughs from be- 
 low approached King's Bridge, with the intention, it was rumored, 
 of capturing the Star Arms Company's stock, in the building now 
 occupied by the John T. Waring Manufacturing Company. An- 
 other rumor was that the Croton Aqueduct was to be tapped. 
 There were indications of trouble among the quarrymeu at Tucka- 
 hoe, and avowed sympathy for the rioters in New- York, who were 
 in open rebellion against the laws, destroying private property and 
 
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56 YOXKEIiS IX TlfK liEIiKLUOX. 
 
 assaulting, and even murdering, inoffensive people. The militia 
 organization had gone to the front to meet an emergoucy, while 
 lai-ge numbers of the heads of families were in the army battling 
 to save the Union. It is not strange that, under such circum- 
 stances, a general feeling of uneasiness was experienced. 
 
 A meeting was held in the store of Acker, Edgar & Co., which 
 resulted in the organization of the Home Guards, to preserve the 
 peace and protect persons and property. Dr. Henry M. Baird gives 
 the following account of the Guards and their work: 
 
 Judge Atkins is correct in his impression that I acted with the 
 Home Guards in the summer of 1863. I fear my services were of 
 no great account, and, indeed, the services of the entire Guard did 
 not amount to much more than to give a little courage to a some- 
 what despondent community. It was during the time of the "draft 
 riots" in New- York, which had cut off all communication by rail 
 with the metropolis. There were distinct rumors of a probable in- 
 vasion of Yonkers by men from the marble-quarries near Tuckahoe 
 who were expected to come in quest of pillage, taking advantage 
 of the absence of our Company, then posted on Federal Hill, Bal- 
 timore. My brothers, Edward and William, were with the Company. 
 
 To meet the emergency a goodly number of us met and drilled, 
 using Fan-iugton Hall, situated where Radford Building now is, as 
 our iieadquarters. 1 n'member that as a inilf wf were on duty 
 upon alternate nights. 
 
 One night a party of us, armed, patrolled tli<' distriet near the 
 Railroad Depot, where there were several engines brought uji from 
 New- York, to got them out of harm's way. Another night half a 
 dozen of us, under command of .ludge Atkins, slept in the untin- 
 
THE HOME GUARDS. 57 
 
 ished stable on the present pi'operty of Mi-. William Allen Butler, 
 at Palisade avenue and High street, and repeatedly, during the 
 night, sent out parties of two or more to visit Hog Hill, and see 
 that all was quiet there. 
 
 Another night, Mr. William C. Waring, Sr., and I spent in the 
 tower of the First Presbyterian Church, taking turns in watching 
 for the signal we might receive to ring the great bell as an alarm 
 to call out all good citizens. The watchword had been given us in 
 all secrecy, and it was arranged that, should the messenger from 
 headquarters be unable to reach us, we should accept the word 
 shouted to us from the opposite side of the street as a sufficient 
 warrant for action. 
 
 The Home Guards were sworn as special constables. They were 
 divided into fom- Companies, and numbered over three hundred 
 and fifty men. Everett Clapp, then President of the village, was 
 active in organizing the force, and supplied them with carbines 
 from the Star Arms Cjtmpany. Lyman Cobb, Jr., acted as Secre- 
 tary, Thomas V. Morris was Commander, and Gardner P. Haws 
 was Adjutant. 
 
 Company A : Captain WiLLiAii MoNTGOMEEY, Lieutenants Frederick C. Oakley 
 and T. A. Atkins. 
 
 Company B: Captain Edgar Logan, Lieutenants J. W. Paddon and H. A. 
 Brownell. 
 
 Company C: Captain Henry A. Chadeayne, Lieutenants WiGO Fich and B. F. 
 Bunker. 
 
 Company B: Captain Sylvanus Mayo, Lieutenants A. J. Willaed and T. Hill. 
 
 A general order, issued by President Clapp, designated that Com- 
 pany A should meet weekly, at the armory in Farrington Hall, for 
 
,-,8 YOXKEliS IX THE REBELLIOX. 
 
 drill, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, Company B i>n Wi-diicsday 
 evening, Company C on Thursday evening, and ("oiiipany D on 
 Saturday evening. 
 
 At a meeting of the force held July 22, 1863, the object was 
 declared to be : When called upon by the village authorities to 
 protect property and preserve the peace; to execute all lawful 
 orders issued by the village authorities; to protect and uphold all 
 well-disposed persons who may be threatened with coercion or 
 spoliation by reason of their refusing to join riotous assemblages. 
 
 On the arrival of the carbines at the armory. President Clapp 
 put them in charge of Lyman Cobb, Jr., gave him the password, 
 and ordered him to watch over them until relieved, which would 
 be in the course of an hour or so. In the excitement of the time 
 the promised relief was forgotten. On visiting the armory next 
 morning, President Clapp found Mr. Cobb still on guard. " You 
 here yet!" was the exclamation. "I have obeyed orders," replied 
 Mr. Cobb. "Well," f^iiid the President, "you are a good sol- 
 dier." Explanations followed, and the circuinstanoes caused much 
 merament. 
 
 In addition to the Home Guards, a large force of employees was 
 organized to protect the Star Arms Comjiany's property, and that 
 force was well equipped with cannon, guns, pistols, &c., for effec- 
 tive service in case of attack. It seems altogether probable that 
 these precautions preventccl trouble tliat iniglit have resultctl in 
 the loss of life and ])roperty. 
 
 "It may be said," remarked one of the (Juards. "that tin' iMitire 
 body was an awkward squad, and the drills atfordt>d much amuse- 
 ment. The corporations of some were of aldermanic proportions, 
 yet it was insisted that thev should line front and ri'iir. Manv 
 
THE HOME GUARDS. 59 
 
 could not keep step — and when commanded to step off with the 
 left foot, they would start off with the right. To see the Guards 
 go through the manual of arms was truly a comical sight. Still 
 the Home Guards served a very useful purpose." 
 
 Frederick S. Cozzens declared that it was the duty of the Guards 
 to defend the village at all hazards, and not to leave it except in 
 case of invasion by an enemy — and then, to get out on the double- 
 quick. 
 
 It is related that two of the Guards, oat on patrol duty on North 
 Broadway one night, saw a man with a bundle enter a barn under 
 what they considered suspicious circumstances. On capturing him 
 he proved to be a German, who declared, and no doubt truthfully, 
 that his only object in entering the barn was to seek shelter for 
 the night. However, the prisoner was taken to headquarters and 
 locked up. Next morning he was taken before the "Court Mar- 
 tial." A Judge- Advocate was on hand to prosecute, and the Court 
 mercifully assigned counsel to defend the prisoner's "liberty and 
 life." He was searchea^ and two matches were found in one of his 
 pockets. 
 
 " There ! " shouted the Judge- Advocate, with startling emphasis. 
 " What more do you want ? Do not those matches afford con- 
 clusive evidence that this person intended to fire the barn and blow 
 up Yonkers f " 
 
 The prisoner's counsel was earnest and eloquent in the defense 
 of his trembling client — but all to no purpose. The Court found 
 him guilty, and sentenced him to be shot. 
 
 " Mein Got ! " exclaimed the frightened German. " I lef New- 
 York to keep from bein' murdered — and I fin' you vos verse up 
 here dan dey vos down dere ! " His life was spared. 
 
60 
 
 YOyKEBS IN THE UEBELLIOS. 
 
 We have been unable to find the rosters of the Home Guarils, but 
 it is believed that the following gentlemen were among those who 
 united with their fellow-citizens to protect Yonkers at a critical 
 period : 
 
 AcKERMAN, James. 
 AcKERMAN, William G. 
 AcKERT, Nelson. 
 Andeksox, Willlam H. 
 ARrmiiALD, William. 
 Atkins, T. Astley. 
 Baird, Henry M. 
 Baldwin, Anson. 
 Barnes, Reuben. 
 Barry, Samuel S. 
 Bashford, James. 
 Belknap, Charles. 
 Bills, Orrix A. 
 Brewer, Rev. Darius R. 
 Brown, Henry. 
 Burns, jEREMLiii. 
 Chadeayne, Charles L. 
 Clapp, Everett. 
 Clark, S. M. 
 Cleveland, Cyrus. 
 Coffey, John J. 
 Coleman, William T. 
 Condon, L. R. 
 Curran, Huoh. 
 cuthell, tuomas h. 
 Devoe, Henry F. 
 Deyo, Philip A. 
 DiNSMORE, Samuel. 
 DiNSMORE, Luther. 
 DoRAN, Walter A. 
 Doty, William H. 
 
 DOUOLASS, RoilERT J. 
 
 Dkim.mdn, William P. 
 
 East, John A. 
 Edgar, William B. 
 Elting, E. J. 
 Embree, John. 
 Embree, Robert. 
 
 FaRRINGTON, THOiUS 0. 
 
 Flagg, Ethan. 
 FooTE, William C. 
 Francis, George W. 
 Francis, Kellogg. 
 Garrison, Hyatt L. 
 Getty, Robert P. 
 Getty, S. Emmett. 
 Hawkins, Joseph W. 
 Haws, Gardner. 
 Hobbs, John. 
 Jenkens, Dr. J. Foster. 
 Keeler, Albert. 
 Knox, Isaac H. 
 Lawrence, Justus. 
 Lawrence, Willum H. 
 Major, William. 
 Mason, John M. 
 Mercer, Charles T. 
 Montgomery, William. 
 MoTT, Willlam R. 
 Neville, Robert. 
 Olmsted, John. 
 Otis, E. G. 
 Pagan, John. 
 Peene, Joseph. 
 Perry, Safford G. 
 PiLsoN,' Conway. 
 
THE HOME GUARDS. 
 
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 Quick, S. Francis. 
 Eadcliff, Peter E. 
 Read, Jacob. 
 Bobbins, Jeremiah. 
 Sanders, Jajmes P. 
 ScRivEN, James. 
 Shipman, Ralph. 
 Shonnaed, Edward F. 
 Skinner, George B. 
 Speedling, Alonzo. 
 Stare, Benjamin A. 
 Stare, Charles. 
 Stewart, David. 
 Stewart, George. 
 
 Stout, Theodore B. 
 Underbill, Edward. 
 Upham, Dr. George B. 
 Vail, Jonathan. 
 Valentine, James M. 
 Von Stoech, Henry F. 
 Waring, William C. 
 Waring, Charles E. 
 Waring, Jarvis. 
 Waring, John T. 
 Wells, Lemuel. 
 woodworth, w. w. 
 YouMANS, James. 
 
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CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE SANITARY FAIR. 
 
 A Great Success — Over Sixteen Thousand Dollars Raised to 
 Aid the Benevolent Work of the United States Sanitary 
 Commission. 
 
 DURING- the week commencing on Moudsiy, February 15, 1864, 
 the people of Y(\oakers united in a fair to raise money in aid 
 of the widely extended and beneficent work of the United States 
 Sanitary Commission among the sick and wounded Union soldiers. 
 
 Officers: Isaac H. Knox, President; Ethan Flagg, James R. 
 Whiting, James L. Valentine, William W. Scrugham and Everett 
 Clapp, Vice-Presidents; William H. Post, Recording Secretary; 
 G. Hilton Scribner, Corresponding Secretary ; E. J. Hanks, Treas- 
 urer; James C. Bell, Justus Lawrence, Edward Martin, John H. 
 Morris, Robert P. Getty, Cyrus Cleveland, Thomas C. Cornell, 
 William G. Ackerman, Robert J. Douglas, John T. Waring, Mrs. T. 
 R. Hibbard, Mrs. George W. Embree, and Miss Alantha P. Pratt, 
 
(i4 YONKEUS IX THE HE BELLI ON. 
 
 Executive Committee; John K. Myers, James B. Colgate, Henry 
 Bowers, John Phillips, and Joseph H. Godwin, Finance Committee. 
 
 In charge of Fancy AVork Tahle: Mrs. (Jeoi-irt- W. Embree, 
 Chairman ; Mrs. Henry Anstice, Mrs. Samuel D. Babcock, Mrs. 
 Henry W. Bashford, Mrs. Henry M. Baird, Mrs. William Bell, Mrs. 
 Henry Bowers, Mrs. Henry F. Brevoort, Mrs. S. J. Brett, Mrs. Fred- 
 erick Carnes, Mrs. N. Carpenter, Mrs. Everett Clapp, Mrs. Cyrus 
 Cleveland, Mrs. H. B. Cleveland, Mrs. Frederick A. Coe, Mrs. Thos. 
 C. Cornell, Mrs. Abijah Curtiss, Mrs. R. L. Franklin, Mrs. F. S. 
 Gant, Mrs. Samuel P. Holmes, Mrs. Anson B. Hoyt, Mrs. Thomas 
 Kenworthy, Mrs. Justus Lawrence, Mrs. Edgar Logan, Mrs. Ed- 
 ward Martin, Mrs. J. H. Morris, Mrs. C. H. Mulford, Mrs. John K. 
 Myers, Mrs. D. C. Ralston, Mrs. H. M. Requa, Mrs. Josiah Rich, 
 Mrs. B. Rockwell, Mrs. M. W. Rooney, Mrs. G. Hilton Scribner, 
 Mrs. M. F. Rowe, Mrs. J. N. Stearns, Mrs. John Stilwell, Mrs. P. O. 
 Strang, Mrs. Walter Tail, Mrs. Charles E. Waring, Mrs. Ethan 
 Flagg, Mrs. Heman L. White, Mrs. Thomas F. Morris, Mrs. Wil- 
 liam C. Waring, Mrs. F. De Bellier, Mrs. John T. Waring, Mrs. 
 Lemuel Wells, Mrs. Wilm Beets, Mrs. W. W. Woodworth, Mrs. 
 II. n. Wolcott, Misses Carrie Gaylor, F. C. Bellamy, Bloomer, 
 M. Cahill, Ida Cleveland, I^fary A. Foster, Mary Francis Gourlie, 
 Grimwood, Kate Hullicit, ('. Lockwood, Helen Holmes, Maggie 
 Morrison, L. C. Mason, Clara Okell, Helen A. Rollins, Sandford, 
 Kate AVillard, Sanger, Sergeant, Maria Starr, H. Variau, Jennie 
 Black, C. E. Blauvelt, Liiia A. Budd, B.ll, (iilicii, Lawson, Locke, 
 Strulhers, Walsh, ami ('inter. 
 
 Flowers and Fruits: Mrs. T. K. llil.banl. Cluiiniiaii; Mrs. 
 Jo.seph Agate, Mrs. T. W. Binlsall, .Mrs. Willii.ni T. ('..Iniiau, Mrs. 
 
THE SANITARY FAIB. 65 
 
 C. H. Lillientbal, Mrs. Thomas W. Ludlow, Mrs. T. M. North, Mrs. 
 Reuben W. Van Pelt, Miss A. Bettner, Miss Chapin, Miss Farring- 
 ton. Miss Harriet Getty, Miss Elizabeth Hilton, Miss Anna Pendle- 
 ton, the Misses Shannon, Miss Lila Seward, Miss Annie Shipman, 
 Miss Jane Underwood, Miss Edna Waring, Miss Rachel Waring, 
 WiUiam T. Coleman, Hudson Kingsley, C. H. Lillientbal, Thomas 
 W. Ludlow, Jr., Josiah Rich, Gt. A. Rollins, and Henry Baylis. 
 
 Painting and Fine Arts : William T. Coleman, Chairman ; Mrs. 
 James B. Colgate, Mrs. Lyman Cobb, Jr., Mrs. Saunders Coates, 
 Mrs. Edward F. Shonnard, Mrs. J. A. Underwood, the Misses 
 Gihon, Miss J. V. Kellinger, William Bell, Saunders Coates, 
 Thomas W. Ludlow, Frederick S. Cozzens, Lyman Cobb, Jr., 
 Frederick A. Coe, Dr. L. W. Flagg, Carleton Gates, Thomas Gray, 
 Alfred Jones, Horace J. Moody, E. C. Moore, William Shannon, 
 and J. B. Carpenter. 
 
 Printing: John T. \Variug, Chairman; William R. Beal, Van 
 Buren Denslow, J. W. Padden, Lyman Cobb, Jr., Elon Comstock, 
 and M. F. Rowe. 
 
 Valentines and Post-Offices: Miss Alantha P. Pratt, Chairman; 
 Miss Martha Ackerman, Miss Helen Doty, Miss Lucy Gaylor, Miss 
 Isabella Gourlie, Miss S. M. Haines, Miss Kate Hurlbert, Miss 
 S. M. McAdam, Miss Ida Robbins, Miss Anna Thurber, Miss Kate 
 Taggard, Miss Lucy Valentine, Edward P. Baird, William C. Baird, 
 George W. Bashford, William H. Doty, David Morrison, Edward 
 Robbins, Josiah Rich, Jr., Frederic Shonnard, William B. Strang, 
 Stephen Struthers, and Marshall Whiting. 
 
(jf; YOXKfJIiS IX THE KEBKLLIOX. 
 
 Rooms and Decorations: Thomas C. Cornell, Chairman ; William 
 S. Archer, John D. Hatch, Anthony Imhoff, George Leeds, Charles 
 W. Starr, B. Leeds, John McLain, Valentine Melah, and S. Francis 
 Quick. 
 
 Lectures, Music, and Entertainments : Robert P. Getty, Chairman ; 
 Francis N. Bangs, E. S. Cummings, Thomas W. Birdsall, Gardner P. 
 Haws, John M. Mason, William H. Taggard, Richard Wynkoop, 
 F.J. M. Cornell, Frederick S. Cozzens, Thomas Cuthbort, William S. 
 Duke, Edgar Logan, Thomas Moore, Thomas M. North, Stephen H. 
 Thayer, J. Henry Williams, and George W. Embree. 
 
 Refreshments: Philip A. Deyo, Chairman ; Mrs. William G. Acker- 
 man, Mrs. J. C. Bell, Mrs. J. Blake, Mrs. P. A. Deyo, Mrs. F. S. Coz- 
 zens, Mrs. George Embree, Mrs. J. H. Godwin, Mrs. A. T. Gourlie, 
 IMrs. Thomas Gray, Mrs. J. D. Hatch, Mrs. J. S. Hawkins, Mrs. J. 
 L.-wis Loib, Mrs. D. C. Kellinger, Mrs. C. Lynch, Mrs. .)<>lin .Mr- 
 Sweeny, Mrs. Hull, Mrs. H. J. Moody, Mi-s. A. C. Mott, Mr.s. J. M. 
 Morrison, Mrs. A. Munkittrick, Mrs. John M. Mason, Mrs. H. N. 
 Otis, Mrs. W. H. Post, Mrs. Eliza Potter, Mrs. S. F. Quick, Mrs. G. 
 A. Rollins, Mrs. J. C. Grimwood, Mrs. W. W. Scrugham, Mrs. J. G. 
 Schrive, Mrs. J. E. Parsons, Mrs. A. P. Speedling, Mrs. T. B. Stout, 
 Mrs. J. Wetherald, Miss Annie Anstice, Miss Bright, Miss Disbrow, 
 Miss Douglass, Miss Rebecca Getty, Miss Hawkins, Miss Macfarlane, 
 Miss Pethie, Miss Sanders, Miss J. Wakeley, Miss Wells, Miss Wil- 
 liams, Bailey Hobbs, A. Ai-chibald, H. F. Baldwin, Justus Lawrence, 
 M. C. Davis, W. TT. Dut}-, George W. Embree, Duncan MactVnlano, 
 Frederick C. ();ikh y, .1. K. Parsons, A. S. Radcliff, T. B. St.ait, S. 
 Struthers, E. P. Haird, and T. O. Farriiigton. 
 
THE SANITABY FAIR. 67 
 
 War Memorials and Curiosities: Robert J. Douglass, Chairman; 
 E. S. F. Arnold, H. W. BasMord, B. F. Bunker, Charles L. Chad- 
 eayne, Henry C. Crane, William H. Lawrence, Josiali Rich, Jr., 
 Thomas F. Morris, Joseph T. Sanger, James Stewart, E. Strang, 
 S. R. Syms, Edward Underhill, Dr. George B. Upham, and W. W. 
 Woodworth. 
 
 Produce, Groceries, and Provisions : William G. Ackerman, Chair- 
 man ; E. M. Bibby, M. T. Bolmer, Henry F. Brevoort, James Brown, 
 L. R. Condon, T. A. Collins, P. A. Deyo, Gilman Dudley, J. A. Dur- 
 kee, Charles R. Dusenberry, William B. Edgar, Caleb Fowler, A. F. 
 Vermilyea, George W. Francis, D. H, Kellogg, Dennis McGrath, 
 Peter F. Peek, Robert F. Rich, Jacob Read, Thomas Radford, John 
 W. Rockwell, Edward F. Shonnard, A. Van Cortlandt, and Charles E. 
 Waring. 
 
 Dry Goods, Books, ? nd Stationery : Cyrus Cleveland, Chairman ; 
 Peter B. Acker, Samuel R. Brown, William Gihon, John B. Peck, 
 William Smith, Peter O. Strang, James Wetherald, Samuel B. Janes, 
 Charles Lockwood, Alfred Ayres, Walter Bramhall, Britton Richard- 
 son, Henry Anstice, E. J. Elting, William Macf arlane, M. W. Rooney, 
 H. L. Stone, Walter Vail, Heman L. White, John N, Stearns, John 
 B. Locke, Frederick De Bellier, A. Munkittrick, and J. H. Wilgus. 
 
 Mechanics and Useful Arts : John H. Morris, Chairman ; Nelson 
 Ackert, James Berwick, Isaac G. Johnson, William C. Waring, H. 
 H. Wolcott, William H. Anderson, Hugh Curran, William Mont- 
 gomery, George B. Skinner, and William N, Seymour. 
 
fJH YOXKEHS IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 The main exhibition was in the large three-story 1)ric-k building 
 on James street, then just erected for Ethan Flagg, and now occu- 
 pied by Howard W. Flagg as a hat-factory ; the art exhibition was 
 in Fan-ingtou Hall ; and a series of veiy successful entertainments 
 was given in the Getty Lyceum, a public hall which then formed 
 part of the Getty House. An interesting feature of the fair was 
 the following letter from President Lincoln and his Cabinet, sent 
 in response to a request from Mrs. Benjamin Kockwell to Mr. 
 Sewaj'd : 
 
 Washington, January 14. 1864. 
 The President of the United States, and the Heads of Departments, tender 
 their best wishes to the ladies and managei-s of the fair to be lield at Yonkers for 
 the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers. 
 
 A. Lincoln, 
 Wiu.i\M H. Seward, 
 S. P. Chase, 
 Edwin M. Stanton, 
 Gideon Welles. 
 
 The letter bore the signature of each official, and was formally 
 sealed. It was sold to three hundi-ed contributors of twenty-five 
 cents each, and presented to the village. The original letter and 
 a list of the purchasers, in their own handwriting, are framed, and 
 occupy prominent places in the City Clerk's office. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Al)raham B. Carter, rector of St. John's Cliurch, sent a 
 note to Isaac II. Knox, President of the Yonkers Sanitary Fair, 
 saying, " I have the pleasure to inclose my check for .^750, being 
 the proceeds of a collection made in St. John's Church, on Sunday, 
 January 24, 18(54, in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission," 
 with a re(iuest that the amount should be added to the proceeds of 
 tlif fail-. Otlici- churclics contribnt.Ml tn tlif success of thf fair bv 
 
THE SANITARY FA IB. 69 
 
 concerts, entei-tainmeuts, and collections. At that time the popu- 
 lation of the town was something over 16,000, and the fair netted 
 over one dollar for every man, woman, and child within its borders. 
 It was a remarkably successful event, socially and financially, and 
 clearly demonstrated the patriotic spirit of the people. 
 
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CHAPTER VII. 
 
 AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 
 
 YONKERS AT THE ClOSE OF THE REBELLION — GROWTH OF THE VIL- 
 LAGE — More Progressive — The Census — Celebration op 
 THE Fall of Richmond — President Lincoln's Assassination 
 — Return of Our Brave Soldiers. 
 
 FROM the acceptance of the Village Charter to the close of 
 the Rebellion — ten years : six years of peace, four years 
 of war — was an eventful decade for the little hainlet strung along 
 the banks of the Nepperhan. In these years healthful progress 
 was made, and foundations securely laid whereon have been built 
 the superstructures of the present day. 
 
 Many questions there were to be settled, and vdlling hearts and 
 hands to settle them. The form of government temporarily set- 
 tled, there quickly arose the potent question as to who should fill 
 the offices, who administer the law. Great strifes there were in 
 those eventful days. There were burning questions as to the 
 roads, the police, the schools, and taxes, and after the war opened 
 there were added the mighty questions of the draft, the substitute, 
 
 71 
 
72 YONKERS IN THE liEBELLIOX. 
 
 and the bounty. Fierce were the debates in Getty Lyceum over 
 the town-bonding for bounties to substitutes. Scarcely less fierce 
 were the contests for town Supervisor in those sad days of the war, 
 so important were his duties. 
 
 Amid the clamor of popular strife, and despite the convulsion 
 of the Nation, this little village grew rapidly. Restless and 
 impatient, it still knocked at Mr. Shonnard's gate on the north, 
 and Mr, Ludlow's on the south. It was bursting its bonds. 
 
 At the close of the war the place had assumed an appearance 
 not unlike that of the present day. At the north end of the vil- 
 lage many handsome places had been laid out and built upon. 
 Along the Hudson most of the valuable sites had been taken up 
 and improved. The Flats and the Hill had assumed the appear- 
 ance which remains to the present day. Along the Nepperhan, once 
 so pure, the mill and factory had come to stay, and make odorous 
 the stream with their filth, and color it with their dyes. 
 
 A few streets, or parts of streets, liad been opened, and tlie old 
 roads slightly improved. A better class of buildings was fast tak- 
 ing the place of those small frame structures which always mark 
 a new settlement. 
 
 Added to these changes, a new race of men liad arrived within 
 our borders, and was fast driving out of power the men of the 
 famous village election contest of ten years before. These new- 
 comers brought with tlieiii jikhc! progressive ideas and nmcli avail- 
 able capital. Along with these, and chiefly owing to the great 
 demand for labor, came a rougher lot, some very good, some utterly 
 bad, the mass chiefly indifferent. 
 
 At this date the ancient town of Vonkt is had nnt been dis- 
 inembere.l, and still I'eai-hed fn-iii the S|iuyten Diiyvil ("reek, on 
 
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAS. 73 
 
 the south, to the Greenburgh town-Hue, ou the uorth ; while the 
 Bronx chiefly formed its eastern boundary, and the Hudson its 
 western. Around the foundry at Spuyten Duyvil, and again at 
 Riverdale, the population clustered, but north and east of the vil- 
 lage-line the township was yet in farm-laud. Along the Nepperhan, 
 the Bronx, the Sprain and Grassy Sprain, and Tibbet's Brook, were 
 farms and farmers, pure and simple, even at this late date. Here 
 and there, upon the old Post road, north and south of the village- 
 line, were the more pretentious villas of the wealthier classes. 
 
 The town roads had not increased much in numbers of late years, 
 and they were not models of road-making by any means, being 
 kept up after the ancient method of scooping up dirt from the sides 
 of the road to dump it on the middle. Within the village-lines the 
 ways were better kept, but the practice of macadamizing them 
 was not then in vogue. It is but a short time back to mud roads, 
 both in village and township, poor as the improved highways of 
 Yonkers are considered now. 
 
 Yonkers to all outwa.-d appearance was not affected by the war. 
 For all that the people personally knew of it, it might as well have 
 been in Asia, so remote were its effects. But statistics show that it 
 had a solid share in putting down the Rebellion. It is said that 40 
 men of Yonkers enlisted in the Mozart Regiment, and 135 in the 
 Sixth New- York Heavy Artillery ; but this is far short of the total 
 of Yonkers enlistment, for one authority says that Yonkers enlisted 
 254 men in army and navy. We find reported 17 deaths among our 
 soldiers, of whom 8 are reported as buried at Yonkers. All of these 
 figures are far short of the terrible reality. Many of the ordinary 
 items of information are likewise statistically cramped, but they 
 are the best that are to be obtained. 
 
74 YONKERS IN THE HEISELUOX. 
 
 The census of 1865 gives the town a population of over 12,000, 
 and the village nearly 9,000. In the year 1800 the census gave 
 Yonkers 1,176 inhabitants. 
 
 A Gazetteer says that " Yonkers, pronounced Yonk'-erz, had 33 
 stone houses, 194 brick, and 1,328 frame houses," in 1865, and that 
 " a considerable amount of manufactures is carried on at Yonkers 
 and on the Spuyten Duyvil Creek." "It contains 9 eharches, 
 several private seminaries, a bank, and 3 newspaper oflSces." This 
 is not exact, but it is near enough for a general Gazetteer. If 
 we add a bank, several churches, a number of mills, a considerable 
 number of both people and houses, and say that Yonkers furnished 
 about 1,000 meu for the war, we shall probably come nearer the 
 truth. As to the sinews of war, we paid one (juarter of the whole 
 County Special Income Tax, and in all other war contributions 
 were not behind other towns. 
 
 We find in the census reports of that year — at the close of the 
 war — such notes as these: "At least nine-tenths of those who re- 
 pnrtcd answers speak cheerfully of the change which the war has 
 brought upon the social condition of the people and the future 
 prospects of the country." Two pro\'idential seasons of extra- 
 ordinary abundance are noted as tending "to restore prosperity 
 and happiness." An increase of expenditure among the people is 
 also noted, and a marked improvement in the condition of the poor. 
 Speaking concerning the soldiers, the historian of that year notes 
 that " much the greater portion quietly returned to the avocations 
 of livil life witli an industry in no degree impaired by their recent 
 life iu the lifld." AH of which applied to the town of Yonkers at 
 that date. 
 
 The year ISCm opened aiui<l mu<-h unrtTtaiiity and many mis- 
 
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAB. 75 
 
 giviugs as to the future. The people of the town and village of 
 Yonkers were thoroughly tired of the wai-, as, indeed, were the 
 inhabitants of all the towns of the county. Every one hoped and 
 prayed for peace. On every side now was evidence of this feeling. 
 In February there happened an event which brought the subject 
 anew and sadly to our hearthstones. 
 
 The Government had ordered a heavy draft of men. The new 
 quota of Yonkers was 106 of her sons. At Tarrytown the terrible 
 wheel was set turning with 1,528 Yonkers names therein — 212 
 names were drawn. At so late a date, after so many sacrifices on 
 their part, the good people of Yonkers felt the weight of this call, 
 and additional prayers went heavenward that the cruel war might 
 soon be over. 
 
 As the weeks wore on into months, and the prospects of peace 
 increased, a more joyous sense prevailed. With other towns 
 Yonkers rejoiced at the downfall of the Confederacy. 
 
 A Yonkers journal, of April 8, said concerning the victoi-y that, 
 " On receipt of the nt ws of the fall of Richmond, at Yonkers, on 
 Monday afternoon last, there was a general rejoicing among the 
 people, which found vent in various ways." In the evening groups 
 of people gathered on the corners or about Getty Squai-e to talk 
 over the events of the war. Cannon thundered forth a joyous 
 salute, and sundry impromptu exhibitions of fireworks were made. 
 The Village Fathers held a meeting the same evening, and resolved : 
 
 That this Board recommend that the citizens of this village join in celebrating 
 the fall of Eichmond, by au illumination of their dwellings, on Thursday evening 
 of this week. 
 
 It is chronicled of that eventful Thursday evening, that " Yon- 
 kers shone forth amid a perfect blaze of light. The scene from the 
 
7() YOXKEliS IN TIIK UEBELLIOX. 
 
 river was one of enchanting beauty. Music, I'oar of caiiiion, aii<l 
 display of fireworks " lent gi-eater interest to the festi\nties. 
 
 The " news of the surrender of Lee's army was received with a 
 great demonstration, with steam-whistles, cannon, and church bells. 
 It was a glad day for everybody." The chronicler quaintly adds, 
 "And greatly enjoyed by all." 
 
 "The announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln 
 came suddenly upon the people of the "V'illage, and jiroduced the 
 most intense feeling of sorrow." Flags were put at half-mast all 
 over the town, for everybody owned a flag oi- two in those days. 
 Appropriate mention was made in all the churches on the following 
 Sunday. Upon the day of the funeral the village stores were closed, 
 and funeral services were held in several of the churches. "In 
 brief," says a chronicler of that date, " Yonkers, by every means 
 within her power, evinced the depth and sincerity of the sorrow 
 of her people." 
 
 Oil thi' cvciiiiii,^ of tile 'Jnth of April, a vast mass-meeting was 
 held at Farringt(jn Hall, at which .ludge Scrugham presided. The 
 night before the Village Tinistees had met and passed appropriate 
 resolutif)ns. 
 
 At the south of the Railway Station a memorial ardi wastlirown 
 over the railroad, and under this the funeral train passed north- 
 ward, while every elevated point along the tracks was occupied by 
 our saddened citizens, who stood with niicovercd heads and tearful 
 eyes as the funeral train moved slowly by. 
 
 Among the town items of that eventful year the searcher finds 
 that the street-cars stopped running on North Broadway, "totlic no 
 small inconvenience of their many pali<ins." \Vc mayadcl that the 
 horse-car i-oad of that dav was soon thereafter lotallv eliminated 
 
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 77 
 
 and forgotten. To show how rural we were in those days, the fol- 
 lowing piece of village news will be not altogether uninteresting : 
 
 The park fronting the Getty House has been fitted up in good style, and now 
 presents quite an attractive appearance. Along the west side of it a strong rail 
 has been erected for the convenience of those who wish to hitch their horses thereto. 
 
 It is also related that an officer of the Sixth Artillery brought to 
 Yonkers two of the blackest contrabands Yonkers people had ever 
 laid eyes upon. They were slave boys of Major Eobinson, and 
 were respectively of the age of ten and twelve years. It is said that 
 one found a home with Frederick Newman, the village upholsterer, 
 and that the other was taken care of by Thomas Radford, of South 
 Broadway, the brother of Hon. William Radford, who, as our 
 representative in Congress, was one of the immortal seven who 
 voted for Emancipation in opposition to their party. 
 
 It is not a pleasant thing to record, but it is nevertheless true, 
 that but little public homage was paid to the heroes of the war 
 when they returned to iheir homes in Yonkers. A local reporter 
 noticed this, and recorded, for future generations to read, that "in 
 every place but Yonkers, to our shame be it said, the soldiers of 
 the Sixth Artillery are handsomely received and entertained." It 
 is certainly an unpleasant record, for the Sixth Artillery was pecu- 
 liarly a Yonkers organization. 
 
 That the veterans held together for a while is evidenced by the 
 fact that upon Thanksgiving Day of that year the Yonkers soldiers 
 organized a target company, commanded by Colonel E. Y. Morris, 
 and had for once a harmless shooting-party. 
 
 But for all the public neglect, each veteran was a hero among his 
 many friends. Some returned minus a leg or arm, but many more 
 
 10 
 
78 YOXKEUS IS THE HEBELLIOX. 
 
 in shattered health, aud within a very short period after their return 
 quite a number had passed silently away to their long rest from 
 strife and turmoil. 
 
 But to pass on to other subjects. For many years now the clink 
 of coin had not been heard in the town. Paper had been exclusively 
 used as current money. When, therefore, we read the followiui,' 
 item in a local paper we are made more fully acquainted with the 
 war phase of the currency : 
 
 While iu a ear of the Yonkers and New-York Railroad, a few days ago, we saw 
 a passenger hand the conductor a fifty-cent silver piece. We also learn that several 
 
 .silver half aud quarter dollars were taken at the Fenian picnic. 
 
 Times were not any too easy that year, and the rate of taxation 
 seemed high to all. "Everything, in short, is taxed, except the 
 air we breathe, and that will jirobably be taxed by the cholera, 
 next spring." 
 
 Ill that year the Hudson River Railroad still ran to Thirtieth 
 street, and there were but ten trains each way daily which .stuppetl 
 at Yonkers. It is hard to believe, but it is stated, that thei-e were 
 but two mails daily from Yonkers to New- York, and only one mail 
 north. Delays were tVeijuent and often tedious, both as to passen- 
 gers and mails. 
 
 The soldier who returned to his home after foin- years in the 
 field was apt to find urgent necessity for going to work at once to 
 earn a living for himself and family. No easy task just then, with 
 the labor-market irlutted. and jn-i.'es of liviii;,' lii.Lrh. When the war 
 broke out he <'oiild buy a iioiind of tirst-elass butter for L':; cents; 
 now tile same quality was (10 cents. Di.l he Imy cotton cloth, tiieii 
 it did not exceed U cents; now he must pay IVA ceiit.s. Flour, that 
 
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. 79 
 
 in 1860 was $8 a barrel, now sold for $20. Wheat was now $1.30 
 per bushel, and corn 57 cents. When he went away tea cost 50 
 cents a pound; when he got home it had risen to three times that 
 price. Pork at 12 cents of old, now, alas! worth 30 cents per 
 pound. Beans were 6 cents and rice 5 cents a pound; now he 
 found the former at double their old price ,and the cost of the latter 
 nearly trebled. Had he worked as a day-laborer or farm-hand, 
 then he earned a dollar a day ; now he was worth only half a dollar 
 more, while all he needed was doubled, trebled, and oftentimes 
 quadrupled. But the brave man only worked the hai'der, and 
 fought out the bread-and-butter question as he had those questions 
 at stake in the war. In time he had conquered and solved both. 
 
 And so another period had passed. Many questions had solved 
 themselves, and many more had been settled by our brave and de- 
 termined citizens. The day was fast approaching when Yonkers 
 was to lay aside its youthful appearance, to drop its village and 
 rural attire, and assume the airs of a city. 
 
 Many of the leadMg men and women of the town and village 
 who were alive and active in public life and charities at the out- 
 break of the war, had been called away at a time when their voices 
 and assistance were sadly needed. Much of the work of recon- 
 struction fell upon the younger men of that day, and upon the new 
 men who were moving into the growing village. Such helpful 
 men as Ethan Flagg, Judge William W. Scrugham, James C. Bell, 
 Robert P. Getty, Justus Lawrence, Thomas C. Coimell, and Anson 
 Baldwin were still with us, and coached and applauded the young- 
 sters who had their shoulders to the wheel. 
 

 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN HOWARD HITCHING. 
 
 A True Christian Hero — His Bravery, Military Skill, and 
 Services as a Commander— The Fatal Shot at Cedar 
 Creek — His Untimely Death at Dobbs Ferry. 
 
 To see him is to respect him, but to know him is to love him. 
 
 From a letter of a soldier in Colonel Kitching^s commatid. 
 
 ONE of the Grand Army Posts of Yonkers has honored itself by 
 choosing for its name Kitching Post. The life of General J. 
 Howard Kitching was very brief, if measured by months and 
 years. He was born in the city of New-York, July 16, 1838, and 
 died in Dobbs Ferry, New- York, January 10, 1865. His life's battle 
 was finished before he was twenty-seven years old, but he lived 
 long enough to do for God and native land a valiant service which 
 strikingly illustrates the poet's lines : 
 
 We live in deeds, not years— in thoughts, not breaths ; 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
 We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
 
84 YoxKKiis IX nil-: ueuellion. 
 
 ' Memorials of sucli hi-voii- lives as his serve to remind us tliat on 
 the part of tens of thousands of Union officers and soldiers there 
 was a deep patriotic devotion, and often sacrifices much larger 
 than those of officers whose names are household words throughout 
 the length and breadth of the laud. 
 
 General Kitchiug's father was John P>. Kitciiing. His mother's 
 maiden name was Maria Bradner Hunt. Their home, at the 
 beginning of the Civil War, was at Dobbs Ferry. The record of 
 the noble character and services of their warrior sou eloquently 
 testifies of the rare training they gave liini. The perpetuity and 
 prosperity of the Republic depend upon American homes such as 
 theirs. He was taught from infancy to love God and his country. 
 
 Riding, boating, painting, and music wei'e among Howard Kitch- 
 iug's favorite pursuits. He sang well, with that deep, clear voice 
 which rang so musically on the battle-field, and he was a skilful 
 cornet-i>layer. AVliile heartily enjojnng the reereatit)ns of young 
 manhood, lie did not forget that '"life is real, life is earnest." He 
 heeded the solemn words, " 1 appeal unto you, young men, because 
 ye are strong," and before his nineteenth birthday he knelt at the 
 chancel of his beloved church and partook of his first communion. 
 Thereafter he loved intensely two l)anners — his country's flag and 
 the snow-white baiiiKT of tlic cross. 
 
 Fre(|U('iitly a siiectator of the cadets' drill at West Point, he 
 cherished u desire to become a soldier, but in deference to his 
 gentle mother, who did not wish him to enter upon military life, 
 he turned his attention to a business career. When he was twenty- 
 two years of age, lie married Miss Harriet l\i|iley. Tlie ceremony 
 took place in ('hi-ist"s ("hurch, Brooklyn, where he liad attemU^d 
 Sundav-Seh..ol when a hov. Wliei, Fort Suinlertell, Howard Kiteh- 
 
BBEVET BBIGADIEB- GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 85 
 
 ing, although not yet twenty-three years old, went down to New- 
 York and enlisted with the Lincoln Cavalry as a soldier of the 
 Union. Circumstances pi-evented his going to the front with 
 the Cavalry, but he soon received a Captain's commission in the 
 Second New- York Artillery. The Major of that Regiment was 
 Alexander Doull, a young Englishman, who had served with great 
 distinction in the Crimea. Doull was "a true soldier, a young man 
 of real genius, and his friendship was of great value to the new 
 recruit." 
 
 Elm Park, Staten Island, was the recruiting and drilling camp 
 of the Regiment. On the 7th of November, 1861, they started for 
 Washington. Those who were present saw the youthful Captain 
 mounted on the spirited gray horse which carried him through the 
 whole war. He had a word of cheer for the wives and sisters of the 
 members of his Company. A spectator wrote : 
 
 We remember one old gray-headed mau, pressing his way through the crowd, 
 and, with tears in his eyes, begging the young oificer to be kind to his boy. The 
 Captain put his hand on tL^ old man's shoulder, and promised him that he would 
 look after his son. 
 
 From forts and camp-gi-ounds, from battle-fields, trenches, and 
 rifle-pits, Howard Kitching wrote a series of letters to his father, 
 mother, sister, and wife, which breathed deep affection, lofty 
 patriotism, and noble Christian faith. More than fourscore of 
 those letters have been published in a volume from which a large 
 portion of this chapter has been comj)iled. They unbosom a pure 
 heart and reveal a noble soul ; occasionally they glow with the light 
 of delicate humor, and frequently burn with a Christian zeal which 
 fills the reader with admiring wonder. 
 
H6 YOXKEKS I\ THE UKUKLLIOS. 
 
 His Regiment did garrison duty for a time at Forts Ward and 
 Ellsworth. A letter from Fort Ellsworth, November, 1861, reveals 
 the impression made upon Cai)tain Kitching l)y a great re\iew of the 
 army by McClellan. "I saw the most magnificent sight which I ever 
 witnessed — seventy tliousaml men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, 
 spread over an immense jjlain, their bright bayonets glistening in 
 the sun, their bands playing splendidly, cannon roaring from one 
 side of the plain to the other, and, in fact, words will not describe 
 the splendid appearance which so large an army makes when drawn 
 up in line of battle." 
 
 Garrison life w^as too quiet for Captain Kitcliiiig. He was so 
 eager to witness an engagement that on one occasion, when there 
 was a prospect of a battle, he rode out from the fort, joined one of 
 the batteries, and reiuaiii('<l on tlic field till about four o'clock in 
 the morning, waiting for the enemy to appear. At that early period 
 in the war he was spoken of as " one of the very best officers of the 
 whole army," but his youthful appearance was not in his favor 
 among strangers. He was not twenty-four years of age when he 
 wrote: "I am working very hard at my books, as I find that mili- 
 tary men expect me to make ui> witli Ijiaius for absence of whiskers." 
 When he was called into court as a witness the luiiversal opinion 
 of the members of the court was that he was "an extraordinarily 
 young-looking man for a Captain, but that he appeared much older 
 after he began to speak." 
 
 Howard Kitching's friends, when, during the last yi-ars of the 
 war, he came home for a few days, observed a great change in him. 
 " He was the same l)right spirit as ever, and the old sunny smile 
 still passed at times over his handsome face. Hut he had grown 
 older, and his look was more often than before irrave and iiuiet. and 
 
BREVET BBIGADIER-GENEBAL J. HOWARD KITGHING. 87 
 
 a sense of deep responsibility evidently weighed upon him." He 
 desired to be a competent officer, and, with his knowledge of me- 
 chanics, he became familiar with the management of guns, and by 
 diligent study acquainted himself with fortifications. 
 
 As soon as it was rumored that the army was about to advance 
 toward Eichmond, he volunteei-ed to go to the front. General 
 Upton (then a Captain in the Regular Army) wrote : "Anxious to 
 participate in the fii'st campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Cap- 
 tain Kitching came to my battery and sought permission to join it. 
 So anxious was he, in fact, that he not only waived his rank to serve 
 under me, but he went still farther, and took command of a section 
 as the junior Second Lieutenant of the battery. Foregoing every 
 consideration due to his rank, and ignoring the pleasures and com- 
 forts of garrison life, he sought service in the field against the 
 enemies of his country — an act not only indicative of his ardent 
 pati'iotism, but one which will forever reflect credit and honor upon 
 his character as an officer and a soldier." 
 
 In 1862 General Mc^Olellan moved his army to the Lower Chesa- 
 peake. "Over one hundi'ed thousand men were transported by 
 water and set down on a new theater of operations almost one 
 hundred miles distant." Howard Kitching was now Adjutant of 
 an Artillery Brigade. His battery was sent up the Yoi'k River, 
 and disembarked at West Point. An army of ten thousand men 
 and horses was to be transported across the river. Just before 
 daybreak all the artillery was landed, with a loss of only one horse 
 out of five hundred. Adjutant Kitching wrote : " My boating ex- 
 perience, as well as my knowledge of horses, was, I hope, of some 
 service that night. If you could have seen me standing at the 
 tiller, steering a huge raft, with one hundred and eighty horses on 
 
88 yoxkehs in the bebelliox. 
 
 board, jumping and kicking aud trying their best to get overboard, 
 whilst all the soldiers, worn out with hard work, were sleeping on 
 all sides, you would have wondered what kind of a craft I had got 
 into." 
 
 A large force of Confederates, commanded l»y Generals Lee and 
 Smith, attacked the Union troops of General Franklin's command, 
 determined to push them back into the river. Adjutant Kitching 
 was with the resei-ved batteries. He wrote: "The Thirty-First 
 and Thirty-Second New-York aud one Pennsylvania Regiment had 
 hardly entered the woods when the firing became very heavy and 
 almost incessant, the Rebels yelling and cheering like fiends, as they 
 drove our men back by mere force of numbers. Every few mo- 
 ments some poor fellow was carried past us either dead or horribly 
 wounded. We never fired a shot until our men began to appeal-, 
 retreating from the edge of the woods, when we loaded with shell, 
 and just as soon as the enemy made their appearance we let them 
 have it, one gun at a time, slowly and deliberately. They stood 
 their ground for a long time, but our solid shot and shell were too 
 hot for tlicn), and at last they began to retire, when our lirave 
 infantry again puslied into the woods and drove tlieni aliout two 
 miles before the night came on. It was a glorious victory, t'oi' our 
 force was small, they outnumbering us two to one. (Jeneral New- 
 ton has stated that our guns saved the day. Gideon's God was with 
 us. . . . I believe that this army cannot be beaten now. Tlicy 
 stand lii-e like veterans, and apparently the more terrilily llicy 
 suffer, the more fiercely they fight." 
 
 Howard Kitching's love of art made liiiii <iiiick to observi' tiie 
 l)ictures([ue features of a cainp. \Vli(ii Ik' was ncai- Fair Oaks 
 Station, lie wrote: 
 
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITGHING. 89 
 
 Yesterday I went forward to where our outside pickets are stationed, and was 
 surprised to find that the "seceshers" were posted so near that we could almost 
 speak to them, and quite a pretty pictui-e they made too, in their bandit uniforms 
 and broad-brimmed hats and plumes. They wear clothes made of a kind of gray 
 homespun, and instead of tight-fitting coats like those of our soldiers, they wear a 
 loose blouse, which, being confined at the waist, reminds one very strongly of the 
 old pictures of Eobin Hood's men, as they dodge in and out behind the trees. 
 
 The young officer's admiration for the soldiers of the Union was 
 very great. He wrote: "It is splendid to witness the perfect con- 
 fidence of our troops in their ability to whip any force which 
 may be brought against them. Even the regiments which were 
 so dreadfully cut up in the late battles are waiting with the 
 greatest eagerness to have an opportunity of avenging their 
 fallen comrades." 
 
 His pen sometimes seemed to have the magic of an artist's brash, 
 so strikingly did he describe the scenes he witnessed. " The Eebels 
 have been firing at what they probably think are the headquarters 
 of our Generals. You ought just to hear and see some of the newly 
 invented projectiles whirring and whistling through the air. They 
 sound exactly like a locomotive and train of cars going overhead." 
 
 In June, 1862, General McClellan decided upon a change of base 
 to James River. His famous retreat of seven days is a part of 
 history. It was conducted with great military ability, but necessi- 
 tated on the part of his troops "fighting all day and marching all 
 night, pushing their way through dense woods and tangled under- 
 growth, and across sluggish streams." Oh, the horrors of that re- 
 treat! The troops first made a stand at Gaines's Mill. General 
 Upton wrote: 
 
 We entered the battle about 4 p. m., at once engaging the enemy's artillery, and 
 remained till nearly dark, under a heavy fire of shell and case-shot. The right and 
 
90 YOXKEHS I^' THE REBELLIOX. 
 
 center sections of the battery were somewhat covered, but the left, commanded by 
 Captain Kitching, was exposed to the full view of the enemy, and received much 
 more than its proportion of fire. During tlie entire battle he served his guns with 
 great coolness, and was a brilliant example to the men. He received in the breast 
 a painful contusion fi-om the fragment of a shell, but did not quit his post. 
 
 Bayonet and shot and shell were not the only missiles the patriot 
 soldiers faced. The poisoned arrows of disease prostrated hundreds 
 of thousands. When the army reached Harper's Landing, Captain 
 Kitcliing was seriously ill from constant exposure, unceasing ex- 
 eitenieut, and sleepless nights passed in the saddle. He resigned 
 his position in the army, and repaired to his home. 
 
 The family went with him to Oscawana, that beautiful sheet of 
 water lying among the hills that look down upon West Point. He 
 soon recruited his strength, and with restored health he desired 
 to again be with those who were fighting for their country. In 
 vain his friends contended that he had done as much for the cause 
 as could reasonably ])e demanded of him, and that there were 
 crowds of young men at tli<- North, wlio liail neither wife nor child, 
 who had done nothing for their country, and who ought now to go 
 to the front where they were wanted. But he felt that he was now 
 more needed than ever. There was a general feeling of discourage- 
 ment throughout the North, and he argued that his services were 
 peculiarly demanded. He felt that he was fitted, as only the ex- 
 perience through which he had passed could fit him, to connuand 
 troops in the fearful struggle tliat ev.Tv tliou-^'litt'ul jx-rsnn knew 
 was impending, before the end could be attaine(l. lie had been on 
 a visit to New-York, an<l startled liis friends on bis return witli the 
 announcement that he was going back to tlie field again. Colonel 
 William H. Morris, of the One Hundred and Thirty-P''ifth Infantry, 
 liad invited liinj to iro with him as acting Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 91 
 
 The Regiment left New- York ou September 5, 1863, and on 
 reaching Baltimore was quartered in Fort McHenry. Soon after 
 it was changed into the Sixth Regiment of New- York Artillery. 
 When Colonel Morris was promoted, Captain Kitching was ap- 
 pointed Colonel. The men were delighted. Captain Donaldson, a 
 brave young officer, wrote : 
 
 I can even now, in fancy, hear the gentle rebuke that fell from his lips because 
 we had allowed the men to turn out in such a storm to do him honor. Little, 
 though, did the brave fellows heed the rain, so long as he, their honored com- 
 mander, was with them. 
 
 In August, 1863, he commanded the largest brigade in the army. 
 It was a responsible position for an officer only twenty-five years 
 old. In the absence of General Tyler, Colonel Kitching commanded 
 the whole artillery reserve, consisting of 30 batteries, 2 regiments 
 of infantry, and about 300 ammunition-wagons. During the holi- 
 days of 1863, he was home on leave of absence. He returned in 
 January, 1864, and everybody was glad to see him back. 
 
 In March, 1864, Colonel Kitching was acting as Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral in command of four thousand men. The next month his troops 
 were reviewed by General Grant, and were highly complimented 
 upon their perfect drill and splendid marching. He was introduced 
 personally to General Grant. His was the First Brigade, Artillery 
 Reserve, Army of the Potomac. At this time his staff consisted of 
 Captain Effingham Donaldson, Adjutant-General ; Captain William 
 G. Ferris, Inspector-General; Lieutenant Smith, United States 
 Army, Aide-de-Camp ; Lieutenant Huyfler, Chief Engineer; and 
 Lieutenant J. F. Baker, Surgeon. 
 
 On the 5th of May one hundred thousand men were across the 
 Rapidan. They were indeed marching through the Wilderness. It 
 
t)2 YOSKKRH IX THE RKBELLIOS. 
 
 was a region of gloom aud the shadow of death. The troops could 
 receive direction only by the point of the compass, for not only 
 were the lines of battle entirely hidden from the sight of the com- 
 mander, but no ofiScer could see ten files on each side of him. Ar- 
 tillery and cavalry were useless in such a country. For twelve days 
 fighting was incessant. The Union losses were probably forty 
 thousand. In an engagement where the Confederates were defeated 
 with great slaughter, the honor of their repulse belonged to Howard 
 Kitehiiig's battalions. A soldier of his command wrote : 
 
 We are proud of oiir commander — the little Colonel. I wisii you could see him 
 once. To see liim is to respect him, but to know him is to love him. He is just my 
 idea of a soldier and gentleman. While the shells are flying over us, and the bullets 
 whizzing past us, he is walking leisurely up and down the line, and if any of the 
 boys should dodge, he will say, with a smile, " No ducking — stand up ! " His 
 demeanor and e.xample in battle have made heroes of the meanest cowai-ds. 
 
 In May, 18(54, lie was guaivling tlu' Fredcrickslmrg road, and, 
 about four o'clock in the afternoon, he was attacked by Ewell's entire 
 Corps. By seven o'clock Colonel Kitching was commanding seven 
 thousand men. He wrote: "I had the pleasure of leading one 
 battalion into the fight. My Christian men have done particularly 
 well." His own escape from injury was marvelous. As his troops 
 were mostly new, he thought it necessary to expose himself more 
 than otherwise would have been necessary ; and yet, while every 
 one of his licld-officers was either wounded or IukI liis horso killc-d, 
 Coloui'l Kitching received only a slight scratdi. A sliarp-sliootcr 
 sueceedeil in breaking the skin of iiis neck, but did not seriously 
 liurt him. When tlio sharp-shooter was captured, lie said: "1 lircd 
 seven times at tiiat little Colonel, iiiid I would di.' liappy if 1 .-ould 
 lliive iiit liim." 
 
BBEVET BRIGADIER-GENEBAL J. HOWABB KITCHING. 93 
 
 Ou the evening of May 31, 1864, Colonel Kitchiug wrote home 
 from the rifle-pits which the day before cost him nearly two thou- 
 sand lives to hold. He desci'ibed a tierce engagement, and referred 
 with gratitude to the valor of Major Frederic Shonnard. He says: 
 
 The enemy broke tlirougla Colonel Hardin's line, and came upon the head of my 
 column. I had no time to form line of battle. Two of my staff-ofacers fell at 
 the first fire. Major Crookston and Captain Palmer, just behind me, also fell ; 
 Crookston's horse was killed, and Palmer shot through the ankle. This terrible 
 fire right into the head of the column broke the men, many of whom had fallen, 
 and in less time than I can tell you my Brigade, excepting one battalion which I 
 managed through the heroic exertions of Major Jones and Major Shonnard to keep 
 together, was saUing across the plain. My officers are magnificent, and, at the first 
 fence where any protection could be had fi'om the murderous fire, they rallied the 
 Sixth Artillery, and I made a stand for about thirty minutes against the brigades 
 of the enemy. They came on in two lines of battle, waving their battle-flags, and 
 led bravely enough by their ofiicers; but our rail-fence, of which we had made as 
 good a breastwoi'k as we could, did us good service, and we did give them .Jessie ! 
 I was forced to fall back, having no reenforcements. . . . We fell back to our sup- 
 ports, and got two batteries into position, and then had it hot and heavy till night 
 put an end to it. ... I went over the battle-field after the fight. We found one 
 Brigadier-General, one Colonel, two Lieutenant-Colonels, besides about three hun- 
 dred men, lying in front of «iy command alone. We also took about eighty prison- 
 ers. Would that the leaders of this terrible Rebellion could see the certain downfall 
 of their wicked efforts, and stop now, rather than sacrifice the lives that must 
 be lost before the end of the campaign! . . . Whenever we meet the enemy in 
 the open country, or he attacks us, we whip him. I notice one thing which encour- 
 ages me greatly —that the Rebel attacks upon our lines are becoming weaker and 
 weaker; the prisoners that we take all appear to be glad to get into our lines, 
 and say that " the jig is up." ... I am sitting amongst my men in rear of my rifle- 
 pits, and the stars over me. . . . My pickets are constantly popping at the enemy, 
 and vice versa. My clothes are ragged and dirty ; I am tanned like a darky, and, 
 altogether, look pi-etty seedy; but I beheve that my superior ofiicers and my 
 command have fuU confidence in me, which is a source of great comfort. 
 
 On June 3, 1864, he wrote from the lifle-pits near Cold Harbor. 
 They had been won from the enemy by Colonel Kitching's Brigade 
 
94 YOXKERS IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 after five hoiars' hard fighting ! lu the last of the series of conflicts 
 fought so desperately from the Wilderness to the Chickahominy, 
 Howard Kitehing passed unscathed through withering fires of 
 shot and shell. In these conflicts Grant's loss consisted of more 
 than sixty thousand men. The army was then transferred, by a 
 flank movement, to the south side of the James River. 
 
 In a letter dated July 18, Colonel Kitehing says: "Major 8hou- 
 nard leaves for home this morning. Oh, how I envy him, and how 
 di;lighted his mother will be to get him safe home ! He has done 
 his ilut y as a soldier in a fcai-l(>ss manner, and carries with him the 
 respect of all his brother officers." 
 
 Colonel Kitehing was ordered with his cominaiHl to Wasiiington 
 in August, 1864, to take command of the defenses of that city. 
 He had the oversight of thirteen forts with their garrisons, extend- 
 ing eight miles. In one of his letters he expresses his gi'atitude for 
 the relief from anxiety this new position gave him: "It seems so 
 strange to be able to lie down at night in quiet, without the danger 
 of being blown to pieces by a mortar-shell." 
 
 On October 2, 1864, he received his very honorable discharge 
 from the service of tlie United States, upon an api)lication of his 
 own, on the giuunil of uioi-e than three years' service. He was 
 influenced in making this ai)plication by the conviction tliat his 
 wife and child ought to be deprived of his presence no longer, lb- 
 had made all his arrangements to leave Washington, but when he 
 went to the War Department the Secretary of War revoked the 
 order, and assigned Colonel Kitehing witli liis command to (leiieral 
 Sheridan. 
 
 Sheridan's army, fhishc(l witli repeated victories, lay (|uietly but 
 strongly posted ..n tlic l.ank of ( '.'dar ( 'reek. Slieridan liiniself was 
 
BEEVET BBIGADIER- GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 95 
 
 absent. All the world knows how, mounted upon his black charger, 
 Sheridan sped to the battle-field when rumors of the defeat of his 
 troops were borne to him ; but all the world does not know what 
 heroic efforts were made by his brave officers to rally the surprised 
 forces, before their commander reached them. Howard Kitehing's 
 biographer has put on record the daring and skUl of the youthful 
 Colonel that day. At early dawn on the morning of the 19th of Octo- 
 ber, 1864, the light, struggling through a dense fog, was so dim that 
 friend could scarcely be distinguished from foe. The Rebels, sud- 
 denly sweeping in overwhelming numbers through the sleeping 
 camp of the Union army, startled the troops from their slumbers 
 The surprise was complete. Colonel Kitchiug had barely time to 
 buckle on his sword, seize his pistols, and mount his horse. Hav- 
 ing only one battalion of his own Regiment, he succeeded, after 
 an almost hopeless effort, in rallying his men, and held an impor- 
 tant road several hours, until nine out of eleven of his officers were 
 either killed or wounded. 
 
 One Color-Sergeanv after another was shot down, and his troops 
 were giving way before a wild onslaught, when Major Jones, who 
 was greatly beloved by the Regiment, fell, mortally wounded. Colo- 
 nel Kitching spurred forward and called out, " Stop, men ; you will 
 not let Jones be made a prisoner ! " They rallied to a man, and stood 
 their ground until their Major was safely carried to the rear. Af- 
 terward Colonel Kitchiug told, with tears in his eyes, how many 
 brave young fellows lost their lives in the rescue of an officer they 
 loved so well. 
 
 Just here it was that a young Color-Sergeant was carried by, his 
 life-blood ebbing fast away. With a sad but radiant face he looked 
 up and said, " Colonel, I did the best I could ! " 
 
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96 YOXKEK.S IX THE REliEI.LIOK. 
 
 Colonel Kitching theu reported in person to Major-General 
 Wright, commanding the army, asking to be assigned to some 
 command where he could be of most ser\ace. The order he re- 
 ceived was that he should " rally the troops wherever he should find 
 them," so as to delay the advance of the enemy until a position 
 could be found wh<if they could make a stand. 
 
 With all the (l;!--!! ami energy of his eharactei', he adtkessed him- 
 self to the difficult duty. He spurred among the disordered soldier}', 
 and his clear, musical voice rang out over the wild scene as he 
 called them to "fall in." They soon began to rally around him 
 and contend for every foot of ground. But the enemy was in 
 overwhelming numbers, and the command was driven as far as 
 the Creek, which they found blockaded by the baggage-trains. 
 
 Colonel Kitching succeeded, by his unwearied efforts, in securing 
 the passage of the wagons. Once across the stream, the panic- 
 struck stragglers began to rush to the rear. Again his voice was 
 heard above the din and confusion, the roar of musketry and the 
 mingled shouts of battle. In the midst of this wild tumult, while 
 facing the enemy, a niiiiic-ball <'i'aslic(l tlu'ougli his foot. Wearied 
 and wounded, he still sat on his horse, ami gave his orders, though 
 now in subdued tones. He was again and again urged to leave the 
 field, but refused until the army had taken a position where they 
 might repel any attack of the enemj'. It was at this moment that 
 General Sheridan rode up to the front, and gave new life to the 
 troops by the magnetism of his presence. 
 
 Satisfied that all was riglit now. Colonel Kitching directed Cap- 
 tain Donaldson to accomi>any liini in search of a Surgeon to dross 
 his wound. Becoming fainter and fainter from loss of blood and 
 suffering, lie was yet conipelK'd to i-ide neaily t'oui- miles to tlie 
 
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 97 
 
 rear before he could obtain assistance. They found an Assistant 
 Sui'geon belonging to one of the cavahy regiments, and he dressed 
 the wound, but discovered it to be so serious that he advised the 
 wounded officer to be carried in an ambulance to where he could 
 obtain further medical treatment without delay. 
 
 The ambulances came rumbling by in rapid succession, but were 
 all filled with wounded men, and Colonel Kitching was unwilling to 
 have any poor fellow disturbed to make room for him. A stretcher 
 was then made of a piece of shelter-tent and 2>ine poles, and with 
 the help of some stragglers he was cari'ied several weary miles. 
 But this mode of transportation proved very painful, and as the Col- 
 onel was becoming weaker and weaker, an ambulance, containing a 
 poor soldier mortally wounded, was stopped, and he was placed 
 beside him, and so they reached Winchester. Suffering as he was, 
 he did not allow himself to be driven to the headquarters of Gen- 
 eral Edwards until he had seen his wounded comrade safely and 
 comfortably cared for in the hospital. 
 
 While waiting an t5;amination of his wound in this dreary place 
 — a bare room, crowded to suffocation with wounded and dying 
 officers — the news was received of Sheridan's brilliant attack and 
 the total rout of the enemy. Colonel Kitching looked up from his 
 couch of suffering, and exclaimed : " If this be true, I should be 
 willing to lose another leg." The ball was safely extracted, but the 
 Surgeon advised that he should be removed away from these sad 
 scenes, and where he could feel the sunshine of loving faces, and 
 be nursed by loving hands. 
 
 On Thursday, October 20, a despatch from General Sheridan 
 flashed through the country, carrying joy to loyal hearts, but carry- 
 ing to Howard Kitching's home anxiety mingled with joy. " We 
 
98 YOXKEK.S IX THE REBELLION. 
 
 have again been favored by a great victory — a victory won from 
 disaster — by the gallantry of our officers and men. ... I have to 
 regi-et the loss of many valuable officers killed and wounded; among 
 them Colonel Joseph Thorbura, killed; Colonel J. Howard Kitchiug, 
 wounded ; Colonel E. G. McKenzie, wounded severely, but would 
 not leave the field." A few hours later came a telegi*am from 
 Howard Kitching himself, who evidently desired to save his 
 beloved family from all the anxiety he could. 
 
 His father and several other friends went immediately to Balti- 
 more, and in the early morning set out for home. The President 
 of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had most kindly prepared an 
 entire car for the use of the family — having the seats removed, 
 and eveiy possible arrangement made which could add in any way 
 to their comfort, personally superintending everything, that there 
 might be no confusion or delay. 
 
 While the friends stood around the stretcher at the I'ailroad 
 station trying to shield Colonel Kitching from the cold wind, an 
 Irishwoman with a baby in her ai'ms looked over his sister's 
 shoulder. Seeing the still rosy cheeks and bright curls, she wijied 
 away her tears with the corner of her apron, am\ said, "Och, an' 
 it 's dreadful ! such a lovely young man as that !" and then whis- 
 pered, "Has he a mother f Och, an' it 's the pity for her, jjoor thing!" 
 
 All day long there were whispered questions, and words of sym- 
 pathy — fruits and little delicacies offered. A fellow-traveler would 
 come beside him with a cheery, hopeful word — some allusion to 
 the glorious victory of tlic day before; then a "(iod Idess you, 
 f'oloncl ! Vou arc sutVcring iu a glorious cause." At a late hour 
 Hatunlay night they reached the Metropolitan Hotel, New-York, 
 where his mother, witli iiallid face, was awaiting his arrival. That 
 
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 99 
 
 evening the Surgeons, in consultation, decided that amputation 
 was necessary to save his life. He talked with the Surgeons in his 
 usual calm and courteous way, and the operation was performed. 
 After resting awhile, he was taken to the Gretty House, Yonkers. 
 Before recording his last words, we will quote a few sentences 
 from his letters written from camp and battle-field — letters which 
 unbosom his Christian faith. At the very beginning of his life as 
 a soldier, before he left home for the front, he repaired to Peekskill 
 to have his little boy baptized, and there, after his favorite Psalm 
 (the ninety-first) was read, he and his friends knelt in a parting 
 pi'ayer. The extracts from his letters need no comment. 
 
 This morning I took about two hundred and fifty of the men down to the 
 camp of the Fourth Rhode Island to attend service, as we have no Chaplain ; and 
 although it was very cold standing in the cold winds, I enjoyed the service very 
 much. 
 
 In a brief note written to his wife late at night at the close of a 
 weary day, he says : 
 
 Love our gracious Saviour, darling. Try to be with Him more every day, and 
 you will find that He is indeed our Elder Brother and the Friend above all others. 
 
 In April, 1862, he wrote to his wife : 
 
 God bless you, my precious one ! I would so love to kiss you good-night as of 
 old, and kneel down side by side as we did that sorrowful Sunday night, and pray 
 to the same loving Jesus. We can do this, my darling, although separated. Do 
 not forget to go to Jesus at twilight every day, and I will be with you there, even 
 if in saddle, marching in the dust or on the battle-field. 
 
 In the same month he wrote to his mother : 
 
 Darhng mama, I do so long for a dear quiet Sunday at home once more. The only 
 difference here between Sunday and any other day must be in a man's own heart. 
 ... I know that my precious mother will be delighted to hear that Jesus' 
 
100 YOXKEliS IX THE liEBELLION. 
 
 presence is almost always realized by me now. Sometimes, it is true, dark clouds 
 seem to come between Him and my soul, but at such times I have only to go to Him 
 and tell Him everything and He at once dispels the darkness and gives me perfect 
 confidence and trust. 
 
 In another letter to his wife he says : 
 
 I have just come from a poor Lieutenant who is mortally wounded. I have 
 been telling liim of Jesus, but, poor fellow, he is almost gone, and is hardly able 
 even to think. God in his mercy and grace have mercv on his soul. 
 
 On one occasion, when wi-iting home, he refers to a little book 
 his mother gave him, and the comfort he found in it. He says: 
 "In this volume is one little hymn which runs in my head all the 
 time: 
 
 " Here in the body pent, 
 
 Absent from Him I roam. 
 Yet nightly pitcli mj' mo\Tng tent 
 A day's march nearer home." 
 
 In his pocket-memoi'andum the following entry was found: 
 
 Ix LINE OF BATTLE, just going into action, 
 
 Sunday, July 12, 1863. 
 
 My Darling : If anything should happen to me, good-by ; God bless my darlings 
 both. Don't forget your Ho\vy ; but above all, don't forget the Lord Jesus. 
 
 There is pay due me from May 1st to the date of my death; ask papa to get it. 
 
 Bid all my dear ones good-by. God bless you, my own little comfort ; you have 
 been God's choicest blessing to me, next to my redemption by the blood of his dear 
 Son. 
 
 Bring Howy up to love me, darling I 1 have uotliing to leave you liut my blessing. 
 My trunk is at Harper's Ferry. Your own, Hdward. 
 
 Colonel Kitehing eagerly cooporatrd with the Army Cliaiilain.s, 
 and was accustomed to attend jirayer-meetings and revival ser- 
 
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 101 
 
 vices. At one time, while the soldiers were waiting for the order 
 for them to enter where the shadow of death was falling, they 
 held a midnight prayer-meeting, and Colonel Kitching was greatly 
 moved by the earnest, simple prayers of the men. His soldiers 
 knew him to be a Christian; and when Sergeant Hart, a noble 
 Christian, was wounded, and in the very thick of the fight was 
 carried past his beloved commander, looking up with a bright 
 smile, he exclaimed, " Colonel, I shall have the honor of being in 
 heaven before you." When Howard Kitching was lying on a bed 
 of suffering, he narrated this incident with tears in his eyes. 
 
 The marks in his pocket hymn-book show that he found solace 
 in his soldier life in the lines : 
 
 Lead, Saviour, lead ! amid the encircling gloom 
 
 Lead thou me on. 
 The night is dark, and I am far from home ; 
 
 Lead thou me on. 
 Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see 
 The distant scene — one step enough for me. 
 
 After he had been wounded, he seemed one day greatly distressed, 
 and grasping his sister's hand, with a look of intense anxiety said, 
 " Darling, if I die this morning, do you think I can be saved ? " 
 
 After a moment's silent prayer she said, " Why, Howy ! I have 
 no more doubt of it than that you and I are here now." 
 
 " Oh, that is because you don't know ; you don't know anything 
 about what a sinner I have been. You think I have been good, but 
 I have not. ... I will tell you, and then you will know. That 
 morning at Cedar Creek, when the Rebels rushed through my 
 camp, it was awful ; we could hardly tell friend from foe. I had 
 
102 YOXKERS IX THE KKIiKLUOX. 
 
 only a few of my own men — all of those mixed regiments — they 
 did n't know me, and I could not manage them like my own Bri- 
 gade. I ti-ied every way to rally them. We were making a des- 
 perate stand, when some teamsters and other fellows came rushing 
 across the field, enough to make a panic, and an oath escaped me." 
 
 His friend Captain Donaldson had come in and sat down beside 
 him. " Donny," said he, " did you ever hear me swear before ? " 
 
 " Never, Colonel." 
 
 "It was dreadful. I don't know how 1 eould have duiic it — it 
 must have been Satan — but I was so excited." And again came 
 the eager whisper, " Do you really think Jesus can forgive that ? " 
 
 His sister quoted, " The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all 
 sin," and other passages of Scripture; and as she stooped to kiss 
 him, a quiet look of peace came over his face. " Well, then, I'll 
 trust Him." 
 
 It was on the 1st of Dooeniber that he was rcniovfd to tlie Getty 
 ilciusf, Vonkers. His physicians IiojhmI tliat entire change of scene, 
 witli tlie fresh air of the country, and the (•diiifort of having his 
 wife and little children about liiiii. would euiible him to rally and 
 Ijreak up the fever that seemed wasting away his life. One day he 
 suddenly exclaimed, in a tone of real distress, "O Louise, both 
 hands and both feet ! " 
 
 Thinking he must be siillering intensely, she said, " Why. darling, 
 are you so much worse ! I thought you were asleep." 
 
 " Oh, no," he said, his eyes filled with tears. "Jesus — how cuultl 
 he endure it ? Both hands and both feet ! and all for us, too!" 
 
 Then he told her how often he had thought that the pain in his 
 laci rated foot must have been the same kind of pain that Jesus 
 sulTered: how his own siitVei'lnt:. even witli all tlie alleviations of 
 
BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. HOWARD KITCHING. 103 
 
 their loving care, liad made tiini think more and more of the dread 
 mystery of that death upon the cross. 
 
 Colonel Kitching began to improve and gain strength rapidly. 
 Many a family gathering was had around his wheel-chair. About 
 this time one of his Orderlies, from the Sixth Artillery, arrived in 
 charge of the Colonel's horses. Most amusing were the interviews 
 between the two: the little Irishman's humorous repUes to num- 
 berless questions about all that had transpired since the Colonel's 
 absence, with occasional sly suggestions from "Pete," the Southern 
 darky, who generally sat as a shadow just behind him. Many a 
 cheery message was sent back to the Regiment, telling them that 
 as soon as he could mount his horse he would be with them to 
 lead them in the assault on Petersburg. 
 
 On Thursday, December 22, the cold was intense, but Colonel 
 Kitching was so eager to be home again that he went in a cutter to 
 Dobbs Ferry. On Christmas they were very happy throughout the 
 day, but the pain which commenced that evening increased in 
 severity, and it was soon evident that he had taken cold. The in- 
 flammation of the wound continued to increase to such a degree 
 that another surgical operation was necessffry. When the prepara- 
 tions were completed, he said, "Wait a moment, Doctor." Then 
 drawing his sister close down to him, he whispered : 
 
 "If I should not live through this, dearie, you know whom I 
 have trusted. Be sure to bring the children to Jesus and to me." 
 
 Then repeating the farewell messages she had so often before 
 received, he drew her closer for a lingering kiss. Chloroform was 
 administered, and the operation performed. A shadow passed over 
 his face, then a calm, bright smile — Howard Kitching was "with 
 the Lord." 
 
104 YONKEKS IK THE HEBELLIOX. 
 
 He sleeps in Greenwood Cemetery, underneath "a low green tent 
 whose curtain never outward swings." 
 
 A whiter soul, a fairer iruiid, 
 A life with purer coarse and aim, 
 A gentler eye, a voice more kind. 
 We may not look on earth to find. 
 Thf! love that lingers o'er his name 
 Is more than fame. 
 
 Ilis widow and daughter, Edith Howard, reside in New-York 
 City ; hi.s son, John Howard, died two years ago at Bona, Algeria, 
 where he was Vice-Consul. His mother and sister, Mrs. Theodore 
 Irving, are living in Tarrytown. His father died July 19, 1887. A 
 brother and three sisters have all passed to the spirit-land. 
 
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CHAPTER IX. 
 
 SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 
 
 Colonel Fisher A. Baker and His Battles — Surgeon G. B. 
 Balch — Jeremiah Burns and the White House — The First 
 Yonkers Hero Who Died for the Union — Captain Matt. 
 H. Ellis and His Campaigns — Hand-to-Hand Encounter 
 of Captain William L. Heermance with Captain B. M. 
 Medina — The Hero and His Crutch— General Thomas 
 EwiNG AT Pilot Knob — Adjutant James Millward and the 
 Washington CLi_v Battalion — Major James V. Lawrence 
 and Mosby's Band — Thomas Oliver's Lost Medal— Abra- 
 ham J. Palmer and "The Die-No-Mores" — Ralph E. Prime's 
 Services and Promotions — Where William Riley Lost 
 His Arm — Major Frederic Shonnard's Honorable Career 
 — Captain James Stewart, Jr., Rescues Generals Hooker 
 AND Williams from an Embarrassing Situation. 
 
 FRANCIS HIGGINSON ATKINS, at one time a scliolav in 
 District School No. 2, and afterward a graduate of the Law- 
 rence Scientific School, Harvard University, was tutoring at Har- 
 vard at the outbreak of the war, hut gave up his situation to enlist 
 
 105 
 
106 YOXKEUS IX THE HE BELLI OX. 
 
 as a private in the Forty-Fi)nrtli ]^■f;illH'llt ]\Iassachusetts Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 After a campaign in North Carolina, being much in need of rest, 
 he passed the summer of 1862 at home, on South Broadway, Yon- 
 kers. Entering the service as a medical cadet, he became Acting 
 Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy, and was -s^ith Far- 
 ragut's squadron in the Gulf. He has continued in the service 
 since the war, and has been stationed in the Soutlnvest. He is a 
 brother of T. A. Atkins. 
 
 Fisher A. Baker became a resident of Yonkers in 1875. He 
 was a law clerk in New-York City when the war liroke out. He 
 went home and enlisted as a private in the Eighteenth Begiment 
 Massachusetts Volunteers, in April, 1861; he was commissioned 
 Second Lieutenant in that Regiment, July 26, 1861 ; promoted First 
 Lieutenant October 29, 1861; appointed Adjutaiil Fdiniary 1, 
 1862; and commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel -luly '_'!•, 1S64. Uis 
 Regiment was in the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, 
 and he was with his Regiment every tiint- it went out of camp 
 during the term of his service. 
 
 He took part in the operations in front of AVashington in the fall 
 of 1861, in the siege of Yorktown, in the Peninsula Campaign, and 
 was ill tlir tullowiiin- liattles: Second Bull Run, Antietam, Shep- 
 pardtdwn, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettyslmrg, Bristoo 
 Station, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run. Wildniicss, Lauicl 
 Hill, Spottsylvaiiia, North Anna, Bctliesda Cliureh, Toi-opotomy, 
 Cold llailinr, and I'ltcisliurir. !!•■ was mustered out at the expu'a- 
 tion of his term of service, Septenil)er 2, lS(i4. 
 
SOME FEBSUNAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 107 
 
 Galusha Buechaed Balch, M. D., at the breaking oiit of the 
 War of the Rebellion, was engaged in the practice of his profession 
 at North Lawi-ence, N. Y. He offered his services in the fall of 
 1861, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Ninety-Eighth 
 New- York Infantry Volunteers. The Eegiment was assigned to 
 the Army of the Potomac, and in the following spring went to the 
 Peninsula under General MeClellan. Upon the occupation of York- 
 town, Va., by the Union Army, he was detached from his Regi- 
 ment, and assigned to dutj^ in the General Hospital at that place. 
 Soon after he was given chai'ge of the steamer State of Maine, 
 which was used in transporting sick and wounded to Baltimore. 
 This service was so efficiently performed that Dr. J. Simpson, 
 Medical Director of the Middle Department, reported upon it in 
 the following langiiage: "The condition in which the State of 
 Maine arrived was highly creditable to Dr. Batch. The sick 
 were well cared for, and the sanitary condition of the vessel 
 was in a much better state than the others that have lately 
 arrived." 
 
 Dr. Balch returned to his Regiment early in August, and re- 
 mained with it about two months, when he was compelled to leave 
 the service on account of sickness caused by excessive labor and 
 exposure. 
 
 In December, 1863, he again tendered his services, and was com- 
 missioned Assistant Surgeon of the Second Veteran Cavalry, New- 
 York Volunteers, and went with that Regiment to the Department 
 of the Gulf. During the Red River Campaign he was Surgeon in 
 charge of his Regiment, and was in the field with it in all of the 
 battles. During the summer, autumn, and winter following he was 
 with the Regiment in its numerous raids and skirmishes, and was 
 
108 YOXKERS IN THE REHELUOX. 
 
 exposed to the deadly miasma of the Louisiana swamps, and to the 
 uuci\alized warfare of ambuscading bushwhackers. 
 
 Ill the spring of 1865 he was in the Mobile Campaign, and was 
 with the Regiment on the 12th day of April, when it made its last 
 fight and charge at Whistler's Station, Alabama. He was mustered 
 out of the service with his Regiment in the following November, 
 having been in over forty engagements during his term of service. 
 His commanding officer had occasion to say of him : " He was a 
 brave and efficient officer." For many years Dr. Balch has prac- 
 tised medicine iu Yonkers. 
 
 John Bashford hastened to Washington when Rebellion was 
 threatened, aud arrived there just in time to do good service iu the 
 Washington Clay Battalion, under command of Major Cassius M. 
 Clay. After the National Capital was deemed secure, Mr. Bashford 
 returned to New- York, where he enlisted in tiie United States Navy, 
 and was assigned to the Ironsides. For a year he served his coun- 
 try Ijravely, when he was honorably discharged. 
 
 William C. Blackett was born in the city of New- York. In Feb- 
 ruary, 1862, being less than nineteen years of age, he enlisted as a 
 private in Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- 
 York State Infantry Volunteers. His service was severe and try- 
 ing. He was first in the battle of Dranesville, Virginia, in March, 
 1862, and then in the 1)attles of Cedar Mountain, in Pope's Cam- 
 paign in ^'i^«iillia, and in the battles ..f Aiitiftnin. Winclu'ster, 
 Fairfax Station, ("haiicellorsville, and ( icttyslturg. 
 
 In October, 1863, his Regiment was transtVrrod t.. tiic Army of 
 the Cmiil)erlaiid, aud was in Ww battles of W.-mliatrlii.., Cliatta- 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECOBBS OF THE WAR. 109 
 
 nooga, Lookout Mouutaiu, Missionary Ridge, and Ringgold Gap. 
 In 1864 he was in the Atlanta Campaign, and fought in the battles 
 of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Mountain, Gulp's Farm, 
 Peaehtree Creek, and Atlanta. He marched with General Sherman 
 from Atlanta to the sea. In 1865 he was in the campaign through 
 the Carolinas, and in the battles of Edisto River, Bentonville, and 
 Raleigh. He was in continuous service for three years and six 
 mouths. 
 
 He died in Yonkers, December 4, 1891, and his body was interred 
 in St. John's Cemetery, on Sunday evening, December 6, when, by 
 the glimmer of candle-light, his former comrades of Fremont Post 
 impressively performed the military burial service. 
 
 James Bkaziee is a native of Scotland. He served as a corporal 
 in Company B, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment New- York 
 State Infantry Volunteers, from August, 1862, until June, 1865. 
 
 At the battle of Gettysburg he was shot in the neck during the 
 fight of the third day. After General Meade's victory, which drove 
 the Rebels out of Pennsylvania, he was ti'ausferred to the West, 
 and was in the several battles of the Atlanta Campaign, from May 
 to September, 1864. 
 
 Corporal Brazier had the honor of marching from Atlanta to 
 the sea in the grand army led by General William T. Sherman. 
 In the early part of 1865 he participated in the campaigns through 
 South Carolina and North Cai'olina. He was mustered out of ser- 
 vice in Washington, after the great review. 
 
 Jeremiah Burns was one of the most loyal and energetic citizens 
 of Yonkers. A New Hampshire man, he was chosen, together with 
 
11(( YOXKKES IX THE REBKLIAOX. 
 
 Commodore Farragut, to represent his uative State during the war 
 on the Committee of New England States organized for the general 
 welfare of the soldier. He was a warm friend of President Lincoln 
 and Secretary Stanton, and had a "pass" from them to admit him 
 anywhere within the Union lines. 
 
 He visited General McClellan's army when the swamps of the 
 Chickahominy and the warm, muddy water of the Pamunkey were 
 doing more to reduce the Union forces than General Lee and his 
 whole command. The entire region presented a scene of desolation, 
 with the exception of the White House and its surroundings, being 
 the residence of the Confederate General Fitzhugh Leo. By what 
 was regarded as mistaken clemency or sentiment on the part of 
 General McClellan, that was guarded, and Union soldiers were re- 
 fused the shelter of the buildings and trees, and even a drink from 
 its bountiful spring of cool water. 
 
 Finding this unjust condition of affairs, Mr. Burns hastened to 
 Washington, reported the facts to President Lincoln and Secretary 
 of War Stanton, and speedily retui'ned with an order to convert the 
 White House into a LTnion hospital, and to use the premises for the 
 comfort and welfare of the Union soldiers. The guards were re- 
 moved, the place was at once prepared for the sick and wounded, 
 and the refreshing water of the spring Itecame the comnion ])roperty 
 of all. 
 
 Srxin aftei-, however, Stonewall Jackson advanced upon the place. 
 The Wliite House was committed to the flames, bridges were de- 
 stroyed, and the Union army was coin])elle(l to move. The aban- 
 doimient of this post by General McClellan, the destruction of mil- 
 lions in the shape of provisions and ordnance, and the hazardous 
 change of front of the Army (.f the Potomac, in face of tl netnv. 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. IH 
 
 gave rise to many severe criticisms on the conduct of that portion 
 of his campaign against Richmond. But the motive and action of 
 Mr. Burns elicited wide commendation. He often visited the sol- 
 diers, and always to cheer and aid them. 
 
 Henry A. Chadeayne, with several companions, enlisted in the 
 Ninth Infantry Regiment of New -York Militia, in response to 
 President Lincoln's call for 75,000 men to preserve the Union. He 
 was in the battle of Bull Run and in the Shenandoah Campaigns. 
 At the time of the battle of Antietam some anxiety was felt by his 
 friends in Yonkei's as to his safety, which was soon relieved by a 
 letter, from which the following is an extract : 
 
 Another terrible battle has been fought, and once more I have come out all right, 
 although at one time it seemed as if it would be impossible for one of us to escape alive . 
 The night previous to the battle our Brigade lay in a wood in front of the enemy. 
 At daylight we marched toward them in line of battle. We were on the extreme 
 left, to prevent a flank movement. We marched so quietly that they had not time 
 to throw out skirmishers before we were on them. They were behind a mound of 
 earth, while we were drawu up as if for a dress-parade. We suffered severely, 
 owing to this position. Had we taken the same advantage as they did, we could 
 have done as much execution, and without so much loss. They had a battery directly 
 in our front throwing grape and canister, but owing to the elevation of their guns 
 they fired over us, but did great execution among the ranks of the Brigade in our 
 rear, so that when our ammunition was expended, they had not suflcient men left 
 to relieve us. 
 
 I had two narrow escapes. At the first of the fight a ball struck my bayonet, 
 while sheathed, directly on my hip, and split it in two, the pieces entering my clothes 
 without scratching my skin. I picked the pieces out, and have them now. A few 
 moments after, a man in front of me was shot in the breast, and while taking him 
 to the rear, I had to pass thi-ough a perfect hail-storm of shot and shell. 1 had just 
 left him when I saw a cannon-shot bouncing along the ground toward me. It 
 skipped three or four times, and then struck my blanket and haversack. It keeled 
 me over and gave me a severe jar withoiit hurting me. In fact, it came so slow I 
 could have caught it in my hands. 
 
1 1 1> YONKEliS IX THE KEBELLION. 
 
 This battle they say was the hardest of the war, and I tell you the field presented 
 the most horrible sight you ever looked upon. I hope I may never see another like 
 it. We had six hundred men killed in our Brigade — General HartsulFs. 
 
 Some time after this battle Mr. Chadeayne was transferred to the 
 Sixth New -York Artillery, Colonel Kitehing. On the couclusion 
 of his term of service he returned to "Westchester County, and 
 engaged in the hardware business at Katonah. AVjout ISTil ho 
 removed to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he remained until tlic 
 beginning of the summer of 1891, when he removed to New Dtluth, 
 Minnesota. 
 
 A. Alonzo Ceaw was the first Yonkers hero to give his life 
 for the Union. When President Lincoln issued his proclamation 
 calling for men to sustain the laws, Mr. Craw, then in his twenty- 
 second year, responded with patriotic ardor. With a number of his 
 friends he enlisted for the war in the Ninth Infantry Regiment of 
 Ncw-Vork Militia. On hastening to tli.' front, tlu- Keginieiit was 
 placed under (iencnil Patterson. 
 
 After the battle of Bull Kuii, the coininand was stationed at 
 Harper's Ferry, with a greatly reduced force. The lines being weak, 
 the men were compelled to do double duty, which soon affected 
 the health of many who were unaccustomed to the rigorous disci- 
 pline of army life. The camp was poorly supplied with shelter, 
 wliili' the hospital was l)ut crudely organized, and almost dcsti- 
 tutf of necessary su[)]>li('s. Sickness, fever, and death thinned 
 tiie ranks alarmingly. Young Craw was an enthusiastic soldier, 
 was much exposed, and, like his conirados, was inditTcrontly suji- 
 plied with suitable clothing. \\y ln'caiin' inilis].osc<i, but i.rrsisti'.l 
 in tilt' (liscliargc of liis dutv until forced to snrrcn.l.T to the I'aiv 
 
SOME PERSONAL BECOIWS OF THE WAR. 113 
 
 of a Surgeou. He was removed to a hotel at Sandy Hook, Mary- 
 laud, where all possible attention was given him, but his disease 
 assumed a typhoid form, and on Sunday, midnight, August 4, 1861, 
 his brave spirit took its departure from earth. His comrade, Henry 
 A. Chadeayne, was with him when he died, and accompanied the 
 remains to Yonkers. 
 
 Hope Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, of which Mr. Craw was 
 a member, paid him the following tribute: "We recognize in his 
 death the loss of one of our most worthy and efficient firemen, one 
 of our best citizens and Christian neighbors. His gallant conduct 
 in being among the first to volunteer in defence of his country's 
 honor commanded our highest admiration, and embalms his mem- 
 ory in the heart of every patriot and good citizen." 
 
 He was a teacher in the Sunday-School of the Fii'st Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and was engaged to be married to an estimable 
 young lady of the congregation. He was honored by a public 
 funeral, which was very largely attended. The following pall-bearers 
 accompanied the remains to Greene County, where they were com- 
 mitted to the earth, "dust to dust": James Stewart, Noah B. 
 Hoyt, A. C. Mott, Joseph L. Proseus, Henry B. Archer, Eichard 
 L. Thompson, George Hoyt, and Charles W. Starr. 
 
 Matt. H. Ellis served in the war with the One Hundred and 
 Seventy-Fifth New- York Regiment of Infantry, which was mustered 
 into service in September, 1862, and mustered out November 27, 1865. 
 He entei'ed the Regiment at its formation as a private, was com- 
 missioned Captain December 19, to rank from November 19, 1862. 
 He was breveted Major for gallant conduct in the capture of Port 
 Hudson, June 14, 1863. 
 
114 YONKKRS IN rilK liEBKLLION. 
 
 Ill the Library of National Records it is said that "he honorably 
 and bravely acquitted himself in the Ijattles which occurred during 
 the march of Gen(>ral Banks from Brasliear City to Opelousas, 
 Louisiana." 
 
 Soon after the war Captain Ellis removed to Yonkers, where he 
 has served as Captain of the Fourth Seijarate Company, as Judge 
 of the City Court, Trustee of the Board of Education, and in other 
 iiiipoi'tant capacities. 
 
 Thomas Ewing was born at Lancaster, Ohio, August 7, 1829. 
 He is a son of Thomas Ewing, formerly United States Senator from 
 Ohio, and Secretary of the Treasury under President William H. 
 Harrison, and of the Interior under President Zachary Taylor. Mr, 
 Ewing graduated at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 
 and at the Cincinnati Law School. He mamed a daughter of Rev. 
 William Cox, of Pi(pia, Ohio, in 1856, and removed to Leavenworth, 
 Kansas, wlicre he iiracticcil law successfully and bore a prominent 
 and efficient part iu the great Free State struggle. For one year 
 General Shemian was his law partner there. 
 
 He was chosen Chief Justice of the first Supreme Court of Kan- 
 sas, resigning that office and entering the Union Army in lS(;i2. 
 He was promoted to be Brigadier in 1863, for gallant conduct at 
 the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas ; and Brevet Major-General, 
 for the battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri, where he commanded the 
 Union forces against General Sterling Price, September 27 and 28, 
 1864. 
 
 He returned to Ohio in 1871, and represented the Capitol District 
 in Congress from 1877 to 1881, and was the Democratic candidate 
 for Governor in 1H7!I. He declincil a I't'iiomiiiation to Congress and 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 115 
 
 removed to New- York City in 1882, where he has since practised 
 law, living in Yonkers. 
 
 John Foksyth, in the fall of 1862, enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany F of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Regiment, New- York 
 State Infantry, which was afterward changed to the Sixth Regi- 
 ment, New-York State Artillery. He was in all the engagements 
 with that Regiment down to the battle of Spottsylvania Court- 
 House, Virginia, May 12, 1864, in which he was so badly wounded 
 that he was conveyed to the Lincoln Hospital in Washington, where 
 he was under treatment for seven months. He then recovered so 
 as to be able to join his Regiment, was appointed Commissary 
 Sergeant, and served in that capacity until July 8, 1865, when he 
 was honorably mustered out of the United States service, at Poca- 
 hontas, Virginia. 
 
 Returning to Yonkers, he entered the employ of S. Francis Quick 
 as a carpenter, with whom he has continued to the present time, 
 with the exception of brief intermissions when he has been engaged 
 in building houses for himself or in travel. 
 
 John Gkevert, a native of Germany, enlisted February, 1862, in 
 Company I of the Ninety-Fifth Regiment, New- York State Infantiy 
 Volunteers. He was in the Army of the Potomac during his Regi- 
 ment's entii'e service, and with it in over forty engagements. His 
 term of service covered three and one half years. 
 
 William L. Heeemance was born in Kinderhook, New-York, Feb- 
 ruary 23, 1837. He was engaged in mercantile business in New-York 
 City. When Fort Sumter was fired upon he raised a Company of two 
 hundred men among friends and their acquaintances, which, at its 
 
116 YONKEKS IS THE HEUELL10S. 
 
 own expense, secured arms and hii-ed a hall in which to drill. Mr. 
 Heermanee was elected Captain, but not feeling competent to take 
 the Company into active service, he declined the honor, and enlisted 
 as a private in Company H, Ninth New- York State Militia. In May, 
 1861, this Regiment was sworn into the service for tlir mu; as the 
 Eighty-Third New- York Volunteers — the only Regiment so mus- 
 tered in up to that time. 
 
 After serving through the summer of 1861 in Maryland and the 
 Shenandoah Valley, at the close of the Patterson Campaign he was 
 commissioned as First Lieutenant in the Sixth New- York Cavalry. 
 Til the fall of 1862 he was commissioned as Captain, and served 
 witli that Regiment until November, 1864, when he was mustered 
 out, having, a short time before, been shot in the head, and inca- 
 pacitated for active service. 
 
 On April 30, 1863, after takitig the advance of the right wing of 
 the army on the way to Chancellorsville, the Regiment proceeded 
 to Spottsylvania Court-House, where they were sunouuilcMl ])y 
 General Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade of Confederate Cavah-y, and urde-rcd 
 to surrender. The command was given to V)reak by fours from the 
 right, and cut their way through by saber. Captain Heermance's 
 squadron, being on the right, was the first to strike the enemy. His 
 right cut nearly severed the nose from the face of a Captain of the 
 Fifth Virginia Cavalry. At the same moment another Confederate 
 officer placed a pistol against Captain Heermance's left side as he 
 wheeled to resist the attack, fired, and disabled his bridle-arm, the 
 ball entering his stomach. He was knocked from his horse, left 
 uiM.ii thi- field, and r.']».rtod drad. lie .■s.-a]..',! with his life. Iiow- 
 cv.T. I. lit was captun'tl and taUm t.. Lil.l.y I'risoii. It is an int.'r- 
 esting fact that, twenty-seven years aftei' the war, Coli>nel Ueor- 
 
SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAB. 117 
 
 mance should discover that the mau whose nose he had nearly 
 severed from the face in this desperate hand-to-hand fight was Cap- 
 tain Benjamin M. Medina, and that both were residents of Yonkers. 
 They are both now loyal to the old flag, and often in a friendly way 
 talk over the dangers through which they passed. 
 
 Captain Heermance was exchanged in time to join his Regiment 
 on the march to Gettysburg. As part of Buford's Cavalry, they 
 opened the fight of that decisive battle, holding Cemetery Eidge 
 until the Infantry came up. A few days later he was shot through 
 the right breast while charging the enemy, protected by breastworks, 
 at Boousboro, Maryland. 
 
 On May 11, 1864, while with General Sheridan in his famous 
 raid around Richmond, he charged with his command down 
 Brook's Pike, captured the first line of the defenses of Richmond, 
 and commanded the first Union troops to enter them. During the 
 summer of 1864, as Senior Captain, he commanded the Regiment, 
 was breveted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, but could not receive 
 full rank, as the positions were filled by ofiicers who were absent 
 or on detached service. 
 
 On September 15, 186i, General Thomas C. Devin, commanding 
 his Brigade, thus wrote to Captain Heermance: "During a contin- 
 uous and arduous service of nearly three years under my com- 
 mand, during which you have been three times desperately 
 wounded, I have always found you a brave and most efiicient 
 ofiicer. You handled your Regiment splendidly as Senior Captain, 
 and I most cordially recommend His Excellency Governor Sey- 
 mour to commission you for a Colonelcy in a Cavalry Regiment, 
 . . . knoAving, as I well do, that you are fully up to all the require- 
 ments." 
 
118 YOXKEIiS IX THE REBELLIOS. 
 
 This recommeudation was indorsed by General W. W. Merritt, 
 commanding the Division, in the following words: "I cordially 
 concur in the within recommendation of General Devin. While I 
 have been in command of the Division, Captain Heermance has 
 been prominent as one of the best officers in the entire command, 
 and during my service with him last year he was more than once 
 selected from all the rest to conduct important expeditions." 
 
 In his three years' service with the Sixth New- York Cavalry, 
 Colonel Heermance was in over sixty engagements, including two 
 raids around Richmond, and all the principal battles in which the 
 Army of the Potomac took part. He has been an honored and 
 useful citizen of Yonkers for twenty-six years. 
 
 Ansox B. Hoyt is beliovi'd to have liccii tlic only man iiiustcrt'd 
 iiitd till' Union Army wlio was comiicllfil t<> use a cruti'h. < hi De- 
 cember 1, 1803, Governor Horatio Seymour commissioned him as 
 Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth Regiment of New- 
 York Volunteers, then stationed at Franklyn, Louisiana, forming 
 part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, Department of the Gulf. Feb- 
 ruary 17, 1864, his Regiment was consolidated with the One Hun- 
 dred and Sixty-Second New- York Volunteers, Colonel Lewis Bene- 
 dict, and Cliaplain Hoyt served with that Regiment until April 1, 
 1864, about which time he was sent home sick. During his service, 
 lame as he was, he managed to mount and dismount his horse as 
 readily as his comrades. 
 
 .Mr. Hoyt has been the Chaplain of Lafayette Post No. 1 40, ( liand 
 Army of the K'eimhiic, t'oi- the last seven years. 
 
SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAR. IIJ) 
 
 Alexander 0. Kirkwood enlisted as a private iu Compauy A 
 of the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry Volun- 
 teers, Colonel Lucius B. Marsh, on September 8, 1862. The Regi- 
 ment was encamped on Long Island until late iu December, when 
 it was ordered on the screw-steamer Mississippi to go South under 
 sealed orders. It was so cold in camp that a soldier had frozen to 
 death the night before embarking; three days afterward they were 
 in the Grulf Stream, where heavy clothing was a burden. 
 
 On December 26, at dawn of day, appeared a steamship rapidly 
 approaching the Mississippi. At nine o'clock a gun boomed over 
 the water. All steam was put on by the engineer of the trans- 
 port, but to no purpose — the strange ship steadily came nearer. A 
 shotted gun was fired as a signal to " heave to." Then another. 
 All on board concluded that they were captured by the Alabama. 
 A long row of black muzzles appeared on each side of the stranger, 
 ready for action. The armament of the Mississippi was a single 
 gun. To the surprise of all on board, as the pursuing ship came 
 near, the Star Spangled Banner was run to the masthead, and it 
 proved to be a Union cruiser. 
 
 It was a joyful revelation. A cheer from a thousand throats 
 rent the air. Two hundred sailors manned the rigging. The band 
 struck up "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," and hundreds of 
 voices united in the patriotic song. The customary questions were 
 asked and answered, colors were dipped in mutual salute, and the 
 vessels parted. 
 
 The sealed orders revealed the fact that the Regiment was bound 
 to New Orleans to form part of the army under General N. P. Banks. 
 It was kept on duty around New Orleans until the expiration of 
 enlistment. More than twenty-five years afterward, the circum- 
 
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120 YOXKEIiS IN THE REBELLIOS. 
 
 stances of the naval chase were detailed at a Grand Army canij)- 
 fire in Yonkers, when the interesting fact came out that Captain 
 Matt. H. Ellis was also on board of the Mississippi at the time of 
 the scare. 
 
 James V. Lamtience, when the political movements ending in 
 the Civil War were agitating the countiy, was on the high seas as 
 a sailor before the mast, where he had been ordered to check the 
 inroads of consumption on an already impaired constitution. On 
 returning to the United States, in the spring of 1861, from a voyage 
 around Cape Horn, he at once, in April of that year, although not 
 yet eighteen years of age, enlisted as a private in the Second New- 
 York Heavy Artillery, then forming. 
 
 For various meritorious services he was rapidly promoted tiiruugh 
 all the subordinate gi-ades of non-commissioned officers, and in 
 August, 1861, was made a Second Lieutenant, then First Lieuten- 
 ant, and Adjutant of his Regiment, which position he retained 
 until the latter part of 1863, when he was transferred to the War 
 Department as Commissaiy of Subsistence with the rank of Cap- 
 tain. He was honorably mustered out of service, by special order 
 of the War Department, in the latter part of 1865, having previously 
 been breveted a Major for gallant and meritorious services. 
 
 At the second battle of Bull Run he was, by the exigencies of 
 the situation, forced to assume command of his Regiment, and 
 succeedetl in extricating it from a i)erilous surprise at a com- 
 paratively small loss. Althougli licing wounded, he personally saved 
 the Regimental colors by taking thi'tn from the disabled Color- 
 Sergeant, i)lacing them across his saddle, and thus carrying them 
 from the field. 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECOSBS OF THE WAR. 121 
 
 A memorable episode of his military career was the price set 
 upon his head by Mosby's command for the capture of two of the 
 members of that band of infamous marauders. 
 
 At the close of the war he was for seven years in the civil ser- 
 \dce of the United States, and in 1868 was sent as United States 
 Mail Agent and Special Commissioner to Bi'azil to settle the basis 
 of a postal treaty with that country. On his return, at the re- 
 quest of Senator Sumner, he reported for the Senate Committee 
 on Foreign Affairs on the advisability of ratifying the proposed 
 treaty of purchase and annexation of the Danish West Indies. 
 
 He also, on the part of the United States, met and settled with 
 Mr. Anthony Trollope, for the British Government, the basis of the 
 postal treaty of that year with England, and, in conjunction with 
 Mr. Geo. F. Seward, then United States Consul-Geuei-al at Shanghai, 
 established the United States mail service with Japan and China. 
 Other postal treaties made by the United States with other countries 
 from 1868 to 1872 were outlined by him. 
 
 In 1872 he resigned from the pubhc service, and, after declining 
 an offer to enter the Japanese postal service, then organizing, re- 
 tui'ned, after an absence of many years, to engage in business in 
 his paternal home, Yonkers. 
 
 John Halstead La^\iience enlisted on March 5, 1864, when in the 
 fortieth year of his age, for three years of service in the Sixth New- 
 York Heavy Artillery, Colonel Kitching, which was then at Brandy 
 Station, Virginia. He was assigned to Company E. 
 
 After a year of service in this Eegiment, he volunteered, with 
 others, to join Light Battery M, First United States Aitillery, Cap- 
 tain Langdon. The transfer brought Private Lawrence into the 
 
122 YOSKEKH IN TlIK REBELLION. 
 
 regular service, l)ut only as a volunteer. After tlic sui-render of 
 Lee, he was i-eturned to his former Regiment, and made Corporal. 
 He received his discharge on August 24, 1865. 
 
 Private Lawrence was engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, 
 at Spottsylvania, at Petersburg, and at Cedar Creek. After the sur- 
 reudei- of Loe, on Apiil 9, 1865, he was retained on guard duty at 
 Petersburg and vicinity until discharged. At the engagement in 
 what is known as the Slaughter Pen, the Sixth Regiment was sup- 
 porting a battery. The men were compelled to lie in the mud for 
 hours, inactive, and many of them were killed. Mi-. Lawrence re- 
 lates that a man lying near him was asleep and snoring in the midst 
 of the terrific noise of battle, and while in that condition received a 
 bullet through the head. 
 
 Mr. Lawrence was in good health throughout his service. The 
 only injury he received was by the kick of a mule. This was at 
 the battle of the Wilderness. It became necessary to advance an 
 ammunition-train, and part of his Company was detailed to hurry 
 its progress. A halt was forced, and during the wait a number of 
 mules passed. A winter of idleness and good feed had made these 
 animals unusually frisky — although, two weeks later, a mule that 
 could be induced to kick was a curiosity. One of these animals, 
 when alongside of Mr. Lawrence, wheeled around and kicked. The 
 soldier was holding his musket at right-shoulder shift. One heel 
 struck his hand, and the other the stock of the \ve;i|.nii. 'i'lie mus- 
 ket was whirled into the air, and the man was knocked under the 
 wagon. At that instant the wagon-train moved. Quick as thought, 
 the soldier on the opposite side of the wagon caught hold of the 
 ]>louse of the stunned and jnostrate man, and pulled him from un- 
 der, just as a rear wheel was almut 1o jniss over his body. 
 
SOME PEBSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAS. 123 
 
 Mr. Lawrence's hand was disabled for several days. The soar 
 and disfigurement were permanent. He has been a resident of Yon- 
 kers for forty years. 
 
 Robert B. Light enlisted in Company D of the One Hundred 
 and Twenty-Eighth Eegiment, New -York State Infantry Volun- 
 teers, in August, 1862, and served as First Sergeant. The Regiment 
 was sent to the Department of the Gulf in the following Decem- 
 ber. He was at the siege of Port Hudson in the summer of 1863, 
 and in the Red River Campaign in 1864. 
 
 In June of that year his Regiment returned with the Nineteenth 
 Army Corps to the Shenandoah Valley, and he was with it in sev- 
 eral battles, among them Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. 
 In this latter battle he received a gunshot wound in the left fore- 
 arm. He was mustered out of service at the end of May, 1865. 
 
 James Millwaed, the present Mayor of Yonkers, was in Wash- 
 ington in 1861, when the Rebellion began, and he united with 
 three hundred others in organizing the Washington Clay Battalion, 
 of which Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, was elected Major, and Mr. 
 Millward was elected Adjutant. The object of the Battalion was 
 to aid in protecting the National Capital and its treasures from the 
 traitors who thronged the city. 
 
 Soon after he was selected by Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, 
 as bearer of Grovernment dispatches to the North. Baltimore was 
 then under Rebel conti-ol. He was furnished with a special locomo- 
 tive to convey him to Annapolis Junction, from which point he 
 was to reach Annapolis as best he ct)uld. On the way he was 
 frequently stopped by Maryland sympathizers with secession. But 
 
124 YOSKEliS IX THE RKBEIAAOX. 
 
 he managed to reach Annapolis just as General Benjamin F. 
 Butler and his force arrived in that city. Adjutant Millward was 
 furnished with transportation to Perry\ille, and thence to Phila- 
 delphia, where he delivered dispatches to General Patterson, and 
 hastened on to New -York with dispatches for General John A. Dix 
 and the Union Defence Committee. 
 
 Adjutant Millward at once enlisted with tlic Xinety-Xiiith Regi- 
 ment of New -York Volunteers, and went direct to Fortress Monroe, 
 where he was appointed Captain of the Port, Harbor Master, and 
 Flag-of-Truee Officer. He witnessed the destruction of the United 
 States men-of-war by the Rebel ironclad Merrimae, and the dis- 
 comfiture of that formidable vessel by the Monitor, and sent the 
 first official report of the conflict to Washington. When Norfolk 
 was captured he piloted the steamer that conveyed President Lin- 
 coln to that city. Captain Millward rciiiaiiied at Fortress Monroe 
 until ISti.'), ami when RicliiiioiHl was captured lie conveyed Presi- 
 dent Lincoln uj, tile .lames River to the Rebel .-ai.ital. 
 
 John H. Morkis was appointed Internal Revenue Collector iu 
 1863, by President Lincoln, for the Tenth Congressional District, 
 comprising Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties. Then 
 Yonkers had but ten thousand inhabitants, but contributi'd a large 
 proportion of the war tax of the district, owing to the manul'actories 
 and incomes of residents of the village. 
 
 Mr. Morris paid over $800,000 to the (ioveniment in one year. 
 This amount included moneys received for substitutes. .Ml the 
 tiimls of his olliee passed through the First National i>ank of 
 Yonkers. 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 125 
 
 William H. Nodine, a private in the Ninth Infantry Eegiment 
 of the New -York State Militia, under date of Hagerstown, Mary- 
 land, September 19, 1862, thus wrote to his father in Yonkers : 
 
 Before this reaches you I suppose you will have heard of another great battle, 
 about four miles from Shai-psburg. It was fought on the 16th. There was great 
 slaughter on both sides. The battle began at daybreak. We of General Hart- 
 suff's Brigade led the advance of the whole Division. We advanced thi-ough a corn- 
 field, then to a thick woods, where the Rebels opened fire on us ; but we advanced 
 steadily at a quick march, ouv Brigadier-General leading us. We took our position 
 by a rail fence, and held it until our Brigade was cut to pieces. My comrades feU 
 on both sides of me, but thank God my haversack saved me. A minie-baU passed 
 through it, tearing the whole side out. 
 
 I think the Yonkers boys are safe, but I have not seen Henry A. Chadeayne since 
 the time I was ordered to take my wounded comrade to the rear. He was shot in 
 the neck, and fell against me. While I was assisting him to the rear, he received 
 a ball in his thigh, but he is doing well. Our Regiment lost twelve killed and one 
 hundred and twenty-five wounded. Many of the wounded have since died. General 
 Hartsuff is seriously wounded. The whole Brigade now numbers but half of a full 
 Regiment. But thank God we drove the Rebels from their position, and captured 
 many pieces of artillery. 
 
 Thomas Oliver, at the age of seventeen, enlisted as a private in 
 Company G, Thirty-Seventh Infantry Volunteers, and served with 
 that Regiment in the Army of the Potomac, from the spring of 
 1861, until it was mustered out June 22, 1863, taking part in 
 twenty-two engagements. He returned to New- York, and was in 
 the city during the riots, July 13-26, 1863. While viewing the 
 ruins of the Colored Orphan Asylum, which had been burned by 
 the rioters, he was assaulted by a mob because they noticed that he 
 wore the blue pantaloons of a Union soldier. 
 
 The week following he enlisted as a private in Company C of 
 the Eighteenth New- York Cavalry, and served with that Regiment 
 in the Department of the Gulf, as a bugler, in all of its thirty-four 
 
126 YONKERS IX THE liEBELUOy. 
 
 engagemeuts. His only wound was received in the engagement at 
 Governor Moor's Plantation, near Alexandria, Louisiana, May 5, 
 1864, on which day there was continuous fighting from eight o'clock 
 in the morning until siindown. He was acting as Orderly on that 
 day, and as such was a special target for the enemy, as they appeared 
 to be aiming specially at officers. A bullet passed through his horse, 
 and struck Orderly Oliver's foot. The horse threw and dragged 
 him on the ground. Dr. G. B. Balch, the present Commander of 
 John C. Fremont Post of Yonkers, was Brigade Surgeon on the 
 field, and dressed the wound. At the time he was thrown. ( )rderly 
 Oliver lost a Veteran's badge of his first enlistment. In tin- spring 
 of 1890 this badge was turned u\) by a farmer's i)low. A notice of 
 the finding appeared in a New- York paper, Mr. Oliver A\Tote to the 
 Superintendent of National Cemeteries in Louisiana, sent proof of 
 his identity, and the badge was returned. 
 
 After five years' service and fifty-six engagements, he was mustered 
 out witli the Eighteenth New-York Cavalry. M.iy :'., 1S(;(;. He is 
 now Annnivr of the Fourth Separate Company of Yonkers. 
 
 AuuAHAXi J. Palmer was born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, Jan- 
 uary 18, 1847, in the Methodist parsonage, while his father was 
 preacher in charge at that place. When the South made war upon 
 the Union, he was attending school, and though he was but a little 
 over fourteen years of age, on July 30, 18G1, he enlisted as a pri- 
 vate in Comj)auy D, Foi-ty-Eighth Regiment New-York State 
 Volunteers, Colonel .lames 11. Pci'iy, and was iniistcicil out Sep- 
 tember "20, lS(i4. lie ])artieipa1e,| in the engagements at I'ort Royal, 
 I'oit K'oyal Feiiy. Dawfuskie Island, Fort Pulaski, Blufton, ( 'oosa- 
 walchie. l'.,eotali-o. Morris Island, Fort Wagner, Bennnilaliuiidied, 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 127 
 
 Strawberry Plains, and Petersburg. Much of the time he acted as 
 Orderly to the Colonel. 
 
 He was captured at the assault on Fort Wagner, September 18, 
 1863, and for nine months suffered the hardships of Confederate 
 prisons in Charleston and Columbia, in Libby, Belle Island, and 
 Mayo's Prison Hospital, Eichmond, Virginia. 
 
 After the war he prepared for coUege at Pennington Seminary, 
 New Jersey, and entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Con- 
 necticut, where he graduated with the highest honors in 1870. He 
 ■was then admitted to the Newark Conference, and entered upon 
 the work of a Methodist minister. In 1876 he was transferred 
 to the New-York Conference, and stationed at the Park Avenue 
 Chiu'ch, where he subsequently served a second pastorate of three 
 years. In 1885 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
 upon him by the Syracuse University and by Allegheny College. 
 He was appointed pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church 
 in Yonkers, in the spring of 1886. The following year he was 
 made Presiding Elder of the New- York District, but has continued 
 his residence in Yonkers. 
 
 Dr. Palmer is a natural and cultivated orator. Probably his 
 most popular effort is his lecture on " The Die-No-Moi"es." This is 
 an eloquent tribute to the private soldier. Company D, to which 
 Dr. Palmer belonged, was largely composed of young men from 
 Christian homes. At their camp-fires they would sing familiar 
 hymns. A favorite with them was the hymn with this refrain : 
 
 " We 're going home, we 're going home, 
 We 're going home to die no more ! " 
 
 And so Company D came to be known as " The Die-No-Mores." 
 In the lecture the heroism and sufferings of the young patriots are 
 
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128 YOXKEIiS IK THE REBELLIOX. 
 
 gi-aphically portrayal. It was twice delivered before Ot'iiei-al 
 Grant, who was deeply affected by it; aud after his death, at Mrs. 
 Grant's request, it was delivered before a vast concourse on Patriot 
 Day at the Silver Lake, Chautauqua, in July, 1890. There has 
 been a demand for the lecture from various parts of the country 
 every season since its first delivery, and it always stirs an audience 
 and arouses a lofty patriotism. Dr. Palmer enjoys the distinction 
 of })oiiifj; the youngest enlisted private Union soldier of the war. 
 
 Kali'h E. PiUME was l>orn in Fishkill, Dutchess County, New- 
 York, March "JH, 1840. He enlisted in the war for the Union, as pri- 
 vate, April 30, 1861, in the Fifth New- York Volunteers, known as the 
 Duryea Zouaves. He was promoted to be Sergeant, June 8, 1861 ; 
 Second Lieutenant, September 5, 1861; First Lieutenant, July 4, 
 1862; Captain, September 30, 1862 — the last two promotions being 
 for gallantry in the field. He was subsequently transferred to the 
 Sixth New-York Artillery, as Lieutenant-Colonel; and on March 5, 
 1863, he was nominated l)y President Lincoln for Brigadier-General. 
 
 On detached service in October and November, 1861, he super- 
 intended the construction of a fort at Relay House Junction, Balti- 
 more and Ohio Railroad, Maryland. He was in the skirmish at 
 New Kent Court-House, and also in the campaign on the Eastern 
 shore of Virginia and Maryland. 
 
 He was engaged in tlic following liattles: Big Bethel, .Iniic 10, 
 1861; Siege of Y'orktown, April, 1S62; Hanover Court-House, May, 
 1862; Ashland Bridge, May, 1862 ; Mechanicsville, June 26; Gaines's 
 Mill, June 27, wlnr.' a musket-ball passed through his thigh; South 
 .Mountain, Sii>1iiiili,i- 14; Antietam, September 17; Blackford's 
 Fnnl, September 2(1, lS(i2. 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 129 
 
 When appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth New- York Ar- 
 tillery, he found that the feelings of the officers were strongly en- 
 listed in favor of the former incumbent of the office, and being 
 convinced that he could not serve as efficiently, under the peculiar 
 circumstances, as his rival, who was endeared by former association 
 and acquaintance with the Regiment, he waived his undoubted right, 
 and resigned in his favor. In appreciation of this act, Edwin M. 
 Stanton, Secretary of War, wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Prime, 
 under date of February 28, 1863 : " Your i-esignatiou was received 
 to-day by the Department, and accepted. To mark my approval 
 of your coxirse, and estimate of your character and services, your 
 name has been placed on the list of Brigadier-Grenerals to be nom- 
 inated on Monday." The appointment failed to receive confirma- 
 tion through some hitch in the Senate. 
 
 After returning to civil life, Mr. Prime resumed his profession 
 of the law in Youkers, where he still remains, enjoying a large and 
 lucrative practice. 
 
 William Riley was born in Yonkers, on the 18th of May, 1840. 
 On the 9th of October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company 
 G, Fifty-First Regiment of New- York Volunteers. On going to 
 the front the Regiment formed part of the Burnside expedition to 
 North Carolina. It participated in the battles of Roanoke Island 
 and Newbern, both of which resulted in victories for the Union 
 Army. He also participated in the battles of second Bull Run and 
 Chantilly, Virginia, and in the battles of South Mountain and 
 Antietam, Maryland. 
 
 In the charge on the Stone Bridge, during the latter engagement, 
 Mr. Riley received a gunshot wound which shattered his left arm, 
 
130 YONKEBS AY ThJ-: UKhELLlOX. 
 
 rendering amputation necessary near the shoulder. He was hon- 
 o7-a])ly discharged from the sei-\nce December 5, 1862. Eeturn- 
 ing to Yonkers, he studied law with Ralph E. Prime, and has con- 
 tinued to practice in liis nativi' city to the present time. 
 
 James Sheridan enlisted May 19, 1801, as a private in Company 
 F, Fifth New-York Infantry Volunteers, in which he served two 
 years. In the second battle of Bull Run he was wounded by a baU 
 that entered above the right hip and came out just below the breast- 
 bone. He lay upon the ground within the enemy's lines for seven 
 days without attention. " I 'vc a good mind to put you out of your 
 misery," said a heartless Confederate, "Ijy i-unniiig my l)ayonet 
 through you." 
 
 At the time of the New-York riots ]Mr. Sheridan had served out 
 his first enlistment, and was working for Isaiah Anderson in Yon- 
 kers. "John T. Waring and Ethan Flagg came to me," says Mr. 
 Slieridan, "and askcl if I would patrol lino- HiH and tli.'(;l.'n at 
 night, as they liad not lict-n alilc to find any one to iicrfonn that 
 sei'vice. I coni])lied with the recjuest, and was sworn in by Lyman 
 Cobb, Jr. The headquarters were in Fan-ington Hall. I had to 
 report every night at twelve o'clock and at four in the morning." 
 
 He reenlisted in Company B, Second Connecticut Heavy Artil- 
 lery. During his serN-ice he fouglit in sixteen general engagements. 
 He was in the first line of skirniisliers at Apjiomattox Court-House 
 when Lee .surrendered to CJeneral Grant. 
 
 Frederic Shonnard, in the spring of the year 18G1, at the out- 
 break of the Rebellion, was a member of the Hamilton College Law 
 School at Clinton, New- York. Having liad tlif a<lvantage of a 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 131 
 
 careful traiuiiig in the cWll of the infantry soldier, company and 
 battalion, by a gi'aduate of West Point, he, although not yet of 
 age, was at that time one of the few competent drill-masters in that 
 neighborhood. Upon the ascertainment of this fact, and of his 
 willingness to act as instructor, early in the month of May, between 
 two and three hundred spirited young men, students of the college, 
 and others resident in the neighborhood, assembled in a large room 
 in the basement of the Methodist Church, effected a temporary 
 organization, and under his management commenced a vigorous 
 course of drill. Many men who have since become famous were 
 members of that "awkward squad." Amongst the number were 
 the present United States Attorney- General Miller and Colonel 
 George H. Starr, of Libby Prison fame, now a resident of Yonkers. 
 
 Mr. Shonnard was active in organizing a Company for the Four- 
 teenth Eegiment New- York Infantry of Oneida County, which 
 went to the war about the 17th of May, 1861. He was offered the 
 Captaincy, but declined the position out of respect for the remon- 
 strances of his parents, whose only child he was. A little over a 
 year latei", with their consent, he assisted in the organization of the 
 One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Eegiment New- York Infantry in 
 Westchester County, — which was afterward changed to the Sixth 
 New- York Artillery, — and accepted a commission as First Lieu- 
 tenant of Company K. 
 
 He was mustered into the service on September 2, 1862, was pro- 
 moted to the rank of Captain, and finally to that of Major, for meri- 
 torious services, and was honorably discharged January 28, 1865. 
 
 Mr. Shonnard participated in all of the campaigns with his Regi- 
 ment until about the 19th of July, 1864, when he was detailed by 
 the Seci-etary of War to a special duty on the staff of the Gov- 
 
132 YOXKEBS IX THE UEBELLIOX. 
 
 ernor of the State of New-York, connected with the threatened 
 raids by the Rebels in Canada on the northern borders of the State. 
 
 In command of his Company, he participated in the engagement 
 at Wapping Heights, Vii-ginia, July 26, 1863. As an acting aide on 
 the staff of Brigadier-General Robert 0. Tyler, during the brief 
 Mine Run Campaign, his Company having been detailed as a train- 
 guard, he participated in the two battles near Robertson's Tavern, 
 November 28-29, 1863; and in tli.' Mine Run operations, November 
 30, 1863. 
 
 During the winter of 1863 and 1864 he was promoted to tlie rank 
 of Major, and was ordered home on recruiting service. Having 
 secured some five hundred recruits by enlistment and transfer, he 
 reported for duty on the battle-field of Spottsylvania. In command 
 of his Battalion of four companies he participated in the battle of 
 Harris's Farm, on the 19th of May, which was one of the Spottsyl- 
 vania series — the Regiment then belonging to the Fifth Army 
 Corps. Ill cuiiimaiid of liis Battalion he also took part in the fol- 
 lowing cugageuuuits : the forced crossing of the North Anna Ivi vor, 
 May 23; second advance. May 24; Jericho Road, near North Anna 
 River, May 25; operations in that neighborhood. May 26 and 27; 
 Bethesda Church, part of Cold Harbor, May 30; Mechanics\ille 
 Pike, June 1 ; Mechanicsville Pike, second position, June 2 ; Mechan- 
 icsville Pike, third position or Cold Harbor, June 3 ; Chickahoniiny, 
 near Long Bridge, June 13 ; assault on Petersburg, June IS; act ivcl y 
 engaged with the enemy before Petersburg on Jnne 19, 20, 21, 22, 
 2.3, 24, and 2."); and the siege of Petersburg. 
 
 ^lajoi- Slioiiii,ir<l i-cicivi'd no wonn<l wliicli he considerc.l woi'th 
 iiMMilion, Km lir nearly (lird ^^\ typhoid U-wv during tin- K'apiijan 
 Canipai;,^! in lS(i;;, and Ids horsi's were shot nnd.i' liim on three 
 
SOME PEE SON AL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 133 
 
 occasions. He is a member of the first class of the Military Order 
 of the Loyal Legion, of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, 
 of the Grand Army of the Eepublic, and was the first President of 
 the Fraternity of the Survivors of the Sixth New- York Ai-tillery. 
 
 Samuel Stevens was born in Somers, Westchester County, New- 
 York, November 12, 1836. In July, 1861, he enlisted as a private 
 in Company D, First New- York Lincoln Cavalry. He was pro- 
 moted successively as Corporal, Sergeant, First Lieutenant, Cap- 
 tain, and Brevet Major, and served to the close of the war. 
 
 He was in the battles of Annandale, Fairfax Court-House, Sang- 
 stei-'s Station, in the siege of Yorktown, battles of West Point, 
 Fair Oaks, Gaines's Mill, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, 
 Malvern Hill, Five Forks, Winchester, Martinsburg, Fisher's Hill, 
 Cedar Creek, Appomattox, &e. In February, 1863, he was taken 
 prisoner near Winchester, and conveyed to Libby Prison, but was 
 soon paroled at Citj^ Point. 
 
 Captain Stevens states that he led the charge at Sailor's Creek, 
 and captured General Ewell and staff. "He presented me," con- 
 tinues Captain Stevens, "with his field-glass as a souvenir of the 
 occasion. I turned him over to General Custer, one of the bravest 
 men that ever lived." 
 
 James Stewakt, Jr., at the age of twenty, responded to the call of 
 President Lincoln for 75,000 three-year men to put down the South- 
 ern Rebellion, and in Danbury enlisted as a private in Company 
 A, Fifth Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers. He passed 
 through all the intermediate grades, and returned with his Com- 
 pany as Captain at the close of the war. He was in all the engage- 
 
i;^4 YONKEHS IN THE HEIIKJ.I.IOX. 
 
 luents ill the Sheiiaudoali Valley under General X. l\ liaiiks, 
 iucludiiig the memorable retreat in May, ISH'J; in the battle of 
 Cedar Mountain; the second Bull ii'iin ('amiiaiirn; lln- battles of 
 Antietani, Fredericksburg, — his first engagement as a commissioned 
 officer, — Chancellors\'ille — during which he was slightly wounded 
 and taken prisoner, but escaped and joined his Company just pre- 
 vious to the fall of General Stonewall Jackson. His next important 
 engagement was at Gettysburg. 
 
 In September, 1863, his Regiment was transferred to the Depart- 
 ment of the Cumberland, under General Hooker, and took part in 
 the battle of Lookout Mountain, the capture of Atlanta, the battles 
 of Ringgold, Tunnell Hill, Snake Hill Gap, Resaca, and Dallas. Dur- 
 ing this last engagement. Generals Hooker and Williams were 
 caught in a very embarrassing position. They sought protection, 
 bchiml the cdnicr of a stone wall, from a Rebel force in anilmsh, 
 and could not niovi; -without being exposed to their lire. Lieuten- 
 ant Stewart, in coniniand of two Companies, went to their relief. 
 " Wlicic are the Rebs ?" was asked. General Hooker stood up to 
 point out the location of the enemy, when Vjalls whizzed thick and 
 fast about his head. He dropped very suddeuty behind the wall, 
 and shouted, "Over there!" pointing in the direction of danger. 
 Lieutenant St. -wart and his men made ;i dash, the Rebs got out of 
 the way, and the two Generals were liaiipily releaseil. 
 
 The next engagement in wiiich Lieutenant Stewart took part 
 with his Regiin<;n( was the battle of Pin.' Knoli, whnv h.' saw the 
 shell explode that kili-'d the Confederate (ini.nd I'olk. 
 
 Swinging around on Marietta, the next battle was at Kulp's 
 Farm. While repulsing a charge in this battle, Lieutenant Stewart 
 received a niinie-ltall in thr uppiT jiart of his right thigh, wlii.-h 
 
SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. 135 
 
 disabled him. It was thought the wound would prove fatal, and 
 he was sent home. Careful nursing and treatment, however, so far 
 restored him as to enable him to return to the field, though he still 
 carries the minie-ball in his leg as a reminder of the Southern 
 Confederacy. He reached G-eneral Thomas's army just in time to 
 take a special command in the battle of Nashville. 
 
 The Fifth Connecticut Regiment formed part of Greneral Sher- 
 man's army in the march through Georgia, and was on a return 
 march from the Atlantic Coast to the interior, when Lieutenant 
 Stewart was welcomed back to his Company as Captain. He was in 
 the engagement at Averysborough, where he lost his First Lieuten- 
 ant, and in the battles of Goldsborough and Raleigh; was present at 
 the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston ; marched in the grand 
 review in Washington on the restoration of peace, and returned 
 with his Regiment to Connecticut. As a brave and valiant soldier 
 he was distinguished even in a Regiment noted for brave and val- 
 iant qualities. Captain Stewart is a manufacturing hatter, and has 
 been a respected public-spirited citizen of Yonkers since 1867. 
 
 William Welsh enlisted for the war in May, 1861, as a private 
 in Company A, Ninth New- York State Militia, afterward changed 
 to the Eighty-Third New- York State Infantry Volunteers. He 
 was assigned to Company D, Sixty-Eighth New- York State Infan- 
 try Volunteers, and successively promoted to Second Lieutenant, 
 First Lieutenant, and Captain. 
 
 He was in the battles of Harper's Ferry, Winchester, South 
 Mountain, second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Fredericks- 
 burg, Gettysburg, &c. He was twice knocked down by spent shells, 
 
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i;](i YOSKEUS IX THE UEBELLIOK. 
 
 but was never seriously hurt. After nearly fom* years of active 
 service he was honorably discharged in December, 1864. 
 
 He went into the dry-goods business in New-York after tlie war, 
 where he continued until he came to Yonkers as one of the fii-iu of 
 Weller & Welsh. 
 
 David A. Winans enlisted in Company A of the Fourth Regiment, 
 New- York State Heavy Artillery Volunteers, Novemliei- 1, 1861, and 
 served continuously for four years. He was in all llic engagements 
 of his Regiment during that time, and was not absent for a day. 
 In February, 1862, his Regiment was detailed to the Army of 
 the Potomac, and remained in defence of the capital for altout 
 a year. 
 
 In the little at K'eani's Station, Virginia, August 25, 1864, the 
 Regiment lo.'^t 'Mo men in killed, wounded, and missing. Cor- 
 poral Winans was taken prisoner just as he had finished loading 
 his gun, and his piece was fired upon the Union forces. He was 
 soon rescued, however, and returned to his Regiment. 
 
 On the 20th of April, 1865, while in pursuit of Lee from Peters- 
 burg, his Regiment made a charge upon Rebel works at Suther- 
 land's Station. Sergeant Bogan and Corporal Winans rushed over 
 the works. The Rebels ran. "Halt! surrender !" was the shout. 
 About thirty obeyed. Two Rebel cannon, ready loaded, were tm-ued 
 upon the retreating foes and fii-ed. Tliev also ea]>tnred tlie Rebel 
 colors. 
 
 At Hatcher's Run, Mrginia, in October, 1864, Corporal Winans 
 was wounded in the right shoulder, but not seriously. He was 
 mustered out of service Xoveniber 5, 1S65. 
 
SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAR. 137 
 
 M. X. WiSEWELL conducted a Military School on South Broad- 
 way, corner of Hudson Street, Yonkers, and afterward at Perth 
 Ambo\', New Jersey. At the commencement of the Rebellion he 
 was appointed Colonel of the Twenty-Eighth New Jersey Regi- 
 ment, and served with distinction. At the battle of Fredericksburg 
 he was shot through the mouth, and was supposed to be mortally 
 wounded. He recovered, however, and was appointed by President 
 Lincoln as Military Groveruor of Washington, in which capacity he 
 did excellent service. He was appointed a Brigadier-Greneral of 
 Volunteers by President Johnson. 
 
 After the war. General Wisewell engaged in mercantile business 
 in New- York and Chicago. He died in the former city, April 11, 
 1888. He was born in Brandon, Vermont, May 15, 1827, and was 
 buried in the family vault at Pompton Plains. 
 
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 THE NAVAL STATUE. 
 
 This statue was t^.sigued by Lieutenant Wasliiugtou Irving Chambers, 
 of the United States Ship Petrel. It represents a sailor about to engage 
 an enemy in a hand-to-hand struggle. It is exceedingly graphic. The 
 sculptor and bronze-workers have well retained the spirit of the original 
 drawing. The figure is of high artistic merit, and a perfect embodiment of 
 lofty daring. One critic said the expression was too intense ; but it should 
 be remembered that the character represented is intense, and that he has 
 intense work before him. luscriptious: 
 
 (Uniler the Statue) 
 COURAGE. 
 
 (On the Die) 
 
 THE UNION 
 
 MUST 
 
 AND SHALL BE 
 
 PRESERVED. 
 
 THE UNION SAVED. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 OUR HEROES' LAST SLEEP. 
 
 At Rest in St. John's, Oakland, St. Mary's, and St. Joseph's Cem- 
 eteries — Their Graves Kept in Reverent Remembrance. 
 
 MANY of our brave defenders have crossed the great river, 
 never to return. Their memories are dear to us, and we 
 thus silently, with dewy eye and bowed head, tenderly commit their 
 names to our children and children's children to remotest genera- 
 tions, for their reverence and esteem. In the cemeteries of our 
 city lie all that is left of our heroes. Loving hearts and willing 
 hands may decorate their gi-aves. 
 
 NAMES OF SOLDIERS BURIED IN ST. JOHN S, OAKLAND, 
 ST. MARY'S, AND ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERIES. 
 
 AiNSWORTH, Joseph, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Archer, Nathan, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Barnes, Frederick E., Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Beasley, James E., Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 143 
 
1J4 YOXKEKS IX THE HEliEl.LIOX. 
 
 Bills, Colonel, United States Army. 
 
 Bowler, Elijah, Company L, First Regiment New- York Engineers. 
 Brazier, James, Sr., Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- 
 York Volunteers. 
 Brazil, James, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Broderick, Cornelius, Company A, United States Infantry. 
 Brown, James, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Bromley, James, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Cadiz, James. 
 
 Cahill, Thomas, Company C, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Cahill, William. 
 
 Cannon, W. F., Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Clancy, Henry, Company I, Second Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Cle\t:land, Henry. 
 
 CoNTJELL, William, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers 
 
 and Company B, Second Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 
 Cook, George, Fortieth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Cope, Willlvm, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Costello, Joseph, Company F, Second Regiment New-York Artillery. 
 Cronin, Eugene, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteei-s. 
 CUMMINGS, WiLLiAJi, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Cunningham, John .J., Company A, First Regiment California Volunteers. 
 
 Danks, W. H.. Company H, Fifteenth Regiment New York Volunteers. 
 Dean, Scott, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 DeWitt, Henry. 
 
 Donahue, Bernard, Company A, Tenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Donelly, Andrew, Company A. Tenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. 
 
 DOWNES, ClL\RLES A. 
 
 Doyle, Harold. 
 
 Dromley, William. 
 
 Dubois, W. H., Fittli Kiginunt United States Cavalry. 
 
 Dupp, Delmar. 
 
 DupPY, Patrick, Company I, Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York St;>lc Militia. 
 
 Easton, Frederick J., Seventh Regiment New-York National Guards. 
 Everest, James, Company D, Fifty-Fir.st Regiment Massjichusetts Volunteers. 
 Faulds, Matthew, Company E, Ninety-Third Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Fenton. John, Company E, Seventy-Ninth Reginieiit New-York Volunteers. 
 
OUR HEROES' LAST SLEEP. 145 
 
 Ferguson, H. B., Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 FiTZGERAi^D, John, Company F, United States Infantry. 
 
 Foster, Charles W., Company D, Fifth Eegiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Gaul, Theodore, Company D, Fifth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 Geary, Thomas, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New -York Volunteers. 
 GiLLEO, John, Company D, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Glosque, Joseph, Company G, Forty-Fu'st Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Gracy, John, Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment New- York Vol- 
 
 imteers ; Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Granger, James. 
 
 Greely, Patrick H., United States Navy. 
 Green, James H. 
 Guilford, , Company B, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Haggerty, John, Company A, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Hamilton, John, Sixty-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Hamilton, William, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Hampson, Eli, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Cavalry ; and First 
 
 Regiment Veteran Cavalry. 
 Hayes, William, Brigadier-General United States Army. 
 Hendrick, a. a.. Company H, Eighty-Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 HiCKEY, Thomas, Company C, Fom-teenth Regiment United States Infantry. 
 HiCKTON, James, Company D, Sixteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. 
 Hill, Thomas, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Holler, Francis, Company L, Third Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 HuLSE, Chauncey, Company I, Fifth Regiment New-York Volmiteers. 
 HuMBERS, Joseph, Company B, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Humphrey, George, Company C, Sixty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 Hurst, Hugh. 
 
 Kane, Michael. 
 
 Kearns, Thomas, Company C, Thii-d Regiment New-York Volunteers ; and First 
 
 Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Keenan, Edward, Company A, Sixty-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers ; and 
 
 Company B, Sixty-Seventh Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Kelly, Patrick, Lieutenant Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Kniffen, Abram, Lieutenant Seventh New-York Independent Battery. 
 Kniffen, John, Company B, Seventh Independent Volunteers. 
 Koch, Bernard, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment New- York Infantry. 
 
140 YOXKEIiS IX THE KEBELLIOS. 
 
 Lawtience, Charles E. 
 
 Lee, Robert. 
 
 LUNT, Jacob, Company H, Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Latjch, Terrence, Company D, Seventy-Third Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Lynt, Frederick B., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Vohmteers. 
 
 Maran, John. 
 
 Martin, James, Company H, Eighth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 McCoy, James, Company K, Second Regiment District of C'olumbia Volunteers. 
 
 !\I( ni:A\v. John, Forty-Third Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 M. l.\r.,HLlN. 
 
 .M' -AIiNN, Thomas, United States Cavalry. 
 
 McNamara, John, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 McViCKER, James, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Mitchell, Thojias, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers ; and Compan y 
 
 D, Twelfth New- York Volunteers. 
 MoROAN, Francis. 
 
 Mom; AN, Frank A., Fiflh Hi-gimeiit .\ew-York Volunteers. 
 M(>K(iAN, Henry. 
 
 Morris, Arthcr, Company A, Fourth Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 Morris, Edmund Y, Major Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Morris, Thojias F., Colonel Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 MuuPHY, J.uiES, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Murphy, William. 
 Murray, W. J., Company A, Tenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 NoDiNE, Benjamin, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 NoDiNE, Clark, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Nodi'ne, Georoe. 
 
 NODINE, W. H. 
 
 Nolan, (tEORGE, Company II, Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Oakley, William, Company A, Fifty-Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 O'Donnell, Patrick, Company D, Second Regiment New-York Artillery. 
 O'Hara, Henry, Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-Second Kegiment Niw-York 
 
 Volunteers. 
 O'HolKKK, .Iamks, United States Navy. 
 
 Paddock, tiKoHtii:. 
 
 Paddock. William P.. Soldier ot' War of ISl'J. 
 
OUR HEROES' LAST SLEEP. 147 
 
 Parse, Hollis H., Company G, Thirty-Second Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Past, Christian. 
 
 Pease, Charles H., Company F, Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 Percival, Wilder B., Seventeenth Regiment United States Militia. 
 
 Pettit, Thomas. 
 
 Pollock. 
 
 Pollock, Robert A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Pope, William, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Price, Thomas R., Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Reynolds, James A., First Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Reynolds, Thomas, Company B, Sixty- Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 RiCEVER, Wilder, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment New- York State MiUtia. 
 Right, William, Company E, Ninety-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 RiORDAN, Gilbert, Lieutenant-Colonel, Thirty- Seventh Regiment New-York 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Rockwell, George S. 
 
 schiling. 
 
 Schultse, Abram, Company D, One Hundi-ed and Fiftieth Regiment New-Yoi"k 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Shannon, Edward, Eighth Regiment New- York Mihtia. 
 Shannon, Philip, Company D, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 Sickly, James M., Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Skinner, John W., Sixth Regiment Missouri Volunteers. 
 Smith, John, Company G, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Springer, Louis, Lieutenant, Twenty-Second Regiment, Connecticut. 
 Starr, Edward A., Sergeant, Company H, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers ; 
 
 and Company F, Eighth Regiment, United States. 
 Ste\t;ns, John, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Mihtia. 
 Swift, S. M., Company J, Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Trask, George, Company E, Seventy-Thii-d Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Turner, Owen, Company G, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Van Orden, Albert, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Wallace, John, Company D, Twenty-Third Regiment United States Infantry. 
 Welsh, James, United States Navj'. 
 
 Welsh, Richard, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavj' Artillery. 
 18 
 
14H YOXKEKS L\ rilK KEBELUOS. 
 
 Welsh, William. 
 
 Whalan, Patrick. 
 
 WiLLOUGHBY, CHARLES W., Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy 
 Artillery. 
 
 Wilson, W. C, Company K, Second Regiment Connecticut Liglit ArtilK ry. 
 
 WoNDEELiE, Philip, Company H, Forty-Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 WooLHEisER, Caleb T., Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- 
 York Volunteers. 
 
 Wright, William, Company E, Ninety-Ninth Regiment New-York VoUmteers. 
 
 Wyeker, Christian, Company I, First Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Yerks, George T., Company B, First Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
 Comrade of Judsox Kilpatrick Post, One Ilmidred ami Forty-Tiiird Regiment 
 New- York. 
 
 Thirteen Unknown Graves. 
 
 DIED IN THE SERVICE. 
 
 Burgess, David, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavj- Artillery. 
 Halves, J.\C'0B, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy ArtilK-ry. 
 Sherwood, Joseph M., Company F, Sixth Rcginieiit New-York Heavy Artiller 
 
 DIED IN YONKEHS. lU'lUE!) EESEWIIEHE. 
 
 Gn.LEO, Jacob, Sergeant, Company F, Sixth New York Heavy Artillery. 
 Keves, Edwin R., Chaplain, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Taylor, Henry H.. Company H. One Hundred and Sixth Regiment New-York 
 
 Volimteers. 
 Wandell, Evert H., Musician, Conipany F. Sixth Nrw-York Heavy .\rtillery. 
 
 ^ 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 A BOLL OF HONOR. 
 
 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE WAR NOW OR LATELY RESIDING 
 IN YONKERS. 
 
 Acker, James, Company A, SLxty-Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 AiNSWOETH, Allen, Company G, Tbdrty- Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Allison, Robebt, Company G, Thii-ty-Sixth Regiment New -York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers; Company E, Twelfth Regiment New- York Militia; Company D, 
 Fifteenth Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 
 Allen, Charles, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Ames, Allen, Company B, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Archer, Oscar F., Company E, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Armstrong, Jambs, Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment 
 New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Atkins, Francis H., Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers; Acting Assistant 
 Surgeon, United States Navy. 
 
 AuLD, James, United States Navy. 
 
 Babcock, Jeremiah, Company B, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Bailey, Augustus, Musician, Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 Baker, Fisher A., Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infan- 
 try Volunteers. 
 
 Balch, Galusha B., Assistant-Surgeon, Ninety-Eighth Regiment New- York Infan- 
 try Volunteers ; Second Regiment Veteran Cavalry New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Baldwin, Charles E. 
 
 149 
 
150 Y ON K Kits IN THE liEBELLION. 
 
 Baldwin, John, Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Baldwin, William H., Captain, Company L, First Repnient New-York Enjrineers. 
 
 Ball, Wn.Lnsi C. 
 
 Barker, Oscar F., United States Navy. 
 
 Bahnes, Jerome D., Company F, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillen,-. 
 
 Bartlett, William H. C, Professor at West Point. 
 
 Beaumont, Williasi H., United States Navy. 
 
 Becker, Henrv, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Belknap, Willum H., Company A, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia. 
 
 Bennett, Michael, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Betts, Charles D., Company H, One Himdred and Thirty-Second Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Betts, George, United States Navy. 
 
 Blackett, William C, Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- 
 York Infantrj- Volunteers. 
 
 Blair, James H., Company G, First Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Blau\'elt, Willlvm. 
 
 Bradley, Samuel, United States Navy. 
 
 Brady, Jeremiah, Comi)aiiy B. Twelfth Massac-husctt.s Battery. 
 
 Brady, Thomas. 
 
 Brazier, Ja.mes, Conipany H, One lluiulred and Fiftieth New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Brennan, Thomas, United States Navy. 
 
 Brill, Jacob G., Company E, Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. 
 
 Brower, John F., Company H, First Regiment United States Sharp Shooters. 
 
 Brown, Abram, Company I (Scott Life Guards), Fourth Regiment New- York In- 
 fantry Volunteers. 
 
 Brown, Calvin C, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-Yoik Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Brown, John W., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\'>- Artillerj-. 
 
 Brown, Samuel F., Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Burke, James, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Butler, John, Company B, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers ; 
 Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Bynon, John Willett, Company E, Fii-st Regiment New- York Engineers. 
 
 Cahill, John J., Company F, Twenty-Second Regiment New-York Cavalrj-. 
 Callahan, Thomas, Company I), Forty-First Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
A BOLL OF HONOR. 151 
 
 Cantwell, Michael J., Company C, Thirtieth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Carey, JoH^f, Company E, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Vokmteers. 
 
 Cabrall, Bernard, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Carroll, Willlwi, Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Carter, James W., United States Navy ; Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York 
 Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Casey, Daniel, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea^'y Artillery. 
 
 Casey, Maurice, Company M, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Casey, William, Company M, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Cashin, Patrick, United States Navy. 
 
 Clark, Jere S., Company E, Third United States Light Artillery ; Second Lieu- 
 tenant, Company L, First New- York Engineers; and Captain, Company G, 
 Second Regiment United States Colored Artillery. 
 
 Collins, Thomas, Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Regiment 
 Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 CoLNAN, Thomas, Company D, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 CoMELius, Alonzo G., Company E, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 CONNICK, Charles, United States Navy. 
 
 Coon, John W., United States Navy. 
 
 COPELAND, John, United States Navy. 
 
 Corcoran, Daniel, Company A, Ninety-Ninth New- York Militia. 
 
 COSKER, James, Company E, Seventy-Third Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Coyne, Martin, Company I, Fortieth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ; 
 United States Navy. 
 
 Craft, Moses A., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Crane, Stephen S., Company F, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Crimins, John, Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Regiment New-Y'ork 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Croput, David K., Company F, Sixth Regiment United States Volunteers; Com- 
 pany F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Cronen, Patrick, Company C, New- York Volimteers. 
 
 Cropsey, Stephen, Company H, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
152 YOyKKJiS IX THE UKBELUOX. 
 
 CcRRAN, Thomas, Company D and Company K, Thirty-Fifth Repiment New Jersey 
 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 Curtis, John H. 
 
 Dagg, John L., United States Navy. 
 
 Darah, James, United States Navy. 
 
 Daub, Philip A., Company K and ("ompany C, One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth 
 Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Dealing, Samuel F., Company G, First Rejfiment New- York Reavy Artillery. 
 
 Deitrich, Conrad, Company F, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers; Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 De Revere, Williaji. Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-Third Regiment 
 New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Dickson, Andrew, Company K, Third Regiment New-York Artillery. 
 
 DiNSMORE, Luther, United States Navy. 
 
 Doolity, John J., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Doyle, Timothy, Company E, Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 
 Drehfahl, a. H., Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Dreslit, David. 
 
 Dudley, Orville D.. Company A, Fifth Regiment New-York liif;iiitry Volunteers 
 
 Duffy, Patrick, Company 1, Twenty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 DURAND, Frederick J., Company H, First Regiment New-York Veteran Cavab-y ; 
 Company C, Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Eaqan, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Edie, jAiiES K., Fourteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Edwards, John, Company E, Seventieth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 ElMER, George, Coni|)any I. Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Arlillery. 
 
 Ellerbeck, Charles H., Company E, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Ellis, Matthew H., Cai)tnin, Company K, One llmuircd and S.-vmty-Fiftli Regi- 
 ment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Ewino, Thomas, Colonel, Eleventh Regiment Kansas liilaniiy Vohinii-iis ; Briga- 
 dier-General and Brevet Major-Geneml United States Vnhinleers. 
 
 Eyck, Charles Lee, United States Navy. 
 
A BOLL OF HONOR. 153 
 
 Feexlet, M. 
 
 Fegan, Peter, Company F, Ninetieth Regiment New-York Veteran Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Fink, John N., Company F, Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Fisher, William H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Flanagan, Patrick. Company G, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 FoRMAN, Gilbert, Company G, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavj' Artillery. 
 
 FORMAN, Henry, Company C, First Regiment United States Colored Cavalry. 
 
 Forsyth, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Ai-tiUery. 
 
 Foster, George H., Company G, Thirty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Francis, Kellogg, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin. 
 
 Franklin, James, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Vohmteers. 
 
 Ferguson, Hugh H., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantiy 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Fuller, Frederick D. 
 
 Gorman, James P., Company C, Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry. 
 
 Gordineee, William J., United States Navy. 
 
 GoRiVAN, John, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Ai-tillery. 
 
 GoTTLD, Abram C, United States Navy. 
 
 Grace, Michael, Company H, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles. 
 
 Gbacey, John, Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment New-York 
 
 Infantry Volunteers ; Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Graham, Edwin A., Company C, Ninety-Eighth Regiment New-York Infanti-y 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Gray, Stephen T., Company H, Fifty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infauti-y 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Grevert, John, Company I, Ninety-Fifth New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 Grimshaw, Henry, Company G, Thirty-Sisth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 GuGEL, Frederick, Company L, Second Regiment New Jersey Cavah-y. 
 Guilford, Nathan, Company D, Second Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers 
 
 One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Regiment Ohio Militia. 
 GuiON, Heney p., United States Navj'. 
 
154 YOXKEIiS IX THE REHELLIOX. 
 
 Haley, Thomas, Company K, One Hundrdil ami Fourth Regriment, New-York 
 Infantrj' Volunteers. 
 
 Hall, H. B., Captain, Company H, (Sixth Kefjimeut Kew-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Halsey, Williaji L., Company F, First Refj^iment New- York Entrineers. 
 
 Hajipson, Thomas, Company A, Sixth Rej^imcut New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Hajipson, Thomas, Company A, Eighteenth Repiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
 Hargraves, Job, Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Harlane, Thomas, Company C, New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Harvey, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Harkls, Samuel, Company A, Twenty-Seventli Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Habri.son, Thoma.s. 
 
 Hastings, John, Company 1), Twenty-Second Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Hatfield, William M., Company F, First Regiment New- York Lincohi Cavalry. 
 
 Heath, ]^Iaecellus C. 
 
 Hedley, John, Company F, Ninth Regiment New-York Infantrj- Volunteers. 
 
 Heermance, William L., Company H, Ninth Regiment New- York State Militia; 
 Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 HendricKSON, George R., Company M and Coiiipiuiy A. Sixth Regiment New- 
 York Hea%'y Artillery. 
 
 HiCKERSON, Henry C, Company A and Company K. Klcvenlh Regiment New 
 Jersey Infantry. 
 
 Hill, John Martin, Company L, Fourth Regiment N.w-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Hill.s, Slau George. 
 
 HiNMAN, Frank H., Company E, First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Com- 
 pany D, Eighty-Fourth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry ; Company 
 A, Fortieth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 Hitchcock, Daniel H., Company F, Twenty-Fifth Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Hitchcock, George A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Hodges, George, Ninth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 HOPFM.^N, William H., Company A., First Regiment Connci-ticul Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Holder, Frank T., Coni|iany H. Third Regiment Massju-husetts Cavalry. 
 
 Holt, Henry, Company A, First Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
 Howe, Hamlin. 
 
 HiiWKi.i.. l>\vii>, Company B, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
A ROLL OF HONOR. 155 
 
 Howell, David M., United States Navy. 
 
 HowLETT, Frederick G., Company B, Eighth Regiment New- York Mihtia. 
 
 HoYT, Anson B., Chaplain, One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 HiiDDY, William, Company K, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Hume, Isaac, Company I, Two Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment Pennsylvania 
 Infantry Volimteers ; Company G, Ninety-Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Irvin, Joseph E., Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Jackson, Eugene A., United States Navy; Company A, Sixty-Second Regiment 
 New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Jackson, John W., Company D, Ambulance Corps. 
 
 Johnston, Stephen W., Company F, Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Johnstone, Richard M., United States Navy. 
 
 Jones, Lewis G., United States Navy. 
 
 Jones, Samuel B., Colonel, Sixth Regiment United States Colored- Troops; Cap- 
 tain, Company C, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 JOSLYN, Andrew J., Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Kane, Patrick, Company H. Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Kazier, Otto, Company F, One Hunch-ed and Thirty-First Regiment New- York 
 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 Kearns, James, Company I, Second Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Keating, John, Company E, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 Keeler, James, Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 Kempton, Benjamin F., Company C, First Regiment United States Sharp- Shooters ; 
 
 Company D, Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 Kerns, John, Company B, One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Regunent New- York 
 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 Kiely, Michael, United States Navy. 
 Kingsland, Henry, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy 
 
 Artillery. 
 Kinney, Edward, Company D, Eighty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers ; Bugler, Ninth Regiment United States Infantry. 
 19 
 
156 YOyKEHS IN THE BEBELLION. 
 
 KiPP, Augustus, Company I), Thirty-Secoud Rejriment New-York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 KiEicvvooD, AleXjVSDER O., Company A, Forty-Seventh Regiment Massachusetts 
 
 Infantrj' Volunteers. 
 Kr.\3IER, Louis, Company K, Forty-Fifth Rejriment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Laoey, John, Company G, Forty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Lake, Jeremiah J., One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New-York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Lajieraue, Nathan, Company A, Fifty-Si.\th Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Lapham, Solon, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Hea%->- Artillery. 
 
 Lawrence, James V., Major, Volunteers on General Staff. 
 
 Lawrence, John H., Company E, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\^- Artillerj- ; 
 Light Battery 31, First United States Artillerj-. 
 
 Lawton, James F., Company C, First Regiment New- York Engineers. 
 
 Lawton, James H., Company H, Thirty-First Regiment United States Colored 
 Troops. 
 
 Leliva, Carl von, Captain, Company C, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Lester, Moses H., United St<ites Navy. 
 
 Lewis, Georoe, United States Navy. 
 
 Light, Charles, Ninth Ohio Independent Battery. 
 
 Lkhit, Robert B., Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Lockavood, George W., Company A, First Regiment Provisional Pennsylvania 
 Mounted Volunteers. 
 
 Lord, Hiram F., Company B, Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volimteers. 
 
 Lovett, James, United States Navy. 
 
 LoWENTHAL, SiGiSMUND, Company A, Sixth Regiment New- York Militia, and Com- 
 pany K, Eleventh New Jersey Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 LusK, George. 
 
 LUTKINS, Andrew R., Eighth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Lvnt, Samuel H., Sergeant, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artil- 
 
 JIcCartiiv, Calvin. 
 
 McCAltTV, Fifty-Ninth Heginient Ncw-Yurk Infantry Voluntt 
 
A ROLL OF HONOR. 157 
 
 McDonald, Andrew, Company H, Eighth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 McFall, John, Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Regiment New- York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 McG-ANN, Philip, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Mackey, Geeffen, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 McLaw, James V.an, Company E, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Maclay, Isaac W., Lieutenant, United States Army. 
 
 McLennan, George, Company A, Second Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 McMahon, John, Company F, Sixth New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 McMela, Jacob. 
 
 McPherson, William H., United States Navy. 
 
 Manners, Samuel L., Company F and Company B, Eighth Regiment New Jersey 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Manning, Ezra L., Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers ; Company K, Fom-teenth Regiment Veteran Reserve 
 Corps. 
 
 Maroney, Edwabd B., United States Navy. 
 
 Maeean, Peter, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New- York Infantry Volimteers. 
 
 Maetin, William. 
 
 Maxwell, Richard, Company I, Thu-ty-Eighth Regiment New Jersey Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Maxwell, Robert, Company G. 
 
 Meadows, John G., Company B and Company C, First Regiment New-York In- 
 fantry Volunteers. 
 
 Menzee, Herman, Company I, First Regiment New-York Cavaky. 
 
 Messenger, Edwabd A. 
 
 Miller, Archibald Edgae, Company E, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Miller, DA^ao J., Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Millee, Joseph, Company E, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Millward, James, Adjutant, Washington Clay Battalion ; Captain, Company E, 
 Ninety-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Mitchell, Edward J., Company E, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Infan- 
 try Volunteers. 
 
158 YONKERS IN TllK KKUKUJOX. 
 
 Mitchell, George A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantrj' Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 JIoxToojiERY, James, Company G, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles. 
 
 MonKis, Michael, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Hea\-y Artillerj-. 
 
 Mosher, PniLrp, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 MuNN, Daniel S., Company G, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Murphy, Patrick, Company B, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavalrj-. 
 
 MiRPHY, Timothy, Company G, First Regiment United States Infantrj-. 
 
 Murray, David, Company D, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
 Nash, Patrick, Company B, Fiftieth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry- Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Nathan, Michael, Company G, SL\th Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Nealy, Benjamin, Company A, Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Infautiy Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Nebe, Charles, Company C, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteei-s. 
 
 Nelson, Henry W., Company A, Thirty-First Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Nessler, Henry. Company D, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantrj- Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Nichols, Frederick 0., Company C, First Regiment Connecticut Hea^•y Artillery. 
 
 Nichols, Orlando, Company G, Tenth Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 NicoLL, Augustus W., Company E, Seventh Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Oakley, Branson K. 
 
 O'Brien, James 0., Company K, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers; 
 Thirty-Fii-st Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 O'Brien, John, Company H., Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantrj' Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Okell, Williaji, Quartermaster, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Olh-er, Thomas, Company G, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers; Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Osterheld, HENTtY, First Lieutenant, Company K, Sixty-Eighth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Otis, Henry, Company K, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-Vork Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Otis, Thomas. 
 
A BOLL OF HONOE. 159 
 
 Palmer, Abeam J., Company D, Forty- Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Paitlding, Pieree L., Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Regiment 
 New-York Infantry Vohmteers ; United States Navy. 
 
 Peake, Cyeus a., Company G, First Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 
 Peckham, Emeey a., Company B, Twenty-Seventh Regiment Massachusetts In- 
 fantry Volunteers. 
 
 Peene, John G., Company P, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Peiece, Charles A., Company D, Twenty-Si.rth Connecticut Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Pentreath, John, Corporal, Company D, Nineteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia ; 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant, One HuncU-ed and Sixty-Eighth Regiment New- York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Peekins, James Ct. 
 
 Perkins, William, Company D, Seventy-Third Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Persise, James, United States Navy. 
 
 Pettit, Samuel M., First Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Phelan, John, New Jersey. 
 
 Porter, William A., Company C, Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Post, George C, Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Prescott, William H. 
 
 Prime, Ralph E., Companies G, C, and B, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry ; 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Proseus, Joseph L., Company B, Fifth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery; 
 Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 QuiNCEY, Edward, 
 
 Randall, J. Wesley, United States Navy. 
 
 Redding, John T., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia ; United 
 
 States Navy. 
 Reipp, Jacob, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Reilly, James, Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-First Regiment New- York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Rein, John H., Company D, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Requa, Francis D., Company E, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
160 YOXKERS IN THE UEliKLUOX. 
 
 Reynolds, Seymour H., Company M and Company H, Sixth Rogiment New- 
 York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Rhodes, Edward C, Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-Third Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Rhodes, John W., United States Navy. 
 
 Riley, Wflllmi, Company G, Fifty-First Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Robinson, Thomas, Company C, Twenty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Roos, Albert, ('ompany K, Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Roth, Conrad, Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-Third Regiment Ohio 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Ryan, Michael F., Company G. Sixty-Third Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Ryer, Benjamin, Company I, Ninety-Third Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Ryer, Williaji C, Company E, New- York Volunteei-s. 
 
 Scheleerr, James S. 
 
 Shampnoy, Andrew, Company B, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Shaw, Alexander, Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment 
 Ne-w-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Shelton, Stephen A., Massachusetts Cadets. 
 
 Sheridan, jAiiES, Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers; 
 Company B, Second Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Sherwood, Aaron, Company I, Tenth Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Shonnard, Frederic, Major, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillerj-. 
 
 Shultz, Charles, Company I, Second Regiment District of Columbia Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 SlEBERT. Jacob, Company E, Twentieth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 SiEVERS, Albert, Company C, Twenty-Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry 
 Volunteei-s. 
 
 SiMiiONDS, Jeremiah, Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Hea\-y Artillery. 
 
 Simmons, Edward, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Simpson, Lvke, Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Skidgell, WiLLiAii, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers; Company D, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Skipper, Thomas, Company A. Third Regiment Maryland Cavalry. 
 
A ROLL OF HONOR. 161 
 
 Smith, George, Company A, First Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
 Smith, Jacob, Company K, Thirty-Third Regiment Indiana Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Smith, John G., Company C and Company A, First Regiment New-York Cav- 
 alry ; Company F, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New -York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Smith, Robert, Fifth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Southwick, Benjamin W. 
 
 Starr, George H., Captain, Company D, and Brevet-Colonel, One Hundi-eJ and 
 Foui-th Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Stevens, Samuel, Major, First Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Stewart, Arthur, Company B, Forty-First Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Stewart, James, Jr., Captain, Company A, Fifth Regiment Connecticut Infanti-y 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Stockholm, Frederick G., Company A, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy 
 Ai'tillery. 
 
 Stone, Willl\m S., Company C, Seventy-First Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Stouffer, George A., Company H, First Regiment Maryland Infantry Volun- 
 
 Straley, Jacob, Company A, Twenty-Eighth Regiment New Jersey Infantry ; 
 Company A, Fortieth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Strobridge, George E., First Lieutenant, Company F, One Hundred and Thirty- 
 Fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteers. 
 
 Sullivan, John, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Sullivan, Michael T., Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Swan, William. 
 
 Sweeney, John W., Company A, Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Tallmadge, Robert P., Sixth Ohio Independent Battery. 
 
 Terrell, Timothy, Company E, Eighth Regiment Connecticut Infantry. 
 
 Thorpe, George N., Company C, Ninety-First Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 TiCE, James G., Company H, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Tidaback, John, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
162 YONKEHS 7.V THE ItEIiKI.LIOS. 
 
 Tompkins, Abraji H., Company K, Drum-Major, One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth 
 Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 TowNSESD, William J., Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regi- 
 ment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 TrnxKR, Thomas, Company C, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles. 
 
 Tyrrkll, Elias, Company K, Fortieth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 UxGER, Adolph, Company D, Fifty-Ninth Regiment N«w-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 VA^•DEEBURGH, Bertrand, Company H, First Regiment Kentucky Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Van Ness, Theodore, Company K. Twenty-Sixth Regiment New .Jersey Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Van Tassell, Sherburne, C, United States Navy. 
 
 Van Wagner, George H., Company E, Ninety-First Regiment New- York Infan- 
 try Volunteers. 
 
 Veckek, \\. 
 
 Veitch. William II., United States Navy. 
 
 ViCKER, Daniel, Company F, New-York Volunteers. 
 
 VoiGHT, Henry, Company I, Fifth Regiment, United States Veteran Cavalry. 
 
 Wachter, Christian, Company A, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Waldeck, William, Company D, Twentieth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Walsh, Robert, Company C, SLxth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Walters, Frederick, Company I, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 W.VI.TERS, George W., Company I, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Washington, George H., Company C, Eleventh Regiment United States Colored 
 Artillerj'. 
 
 Webb, Jajies, Company C, Seventy-Second Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Wellinghast, John. 
 
 Wellm^VN, W. Prescott, Seventh Regiment New-York Mjlitia. 
 
 Welsh, James, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy .Vriill.ry. 
 
 Wki.sii.Wili.iam, Caiitain.Coniimny D.Si.\ly-Kiglith Heginient New-York Infantry. 
 
A ROLL OF HONOR. 163 
 
 Wheaton, Joseph C, Compauy A, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia. 
 Whitehead, John C, Company G, First Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 Whiting, Joseph, Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavah-y. 
 Williams, Charles John, United States Navy. 
 Williams, Edwin H., Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment 
 
 New- York Infantry Vohinteers. 
 Willis, William. 
 
 WiLLOUGHBY, Charles, Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 WmANS, David A., Company A, Fourth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Wolf, William H., United States Navy. 
 
 Woodruff, Frederick H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 Wyatt, David W., Company G, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New -York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Yerks, William W., Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
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ON THE SOUTH SIDE. 
 
 THE CAVALRY STATUE. 
 
 This desiij'ii was furnished by J. E. Kelly, of New-York. It is an impos- 
 ing figure. It repi-eseuts a dismounted cavalryman on the picket-line, 
 with carbine ready, dauntless resolution, and every sense alert, intent to 
 discover and repel the approach of an enemy. The martial bearing of 
 form and the heroic cast of features combine to render this statue very 
 impressive. Inscriptions : 
 
 (Under llie S 
 VALOR 
 
 PARAMOUNT OBJECT 
 
 IS TO 
 
 SAVE THE UNION. 
 
 (Oil tlie BasL- 
 
 LET US HAVE PEACE. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 
 
 KiTCHiNG Post — John C. Fremont Post — Men Who Bravely 
 Faced the Rebel Fire in Defence of the Union. 
 
 KITCHHSTG POST NO. 60. 
 
 IN tlie latter part of the year 1867, a number of the men who 
 had been in the United States service for the suppression of 
 the Rebellion between the years 1861 and 1865, learning that there 
 had been an organization formed for their benefit, called the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, made application to James B. 
 McKean, who was then Grand Commander of the State of New- 
 York, for a charter for a Post in Yonkers, and on the 7th day of 
 January, 1868, a charter was granted to E. Y. Morris, Sherburne C. 
 Van Tassell, James Stewart, Patrick Kelly, George W. Farnam, 
 Abram H. Tompkins, Edgar C. Nodine, James Carter, George Hen- 
 drickson, William Riley, and Daniel S. Munn, to organize a Post to 
 be known as Kitching Post No. 60. 
 
 On the 18th day of March following, the muster in took place, 
 and Edmund Y. Morris was elected the first Commander. Daniel 
 
170 YOSKEHS IX Tilt: HEIiELLIOS. 
 
 S. Munu was elected Comniandei- on the 1st of January, 1870, when 
 there were fifty-five names on the muster-roll. In the year 1871 
 John Kuester was Comniandei-, and he also served as such for the 
 year 1872. The membership increased so, that in January, 1873, 
 when William Riley assumed command of the Post, the number of 
 names on the muster-roll was 179. He was also in command of the 
 Post during the year 1874, when four more names were added to 
 the muster-roll. 
 
 The Commanders since that year have been for 1875-76, James 
 Cadis; 1877, Oscar T. Barker; 1878-79, Henry Osterheld; 1880, 
 John C. Shotts; 1881, Frank A. Curran; 1882, James V. Lawrence, 
 to September 17, 1882, when he resigned; Sherburne C. Van Tas- 
 sell, to June 17, 1884, when he resigned ; Galusha B. Balch, from 
 June 17, 1884, to July, 1885, when he resigned ; James Sheridan, 
 from July, 1885, to January, 1H87; and from 1887 to and including 
 1891, John C. Shotts. 
 
 Officers, November, 1801 : 
 
 John C. Shotts, Commander. 
 
 Augustus Kipp, Senior Vice-Commander. 
 
 George Hexdrickson, Junior Vice-Commander. 
 
 Edward J. Mitchell, Adjutant. 
 
 James Sherid^vn, Officer of tbe Day. 
 
 Abram H. Tompkins, Quartermaster. 
 
 JjVMes Carter, Chaplain. 
 
 Edward Kenxey, Officer of the Guard. 
 
 Adolph Unoer, Serpeant-Major. 
 
 George Eimek, Qunrtermaster-Sergeant. 
 
 John C. Shotts, National Delegate. 
 
 AUOUSTU.S Kipp, Department Delegate. 
 
 Thomas Oliver, Alternate. 
 
THE GEAND ARMY OF THE BEPUBLIC. 171 
 
 Acker, Jasper W., Company B, Sixth Eegiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Allison, Robert, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New-York Militia ; Company 
 G, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ; Company D, Fif- 
 teenth Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 
 Andrews, Joseph, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 imteers. 
 
 Arbuckle, William, Musician, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Bailey, Augustus, Musician, Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Baldwin, John, Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Barker, Oscar T., United States Navj'. 
 
 Barnes, Jerome D., Company F, Sixteenth Regiment New-York Heavy ArtiUery. 
 
 Betts, George, United States Navy. 
 
 Blaitvelt, Willi.\m, Company D, Fifty-First Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Bloomer, William E., United States Navy. 
 
 Bowes, Benjamin, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Brady, Jeremiah, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Massachusetts Light Artillery. 
 
 Brazier, James, Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Regiment New- York 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Brill, Jacob G., Company E, Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Brown, Calvin C, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Brown, John W., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Brown, Samuel F., Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Butler, John, Company B, Twelfth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ; 
 Company D, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Carey, John, Company E, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 Caeroll, William, Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Carter, James W., Company C, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery ; 
 
 United States Navy. 
 Casey, Daniel, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy ArtiUery. 
 Cashin, Patrick, United States Navy. 
 
172 YOXKEKS ly THE RKliELLIOX. 
 
 Clark, Jere S., Company E, Third Regiment United States Light ArtiUerj-; 
 Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers; Company G, Second Regi- 
 ment United States Artillery. 
 
 Coon, John W., United States Navy. 
 
 Crofct, David K., Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ; 
 Company F, Sixth Regiment United States Volunteers. 
 
 CuRRAN, Thomas, Company D and Company K, Thirty-Fifth Regiment New 
 Jersey Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Dickson. Andrew, Company K, Third Regiment New-York Artillery. 
 
 DooLiry, John J., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Drehfahl, a. H., Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Dudley, Orville D., Company .\, Fiftli Regiment New- York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Durand, Frederick J., Company H, First Regiment New- York Veteran Cavalry ; 
 Company C, Twenty- Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Edie, JyUiiES, Fourteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Ek'KHORN, Charles F., Company H, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry 
 
 Volunteei-s. 
 Eimer, George, Company I, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Ferguson, Hugh H., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Field, John P., Company C, Fourth Regiment Vermont Infantry Volunteers. 
 Fink, John N., Company F, Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 FiNNEOAN, James, Company F, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles. 
 Fisher, William H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 Forman, Gilbert, Company G, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 FoRMAN, Henry, Company C, First Regiment United States Colored Cavalr>-. 
 
 GoRAViN, John, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 GORDINEER, William J., United States Navy. 
 
 Graham, Edward, Company C,Ninety-Eightli Heginieiii Ni-w-Vork Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Grevert, John, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiuuut New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 GUGEL, Frederick, Company L, Second Regiment New Jei-scy Cavalry. 
 
THE GRANB ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 173 
 
 Halsey, William L., Company F, First Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 Hampson, Thomas, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavah^'. 
 Hargraves, Job, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Haevey, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Hastings, John, Company A, Twenty-Sixth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. 
 Hauptmann, Charles H., Company A, United States Engineers. 
 Hendrickson, George, Company M and Company A, Sixth Regiment New- York 
 
 Heavy Ai-tiUery. 
 Henry, George S., Company A, Seventy-Tlm-d Regiment New-York Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Hickerson, Henry C, Company A and Company K, Eleventh Regiment New 
 
 Jersey Volunteers. 
 Hitchcock, Daniel H., Company F, Twenty-Fifth Regiment New-York Cavah-y. 
 Howell, David, Company B, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 HowLETT, Frederick G., Company B, Eighth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Irvin, Joseph, Company A, Fu-st Regiment New-York Cavalry. 
 
 Jones, Alfred M., Company B, Seventy-Eighth Regiment United States Colored 
 Infantry. 
 
 Jones, Samuel B., Company C, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers ; 
 Brigadier-General United States Volunteers. 
 
 JosLYN, Andrew J., Company A. One Hundred and Thirty -Ninth Regiment New- 
 York Volunteers. 
 
 Kaufman, Norman, Company D, Seventh Regiment Maryland Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Kearns, James, Company I, Second Regiment New-York Artillery. 
 
 Keeler, James, Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Kenney, Edward, Company D, Ninth Regiment United States Infantry; Com- 
 pany M, Eighty-Eighth Regiment New-York Veteran Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Kiely, Michael, United States Navy. 
 
 KiPP, Augustus, Company D, Thii-ty-Second Regiment New- York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Lacey, John, Company G, Forty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Lameraue, Nathan, Company A, Fifty-Sixth Regiment New-York Vohmteers. 
 Lange, John, Company I, Fourth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Lapham, Solon, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Lawton, James F., Company C, First Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 Light, Charles, Ninth Ohio Independent Battery. 
 
174 YONKERfi IX THE REBELLWS. 
 
 Light, Robert B., Company I), One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Reg-iiuent New- 
 York Volunteers. 
 
 LocKWOOD, George W., Company A, First Regiment Pennsylvania Provisional 
 Mounted Volunteers. 
 
 LowENTHAL, SiGlSMUND, Companies A and K, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy 
 Artillery. 
 
 Lynt, Samuel H., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 McCall, Thomas, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Mackey, Geiffen, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 McLave, James, Company C, Fifth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Manners' Samuel L., Company F, Eighth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers; 
 Company B, Eighth Regiment New Jersey Veteran Volunteers. 
 
 Marran, Peter, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Mexzer, Hermax, Company I. First Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 
 Miller, David J., Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Miller, Joseph, Company E, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. 
 
 Millward, James, Adjutant, Washington Clay Battalion ; Captain, Comijany E. 
 Ninety-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volimteers. 
 
 Mitchell, Edward J.. Company E. Thirty-Seventh Regiment New Jersey Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Mitchell, George A., Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Montgomery, James, Company G, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles. 
 
 MuNN, Daniel S., Company G, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Murden, Jacob L., Company C, Seventh Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Murphy, Cornelius, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Murphy, Timothy, Company G, First Regiment United States Infantry. 
 
 Nebe, Charles B., Company C, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Nessler, Henry, Company D, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 NiOHOLLS, Frederick O., Company C, First Regiment Conneeticut Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Oliver, Thomas, Company C, Eighteenth Regiment New- York Cavalry; Company 
 G, Thirty-Seventh Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 O.STERHELD, Henry, First Lieutenant, Company K, Sixty- Eighth Regiment .^Jew- 
 York Infantrv Volunteei-s. 
 
THE GBAND ABMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 175 
 
 Paulding, Pierre F., Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-Eiglitii Regiment 
 
 New- York Volunteers; United States Navy. 
 Peake, CTRtrs A., Company G, First Regiment New- York Engineers. 
 Penteeath, John, Corporal, Company D, Nineteenth Regiment New-York Militia ; 
 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant, One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Regiment New- York 
 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 Post, George C, f'ompany F, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Redding, John T., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York MUitia ; United 
 States Navy. 
 
 Reitf, Jacob, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Rein, John H., Company D, Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Reynolds, Seymour H., Company M and Company H, Sixth Regiment New- York 
 Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Roth, Conrad, Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-Third Regiment Ohio In- 
 fantry Volunteers. 
 
 Ryan, Michael F., Company G, Sixty-Third Regiment New- York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Shaw, William, Musician, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Sheridan, James, Company F, Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers ; Company 
 B, Second Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Sherman, James W., Company D, Fom-teenth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Shotts, John C, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Sievees, Albert, Company C, Twenty-Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Skidgell, William, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New- York Volunteers ; 
 Company D, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Smith, George, Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 -Smith, John G., Company C and Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry ; 
 Company F, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Smith, William R., Company I, Fifth Regiment Maryland Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Starr, George H., Captain, Company D, and Brevet-Colonel, One Hundi-ed and 
 Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Stevens, Samuel, Major, First Regiment New- York Cavab-y. 
 
 Stewart, Arthur, Company B, Forty-First Regiment New-York Infantry Vol- 
 unteers. 
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176 • ITAVA'iVt'.S' jy THE KEBELLION. 
 
 Still, John, Company I, Ninety-Fifth Kegrinient New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 SuLLn'AN, Michael T., Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Tallmadge, Robert P., Sixth Ohio Independent Batterj*. 
 
 TiCE, James G., Company H, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New-York Infantrj* Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 TlDABACK, John, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment Pennsylvania Infantn- Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 Tompkins, Abram H., Drum-Major, One Hundred and Sixty- Eighth Kepment 
 New- York Infantry Vohmteers. 
 
 Unger, Adolph, Company D, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 Veitch, William H., United States Navy. 
 
 VoiGHT, Heney, Company I, Fifth Regiment United States Veteran Cavalry. 
 
 Washington, George H., Company C, Eleventh Regiment United States Colored 
 Artillery. 
 
 Comrades who hare died xixee the uryamzution of the I'ost. 
 
 Bowler, Elijah, Company L, First Regiment New-York Veteran Engineers. 
 Brazier, James, Company I, One Hundi-ed and Fifty-Ninth Regiment New-York 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Cain, Joseph, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Carlton, Ch^vrles F., Company D, Fourth Regiment Vermont Volunteers. 
 Cunningham, John J., Company A, First Regiment California Volunteers. 
 Curran, Frank, Company E, Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. 
 
 Dillon, Thomas F., Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 DoNOHDE, Bernard, Company A, Tenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Dubois, William H., Fifth Regiment United States Cavalry. 
 Dykes, William, Company H, First Regiment New-York Mounted Rifles. 
 
 Everkst, James B., Company D, Fifty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 Fenner, John R., Company D, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry. 
 Fenton, John, Company E, Seventy-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Ferguson, Hexrv B.. Cumpany C, Sixth Regiincnt New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
THE GRAND ABMY OF THE BEPUBLIC. 177 
 
 FiSHEE, Charles R., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-Yoi-k State National 
 
 Guard. 
 Foley, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Fype, John, One Hundi-ed and Seventy-Eighth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 GriLLEO, Jacob, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Glosqtte, Joseph, Company G, Forty-First Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Hendeick, a. a.. Company H, Eighty-Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Hill, Thomas, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Humbert, Joseph, Company B, Seventy-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Humphries, George, Company C, Sixty-First Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Jenkins, Edward W., Captain, Ninety-Ninth Regiment New- York Volunteers; 
 Thirty-Second Regiment United States Colored Infantry. 
 
 Kernan, Edward, Company B, Sixty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers ; 
 
 Company A, Sixty-Fifth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Koch, Bernhard, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Matthews, John H, Company F, Twelfth Regiment New- York State Militia. 
 MOEEIS, Edmund Y., Major, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 O'Donnell, Patrick, Company G, Second Regiment New-York Artillery. 
 
 Parse, Hollis H., Company G, Thirty-Second Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 Pease, Charles H., Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteei-s. 
 
 Reynolds, Thomas, Company B, Sixty-Fifth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Smith, John, Company G, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 Springer, Louis, Company H, Twenty-Second Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. 
 Starr, Edwaed, Company H, Fifty-Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 Taylor, James W., Company I, Thirteenth Regiment New- York State National 
 Guard; Company E, Fourteenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. 
 
 Taylor, Henry H., Company H, One Hundred and Sixth Regiment New- York 
 Volunteers. 
 
 VOCKENROTH, WiLLIAM. 
 
 Wallace, John, Company D, Twenty-Third Regiment United States Infantry. 
 Wandell, Eveeet H., Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers. 
 WOOLHISEE, Caleb T., Company B, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
178 YONKERS IX THE HEBELLION. 
 
 JOHN C. FREMONT POST NO. '.90. 
 
 On the 19th day of May, 1886, a number of honorably discharged 
 soldiers of the United States Army, who had sei"ved in the late 
 war for the suppression of the Rebellion against the Union, met 
 in the City of Yonkers, and took steps looking to the formation 
 of a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. After several pre- 
 liminary meetings the new Post started on its career June 29, as 
 the Horatio Seymour Post No. 590, Department of New-York, with 
 the following named comrades as officers : 
 
 Frederic Suonnakd, Commander. 
 Fisher A. Baker, Senior Vice-Commander. 
 Edward Maxwell, Junior Vice-Commander. 
 Galusha B. Balch, Surgeon. 
 Joux Forsyth. Cliaplain. 
 Matthew H. Ellis, Quartermaster. 
 James V. Lawrence, Officer of the Day. 
 George W. Farnaji, Officer of the Guard. 
 James B. Farrell. Adjutant. 
 Augustus W. Nicoll, Serpeant-Major. 
 Thomas Ewixci. Quartei-mastor-Serpeant. 
 
 CJaluslia B. Balch succeeded Coniiiiandor Shonnanl, .January 'J.'), 
 1S77, and has remained since that .late in tlie same luisitioii. 
 
 .At a regnlar encanipinent li.M ,,n .Inly 24, ISiM). the name ..f tlie 
 Post was changed to John C. Fremont ; the change being ratified 
 by General Order No. 9, September 25, 1890, from Department 
 Ileaihinarters. 
 
THE GRAND ASMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 179 
 
 Bakee, Fisher A., Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infan- 
 try Volunteers. 
 
 Balch, Galusha B., Assistant Surgeon, Ninety- Eighth Eegiment New- York In- 
 fantry Volunteers; Second Regiment Veteran Cavalry New- York Volunteers. 
 
 Baldwin, William Henry, Captain, Company L, First Regiment New- York 
 Eng^ineers. 
 
 Belknap, William H., Company A, Thirty- Eighth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Betts, Charles D., Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Biedsall, Thomas, Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Regiment 
 New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Borland, George, Company K, Fourth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers ; 
 Captain, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Brower, John F., Company H, First Regiment Shai-p-Shooters. 
 
 Brown, William H., Company B, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Bynon, John Willet, Company E, First Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 
 Casey, Daniel, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 Church, Benjamin S., Captain, Twelfth Regiment New-York Engineers. 
 CoNLiN, John, Company K, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy ArtUlery. 
 Crane, Stephen S., Company F, Eighth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Ellis, Matt. H., Captain, Company K, One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Eegiment 
 New-York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 EwiNG, Thomas, Colonel, Eleventh Regiment Kansas Infantry Volunteers ; Briga- 
 dier-General and Brevet Major-General, United States Volunteers. 
 
 Faenam, Geoege W., Company G, Twenty-Thii-d Regiment Connecticut Infantry 
 
 Volunteers. 
 Fareell, James F., Captain, Company H, Fifth Regiment New- York Artillery. 
 Foesyth, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New -York Heavy Artillery. 
 Feisbie, George H., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Hatfield, William M., Company F, First Regiment New- York Lincoln Cavalry. 
 Holt, Henry, Company A, First Regiment New- York Cavalry. 
 Hudson, Abeam A., Company B and Company E, Ninety-Fifth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers. 
 
180 YO\KEI{S IX THE UKliKLLIOS. 
 
 Ives, Hugh M., Company B, Sixth Regiment Connecticut Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 King, George W., Captain, Company G, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 KiRKWOOD, Alexander 0., Company A, Forty-Seventh Regiment Jlassiic-husetts 
 
 Infantry Volunteers. 
 Kempton, Benjamin F., Company C, First Regiment United States Sharp-Shooters; 
 
 Company D, Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps. 
 
 Lawrence, James V., Major, Volunteers on General Staff. 
 
 Lawrence, John H., Company E and Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York 
 Heavy Artillerj'. 
 
 Lelr'a, Carl von, Captain, Company C, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infan- 
 try Volunteers. 
 
 Lester, MoSes H., United States Nav>-. 
 
 Manning, Ezra L., Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment New- 
 York Infantry Volunteers ; Company K, Fourteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve 
 Corps. 
 
 NicoLL, Augustus W., Company E, Seventh Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
 Odell, James B., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Militia ; Com- 
 pany H, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 Odell, John H., Company C. Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. 
 O'M^u^EY, Joseph, Company K. Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Radcliff, AbRjUI S., Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New-York ^lilitia. 
 Randall, J. Wesley, United States Navy. 
 
 Shonnard, Frederic, Major, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\'j' Artillery. 
 
 SiMMONDS, WiLLiAii, Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. 
 
 Simpson, Luke, Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment New- 
 York Infanti-y Volunteers. 
 
 Slocum, William E., Company C, Thirty-Seventli Regiment Massachusetts In- 
 fantiy Volunteers. 
 
 Snyder, Hiram J., Company 1), Fiftieth Regiiiiont Pi'niisylvani:i Infantry Vdlun- 
 teers. 
 
 Stewart, .James, Secomi iiiiuti'iunit, ('<>iii]iaM.v II. Tliiriceutli Regiment New- 
 York Militia. 
 
 Stkwaf.t. Jamks, Jh., r.ii.taiii. ( '..iniiaiiv A, Fifth Itcgiinciit ('Dnnecti.Mit Infantry. 
 
 Tiiaveh, Stkphkn H.. ('(inii>aiiy II, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Militia. 
 
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 18] 
 
 Van Ness, Theodore, Company K, Twenty-Sixth Regiment New Jersey Infantry. 
 
 Walsh, Robert, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Welsh, Willlaji, Captain, Sixty-Eighth Regiment New-York Infantry. 
 WiNANS, David A., Company A, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 
 WORDEN, Amos W., Company E, Seventeenth Regiment Connecticut Infantry 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Comrades who have died since the organization of the Post. 
 
 BucHAN.tN, James, Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 
 Blackett, Wellluvi C, Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- 
 York Volunteers. 
 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Its History and Its Work — The Fourth Separate Company 
 Fair — Depew Night. 
 
 IN the course of an address at Music Hall, Yonkers, on the even- 
 ing of May 30, 1888, William Allen Butler, Esq., who presided 
 at the Memorial Service, suggested that "a suitable memorial be 
 provided to honor the citizens of Yonkers who placed their lives at 
 the service of the Republic, when its existence was imperiled by 
 armed Rebellion." 
 
 Cyrus Cleveland, acting upon the suggestion thrown out by the 
 Chairman, at once moved that a committee be appointed by the 
 Chair, which committee should have power to solicit subscriptions, 
 and with the money so subscribed "erect a monument that should 
 appropriately express the gratitude of our people for the important 
 service rendered to the Nation." 
 
 It was truly remarked at the time, by Mr. Butler, that " all the 
 principal towns in our county have honored the patriotic bravery 
 
 22 183 
 
184 yoxkehs in the uebellion. 
 
 that preserved the Union by the erection of monuments, and that 
 while Yonkers sent its full quota to the war, up to this date the 
 heroism of its soldiers has been unnoticed." 
 
 On the 12th day of June following, Mr. Butler appointed, "pur- 
 suant to the resolution of the meeting held on the evening of Memo- 
 rial Day," a committee of twenty-five citizens, "to be known as the 
 Yonkers Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Committee," as follows: 
 Cyrus Cleveland, J. Harvey Bell, Galusha B. Balch, Ethelbert Bel- 
 knap, J. Irving Bui-ns, Thomas C. Cornell, Joseph F. Daly, William 
 B. Edgar, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Matt. H. Ellis, Theodore Oilman, 
 Charles E, Gorton, William L. Heermance, E. Alexander Houston, 
 John Olmsted, Charles R. Otis, Walter H. Paddock, S. Francis 
 Quick, Frederic Shonnard, John C. Shotts, James Stewart, War- 
 ren B. Smith, Stephen H. Thayer, Edward Underhill, and Charles 
 E. Waring. 
 
 In his letter of iii>i>i>iiitiiiciit .Mr. I'.iitlci' wroti': "I havt- endea- 
 vored to name citizens wlio, by their dllieial rel;iti<>iis and their 
 identification with public ti-usts, and with important business en- 
 terprises, will fitly and fully rejiresent the leading interests and 
 industries of the city, and whose active cooperation will insure 
 the accomplishment of the object of their ajipointment — the erec- 
 tion of a suitable monument in memory of the Union soldiers and 
 sailors." In concluding, ^Ir. Butler expressed " the hope that this 
 movement may enmnieiid itself to the generous sympathy of our 
 citizens, and result in the ereetion of a worthy memorial of those 
 brave defenders of the Union whom it is our special duty to honor." 
 
 The first meeting of tlie Yonkeks Soldiers' .\xd Saii.oi;s' Mom- 
 MENT Association was held at Manor Hall, Wednesilay evening, 
 June -Jd, ISHH. Cyrus Ch'velan.l was eleeted President ; ("liarl.'s E. 
 
THE SOLBIEBS' AND 8AIL0BS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 185 
 
 Gorton and John C. Shotts were elected Vice-Presidents ; Charles 
 R. Otis was elected Treasurer, and E. Alexander Houston Secre- 
 tary, of the Association. On motion of Mr. Shotts, the name of 
 William Allen Butler was added to the Association. On motion 
 of Colonel Heermance, the names of John W. Oliver and J. Gr. P. 
 Holden were also added. 
 
 A Finance Committee, consisting of Messrs. Heermance, Shotts, 
 Gilman, Cornell, and Shonnard, was appointed by the President. 
 Subsequently, a Memorial Committee and a Committee on Site 
 were appointed. 
 
 On January 3, 1889, on motion of Colonel Ellis, a resolution was 
 adopted providing " that a shaft or column, to cost not less than 
 $5,000, be erected in some public place in the city." February 4, 
 the Monument Fund amounted to $98. At a meeting held April 1, 
 1889, Mr. Cleveland's resignation as President of the Association 
 was accepted, and Mr. Gorton was elected President, John C. 
 Shotts First Vice-President, and Dr. G. B. Balch Second Vice- 
 President. 
 
 On the 6th day of July, 1889, the Committee on Site reported 
 that the Common Council had consented that the Monument 
 should be placed on the Manor Hall Grounds. The fund had 
 reached $432.13. 
 
 At a meeting held November 18, 1889, after a report of the Me- 
 morial Committee, a design submitted by George H. Mitchell, of 
 Chicago, was accepted by the Association. 
 
 Many meetings followed, and various methods were proposed to 
 raise money and progress the work ; some members of the Associ- 
 ation resigned, and new members were elected; but little was 
 definitely accomplished up to March 3, 1890. At a meeting on that 
 
186 YONKEUS IN THE liEBELLION. 
 
 evening, on motion of Mr. Oliver, a resolution was adopted provid- 
 ing for the appointment of a "Committee of Ways and Means, con- 
 sisting of three, of wliich Colonel ITcci-niaiifc shall lie Chairman, to 
 appeal for funds and to manage tlie finanees of the Association." 
 Vice-President Shotts, who presided at the meeting, appointed 
 Colonel William L. Heermance, John W. Oliver, and William F. 
 MoUer as such committee. 
 
 From this time forward the work of the Association advanced 
 more satisfactorily. The Ways and Means Committee was consti- 
 tuted an Executive Committee, with iiHTcasid )io\vcrs. By request 
 of Colonel Heermance, and on his motion, Mr. Oliver was made 
 Chairman ; and at Mr. Oliver's request, Charles E. Gorton, J. Ir\ing 
 Burns, and Joseph F. Daly were added to the Executive Com- 
 mittee. Subscriptions to the fund, $5,488.71. 
 
 On July 11, 1890, Charles Henry Butler proposed that if addi- 
 tional subscriptions to the Monument Fund, amounting in the aggre- 
 gate to ;};l,(i(l(), wciv ]. lodged by July 22, 1890, at twelve o'clock, 
 he would (loiiatf tin' proceeds of the lot on the northeast corner 
 of Van Cortlandt Park Avcnni' and Lawrence Street, to be sold at 
 auction at the New-York Real Estate Exchange, at that time. 
 The proposition was accepted. The lot was sold for $1,050, and 
 was the means of securing $1,509.50 additional — making a total 
 of $2,559.50 for the Monument Fimd through Mr. Butler's offer. 
 Among the contributors was Mi's. Helen Veile Tatum, who gave 
 $324.38 to complete the $1,000, in the names of her thr.-e little girls 
 — Alice, Kuth, and Georgie Perkins. 
 
 At a meeting of the Associalioii held .hily IM. ISIM), .Mr. Oliver 
 presented the insci-iptiuns as they appear upon the Monunieiit, 
 with a single exeeption, ami after earefnl consideration they wi're 
 
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 187 
 
 unanimously adopted. For the inscription on the base of the 
 south side of the Monument the words originally recommended 
 and adopted were, "Peace Eestored." To gratify what seemed to 
 be a general and laudable desire to have some words from General 
 Grant upon the Monument, his famous words, "Let Us Have 
 Peace," were substituted. 
 
 At the meeting of July 21, 1890, Thomas Astley Atkins was 
 appointed Historian of the Association. The contributions had 
 reached $8,018.21. 
 
 On Thursday evening, September 25, 1890, the Executive Com- 
 mittee met at the residence of John W. Oliver, Chairman, No. 192 
 Warburton Avenue, with a view to put the Monument under con- 
 tract. There were present Colonel William L. Heermance, William 
 F. Moller, Charles E. Gorton, J. Irving Burns, Joseph F. Daly, and 
 John W. Oliver, being all the members of the Executive Committee; 
 Hon. Norton P. Otis, T. Astley Atkins, John C. Shotts, and Frederic 
 Shonnard were present by invitation. George H. Mitchell, of Chi- 
 cago, whose plan for the Monument had been accepted, was also 
 present by previous an-angement. 
 
 After full explanations from Mr. Mitchell, and free discussion in 
 which all present participated, the design was formally approved. 
 The following contract was agreed upon, and executed the next day 
 in the office of Joseph F. Daly, Warburton Building : 
 
 This agreement, made this 26th day of September, 1890, between George H. 
 Mitchell, of the City of Chicago, Cook County, and State of Illinois, of the first part, 
 and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association of the City of Yonkers, County 
 of Westchester, and State of New-York, of the second part, witnesseth : 
 
 That the said party of the first part, in consideration of the covenants on the part 
 of the party of the second part hereinafter contained, doth covenant and agi-ee to 
 and with the said party of the second part, that he will provide and pay for all the 
 
188 YOXKEIiS IN THE REIiELLIOX. 
 
 materials, and do the work necessarj' for the construction and erection and com- 
 pletion of a Monument in the City of Yonkers, New- York, according to the speci- 
 fications and drawings liereto attached and marked A, which form a part of this 
 agreement. And that he will erect the said ^Monument in full accordance with 
 the said specifications and drawings, for the sum of ten thousand five hundred 
 dollars ($10,500) ; which amount shall include the entire cost of the said Monu- 
 ment, including the statuary, and its erection in the place designed by the com- 
 mittee in charge of said Monument, according to the plans and specifications. 
 
 And the party of the second part, in consideration of the accurate, faithful and 
 prompt fulfilment of all the covenants of the said party of the first part, doth cove- 
 nant and agree with the said party of the first part to pay to him or his legal 
 representatives the said sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars, in the following 
 manner, and at the following times : 
 
 First, The sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) when the Infantry and 
 Cavalry models are ready to be cast in bronze, and are accepted by the committee 
 of the said Association having the erection of the said Jlonumeut in charge. 
 
 Second, The sum of seven huncb-ed and fifty dollars ($750) when the Naval and 
 Artillery models are ready to be cast in bronze, and, with the model of the Standard- 
 Bearer, are accepted by said committee. 
 
 'lliird, The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars (.$2,500) when the four bronze 
 figures are accepted by the said committee. 
 
 Fourth, The sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500) when the material of the 
 Monument is quairied, and all the workmanship and lettei-ing perfoi-med, and the 
 Monument is ready for erection, and accepted by said committee. 
 
 Fifth, The sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) when the Monument and statu- 
 ary are delivered and ready for erection in the City of Yonkers, at such place as the 
 said committee shall direct, and in a manner satisfactory to the said committee. 
 
 Sixth, The balance, two thousand dollars (.$2,000), when the said Monument and 
 all its parts shall have been completed and erected in its place, according to said 
 specifications and plans. 
 
 It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that all material to be 
 furnished, and all work to be performed, shall be furnished and done in such a man- 
 ner as shall be satisfactorj- to the committee having the erection of sjiid Monimient 
 in charge, and that no payments shall be made or become due until the sjiid work, 
 in its various parts, is accepted as satisfactory by the said committee. 
 
 It is further agreed, liy and between the parties hereto, that whenever any por- 
 tion or part of .said Monument is aecei)t(d and i)aid for by the i)arty of the second 
 part, then the part or portion of said Monument shall become the absolute property 
 
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 189 
 
 of the said party of the secoud part, and the party of the first part shall, as the said 
 part or parts are accepted and paid for, insure in some reliable Insurance Company, 
 the part or parts so accepted and paid for, and the policy of insurance shall be in 
 the name of, and the loss if any payable to, the party of the second part. 
 
 It is further agreed, that if, for any reason, the said party of the first part should 
 refuse or neglect to furnish the proper materials, or perfoi-m the work in the man- 
 ner required by the drawings and specifications, then, in that case, the party of the 
 second part may do the said work, and finish the same, in the manner provided by 
 the drawings and specifications, at the cost of the said party of the first part ; and 
 if out of the contract price, after paying for finishing the said contract, a balance 
 be left, the said balance shall be paid to the said party of the first part, and if the 
 cost of finishing the said work exceed the said contract price, then the said party 
 of the first part shall pay to the said party of the second part the amount of the 
 said increased cost. 
 
 It is further agreed, that the said party of the first part shall, on the making of 
 the payments hereinbefore specified, deliver to the said party of the second part the 
 part or parts of the Monument paid for and accepted, in such places as the com- 
 mittee in charge of said Monument shall dii-ect, and that the same, when so 
 delivered, shall be free and clear from any claim or hens. 
 
 It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that the Monument shall 
 be completed and erected in the proper place in the City of Yonkers, in fuU accor- 
 dance with the drawings and specifications, on or before the 35th day of May, 1891. 
 
 It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, that at any time before 
 January 1, 1892, the said party of the first part will, upon request of the party of 
 the second part, furnish the material, and erect around said Monument, an inclo- 
 sure, according to the plans and specifications submitted, for the sum of twelve 
 hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250), to be paid when the said inclosure is erected and 
 completed, according to said plans and specifications, around the said Monument in 
 the City of Yonkers. 
 
 In witness whereof, the parties hereto have set their hands and seals, the 26th 
 day of September, 1890. Signed, 
 
 George H. Mitchell. 
 
 For the Association : J. W. Oliver, 
 
 W. L. Heermance, 
 Joseph F. Daly, 
 Charles E. Gorton, 
 MajoriUj of Committee. 
 
190 YOXKEHS I.\ THE JihIiELLJOX. 
 
 County of Westchester, » 
 City of Yokkers. } 
 
 On this 26th day of September, 1890, before me personally came George H. 
 Mitchell, to me known to be the individual described in the foregoing instrument 
 as party of the first part, and wlio executed the same, and who acknowledged that 
 he executed the same. 
 
 W.M. RiLKY, 
 
 yotdlii J'lihlic. 
 
 SPECIFICATIONS. 
 
 Far a Soldiers'' Monument to be erected in Yonkers, New-York, by the .Soldiers' Monu- 
 ment Committee, designed by George H. Mitchell, 24 Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Granite. — To be of the very best quality of selected dark blue Barre granite, of 
 an even color, free from shakes, seams, and all other defects. 
 
 Workmanship of the Monument must be such as to hold the full sizes required by 
 the design and specifications ; no patchwork will be accepted ; all beds, builds, and 
 joints to be cut fidl, true, and square ; top and bottom faces of all stones dres.sed to 
 parallel level and perfectly even surfaces ; all exposed surfaces must be wrought and 
 dressed to perfect planes, without elevations or depressions, and to be fine (10 cut) 
 bush-hammered work, with all edges sharp, in perfect line, and without flaw ; all 
 bevels must be true, and end precisely at vertical line of stone above, as shown in 
 plans. All horizontal edges and niolduigs to be perfectly level, at right angles to 
 each other, and at whatever horizontal plane they may be measured, the sides shall 
 be equidistant fi-om the vertical axis ; and the Monument must be perpendicular 
 when erected. Xo stone will be accepted that is inaccurately cut, dressed, or set. 
 The Monument throughout must be uniform in color, and the contractor must 
 include every and all expense for first-class material and workmanship, until its 
 erection upon site in Yonkers, New- York, on or before May 15, 1801. 
 
 Generai, DniENSIONS.— Nine feet sciuarc at base; total height, forty-.-;ix feet from 
 foundation to top of standard. 
 
 liUWKK Base. — Nine feet square, one foot ten inches high. 
 
 Seooni) Base.— Seven feet nine inches square, one foot five inches high. 
 
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILOES' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 191 
 
 Third Base.— Seven feet square, oue foot four inches high. 
 The sides of these three bases to be finished with a fine dressed margin-line, with 
 quarry faces, projection or wash on each to be finely ( 
 
 Fourth Base.— Six feet four inches square, one foot five inches high, to be highly 
 polished for lettering on four sides, lettei-s raised in sunken panel. 
 
 Die Plinth. — Five feet seven inches square, one foot high, foiu- sides highly 
 polished. 
 
 Die.— Five feet seven inches square, thi-ee feet six inches high ; to be cut in one 
 piece, each pilaster to be fluted, and front faces to be highly polished, also the four 
 sides of the recess on die. 
 
 Cap. — Six feet eight inches square, one foot high, molded on four sides, and 
 hammered dressed, except the four plain sides, which wiU be polished. 
 
 Pediment Cap. — Six feet six inches square, two feet two inches high ; on each 
 of the fom- sides cut molded pediments to receive statues. On each of the four 
 sides appropriate lettering to be nicely and artistically executed ; raised polished 
 letters. 
 
 Shaft Plinth. — Thi-ee feet one inch square, two feet four inches high ; to be 
 molded on four sides and finely hammered dressed. 
 
 Spire or Shajt. — To measure two feet nine inches square at base, two feet 
 three inches square at top, sixteen feet three inches high ; in one stone. All ex- 
 posed surfaces to be highly poUshed. 
 
 Capital. — To measure three feet square at base, two feet nine inches high ; to 
 be elaborately carved on four sides. 
 
 Statuary.— To consist of five pieces, representing the Infantry Soldier, Sailor, 
 Artillery, Cavalry, and the Standard-Bearer on top ; each and all to be from entirely 
 new and original designs. The four lower statues to be seven feet high, executed 
 from best standard bronze, specimens of the bronze to be submitted to and approved 
 by the committee. And the upper statue or Standard-Bearer to measure eight 
 feet to the head, and eleven feet to top of standard, to be executed in fine statuary 
 granite. All modeling to be first approved by the committee, either by inspecting 
 the model itself or by photographs representing the different sides, to be provided 
 by the contractor. 
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192 YOXKEIiS JX THE RF.liELLlON. 
 
 Lettering. — All letterinfr to be cut in the polislied surface in plain, sharp, well- 
 defined letters. 
 
 Foundation.— The plans and specifications for the foundation of the Monument 
 will be furnished by the contractor, and the materials and work will be supplied by 
 the Association. 
 
 George H. Mitchell. 
 
 The above contract did not include the drawinjrs for the bronze statues. 
 
 On Monday evening, Octoljev (5, 1890, the gallant Fourth Separate 
 Company National Guard of the State of New-York, Captain John 
 I. Pruyn, opened a fair in their fine Armory on Waverley Street, 
 which continued for eight evenings. It was conducted with excel- 
 lent spirit and judgnioiit, proved a center of social attraction for 
 the time being, and put the generous sum of $1,652.66 into the 
 Monument Fund, carrying the total up to $10,342.72. 
 
 On Monday evening, December 8, 1890, a brilliant audience as- 
 sembled in Music Hall, to hear Hon. Chauncey M. Depew deliver an 
 oration on "The Men who Saved the Union." Major-General O. O. 
 Howard, United States Army, presided. Miss Louise Cowles sang 
 "The Star-Spangled Banner," with a chonis of fifty voices, and full 
 band aeeonipanimont. Julius Jordan sang " Fair Land of Fri'c- 
 doni," with full choru.s and band accompaniment, the words and 
 music composed by himself. This not only i)rovided a tlelightful 
 entertainment, but put $500 into the Monument Fund, bringing it 
 np to $11,026.86. 
 
 On DcccmlH'r 28, tin- Association iiiiiininionsly voted that, when 
 the Monuineiit and iiiclosure were coiii|ileteil and jiaid for. tin,' 
 proiK'rty should lie presented to the City of Yonkers, providing 
 tliat tile city shall consent to assume tlieir proper care in per- 
 jietuity. 
 
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 At a meeting of the Association held April 10, 1891, Charles E. 
 Gorton was requested to visit the quarry at Barre, Vermont, where 
 the granite- work for the Monument was being prepared, and report 
 on the progress and character of such work. This mission was per- 
 formed to the complete satisfaction of the Association — Mr. Gorton 
 reporting that the stone and the workmanship were excellent. 
 
 At this meeting it was determined to appoint a Dedication Com- 
 mittee, and Colonel William L. Heermanee, J. Irving Burns, John 
 C. Shotts, Judge Matt. H. EUis, and James V. Lawrence were ap- 
 pointed by the President as such committee. The contributions 
 had reached $11,061.62. 
 
m^ 
 
THE TOP STONE. 
 
 STATUE OF THE COLOR-BEARER. 
 
 This noble figure measures ciglit feet to the top of the caji, and 
 eleven feet to the top of the eolor. It veiy appropriately surmounts 
 the Monument. 
 
 It was sculptured from flue statuary-gTanite at Ryegate, W-ruiout. The 
 Color-Bearer stands with cannon and balls at his feet, and is in the act of 
 drawing his sword to defend the flag. The position is natural, the expres- 
 sion strong. 
 
 The patriotic women of Yonkers furuished the money to pay for this 
 statue, and mostly by dollar subscriptious. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Arrival of the Bronze Statues and Gtranite-Work — Their 
 Approval — Laying of the Corner-Stone — The Erection. 
 
 ON Juue 1, 1891, the four bronze statues for the Monument 
 arrived in Yonkers from Chicago, where they were cast ; and 
 they were stored in the basement of the First Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 On June 2, the granite statue of the Color-Bearer reached Yon- 
 kers, on the Hudson River Railroad, from Ryegate, Vermont, where 
 it was executed. Two of the Executive Committee spoke for an 
 ordinary truck to remove it to Manor Hall Grounds, but when they 
 discovered that it was billed at four tons they changed their plan. 
 
 On Thursday evening, Juue 4, a meeting of the Association was 
 held in the basement of the Church to view the statues. By invi- 
 tation, Alfred Jones, James R. Brevoort, Arthur Parton, and Cap- 
 tain W. H. Brownson, U. S. N., were also present. After the most 
 careful and critical examination there was but one opinion, and 
 that was one of entire and emphatic approval. 
 
200 Y(LXKKI{S IX rilE KKliKLLIoy. 
 
 At this meeting the resignation of Charles R. Otis as Treasurer 
 was accepted, and John W. Oliver, who for some time had been 
 acting as Treasurer, was elected to fill the vacancy. 
 
 LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE. 
 
 The cornei'-stone of the Monument was laid with simple though 
 impressive ceremonies on Manor Hall Grounds, on Saturday after- 
 noon, June 27, 1891, at five o'clock. 
 
 The members of the Monument Association assembled in the 
 office of the Board of Water Commissioners to make the final 
 arrangements for the ceremony. Thomas McVicar produced the 
 copper box he had made for the corner-stone. The several articles 
 provided were deposited in the box, and it was hermetically sealed 
 with a soldering-iron in the presence of the Association. 
 
 Kitching Post No. 60, Grand Army of the Republic, Vice-Com- 
 mander Augustus Kipp in command ; John C. Fremont Post No 
 590, Grand Army of the Republic, Commander Galusha B. Balch 
 in command; and the Fourth Separate Company, National Guard 
 of the State of New- York, Captain John I. Pruyn in command, 
 formed a hollow square about tlie foundation. A vast concourse 
 of people filled the grounds and streets, while all the windows 
 fronting on the grounds were occupied by interested auditors. The 
 Star-Spanglod Banner proudly waved from the flagstaffs of Afanor 
 Hall and several of the surroundin.ir l.uiMiii'^s ; iiiid the wliolr pre- 
 sented an inspiriting and imjiosing scene. 
 
 PrtH'isoly at five o'clock, the Monument Association, tollowed Ky 
 M.ivor Millward find tlic Coininou Council, several of our resi- 
 
ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT. 201 
 
 deut clergy, City Judge Thayer, School Commissioner Eudolf 
 Eickemeyer, Water Commissioner John C. Shotts, William Allen 
 Butler, and other representative citizens, marched into the hollow 
 square. 
 
 Colonel William L. Heermance, Chairman of the Committee on 
 Dedication, directed the services. Rev. Dr. Alvah S. Hobart, pastor 
 of the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church, opened the proceedings 
 with an appropriate prayer. Music by Harvey's Band followed. 
 
 John W. Oliver announced the contents of the box as follows : 
 The Declaration of Independence; Constitutions of the United 
 States and of the State of New-York ; Political Register, containing 
 the names of those at the head of the National and State Govern- 
 ments; New- York World Almanac for 1891; New- York Tribune 
 Almanac for 1891 ; American Coins of 1891 ; Charter of Yonkers ; 
 Annual Reports of the City Officers ; Rosters of Soldiers who left 
 Yonkers to fight for the Union, of the two Grand Army Posts, of 
 the Fourth Separate Company, and of the Yonkers Veteran Na- 
 tional Guard; Names of the Monument Association; Minutes of 
 the Association and of the Dedication Committee; Contract for 
 the Monument ; List of Contributors to the Monument Fund ; Dr. 
 Cole's Bicentennial Address ; Programme of Depew Night ; New- 
 York City and Yonkers papers ; Programmes of Memorial Services, 
 1888, 1889, 1890 and 1891 ; Engraving of Manor Hall; Annual Mes- 
 sage of Mayor Millward; Grand Army Button; Loyal Legion 
 Button ; List of Yonkers Chm-ches and Pastors ; Sanitary Code of 
 Yonkers ; Last Printed Report of the Board of Education ; Rules 
 and Regulations of the Gi'and Army ; Engraving of James Stewart, 
 upon which was recorded the fact that as master-mason he superin- 
 tended the laying of the corner-stone ; and Postal Card containing 
 
202 YONKKRS IX THE UF.BELLION. 
 
 the call of the mectiiif^ of the Monument Association to lay the 
 corner-stoue. 
 
 President Go) toil's Afhiress. 
 
 Mr. Gorton was theTi introduced, and said : 
 
 The ceremonies of to-day are brief and simple, Ijecause fittinj:: 
 services will soon be held on the occasion of the dedication of the 
 Monument ; and it seems unnecessary to hold two elaborate cele- 
 brations so close together for substantially the same purpose. 
 
 It has, however, just been suggested that it would be proper for 
 me to say a few words at this time when we are near the consuni- 
 mation of our efforts, when we are able to mark the time within 
 which will be completed a memorial worthy of our city, and, more 
 to the purpose, worthy to commemorate the bravery and loyalty of 
 the heroes who fought to save the Union. 
 
 The last of the material necessary to complete the work was ex- 
 pressed from Vermont, on five cars, on the 24th of this month, and 
 ought to be here within two or three days. Unless very improbable 
 delays and difficulties arise, the Monument will be finished within 
 the next twenty days, and will be dedicated the latter part of July. 
 A long time has elapsed since this Monument was begun, but it could 
 not be pushed more rapidly, and we confidently ht)i)e that wlien 
 you see the completed work you will be convinced that we have 
 well and faithfully discharged the duties imposed upon us. 
 
 Although \\ir Civil War riidcd long ago, there was never a time 
 more appropiiatf than llif present to rear testimonials to the sol- 
 diers and sailors who fought to preserve the Union, when nioiiu- 
 jnents are being roareil to lionor tliose wlio were (•(inspieuous for 
 
ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT. 203 
 
 trying to destroy it. A section of the country is calling for school 
 and other histories that shall write down a wicked Eebellion as a 
 struggle for liberty, and that shall elevate its leaders on the pedes- 
 tals of heroes. 
 
 Time does not change facts. The war was an infamous Rebel- 
 lion, seeking to destroy the best of governments, and its leaders 
 were traitors and rebels. I do not believe that sectional animosi- 
 ties, should be kept alive ; neither do I believe in the effort to per- 
 petuate the memories of those who were conspicuous only for their 
 efforts to dismember the Nation. Patriotism will not suffer the 
 names of the men who fought for the South to be written above 
 those who fought that the Union might live. 
 
 This Monument we are about to erect will, we trust, be more than 
 a history. It will commemorate the valor of the defenders of their 
 land. It wiU also inspire with patriotism those who are to come 
 after us. Long hence it will look down on men with hearts as loyal 
 and arms as strong as they who went forth to battle from '61 to '65, 
 and who, if need be, will dare as much for their country. 
 
 May the Monument that is to rise on this foundation ovei'look, 
 for all time, a loyal, united, peaceful people ; and now, in the name 
 of the Monument Association, by its authority, and in its behalf, I 
 lay this corner-stone, the first stone of the Memorial which is to be 
 dedicated to the Soldiers and Sailors of Yonkers who fought to 
 save the Union. 
 
 Rev. A. A. Lings, pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 
 pronounced the benediction, three volleys were fired by the Fourth 
 Separate Company, and the corner-stone was declared formally 
 
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204 TOXKEItS IN THE liEBELLIOK. 
 
 laid. At intervals during the ceremony National tunes wei-e flayed 
 by Hai-vey's Band. 
 
 THE ERECTION. 
 
 It is proper to state here that the granite-work for the Monument 
 arrived in Yonkers on tive cars on June 30, but, owing to un- 
 avoidable delays, the erection did not begin by (leorge H. Mitchell 
 and the workmen employed by him until July 16, after which there 
 was no delay. As block was placed upon block, the beauties of the 
 design, the stone, and the workmanship became apparent. Expec- 
 tations were high, but they were more than realized as the work pro- 
 gressed. On Tuesday, July 21, at twelve o'clock, the Color-Bearer 
 was placed in position. On July 23 the Monument was completed 
 to the entire satisfaction of the Association and the people, and 
 Mr. Mitchell was paid in full on his contract. 
 
 It is worthj' of note, that in the accomplishment of this work 
 no accident occurred. When it is stated that the stones handled 
 weighed from two to fourteen tons each, the skill of Mr. Mitchell 
 and of A. Thompson and his sons of Woodlawn, who assisted him 
 will be readily understood. "I have erected a groat many monu- 
 ments," said Mr. Thompson, "but I never erected one where the 
 stones were so large, and yet so uniformly good." The Executive 
 Committee were so well pleased with the manner in which Mr. 
 Mitchell completed his contract, that they united in the following 
 just tribute: 
 
 To Whom It May Concern : 
 
 As members of the Executive Committee of the Yoiiktrs Soldiers' niul Sailors' 
 Monument Association, we wisli, iiersonally and eoUeetively, to rommeud the 
 
EEECTION OF THE MONUMENT. 205 
 
 integrrity of character, courteous deportment, and artistic taste of George H. 
 Mitchell. 
 
 He placed his services at oui- disposal for a consideration far below their actual 
 value. He has given us more than his plans promised, and a work of greater ex- 
 cellence than we had any reason to expect. His artistic designs, the consummate 
 skill he has shown in their development, and his affable bearing, have greatly 
 assisted us in the erection of a Monument that stands as an eloquent tribute to 
 heroic men who faced the enemies of the Union, and is a permanent adornment 
 to our city, surpassing the expectation of critics and eliciting the admiration of 
 beholders. 
 
 Yonkers, September 17, 1891. 
 
 J. W. Oliver, 
 Chables E. Gorton, 
 William L. Heermance, 
 J. Irving Burns, 
 Joseph F. Daly. 
 
 As it was in the heat of midsummer, and owing to the absence of 
 several members of the Association and other citizens whose pres- 
 ence was desired, the time of dedication was deferred to Thursday- 
 afternoon, September 17, at half-past three o'clock. 
 
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THK MU.M-.MENT ASK KNCLHSIRE. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE DEDICATION. 
 
 Geeat Concoukse of People — The Decoeations — The Peoces- 
 siON — The Music — The Oration — The Original Poems — The 
 Unveiling — The Dedicatory Address— The Naval Salute 
 — Imposing Seevices and Histoeic Day. 
 
 THURSDAY, September 17, 1891, will long be remembered with 
 pleasure by the citizens of Yonkers, for upon that day the 
 Monument was dedicated. The glories of early autumn marked 
 the festal day. The skies were flecked with fleecy clouds, through 
 which the glorious sunlight streamed upon the city ; the air bore 
 the delightful flavor of Indian summer. It was an ideal day for 
 the grand event — a day which suited exactly the members of the 
 Monument Association and thousands of others anxious for favor- 
 able weather. The Committee on Dedication had requested Hon. 
 Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, to send a National 
 vessel to fire the salute. He promptly and graciously complied, 
 and the great war-ship Boston lay at anchor off the city. The citi- 
 zens of Yonkers showed their patriotism by displaying flags and 
 
210 YOXKEKS IX THE HEliKLl.loX. 
 
 drapery from their stores, factories, ami residences; they came out 
 in gi-eat numbers to witness the dedication exercises; and, although 
 those in the streets about Manor Hall Grounds were densely 
 crowded together, they preserved their good nature, and good 
 order was the result. 
 
 While no efforts were made to mark the occasion by an elaborate 
 parade, the Grand Army Posts, and the Separate Companies of the 
 National Guard of New- York State, which were invited by the 
 Yonkers Posts and the Fourth Company, combined with the en- 
 tertaining organizations, presented a fine body of men, and gave 
 the lovers of a procession something that deserved and received 
 their admiration. 
 
 At the Monument the exercises went off with astonishing facility, 
 and not a fault occurred in any of the details. So prompt and so 
 businesslike were the proceedings, that hardly an hour and a half 
 of time was consumed. The presiding officer, the orator of the 
 day, the reciters of tlie poems, the clergymen, and all who partici- 
 pated in any way in the exercises of the afternoon, proved by their 
 performance to have been well worthy of selection. 
 
 In view of the very large concourse of people, estimated as high 
 as 20,000, and the character and intricacy of the programme, it 
 was a matter of general congratulation that everything worked so 
 smoothly, and that there was not a mistake from beginning to end. 
 In every waj' the occasion was a great one. 
 
 IIIK I'KOCKSSIOX. 
 
 At Imlf-past two o'clock tlic jirocession formed on (ictty Sijuai 
 1.1 South iJioaihviiv, un.liT the command of (iran.l Marslial .loh 
 
THE DEDICATION. 211 
 
 Peutreath, of Kitching Post, with the following Aides : Thomas 
 Oliver, of the Fourth Separate Company ; Colonel E. J. Mitchell, 
 and William H. Fisher, of Kitching Post ; Charles Von Leliva, of 
 John C. Fremont Post ; G. W. Bard, Dr. E. F. Brush, Oliver Dyer, 
 William Archer, John Dawson, Colonel Alfred Cooley, Milton Rath- 
 burn, D. W. Whitemore, and Colonel Henry Huss. 
 
 FIRST DIVISION. 
 
 Platoon of Police, under command of Sergeant McLaugliKn. 
 
 Grand Marshal and Aides. 
 
 Harvey's Yonkers Baud. 
 
 Marines and Sailors from the United States steamship Boston, with two batteries 
 
 of Gatling guns. Lieutenant Swinburne commanding. 
 
 Kitching Post No. 60, of Yonkers. Senior Vice-Commander Augustus Kipp 
 
 in command. 
 
 Farnswortli Post No. 170, of Mount Vernon, mth Sons of Veterans. Frank M. 
 
 Clark commanding. 
 
 Tarrytown Citizens' Band. 
 
 Ward B. Burnett Post No. 496, of Tarrytown, with Sons of Veterans. Harry J. 
 
 Parnell, Commander. 
 
 Cromwell Post No. 466, of White Plains. Edward B. Long commanding. 
 
 Charles Lawrence Post No. 378, of Port Chester. Charles Fox commanding. 
 
 Flandreau Post No. 509, of New RocheUe. James Ferguson, Commander. 
 
 Doane Post No. 499, of Brooklyn. David W. Lee, Commander. 
 
 Delegation from the Fourth Veteran Cavalry. 
 
 Colored Guards, and others. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION. 
 
 Officers of John C. Fremont Post No. 590, of Yonkers. 
 
 Haverstraw Band. 
 
 Edward Pye Post No. 179, of Haverstraw. General Ira M. Hedges, Commander. 
 
 MorreU Post No. 144, of Sing Sing. Sumner A. Smith, Commander. 
 
 McKeel Post No. 120, of Katonah. Edward Hitt, Commander. 
 
 Peekskill Drum Corps. 
 
 Abram Vosburgh Post No. 95, of Peekskill. George L. Hughson, Commander. 
 
 Fraternity of the Survivors of the Sixth Heavy Artillery. 
 John C. Fremont Post No. 590, of Yonkers. Galusha B. Balch, Commander. 
 
212 YOXKEJiS IX THE liEBELLIOX. 
 
 THIKD DIVISION. 
 
 Twenty-Fii-st Kejjimcnt Band. 
 
 Nineteenth Separate Company, National Guard of the Stat« of New- York, of 
 
 Poughkeepsie. Captain WiUiam Haubennestel In command. 
 
 David's Island Band. 
 
 Eleventh Separate Company, of Mount Vernon. Captain E. J. Kiudler 
 
 commanding. 
 
 Murray's Brass Band, of Yonkers. 
 
 Fourth Stparate Company, of Yonkers. Captain John I. Pruyn loninianding. 
 
 The procession started at half-past two o'clock, aud marched 
 through New Main Street to South Bi'oadway, thence northward to 
 Nortli Broadway, to Quincy Place, to Warburton Avenue, and to 
 Manor Hall Grounds, where the Veterans and Guardsmen took the 
 seats provided for them. 
 
 It was an admirable procession of about one thousand men. The 
 streets were crowded with people to see it go by, aud the paraders 
 encountered a continuous salute of cheers along the whole route of 
 the march. Good order was preserved throughout, and every man 
 in the long line conducted himself nobly. 
 
 DEDICATION. 
 
 Exercises on Manor JIall (honiuJs. 
 
 The formal dedicatory exercises were begun promptly at lialf- 
 past three o'clock, on Manor Hall Grounds. For hours beforehand 
 people were on hand to secure good positions for seeing and hear- 
 ing, and a very animated scene was presented. The grand stand 
 against Warl)urton Building was occu]tied by fully one thousand 
 j„.,,pl,._ the West Point Band iiiid tlic chorus ..f alioiit t\v<. Iiuii- 
 
THE DEDICATION. 213 
 
 dred singers occupying the middle portion. At the extreme front, 
 in the center, was the speakers' platform. 
 
 In front of the grand stand were benches occupied by the Grand 
 Army Veterans, the National Gruardsmen, and the sailors from the 
 ship Boston. A space around the Monument was kept clear, for 
 convenience at unveiling. 
 
 There was a dense mass of people around the outskirts of the 
 grounds, on the sidewalks, and in the adjoining streets. All avail- 
 able windows, porches, balconies, and housetops in the vicinity were 
 occupied. At the west of the grand stand several immense Ameri- 
 can flags were hung, partly protecting the occupants from the warm 
 rays of the sun in the western heavens. About the speakers' plat- 
 form a few large and handsome plants, well placed, contributed 
 their beauty and grace to the occasion. 
 
 Concert hy The West Point Band. 
 
 Before President Gorton opened the exercises, the West Point 
 Military Academy Band gave a concert. Theii" playing was of a 
 high order, and their instruments were superb. The harmonies 
 were rich, the tones lovely; and the great audience listened with 
 pleasure. The leader was Charles E. Moscow. Programme of the 
 concert : 
 
 1. Overture — " Dichter und Bauer " Suppe 
 
 2. Selection from " Attila " Verdi 
 
 3. Waltz — " Wiener Boa-Bons " Strauss 
 
 4. " Traumereien " Schumann 
 
 5. Galop — " Alanen " Hertel 
 
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214 YOyKERS IX THE UEBELLIOS. 
 
 The Opeuiuf/ Address . 
 
 After the concert the great audience was called to order, when 
 President CTorton delivered the following opening address: 
 
 More than thirty years have passed since the great Q,\\\\ War be- 
 gan and the first call for troops was issued. During the early years 
 of the war our respected fellow-citizen, John T. Waring, was Presi- 
 dejit of the village of Yonkers, and aided and encouraged by his 
 patriotic zeal, the in-oniiiieiit men of the town and village came 
 forward to give their support in favor of the Union. 
 
 At a hastily assembled town-meeting, seventy-five men volun- 
 teered to go to the war — the first Yonkers Companj^ commanded 
 by Captain Charles H. Smith. Through the four succeeding years 
 the village respomled nolily with men and means to carry on 
 the war. 
 
 We have assembled to-day to dedicate this Monument to the men 
 of Yonkers who, dui-ing that storjny period, fought to save the 
 riiion. This ^Monumciit is enipliatii-ally the people's tribute to loy- 
 alty. The individual subscriptions for it have ranged from $l,Or)0 to 
 three cents, and through entertainments given in its aid thousands 
 have contributed to the success of this enter j>rise. 
 
 We have collected and expended over $11,000. We shall soon 
 pulilisli an illustrated History of Yonkers in the Civil War, ami 
 there are other things necessary to finish our work. We need 
 $2,000 for the.se purpo.ses, and trust your generosity to pr<)viile a 
 fitting t'lid for wliat has lieeii so well begun. 
 
THE DEDICATION. 215 
 
 Wlien the applause that ensued at the close of the address had 
 died away, President Gorton proceeded to announce the various 
 features of the progi-amme. 
 
 The Opening Prayer. 
 
 After a suitable overture by the Band, Rev. Alexander B. Carver, 
 Rector of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, offered the fol- 
 lowing prayer : 
 
 O God who art the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings 
 and Lord of lords, the Almighty Ruler of Nations, we adore and 
 magnify thy glorious name for the great things which thou hast 
 done for us. We render thee thanks for the goodly heritage which 
 thou hast given us, for the civil and religious privileges which we 
 enjoy, and for the multiplied manifestations of thy favor toward 
 us. Grant that we may show forth our thankfulness for these thy 
 blessings by living in reverence to thy Almighty dominion and 
 power, by reliance upon thy mercy and goodness, and by obedience 
 to thy righteous laws. 
 
 Preserve, we beseech thee, O Lord, the blessings of peace to this 
 country, restore them to nations deprived of them, and secure them 
 to all the people of the earth. May the kingdom of the Prince of 
 Peace come, and, reigning in the hearts and lives of men, unite 
 them ill holy fellowship, so that theii* only strife may be, who shall 
 show forth with greatest zeal the praises of him who hath loved 
 them, and made them kings and priests unto God. 
 
 We implore thy blessing upon all in legislative, judicial, and ex- 
 ecutive authority, that they may have grace, wisdom, and under- 
 standing, so to discharge their duties as most etfectually to promote 
 
216 YONKEUS ly THE liEJIKLLlOX. 
 
 thy glory, the interests of true religion and virtue, the safety, honor, 
 and welfare of this State and Nation. 
 
 We thank thee that thou didst inspire the hearts, that thou didst 
 direct the wills, of the brave men whose heroic deaths we commem- 
 orate to-day. Thou art our gi-eat defense in every righteous cause. 
 Let thy fatherly care be ever with the soldier and the sailor who 
 offer themselves a willing sacrifice for their country's good. And 
 (\i> tliou (lirc<-t lis ill our generation in all our ddings with tliy most 
 gracious I'avor, and further us with thy continual help, that in all 
 our works liegun, continued, and ended in thee we may gloiify thy 
 holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life. We 
 ask this in the name of him who, when we pray, taught us to say : 
 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom 
 come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this 
 day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive 
 those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but 
 deliver us from e\al, for thine is the kingdom and the jiower and 
 the glory for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 A chorus of two hundred voices, under tlic direction of Robert 
 G. Jackson, sang " Hail, Columbia," witli liand accomjianiment, and 
 a fine volume of tone was produced. Among the singers were the 
 most talented amateur vocalists in the city. 
 
 J'hi' OidliiDt. 
 
 lion. Oiiaihio i;. i'ottcr, tlic orator of the day, was llu'ii intro- 
 leed. and spoke as follows: 
 
THE DEDICATION. 217 
 
 3Ir. President and Members of the Yonkers Soldiers'' and Sailors^ 
 MonHment Association : 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen — It is most fitting that this dedication 
 should occur on the anniversary of the battle of Antietam, the first 
 great battle in which the Confederate Army of invasion was de- 
 feated and driven back, and by which it was made certain that, at 
 whatever sacrifice of life and treasure, the American Union must 
 and would be preserved. 
 
 This Monument commemorates the sacrifices of freemen, citizens 
 of Yonkers, who put life and property at hazard in support of our 
 Union and Government in a most important and decisive ci'isis in 
 our country's history. 
 
 The importance of the service is to be estimated, like all human 
 action, by results effected, and in view of difficulties under which 
 rendered. Let us, in the brief time allowed by the duties of this 
 hour, endeavor to estimate justly this service. 
 
 A minority — less than one third — of the States of the Union 
 proposed to break up and destroy our Government at their own 
 will, and without regard to the rights of the majority of the States 
 and their people. 
 
 Our Union was formed by the deliberate action and determina- 
 tion of the people of all the original States, after experiences under 
 the Confederacy, which was but a voluntary association and coop- 
 eration of the States, without central authority acting directly 
 upon the citizen, to which direct allegiance and obedience were due. 
 
 The Constitution provided for the indefinite and continued exist- 
 ence of the National Union through unbroken and endless succes- 
 
218 YOyKKIiS IX THE UEliELUON. 
 
 sion of legislative, executive, and other oflBcers, all whom it placed 
 under most solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend this Con- 
 stitution. It gave to this Government aU the means by an army 
 and navy, and power to support these by taxation, and all other 
 means requisite for maintaining, perfoi-miug, and exacting as one 
 of the nations of the earth all National obligations and duties, the 
 regulation of foreign commerce and of commerce between the 
 States, and all power to maintain peace and levy war with all the 
 resources of the country. 
 
 This Constitution contained no provision looking ti) its termina- 
 tion, or to the dissolution or termination of the Union. No seed of 
 moi-tality was pennitted within it. 
 
 After due acceptance and ratification by the several States, the 
 National Government, thus complete, entered upon, and for more 
 than seventy years exercised, its great powers and functions, 
 acting directly upon aU the citizens of the Republic, demanding 
 and receiving from them loyalty and obedience, and in return 
 securing to each and every State and its people a republican form 
 of government, exemption from disturbance, either from otlur 
 States or from the outside world, exercising all the powers of na- 
 tionality among the nations of the earth, and securing to the people 
 of every State peace and self-government at home, and considera- 
 tion and respect throughout the world. No nation ever performed 
 for its people its great duties of protection and security more bene- 
 ficially than these were performed by this Nation from the adop- 
 tion of the Constitution until attonptcii secfssion. 
 
 Our Ifrritory, oiii;iuiilly liinitc<l by tlie Mississippi on the West, 
 :iii(l by the tliiity-liist ii.ir.ill.l n.-rth latitude «m the South, had 
 been exteniied uiidiTllie Nalioiiiil I'uioii till our eoast-lineuiM.ii the 
 
THE DEDICATION. 219 
 
 Atlantic and the Gulf reached southward to the Eio Grande, and 
 our National domain included and embraced the body of this North 
 American continent between the thirty-second and forty-ninth par- 
 allels on the Pacific, and the twenty-sixth and forty-fifth parallels 
 on the Atlantic — more than three times the area of the country 
 at the adoption of the Constitution. 
 
 Twenty-one new States within this National domain had been 
 added to the Union, each with all the powers, rights, and duties of 
 the original States, and each organized, created, and advanced to 
 Statehood under and by the Union itself, upon the security of 
 permanent protection in self-government as provided in the Na- 
 tional Constitution and organized in the whole structure of the 
 Government. 
 
 Our population had increased during the Union from about 
 4,000,000 to 32,000,000; and our commerce had advanced to the 
 first rank among the nations. 
 
 It cannot be denied that the people of these States had enjoyed 
 a growth, prosperity, happiness, and security in self-government, 
 from the adoption of the Constitution to the attempted secession, 
 without a parallel among nations during the same period. 
 
 A patriot statesman of one of the seceding States, than whom no 
 brighter star has shone in the galaxy of great men she has con- 
 tributed to the country, the late Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, 
 declared before the Legislature of his State and before the country, 
 on the eve of secession, and in hope of preventing it, — that the 
 condition of the people of that State within the Union was fitly 
 symbolized by the happiness and security of the first parents of 
 our race in the garden of Eden. Nor did this declaration estrange 
 the affections or confidence of his State. She intrusted to him, 
 
220 YOXKEKS IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 more than to any otluT, lioi- guidance through the darkness of 
 secession, and he guided her footsteps and those of her wayward 
 sisters in their first return to light, life, aiid lilit-rty in a iireservcd, 
 restoi'ed, indissoluble Union. 
 
 But notwithstanding the Union of tliese States was organized as 
 a perpetual and indissoluble Government; and notwithstanding 
 the obligation to continue the exercise of its gi-eat powers of pro- 
 tection and security in self-government for the people of all the 
 States had increased with eveiy extension of its ten-itory, and been 
 renewed with the admission of each new State to the Union, until 
 the people of thirty-four instead of thirteen commonwealths de- 
 pended for security in tlicir power of self-government upon the 
 faithful performance and exercise of the obligations assumed by 
 the Union toward the people of every State, in return for their 
 submission and direct allegiance, created and made jierpetual in 
 becoming members of the Union; and notwithstanding the un- 
 equaled security and liapidnrss of the people of the States under 
 the Union; — there lia<l been put forward by subtle statesmen in 
 the Southern States the deadly tlnory, fatal if acquiesced in to the 
 continuous life of the Union, that each State could at any time it 
 might elect withdraw or secede from the Union in the exercise of 
 its inherent rights as a State. 
 
 This theory was .sustained by sulitle arguments by cniiniMit stat*'s- 
 mcn, and pfi'sistmlly taught tlin.ii.<,di tin' Smith foi- niorr tlian a 
 generation, it had gained general, though not universal, accept- 
 ance in that part of tiii' I'nion. Tlie general jirosjierity, progress, 
 and hajtpiiiess enjoyetl by the people of ail the States within the 
 Union had, however, offered no opportunity or temptation to the 
 section in wliieh it was entei-taine(l to aet upon tliis llieory. 
 
THE DEDICATION. 221 
 
 At the adoptiou of the Constitution, and for many years after, it 
 cannot be doubted that it was the general expectation and hope 
 that the system of slave labor prevalent in the Southern States 
 would in due time be superseded, and would disappear. The 
 determination in that instrument, of a date before which the 
 importation of slaves might not be prohibited, and the great 
 dedication by Virginia of vast territory to free labor in the then 
 Northwest ceded by her to the Union, place this fact beyond 
 question. 
 
 The great stimulus, however, given to this system of slave labor 
 by the cotton-gin, and the vast material interests of the slave States 
 dependent upon the production and supply of cotton to the world 
 by the only system of labor then available and adequate in those 
 States, arrested and postponed, if they did not change, this ex- 
 pectation and willingness of the South, that in due time the sys- 
 tem of slave labor would be superseded. 
 
 It cannot be doubted that at the time secession was resolved upon 
 and attempted, a large part, if not a majority, of the people of the 
 slave States had come to believe that their system of labor and the 
 vast interests then dependent upon it, as well as the structure of so- 
 ciety which this system had created, would be safer from disturbance 
 or overthrow under a government of their own, in which this sys- 
 tem of labor prevailed, than they could be in the Union, in which 
 free labor was rapidly becoming, if it had not already become, the 
 most powerful factor. 
 
 It may be admitted that the leaders of public opinion in the se- 
 ceding States, and the people of those States led by them, by whom 
 secession was resolved upon and attempted, were actuated by the 
 purpose to provide better security for those States and their system 
 
 26 
 
•2-22 YOSKEBS IX THE liEliELlAOS. 
 
 of labor and society tliaii tlicy believed could be enjoyed witliiii 
 the Union. 
 
 But they took no account of the calamities and desolation which 
 secession must bnng upon the other States of the Union, nor 
 of the rights of the people of those gi-eat States north of the Ohio 
 which had become, since its formation, members of the Union, 
 and justly relied for perpetual freedom of commerce by sea upon 
 the Mississipi)i and its tributaries, all the navigaVile waters of 
 which were within and part of their own country. 
 
 It cannot be claimed for those who led secession, that they were 
 animated by the same spirit which sustained the greatest son of the 
 South and of Virginia, wlicii he led and suffered with the citizen 
 soldiery from all the original States, upon the battle-fields of the 
 North as well as South, in the struggle for independence ; or which 
 sustained him and his compati'iots through the long twilight of the 
 Confederacy, to the clear light and solid ground of the Constitution. 
 
 One day of the patriotism, embracing the whole country, which 
 animated Washington and his army. North and South, in that strug- 
 gle, iiervadiiig and animating the seceding States, would have furled 
 every secession Hag, dissolved the armies of the Confederacy, and 
 returned those States to their places within the Union, to adjust 
 peacefully theii' grievances there, to the end that the rights of 
 every State 1)C jiresei'vod, and the advance of free constitutional 
 self-govcniiii.iit \n- lint liiihlcrcd or endangenMl within tlie boun- 
 daries of tlic Kt'iiulilic. 
 
 Secession, so far as ac<'oniiilislied, confionti'd tlie National rnioii 
 with diflficulties and dangers from wliicli it niiglit w.ll have been 
 expected to be exemjit by its founders, but against and for which 
 it is <li11i«-ult to see liow tliey .'ould have iirovide<l givatcr safe- 
 
THE DEDICATION. 223 
 
 guards, or greater powers of overcoming them, within their scheme 
 of free constitutional government resting upon and supported by 
 self-governed constituent States. 
 
 It created a crisis in our history and Government second in dan- 
 ger to none which had before occurred or can hereafter occur. If 
 the war for independence had failed, it could have been but for a 
 season. The colonies, animated with the purpose of self-govern- 
 ment, could not long have remained under the yoke of a Gov- 
 ernment three thousand miles distant. If the adoption of the 
 Constitution had failed when crowned with success, the Union 
 would have been postponed till continued suffering under the Con- 
 federacy would have made too clear to be doubted by the people of 
 any State the necessity for a National Government operating di- 
 rectly upon the citizens of every State, with powers adequate both 
 for its own preservation and for securing each State peace and self- 
 government within its own territory. But if, after seventy years 
 of progress and happiness under the Constitution, this Government 
 should fail to be able to protect its own life and continue the exercise 
 of the powers and duties for which it had been created, and with 
 which it had been intrusted by the people of all the States, not only 
 would its own dissolution be accomplished, but all hope for the per- 
 manence and extension of constitutional liberty and self-government 
 upon this continent, under the scheme devised by Washington and 
 his compatriots, would be at an end also. The success of secession 
 would of itself demonstrate to the loyal States and to the world 
 that oiii- Union, so suflficient for the exercise of National powers 
 and duties with other nations, lacked the power of cohesion and 
 self-preservation in a dissension between the States of the Union 
 themselves. If this Union, cemented by the ties of a common 
 
224 YuyKEltS IN HIE UKhKI.IAOX. 
 
 struggle for independence, by the experiences of the Confederacy, 
 and by seventy years of progress and happiness under the Constitu- 
 tion, could iKiw be (lisiiitegi-ated at the "will or passion of a minor- 
 itj' of the States, there could remain no hope that any scheme of 
 united Government could be devised undeV which free constitu- 
 tional self-government could be continued and extended upon tliis 
 continent. 
 
 Secession accomi)]isheil would not only remove from the Union 
 the .seceded States, but, by establishing the i-ight of each State to 
 withdraw at will, would destroy the tie of direct allegiance from 
 the citizen of every State to the General Government, upon which 
 any Union must necessarily depend for efficiency and permanence, 
 and make impossible any Union between the States not exposed at 
 all times to destraction at the caprice or passion of a minority of 
 the States or a single State. 
 
 Secession, therefore, menaced the Nation with de.struetioii of the 
 Government, and, if successful, made impossible any Union or Gen- 
 eral Government created to secure the same gi-eat ends. 
 
 The powers of the National Union had been found anijile for 
 maintaining peace and conductimr war with the whole resources of 
 the country with the outside woild. IWit the test of unity and 
 power to which secession called the Union was greater tluin that 
 of any or all foreign wars in which the Nation had been or could 
 be engaged. The work now made necessary was the i)reservation 
 of the Uniou and the <'oii(|uest iiud icstoraliou of the seceded States 
 ti> tlieir plares within il. will: the lii^hts of tlie several States unim- 
 paired, save as the necessary coiidurt of tlie war whieli secession 
 compelled might change them. 
 
 Thi" resources, Itotli of life and treasure, i-e.iuired for tliis work 
 
THE DEDICATION. 225 
 
 were to be drawn wholly from the States aud people remaining 
 steadfast within the Union, while every life to be sacrificed on 
 either side was the life of a citizen of the Republic, and all trea- 
 sure and property to be expended or destroyed in the contest upon 
 both sides were part of the Nation's wealth. Not only were all re- 
 sources of the seceded States withdrawn from support of the Union, 
 but these were to be combined and hui'led with unsurpassed energy, 
 courage, and persistence against the Union arms and territory. 
 
 Past experience of the Government afforded no adequate guide 
 to the Executive and Congress through the obstacles and dangers 
 with which they were surrounded. The great trust imposed upon 
 the Executive of the Nation and those who shared with him the ex- 
 ecutive administi-ation, by their oaths of office, to pi'eserve, protect, 
 and defend the Constitution of the United States, was fully com- 
 prehended by him and them. It imposed the one duty to preserve 
 the Government in its integrity throughout the tenutory of the 
 Union, in exercise of all its powers, as defined in the Constitution 
 and laws made pursuant thereto. Never were men called to fulfil 
 gi'eater trusts. How well they did this, a reunited happy Nation 
 composed of this great family of forty-four free self-governing 
 States, each and aU rejoicing in the strength of the Nation as 
 their own strength, sufficiently attests and shall forever attest. 
 
 The part performed by the people of the loyal States, in the field 
 and upon the sea, in the army and navy, with whom those whose 
 services this Monument commemorates were identified and bore 
 an honorable part, is more pertinent to this hour. The services 
 commemorated by this Monument were rendered to preserve and 
 perpetuate the Union of these States, which is the equal protection 
 of the people of all the States. They were rendered by the actors 
 
22(i YOXKEKS IX THE HF.UKLLIOX. 
 
 •■(juiilly t'(ir tliosi' witli wliom they contended as for themselves and 
 their children. It was a service in which brothers and kindred 
 must meet eacli ()ther in deadly combat on the field, — the most 
 trpng and painful patriots can be called to render for their country. 
 Without military organization or a trained soldiery with which to 
 meet this crisis, it would have been impossible for the Government 
 to preserve and transmit the Union but for the sacrifices and 
 services willingly and i)r()nii>tly rendered l»y the citizen soldiery. 
 It was essentially ii vuluntcer service, in which citizens left busi- 
 ness, home, and family to jx'rform paramount duty to country. 
 Such service could only be rendered by a soldiery who understood 
 the issue and the object for which they contended. Not a soldier 
 fought or fell in the Union army or navy whose arm was not 
 nerved liy love foi- American liberty as secured by the Constitution 
 and I'liioii, and by the convii-liou that if the riiioii i)erishe(l Ameri- 
 eaii liberty would perish with it. Educated in tln' si-liools of their 
 several States, citizens of tliese States and of the I'liitcd States, 
 they had experienced and knew what American lil)erty was: those 
 born elsewhere, who had tasted the liberties of other lands, had 
 come also to know the value of American liberty and American 
 citizenship by contrast as well as experience. They all — every 
 Ciiioii soMicr — knew that this liberty rested for security and ].er- 
 iiiaiic-iicc upon the I'liion and Constitution; knew that liy these 
 only thfir liiicrtics and rights were enlarged to the whole territory 
 of tile Kepublic instead of being confined, as before the Union, to 
 the States in which they lived. They were many of them merchants 
 and men of Imsiness, and knew well the difference between a single 
 State and the Kepultlic as the field of their enterprise and labor. 
 Some of tliciu iiad lircii int. Tested or .■nii.l..vrd in foreign roni- 
 
THE DEDICATION. 227 
 
 mei'ce, aud all of them, whether from field, factory, or couuting- 
 room, kuew what the regulation of commerce, interstate and for- 
 eign, by thirty-four States, or an indefinite number of competing 
 self-protecting Republics, would import for themselves and their 
 descendants; knew the importance of having the navigable water- 
 ways and avenues of commerce between their own markets, and to 
 the ocean, within the territory of their own country. They were 
 men whose hopes of success and happiness for themselves and their 
 children were dependent upon peace between the States, and with 
 the nations of the earth, secured by a power adequate to command 
 and maintain it ; and they knew well that such peace could not be 
 provided for through thirty-four or any other number of dis- 
 united, separate States or Republics, each advancing its own in- 
 terests without regard to the interests of the others, but could only 
 be assured through the maintenance of the Union with the powers 
 of peace and war delegated by the Constitution, resting upon and 
 supported by all the resources of the country through the direct 
 allegiance of every citizen to the Republic. 
 
 There was not a soldier of the Union army who would have drawn 
 his sword against the rights of the people of the seceding States 
 under and within the Union. They fought only for the preserva- 
 tion of the rights and liberties of the citizens of all the States, North 
 and South, under the Constitution and Union.. They fought and, 
 when need be, died for the preservation of American liberty as 
 created and secured under the American Constitution and Union. 
 
 This liberty, under which the citizen is secured by the power of 
 the Nation in self-government in his own State, in freedom with 
 the rights of a citizen throughout the whole country, freedom of 
 the seas, and protection as an American citizen throughout the 
 
•2-2H YOSKERS IS THE UEUELI.IOS. 
 
 world, l)y wliicli tlie power of all the States becomes the strength 
 of the weakest and of eveiy citizen of the Republic, the soldiers 
 and sailors whose services and sacrifices this Monument commem- 
 orates had determined, with their great Commander-in-Chief and 
 the whole army and navy of the Union, should not perish from the 
 earth. It will never perish so long as a free people shall appreciate it. 
 It has been said by a foreign statesman, whose oinuious are 
 entitled to the highest respect, that, since the war for the preser- 
 vation of the Union, "the old and respectable doctrine of State in- 
 dependence is now no more than an archaeological relic, a piece of 
 historical antiquarianism." This statement, notwithstanding its 
 high source, will not be accepted by American statesmen, north or 
 south of the Potomac. Since the adoption of the Constitution, the 
 right of " State independence" in the exercise of powers delegated 
 therein to the General Government has not had any existence ex- 
 cept in minds infected with the heresy of secession. Such right, as 
 it existed under the confederacy, was exchanged and merged by the 
 people of each State, by the adoption of the Constitution, in the 
 vastly greater right of exercising such delegated powers jointly 
 with the people of all the States, not merely within and upon- their 
 own States, but upon and throughout the whole Union, in the whole 
 firld of its powers. Xcitlifi- the adoption of tlif <'(>iistitiitioii nor 
 IIr' preservation of it aiul tlic Union lessened oi- can lessen iiny 
 just rights of the States. Tlie adoption modified by eidarging and 
 forever securing them by the power of the Nation. The jireserva- 
 tion liy the .services we now conniii'iiiorate ami siieh as ilie-e jilaeed 
 beyond doiiht oi- denial the ability of this Union to maintain its ex- 
 istence and the full exercise of its great powers for the protection 
 
THE DEDICATION. 229 
 
 and perpetuation of self-go vei-iiment, under difficulties greater than 
 it can ever again encounter. 
 
 The services we commemorate have placed beyond further ques- 
 tion the paramount duty of every citizen to maintain the Union 
 against all dissensions or dangers, and have furnished the highest 
 example of duty and allegiance to which citizens can ever be called. 
 It will never again be doubted that maintenance of the Union is 
 maintenance of the rights and liberties of the people of the States, 
 and that the most valuable of all State rights is that the Union be 
 maintained under the Constitution forever. 
 
 As attempted secession for the first time iu our history called into 
 exercise the whole powers of the Union, under difficulties which 
 can never be surpassed, so the triumphant exercise of these powers 
 under such difficulties has forever put an end to doubt of the Na- 
 tion's ability and paramount duty to preserve and transmit these 
 powers undiminished forever, unless modified as provided in the 
 great charter by which they were created and delegated. It will 
 never again be contended by statesmen iu any part of the country 
 that this Union is less capable than any other government to com- 
 mand and enforce obedience and support from every citizen. 
 
 Nor can the exercise of these great National powers endanger the 
 liberties of the citizen within the States. They were given, and 
 can be exercised, only for the protection and security of these 
 liberties. Their strength is the strength of protection surrounding 
 each citizen within his own State. These vast powers can be held 
 and exercised only by those elected by the people of these States 
 from their own numbers and to give effect to their will. The 
 people of the States, therefore, have, and will forever have, through 
 
230 YONKKUS IX THE ItEBELLION. 
 
 their ropreseutatives and elected or ai)ip()iiit('(l agents, control of 
 these powers and their exercise. 
 
 Nor is there danger that intentional injustice be done to any 
 part or section of the Union. By the living, active participation of 
 every State and of every citizen in enactment of its laws and in the 
 whole conduct of the General Government, the just interests and 
 needs of every section are made known to all, and the interest of 
 the representatives of each section to make no precedent of injustice 
 which may aften\^ard excuse injustice toward their own, makes cer- 
 tain and constant the vigilance of all to permit no injustice toward 
 any State or section. " Do unto others as ye would that they should 
 do unto you," thus becomes the rule which the interest of all sec- 
 tions demands, and must enforce, in this gi-eat brotherhood of States 
 toward one another under the Union. Temporary and slight de- 
 partures from it there may be, but they cannot be more lasting 
 than the tvaiisicnt s('<'tional aiiiliition or passion which may cause 
 them. 
 
 Fellow-citizens, what advancement possible for man under hu- 
 man government may not be accomplished by the people of these 
 States iinder this Union, in obedience to this rule incorporated and 
 made self-executing in every fiber of its structure! 
 
 flow, now, shall we estimate the services on land and sea by 
 which this Union was })reserved and perpetuated .' Wc may esti- 
 mate them l)y results already accomplished. Not only was the dis- 
 integration and destruction of the Union ])rev('nted, but its perpetual 
 unity and the power and duty to maintain it have been established 
 so that they are not likely again to be doubted in this Repul)lic. 
 Instead of disintegi-ation and secession, ten new States have already, 
 since these were attcnijited, been added to this great brotlierhood of 
 
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 States, each becomiug part of our great National life and power, in 
 possession and enjoyment forever of the rights and liberties which 
 the Union confers. 
 
 But that conquest is greatest which conquers the hearts not less 
 than the arms of the enemy. Fi'om the people of the conquered 
 States comes equal evidence of the value of the services by which 
 the Union was preserved. Conquered to self-government within a 
 preserved indissoluble Union, whose protection and benefit they 
 shall forever enjoy equally with their conquerors, it is safe to say 
 they will never again be found among its enemies. The only cause 
 which estranged them temporarily from the Union was abolished 
 in the necessary progress of the war — abolished that the Union 
 might live. Henceforth, no interest not in harmony with the 
 Union and the great objects for which it was created shall sepa- 
 rate these or any other States from its love. 
 
 Whatever estimate we may place upon the services which saved 
 and perpetuated this Union, will be increased by posterity so long 
 as they shall enjoy its benefits and blessings. As we now build 
 higher monuments to those who achieved independence, so shall 
 they build higher and whiter to those who secured and transmitted 
 American liberty in a pi'eserved indissoluble Union. 
 
 Enthusiastic applause and cheers were given when the orator 
 concluded. "America" was then grandly sung by the chorus, 
 with band accompaniment. 
 
232 YOSKEKS IX THE BEBELLION. 
 
 " The Men Who Saved the L'niun.^ 
 
 The next feature of the programme was the recitation of the 
 following poem, written for the occasion by S. R. Whitney, of Yon- 
 kers. Subject, " The Men Who Saved the Union." Rev. Thomas 
 P. McLoughlin, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, was 
 the reciter. His dear, ringing voice and self-possessed manner, 
 combined with tlie patriotic sentiments of the excellent poem, pro- 
 duced a tine eflfeet. He was enthusiastically applauded, and the 
 more telling sentiments wore received also with demonstrations of 
 appreciation. 
 
 Now draw aside the cnfoldiiif.' veil 
 With bended brow and reverent liand. 
 
 And let a thousand voices hail 
 The symbols of a rescued land. 
 
 The bronze and fi^ranite raised to fame 
 Shall waste before the touch of years, 
 
 But deathless e'er shall be the name 
 Of those who dried the Nation's tears. 
 
 Descend, ye spirits of the brave, 
 And walk onc^> more the solid earth, 
 
 Behold the land your valor <rave 
 The impulse to a nol)ler birtli. 
 
 No longer is the idle boast 
 
 Of Freedom on lli(> lips of men : 
 
 Now we are free from coast to coast. 
 A frreater, better race than then. 
 
THE DEDICATION. 233 
 
 The cry of Freedom, dying, di-ew 
 
 A mighty host from every side. 
 And thousands, who to rescue flew, 
 
 In shock of battle nobly died. 
 
 O holy brotherhood of death ! 
 
 Thy honor none can take away — 
 Nor slander tarnish with her breath 
 
 The fame ye gathered in that day. 
 
 It circles all the grateful sphere, 
 
 And men of every chme and race 
 Look to our land as doubly dear, 
 
 As Freedom's sm-e abiding-place. 
 
 The Nation's heroes sleep in peace. 
 
 We reap the hai-vest of their toil, 
 And year by year the rich increase 
 
 Is garnered from a fi-uitful soil. 
 
 The ground is holy where they sleep. 
 
 And every mound an altar where 
 A loyal, grateful people keep 
 
 The flowers of a Nation's care. 
 
 No crowned monarch's sceptered hand 
 
 Has raised a tribute to theii' name, 
 But love has reared, throughout the land. 
 
 The stately shafts which speak their fame — 
 
 The annals of our country's pride, 
 
 So written in their deaths and lives, 
 That hateful envy ne'er can hide 
 
 The matchless glory that survives. 
 
 They left their plowshares in the field. 
 
 And thrust aside all selfish strife ; 
 They nerved theii' brawny arms to wield 
 
 Their swords, to save the Nation's Ufe. 
 
234 YOSKKRS IX THE l<i:iiKI.LI(jy. 
 
 Through days of toil and nights of pain, 
 When darkness lower'd on ev'ry side, 
 
 And bullets fell as drops of rain, 
 They saw grim death about them ride. 
 
 Great Lincoln's hand was at the helm. 
 And steered the staggering ship of state ; 
 
 No storm could such a heart o'erwhelm — 
 In ilanger he was doubly great. 
 
 Thine not the splendid scroll of fame, 
 Where blood alone makes glory bright, 
 
 Where virtue hides her head in sliame, 
 And wrong is victor over right. 
 
 A priceless boon to us ye gave : 
 
 Ye made the Nation true and strong. 
 
 Ye broke the fetters of the slave. 
 
 And crushed a most oppressive wrong. 
 
 O noble race, it is not least 
 Of all the gloi-ies of thy past. 
 
 That love should be tlie great high priest 
 To make thy woes a bond so fast. 
 
 terraced town ! thou wast not last 
 To send thy heroes to the field. 
 
 Their willing steps were firm and fast. 
 Their loyal hearts with courage steeled. 
 
 They bravely fought on land and sea. 
 
 Nor ever turned their backs to foes ; 
 They earned thy love by honoring thee 
 
 Wlioro fell the battle's thickest l)lows. 
 
 The tnmiping of your marching feet, 
 Tlif wild liuiTah and deafening cheer. 
 
 The piercing life and ilnim's loud beni 
 No more shall start the listening ear. 
 
THE DEDICATION. 235 
 
 No Roman ever more deserved 
 
 Tbe plaudits of imperial Rome 
 Than those brave men who freely served 
 
 Our State, and made it Freedom's home 
 
 Deserve of us, for duty done, 
 
 For dangers brav'd through toil and stiife, 
 For many battles duly won, 
 
 When on them hung the Nation's life. 
 
 We '11 ever cherish those who fought, 
 
 And to oui- children tell wdth pride, 
 Of all the good devotion brought 
 
 When for the Union patriots died. 
 
 Unveilinff the Monument. 
 
 John W. Oliver next escorted Miss Susie Leeds Heermance, 
 daughter of Colonel Heermance, to the Monument; and that young 
 lady unveiled the granite pile, with the assistance of Thomas 
 Oliver, Infantry, and Samuel Lynt, Artillery, of Kitching Post; 
 and of David A. Winans, Cavalry, and Moses H. Lester, Sailor, 
 of John C. Fremont Post. "Keller's American Hymn" was played 
 by the band during the ceremony. As the flags were removed 
 from the Monument, and it stood out in all its beauty, unveiled, 
 there was hearty and long-continued cheering and applause. 
 
23tj YOXKEUS IS THE KEHELLIOS. 
 
 The DedUutinfi Address. 
 
 President (xorton tln'ii formally (loflir-ated the Monnnii'ut, as 
 follows : 
 
 In all ages iiioiiiuiunts have been erected to commeiiiorate tli.- 
 valor of the soldier oi' tlie achievements of the eoiuiueror. They 
 have usually marked a single battle-field oi- honored the memory of 
 only one man. The memorials of the citizens of oui" Republic are 
 in honor of citizens like themselves, who became soldiers in a holy 
 cause, and fell for their country, or returned to the peaceful walks 
 of civil life in a land saved liy their valor. Li\nng or dead, glorified 
 liy the cause of Innnaiiity foi' wlii.'li they fought, they dwell with 
 the immortals. They are all alike heroes in the memory of a 
 grateful Nation. 
 
 In our affectionate remembrance there is no distinction of rank. 
 They stood together as the greatest and noblest army that ever rose 
 from the bosom of a Republic to do battle for her defence and for 
 the cause of human freedom. The great leaders of that mighty 
 host have sunk to rest, and the rank and file that remain are grow- 
 ing old, and are swiftly pushing on toward the ford where Lincoln 
 and Farragut, Sheridan and Sherman, crossed the river. All too 
 soon the rear-guard will liave crossed, ami have left heliind their 
 memory and their work. 
 
 To their memory, and to immortal remendiranee, and to that 
 work in its completeness, we consecrate this Monument. This As- 
 sociation and the people of this fair city dedicate this Monument 
 to the memory of "the men of Yoiiker.s who fought \o save the 
 rnion." 
 
THE DEDICATION. 237 
 
 We dedicate it in the solemn belief that under the protection of 
 the God of our fathers, whom Lincoln trusted with unwavering 
 faith, liberty and union inseparable shall be more enduring than 
 this granite pile. 
 
 Tacitus said to the wife and daughter of Agricola, that, like the 
 face of man, images of brass and marble were perishable, and he 
 bade them remember the qualities of mind and soul, for they 
 were everlasting. 
 
 We have built to commemorate the patriotism and valor of those 
 brave souls who went forth prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice 
 of life for their country. They saved the Union and abolished sla- 
 very. The one included the other. Lincoln said in his second 
 annual message to Congress, " In giving freedom to the slave 
 we assure freedom to the free." 
 
 And so we dedicate this Monument to the men of Yonkers who 
 nobly bore their part in the endeavor to make freedom as broad as 
 our beautiful laud ; to cement a Union that shall never be broken ; 
 to secure peace that shall never be interrupted by domestic discord 
 or fratricidal war. 
 
 As Mr. Gorton ceased speaking, the band struck up the tune of 
 "Old Hundred," and the Stars and Stripes were raised to the top 
 of the Manor Hall flagstaff by Timothy Murphy, of Kitching Post, 
 and John H. Lawrence, of Fremont Post, as a signal for the naval 
 salute. On the instant the great guns of the Boston thundered out 
 their salutation. Just as they were fired, two doves flew over the 
 Monument — regarded as an omen of peace. Colonel Matt. H. Eflis 
 proposed three cheers for the flag, and they were given with a will. 
 
238 YOKKEBS IK THE REBELLION. 
 
 ^^ Jfo)/or Our Loi/al Men 
 
 The followiug pocin, written for the occasion hy ^Irs. Jennie L. 
 Lyall, was recited by Mrs. Eleanor Georgen. Tlic fiiir recitationist 
 was neatly attired in white, and looked charming, and her reciting 
 was replete with art and grace. Her voice can-ied well, and she 
 received hearty ap])lause from an admiring audience. 
 
 Peace reigns — our glorious land is free ! 
 
 In dust lies Slavery's chain ! 
 Our honored flag floats proudly now 
 
 From bounding main to main. 
 
 The fields with flowers are bright, to-day, 
 Where once our soldiers trod, 
 
 And harvests rich for years have waved 
 Above the blood-stained sod. 
 
 On hist'ry"s page are written names 
 
 Of gallant men and true. 
 And thousands lie unknown, unsung. 
 
 Who wore the loyal blue. 
 
 Our noble dead ! Witli front of steel 
 They met the traitorous blow ; 
 
 And m this earven monument 
 Our gratitude we show. 
 
 With iiearts tliat swell with thankful joy 
 
 We these glad tributes bring. 
 And l:iy the offerings at his feet. 
 
 Anil hail tlie siililier king! 
 
THE DEDICATION. 239 
 
 For sweet is the sound of the fife and the drum, 
 
 And sweet is the martial air, 
 And merry the tramp of the marching feet, 
 
 When peace reigns everywhere. 
 And we love to gaze on the trappings of war, 
 
 And to hear the cannons' blare. 
 And smile as the uniformed troops pass by, 
 
 When peace is everywhere. 
 
 Then honor our loyal men and true ! 
 
 And rear the pile on high ! 
 And ask God's blessing on the land 
 
 For which they chose to die. 
 
 O Father of Nations, we offer Thee praise! 
 Dii-ect and preserve us. Thou Ancient of Days ! 
 The land of our love, oh, uphold it in right, 
 May Freedom and Equity govern with might. 
 
 The torch that is blazing in Liberty's hand, 
 may its pure beams so illumine the land, 
 That Virtue and Knowledge shall lead men to see 
 That wrong is enslavement, and right liberty. 
 
 May the years, as they mount on the ladder of time, 
 See progress advancing to far heights subUme, 
 And mankind unshackled, and free from the stain 
 Of cruel oppression for greed and for gain. 
 
 And the Union of States, oiu' Nation's great plan. 
 May it teach us the lesson— man's fealty to man ! 
 Each loyal to each, and one motto for all : 
 " United we stand, divided we fall." 
 
 "The Star-Spaugled Bauuer" was then admirably suug, with 
 baud accompaniment. 
 
240 YOyKEl{,'i IX THE UEBELLKjy. 
 
 The Closiuf/ I'raifer. 
 
 Rev. l)i-. .liiliii lit'id, pastor of the First Presbyterian Chureli, 
 then oflfered the following? jirayer: 
 
 Almighty and Eternal God, we desire now t(» niidcr unto thee 
 our hearty tribute of praise and thanksgi\nng for the divine favor 
 which has marked this hour and these exercises. We tliank thee 
 for the brightness and the beauty of the day ; for the kindness and 
 generosity which have attended its plans; for the success and 
 the pleasure which have crowned them all. 
 
 Lord, thou wast the overhanging Rock that sheltered our land 
 in tlie time of storm, tlie strong Refuge to which the people fled. 
 Still tliou alone ait ( Jod, in whom is all our trust. And we Imnibly 
 pray that around this Monument, which we have erected to com- 
 memorate the names and deeds of our own illustrious and honored 
 soldiers and sailors who fought to save the Union, and because 
 we also love liberty and would be courageous in the right — we 
 humlily pray that around it there may gather and play those in- 
 fluences which will make it a perpetual lesson to our children and 
 our children's children unto the remotest generation of the com- 
 munity in the midst of whieh it is reared. Reminding us of the 
 great cost at which the Nation preserved its purchase, may it teaeli 
 us ever to guard her institutions with all holy zeal, and to iiold 
 our liV)erty as more than our life. 
 
 And as in this same way the preserved iui>ulilii' .v. lywh.i-e 
 honors (he memory and enshi-ines \\u- jialriotism of her sailors 
 
THE DEDICATION. 241 
 
 and soldiers who fought her battles, we pray that everywhere her 
 people may be a li\ing monument to advocate her union and her 
 greatness, to advance her usefulness and her glory. 
 
 And now may the presence and the peace of Almighty God, with 
 all plenty and prosperity, prevail among you and throughout the 
 length and breadth of this land so long as time shall last. Amen 
 and amen. 
 
 William J. Bright gave the "taps" by bugle, and then the 
 Fourth Separate Company fired three volleys in perfect unison. 
 As the gi-eat, happy crowd dispersed, the baud played a lively air. 
 
 IN THE EVENING. 
 
 The Yonkei's Corinthian Yacht Club honored the occasion by a 
 grand lantern parade on the Hudson. The boat-house was bril- 
 liantly illuminated by nearly three hundred showy lanterns and 
 thirty electric lights. Forty boats of various classes were in line, 
 bearing one thousand lanterns. Admiral A. J. Prime was in com- 
 mand, and the boats moved at half-past eight o'clock. 
 
 The Club House was crowded with spectators. The procession 
 went to Ludlow, thence to Grlenwood, and then back to the anchor- 
 age. Torches were burned on the yachts, and there was a fine dis- 
 play of fireworks off the Club House. The big war-ship Boston 
 had its powerful search-lights in operation, and saluted the fleet 
 with fireworks and long blasts from her deep whistle. The parade 
 was half a mile long. It was viewed by thousands of people along 
 
242 YONKHHS IS THE RKltELLION. 
 
 the rivei'-frout. After the jtarado daueiug ami refreshmeuts were 
 enjoyed in flu- lioat-liunse. 
 
 Never in the liistory of the Palisade Boat Chib did its boat-house 
 look prettier than it did on that night, when a reception and dance 
 were given in honor of the dedication. Flags of all nations were 
 prettily draped about, and lanterns wei"e conspicuous. 
 
 The guests began to an-ive at eight o'clock, and shortly after that 
 time two hundred and fifty had assembled. The boat-room was 
 used for dancing, all the boats having been taken out. The music 
 was furnisheil l>y luomlters of the West Point Band, led by Charles 
 E. Moscow. 
 
 The officers of the Boston present wen; : Lieutenant W. A. Ed- 
 gar, Ensigns F, J. Haeseler and C. F. Hughes, Pajnuaster I. G. 
 Hobbs, and Assistant Engineer E. H. Scribner. 
 
 The handsome costumes of the ladies, the conventional dress suits 
 of the gentlemen, and the uniforms of the naval officers made a 
 pleasant contrast. Dancing was kept up until al)ont midnight, 
 when refreshments were served in the ineefiug-rooin on the second 
 floor. 
 
 The committee, who deserve credit for the success of the affair, 
 was composed of Edwin M. Jackson, C. P. Marsden, Jr., (". 1. I5el- 
 knap, E. E. Bashford, Carroll Moore, Hall B. AVariug, an<l P. B. 
 Rossire. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE ASSOCIATION'S WORK COMPLETED. 
 
 The Enclosure — The Memorial Volume — All Obligations 
 Promptly Met. 
 
 ON the morning after the dedication the Executive Committee 
 issued a circular appealing for two thousand dollars to meet 
 contingent and dedicatory expenses, the cost of inclosing the 
 Monument, &c. Within two hours after the circular was mailed 
 the following letter was received : 
 
 Mr. John W. Oliver, Treasurer. 
 
 My Dear Sir: In answer to an appeal from the Executive Committee of the 
 Monument Association, received this morning, I take great pleasure in inclosing 
 herewith a check toward the completion of the Monument. 
 
 I desire in addition to say that, as a citizen of Yonkers, I owe to your committee, 
 and to yourself especially, a debt of gi-atitude of wliich this check is a weak 
 expression. The debt remains uncanceled. 
 
 Your persistent and unwearying efforts, overriding every discom-agement fi-om 
 your warmest friends, have resulted in the dedication, yesterday, of a most beauti- 
 ful tribute of respect to the memory of those to whom we owe so much. 
 
 As a work of art it is an ornament to our city of which all may be proud. As a 
 sentiment it will be pointed to with respect in coming years by the descendants of 
 
244 YOXKEB.S IX THE KEBELLIOS. 
 
 those who clieerfully f^avc up their lives that our Republic might live iutaet and 
 undivided. 
 
 As a reminder to those of us who are left of the duty each owes to the community 
 in which bis lot is cast, it may, I trust, be of untold value. 
 
 Again, Mr. Oliver and gentlemen of the Executive Committee, I tliank you, and 
 tender to you my sincere congratulations in the well-earned reward of all your 
 labors. A Citizen of Yoxkers. 
 
 The elieek that accompanied thi.s highly coinplimeiitary letter 
 was for $1,000, being the largest iiulividiial subscription made to 
 the patriotic work — and a condition of the gift was, that the name 
 of the donor should not be published. In exactly one month from 
 the time the appeal was made for $lJ,000, the amount was more 
 than made up. 
 
 At a meeting of the Association held October 1.'), it was unani- 
 mously determined to abandon the plan of inclosing the Monument 
 with an iron fence, as had been contemplated, and to substitute 
 therefor a granite enclosure designed by Edwin A. Quick & Sou, 
 to correspond with the Monument. The Executive Committee 
 was authorized to contract for the work. Cost, about $1,000. 
 
 As T.Astley Atkins had completed his task as Historian, Charles 
 E. Gorton and .lolin W. Olivci- were appointed to edit and jirepare 
 the woi-k fcti-tlic )(rcss,aiiil the ExecutiveConimittee was authorized 
 to publish til.' huoU. It iiiorr tliaii |iai(l t'.-v its.-lf. 
 
 The entire expenses of the Association, inchnliiig tlir Moinuiicut, 
 the dedication, the enclosure, and the i)nl)lication of this Memorial 
 Volume, amounted to $1.5,000; and those intrusted with the respon- 
 sibility experience much .satisfaction in bt-ing alilc tn iccoid the 
 fact that every o1)ligation was jiromjitly met wiien it brcaiin' due 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 The Association — Its Officers and Principal C'ommittees. 
 
 Abrams, Miss Edna Wilson 
 Ackerly, Miss Alice 
 Aekerly, Geo. M. Bailey 
 Ackerman, Jolm W. 
 Ackerman, Mrs. John W. 
 Ackerman, William H. 
 Adam, Mrs. Thomas 
 Adams, George E. 
 Admirer of the Monument. 
 Affleck, Frank B. 
 Affleck, Miss Grace 
 Affleck, James 
 Affleck, Mrs. James 
 Affleck, James G. 
 Affleck, William 
 Affleck, Mrs. William 
 Agne, Henry 
 Aii-ey, Miss Florence 
 Airey, Miss Iva 
 Alexander, Miss Bertha 
 Alexander, Miss Grace 
 Alexander, James Stewart 
 Alexander, John W. 
 Alexander, Mrs. John W. 
 
 Alexander, Miss Marion 
 Alexander, Miss May 
 Alexander, Mrs. Robert E. 
 Allen, C. D. 
 Allen, WiUiam 
 Allison, Rev. Charles E. 
 Allison, Robert 
 Alton, Mrs. C. D., Jr. 
 Alton, Miss Mary Brace 
 Alvord, Joseph M. 
 Anderson; A. 
 Anderson, Albert 
 Anderson, Mrs. C. L. 
 Anderson, Miss Grace 
 Anderson, Henry M. 
 Anderson, Robert W. 
 Andrews, Mrs. Joseph, Jr. 
 Andrews, Mrs. Joseph, Sr. 
 Andrus, Hamlin J. 
 Andrus, Mrs. Hamlin J. 
 Andrus, John E. 
 Anstice, Mrs. Henry 
 Archard, Mrs. Eliza 
 Arcliard, Miss S. E. 
 
24(i 
 
 YOXKEIiS IN THE REBELLION. 
 
 Archbold, John D. 
 Archer, Henry B. 
 Archer, Mrs. Henry B. 
 Archer, Louis W. 
 Archer, Miss S. J. 
 Archibald, Andrew 
 Armour, J. O. 
 Armstrong, Miss Lulu 
 Armstrong-, Robbie 
 Arrowsmith, Mrs. 
 Atkins, T. Astley 
 Austin, Miss Eva 
 Austin, Miss Minnie 
 
 Backus, John 
 Bailey, Miss Fannie Strong 
 Bailey, Mrs. William N. 
 Baird, Henry M., D. 1). 
 Baird, Mrs. Heni-y M. 
 Baird, Miss JiUia F. 
 Baird, Jliss Margaret 
 Baker, Fisher A. 
 Baker, Mrs. Fisher A. 
 Baker, J. F. 
 Baker, J. H. 
 Balch, Miss Margaret A. 
 Baldwin, Mrs. C. W. 
 Baldwin, S. W. 
 Baldwin, William 1). 
 Baldwin, William H. 
 Baldwin, Mrs. William II. 
 Ball, Bertran 
 Ballard. Arthur 1). 
 Banker, Mrs. (Jeorge 
 Barclay, Charles G. 
 Barclay, Miss Florence A. 
 Barclay, Samuel 
 Barclay, Mrs. Saiiiufl 
 Barker, Byron 
 Barnard, A. 
 Barnes, Mrs. Jerome 1). 
 Barnes, Mrs. R. 
 Bartlett, Mrs. H. 
 Bashlord, Jlrs. Esther A. 
 Bates, ( "Larles P. 
 Baxter, Mi-s. A. M. 
 
 Beaudrias, Ali)honso J. 
 Beck, Miss Jlinnie 
 Beecher, Col. H. D. 
 Beemer, James G. 
 Beemer, Mrs. James G. 
 Behrens, Mrs. B. M. 
 Belknap, MLss Athenia A. 
 Belknap, Miss A. B. 
 Belknap, Mrs. A. J. 
 Belknap, Mi-ss Edith B. 
 Belknap, Ethelbert 
 Belknap, Mrs. Ethelbert 
 Belknap, Mrs. William H. 
 BeU, Mrs. A. 
 Bell, Miss Ida F. 
 Bell, Mi-s. J. Christy 
 Bell, Mrs. J. Harvey 
 BeU, Mrs. John T. 
 Benedict, Dr. A. C. 
 Benedict. D. 
 Bennett, Mrs. James 
 Bent, E. M. 
 Bereaved Mother. 
 Bernstein, J. S. 
 Berrian, John. 
 Berrian, M. L. 
 BeiTie, Mrs. M. H. 
 Beutler. William E. 
 Beutler, Jlrs. Wm. E. 
 B. H. 
 
 Blanchard, Col. B. W. 
 Blatzheim, Mi-s. Franz 
 
 Blauvelt, JIi-s. J. 
 
 Bloomingdale Brothers. 
 
 Blute, J. H. 
 
 Hogart, Mrs. R. W. 
 
 Holton, Miss Mary 
 
 Holza, Mrs. A. 
 
 Molza. Miss Bertha 
 
 Booth, Thomas E. 
 
 Howei-s. Henry M. 
 
 Bowei-s, Miss Libbie 
 
 Bowman, Mrs. H. 
 
 Boyd, John A. 
 
 Brady, John 
 
 Bragg, Miss Kni.na L. 
 
CON TBIBU TORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 247 
 
 Bragg, Mrs. H. T. 
 
 Butler, Miss Emilv AUen 
 
 Brennan, John P. 
 
 Butler, Ethan Plagg 
 
 Brennan, Mrs. John F. 
 
 Butler, Miss HaiTiet A. 
 
 Brevoort, Hem-y F. 
 
 Butler, Miss Helen Hays 
 
 Bright, Mrs. John 
 
 Butler, John Crosby 
 
 Brookmeier, Mrs. Charles 
 
 Butler, L. 
 
 Brogan, Mr. 
 
 Butler, LjTuan CoUms 
 
 Brophy, John 
 
 Butler, Miss Mareia Plagg 
 
 Brown, Miss A. G. 
 
 Butler, Miss Maiy L. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Charles P. 
 
 Butler, William Allen 
 
 Brown, Daniel 
 
 Butler, Mrs. Wm. Allen 
 
 Brown, Mrs. P. 
 
 Butler, William Allen, Jr. 
 
 Brown, Harold 
 
 Butler, Mrs. Wm. Allen, Jr. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Harold 
 
 Butler, William Allen 3d 
 
 Brown, G. W. 
 
 Bynon, Mrs. Charles P. 
 
 Brown, J. C. 
 
 
 Brown, Mrs. J. C. 
 
 Caddo, Mrs. Thomas 
 
 Brown, Mrs. J. H. 
 
 Cadwell, Mrs. A. E. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. John P. 
 
 CaUan, Miss M. J. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. William 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. John C, Jr. 
 
 Browne, Dr. Valentine 
 
 Campbell, John 0. 
 
 BrowneU, Mrs. A. S. 
 
 CampbeU, Miss MiUie 
 
 Brownson, Miss Caroline E. 
 
 Canapi, Joseph 
 
 Brownson, Miss Han-iet 
 
 Canapi, Mrs. Joseph 
 
 Brownson, Mrs. Willard H. 
 
 Canavan, Mrs. Vincent 
 
 Bruce, George W. 
 
 Canning, Mrs. Reginald 
 
 Bruce, Miss M. H. 
 
 Cannon, Mrs. James 
 
 Buckman, Mrs. C. M. 
 
 CanteU, Robert 
 
 Burehen, Bamet 
 
 Carey, John 
 
 Burgess, Mrs. David 
 
 Cai-penter, Miss Clara 
 
 Burnett, L. 
 
 Carpenter, Mrs. E. 0. 
 
 Bumham, Alexander 0. 
 
 Carpenter, Miss Fannie H. 
 
 Burnham, Mrs. J. W. 
 
 Cai-penter, Miss Julia E. 
 
 Burns, Mrs. Aphia 
 
 Carpenter, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 Burns, A. G. 
 
 Carr, Mrs. William 
 
 Bums, Arthur J. 
 
 Carroll, WiUiam 
 
 Bums, Miss Gertmde L. 
 
 Cash. 
 
 Bums, Mrs. Edward 
 
 Chadbourn, Mrs. John 
 
 Burns, Miss EHzabeth M. 
 
 Chamberlain, Miss P. G. 
 
 Burns, J. Irving 
 
 Chapin, Charles 
 
 Burns, William 
 
 Chapman, Charles 
 
 Butler, Mrs. Adelaide L. 
 
 Christie, George 
 
 Butler, Charles Henry 
 
 Chystrans, Frederick 
 
 Butler, Mrs. Charles Henry 
 
 Citizen of Yonkers. 
 
 Butler, Charles MarshaU 
 
 City Club. 
 
 Butler, Charles Terry 
 
 Clapp, Mrs. E. M. 
 
248 
 
 YONKEUS IN THE KEliELLIOX. 
 
 Clapp, Mrs. Howard 
 Clapperton, Miss 
 CLirk, Miss Alraira 
 Clark. Miss Kmiline R. 
 Clark, Lucius E. 
 Clark, Mrs. Salter S. 
 Clarke, J. A. 
 Clerkie, Patrick 
 Cleveland, Cyrus 
 Cleveland, Mrs. Cjths 
 Clune, Francis 
 Clune, Peter 
 Cobb, Miss Bessie 
 Cobb. MissC. Schuyler 
 Cobb. Mifis Carrie Otis 
 Cobl), Miss ( 'ornelia W. 
 Cobb, (ieorfre W. 
 Cobb, Miss Hazel 
 Cobb, Lyniau, Jr. 
 Cobb, Mrs. Martha C. 
 Cobb, Raffaelle 
 Cobb, Raffaelle, Jr. 
 Coclirane & Colquhoun. 
 Cochran, William F. 
 Coffey, John 
 Cole, Mi-s. Albert 
 Cole, Arthur Martin 
 Cole, ('larence Stewart 
 Cole. Rev. David, D. D. 
 Cole, Mrs. David 
 Cole, Frank 
 Cole, F. W. 
 Cole, J. Wyckoff 
 Cole, Mrs. J. Wyckoff 
 Coles, Mrs. A. Y. 
 Coles, Miss EUa J. 
 Coles, Miss EUa Y. 
 Coles, Mi-8. E. RussoU 
 Collins, Charles 
 Collins, Mrs. Charles 
 Collins, Mlss Mary Terry 
 Color Rearer. 
 Columbia. 
 Condon. .1. 
 
 Condon. L. R. & Sou. 
 Conklin, Mrs. ('luirles 
 
 Connell, E. 
 Conniff, P. J. 
 Connolly. Jliss Bertha 
 Constable, WilUani J. 
 Constable, WiUiam P. 
 Constable, Mrs. William P. 
 Cook, Miss Florence M. 
 Cook, Miss Fredericka J. 
 Cook, Frederick S. 
 Cook, Miss Isabel B. 
 Cook, Miss Mary 
 Cooley, George 
 Cooley, Henry 
 Coon, Fred 
 Cooper, Daniel J. 
 Cooper, Miss Emily L. 
 Cooper, Miss Helen E. 
 Cooper, S. F. 
 Cooper, Samuel Goodsell 
 Cooper. Samuel L. 
 Copcutt, Miss A. C. 
 Copeutt, Mrs. John 
 Copcutt, William H. 
 Corley, Rev. Charles R. 
 Cornell, Mrs. Jane E. 
 Cornell. Thomas C. 
 Corwin, WilUam F. 
 Cor win. W. H. 
 Costin, Edward 
 Costin, M. 
 Com-ter, James C. 
 Courtney, John T. 
 Courtripht, Theodore 
 Couzens, Matthew K. 
 Couzens, Jlrs. William S. 
 Cojme, J. 
 
 Coyne, Mrs. Mary D. 
 Cozzens, Charles L. 
 Cozzens, Mrs. Charles L. 
 Craig, Mi.'is Annie L. 
 Crandall, Mrs. I. H., Jr. 
 Crislield. Mr.-s. Charles R. 
 Crisfield. Mi.ss Edith 
 ("rosby, Mi-s. E. H. (Egypt) 
 Crosby. Mi.ss 
 Crowther, Mrs. Joim 
 
CONTRIBUTOBS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 249 
 
 C. S., Junior. 
 C. S., Senior. 
 Cummings, Frederick 
 Cummings, John Wesley 
 Curran, Mrs. F. A. 
 Curtis, Mrs. Alvin T. 
 Cutbill, Miss Amelia 
 
 Dailey, James 
 Daly, Mrs. George 
 Daly, J. 
 
 Daly, Joseph F. 
 Daly, Mrs. Joseph F. 
 Danforth, Mrs. C. D. 
 Daniels, Miss Beulah 
 Deane, Mrs. M. J. 
 Dee, Miss B. F. 
 Dee, Michael 
 Deitzel, August 
 Deitzel, Mrs. August 
 Delaney, Daniel 
 Delaney, R. 
 Dennerleia, John C. 
 Deviue, John 
 Devitt, John J. 
 Devitt, Mrs. John J. 
 Deyo, Andi-ew 
 Deyo, Mrs. Andi-ew 
 Deyo, PhiUp A. 
 Deyo, Mrs. Philip A. 
 Deyo, Miss 
 Dick, Mrs. M. E. 
 Dickson, Arthur A. 
 Dimock, Mrs. Giles S. 
 Diusmore, George E. 
 Dixon, John 
 Dodge, N. Dane 
 Dodge, Mrs. Nathan D., Jr. 
 Doherty, George 
 Doherty, Mrs. E. 
 Dolan, Patrick 
 Donoghue, Francis X. 
 Donohue, Mrs. Bernard 
 Douohue, John C. 
 Donzel, Miss Emily 
 Doolity, John 
 
 Doran, Mrs. D. A. 
 Doran, Miss May 
 Doren, Mrs. A. W. 
 Dorland, Miss C. K. 
 Dorney, John 
 Doty, Miss Ada L. 
 Doty, Leonard K. 
 Doty, Spencer C. 
 Doty, WiUiam H. 
 Doty, Mrs. William H. 
 Doyle, Albert 
 Doyle, Edward ElUs 
 Drinkwater, Walter A. 
 Dubois, Mi-s. Lewis 
 Ducros, Miss Reine 
 Duffy, 0. 
 
 Dunn, Miss Jennie 
 Dimn, W. 
 
 Dusenben-y, Mrs. Chas. R. 
 Dusenberry, Miss 
 Dutton, Mrs. Albert 
 Dykes, Mrs. James 
 
 East, John A. 
 East, Mrs. John A. 
 East, Miss Olive L. 
 Edgar, Mrs. Eleanor 
 Edgar, Wilham B. 
 Ehrenspeck, Hei-man 
 Eickemeyer, Miss Appel 
 Eickemeyer, Carl 
 Eickemeyer, Rudolf 
 Eickemeyer, Mrs. Rudolf 
 Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr. 
 Eifert, David 
 Ellen, Robert 
 EUis, Matt. H. 
 Ellis, Mrs. Matt. H. 
 Ellsworth, William W. 
 Eltiug, Miss Edith 
 Elting, Ezekiel J. 
 Elting, Mrs. Ezekiel J. 
 Eltiug, Miss Laura L. 
 Eltiug, Peter J. 
 Elting, Mrs. Peter J. 
 Ely, W. H. H. 
 
250 
 
 YOXKERS IN THE HEliELLION. 
 
 Embree, Mrs. John 
 Englehart, Georpe 
 Eschinann, Miss Elsio 
 Eschmann, F. W. R. 
 Eschmanu, Mrs. F. W. R. 
 Etheradge, Mrs. Jennie 
 Evans, W. 
 Everson, E. W. 
 Ewald, John 
 Ewing, Miss Beall 
 Ewing. James 
 Ewing, Miss Maria 
 Ewnng, Mrs. Thomas 
 Ewing, William 
 Eylers, Charles W. T. 
 Eylers, Miss Eva E. 
 Eylers, John 
 Eylers, John D. 
 Eylers, Winifred C. 
 
 Farrington, Benjamin W. 
 Farrington, Mrs. Emma L. 
 Fairington, Miss Jessie 
 FaiTington, Samuel L. 
 Fawcett, Mrs. Robert 
 Fechteler, Caspar 
 Ferguson, Miss Ethel M. 
 Ferguson, Miss Isabelle G. 
 Ferguson, John H. 
 Ferguson. Mrs. loliii H. 
 Fiedler. . I iiM us 11. 
 Fields. Aii.lnw ( '. 
 Fink, H. • 
 Fink, Mrs. John H. 
 Finnel, William 
 Fisher, Miss l.l.i K. 
 
 Fisher, (i !,'. W. 
 
 Fisher, Miss Lillian 
 Fisher, Miss Marion 
 Fisher, Miss R. L. 
 Fisher, Raymond P. 
 Fisher, WiHiam H. 
 Fisher, Mrs. William H. 
 Fiteh, Edward A. 
 Filch. Mi.ss Flonncr M. 
 
 Fitch, James S. 
 Fitch, Mrs. James S. 
 Fitch, Theodore 
 Fitzelle, Albert E. 
 Fitzelle, Calvin R. 
 Fitzelle, Francis A., Jr. 
 Fitzelle, Mi.ss Marion G. 
 Fitzgerald, C. H. 
 Fitzgerald, J. 
 Fitzgerald, John 
 Flagg. Mrs. Ethan 
 Flagg. Miss E. P. 
 Flagg, Miss L. W. 
 Flagg, Mrs. L. W. 
 Flagg, Miss 
 Flannery, Patrick J. 
 Flannerj', Sirs. Patrick J. 
 Flood. Mr.s. Mathias 
 Foerst, John 
 Foerst, Airs. John 
 Fogarty, Mrs. B. M. 
 Foley, D. 
 Foley, James 
 Fones, Miss Slaggie 
 Fones, Dr. Robert A. 
 Fones, Mrs. S. A. 
 Foote, Miss H. D. 
 Forsyth, B. A. 
 Forsj'th. Miss Fannie E. 
 Forsj^h, Miss Marion W. 
 Foster, Mrs. Atherton 
 Foster, Mrs. E. R. 
 Fo.ster, Willard 
 Fowler, Arthur Melville 
 Fowler, Miss Jennie A. 
 Fowler, Mrs. Peter U. 
 Frankenberg, Charles 
 Frazier, George 
 Frazier, Miss Lizzie J. 
 Frey. Mrs. B. 
 Friend. A (0) 
 Friend, A, Richmond, Va. 
 Friend, A Loyal 
 Friend, A True 
 Friend of the Cause. 
 Frost. W. T. 
 
GONTRIBUTOBS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 251 
 
 Fuhs, Mrs. Catharine 
 Fuller, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 Gadsby, Mrs. H. H. 
 Gale, Joseph C. 
 Garmbrandt, William 
 GaiTal)raiidt, William, Jr 
 Gan-ison, ;\Irs. Hyatt L. 
 Garrison. William fl. 
 Garnjost, Miss Edna 
 Garnjost, Frederick W. 
 Gaid, Theodore 
 Gault, Mrs. Eliza 
 Geagen, Mrs. William 
 Getty House. 
 Getty, Miss R. M. 
 Gibson, Mrs. J. 
 Gilbert, Mrs. J. F. 
 Gilbert, Thomas 
 Gilman, Theodore 
 Gingenbaeh, Mrs. 
 Gleason, D. 
 Glenwood Social Club. 
 Golding, Mrs. Henry 
 Goodale, Mrs. J. Warren 
 " Good, Will." 
 Gordinier, W. E. 
 Goi-man, L. 
 Gorton, Charles E. 
 Gorton, Mrs. Charles E. 
 Gorton, James T. 
 Gorton, Miss Jessie G. 
 Goss, George R. 
 Gouch, Frank B. 
 Gouch, William T. 
 Gould, Mrs. E. Sherman 
 Gould, Frank 
 Goiild, Jack 
 Gould, Miss Lizzie 
 Gould, Miss Susan 
 Graham, Mrs. A. 
 Graham, John 
 Graney, William .J. 
 Graves, Mrs. Walter 
 Green, Miss Ella 
 Greenhalgh, Mrs. Joseph 
 
 Greeuhalgh, Miss Mabel 
 Gregory, Michael 
 Grieve, A. 
 Grieve, D. 
 Grieve, W. 
 Grifflng, Mrs. A. 
 Grimmel, Mrs. H. 
 Guion, Mrs. H. G. 
 Gunn, Miss Nellie M. 
 Gwynn, Miss M. 
 
 Haas, Mrs. S. 
 
 Haight, Abram H. 
 
 Hale, J. W. 
 
 Hale, Thomas 
 
 Halliday, A. 
 
 Halliday, Mrs. A. 
 
 Halsey, Mrs. William L. 
 
 Hampson, Mrs. T. E. 
 
 Hanlon, Frank 
 
 Hanright, John 
 
 Harber, Miss EUa 
 
 HarteU, Richard 
 
 Hartshorn & Ingham. 
 
 Harvey, Mrs. James H. 
 
 HateheU, Harry 
 
 Hatfield, Miss Ethel 
 Hatfield, John G. 
 Hatfield, Mrs. John G. 
 Havemeyer, Mrs. A. A. 
 Havemeyer, Miss Hamet 
 Havemeyer, Mrs. John C. 
 Havey, Ambrose S. 
 Havey, P. H., Children of 
 Hawley, David 
 Hayden, Rev. R. M. 
 Hayes, Miss May 
 Hayward, Samuel 
 Hayward, Mrs. Samuel 
 Hazard, A. P. 
 Hazard, Mrs. A. P. 
 Hazard, Mrs. E. J. 
 H. B. 
 
 Head, Martin 
 Healey, Andrew J. 
 Healey, William J. 
 
YOSKERS IN THE UEliELLIOX. 
 
 Heertuance, Miss Georgie 
 Heermance, Miss rielon 
 Heernianci-. .Mi^~ .losic 
 Heenii;iiiii . Mi-~ K. L. 
 Heeriuaiici-. .Mis^ I'aulinc 
 Heerniancf, Miss 
 Heerniauce, William L. 
 Heerniance, Mrs. Win. L. 
 " Helping Hand.'" 
 Herlihy, Jlrs. John 
 Hermance, Mrs. R. M. 
 Hermans, Mrs. Joseph 
 Henneberger, Mrs. John 
 Henry, L. J. 
 
 Hi'pwortb, Miss Constance 
 Hci)\v(irth, Miss Gertrude 
 lli.-k.y. Miss Minnie 
 lli.'k.v. W. p. 
 Hi.ks. Henry 1{. 
 Hiers, WilUam F. 
 Higgins, Mrs. Arthur S. 
 Higgins, S. 
 Hill'. Mrs. A. 
 Hill. Miss S;irah J. 
 Hillli.nise,Mrs. M. T. (i. 
 H. M. M. 
 
 H.iar. Mrs. William 
 Hul,r. Bernard 
 11. .I,,-. Hans Moritz 
 IL.triiiMM, Mrs. G. 
 HolVman, Mrs.W. H. 
 Ilog.l. Herbert A. 
 Holioiiii, Miss Lilly F. 
 Holden, J. G. P.,andfaniily. 
 Holden, Miss Mai-y 
 Holder, Francis T. 
 Holme. William 
 Holt, Henry 
 Horton. (ieorge W., Jr. 
 H.ilcbkiss. E. H. 
 Houston. H. Alex. 
 ll,,u>l.,M. Mrs. K.Alex. 
 il<ni>tiin, Sam\icl 
 ll(iust(in. .Mrs. Samuel 
 Hover, Joseph 
 Howard. I{oliert H. 
 
 Hoy an. E. J. 
 Hojt, Colgate 
 Hubbard. C. T. 
 Hubbard, S. T. 
 Hubbell. Mrs. J. W. 
 Humason, Virgil P. 
 Humasou, Mrs. Virgil P. 
 Hunt, E. R. 
 Hunt, airs. E. R. 
 Hunt, James M. 
 Hurd, Mi-s. Asa 
 Huston, S. 
 Hut«hins, Waldo 
 
 Imhoff, Antony 
 In Memoriam. 
 In Memory. W. C. R. 
 Ipson, A. 
 
 Jackson, Edwin M. 
 Jackson, James H. 
 Jackson, Mrs. Robert G. 
 Jackson, S. J. 
 Jackson, William, Jr. 
 Jackson, W. H. 
 Jacobson, Lewis 
 J. B. A. 
 Jardine, Grace 
 Jardine, John 
 Jardine, Mrs. John 
 Jardine, Mabel D. 
 J., Mrs. C. B. 
 Jenkins. Charles 
 Jewell, Frederick E. 
 Jewell. Raymond A. 
 Jewell, Miss Sanih E. 
 Jewell, Stephen S. 
 John, Miss G. 
 Johnson, Alex. B.. Jr. 
 Johnson, A. H. 
 Johnson, C. W. 
 Johnson. John Q. A.. Jr. 
 Johnson, William C. 
 John.ston, Bernard E. 
 Johnstone, Joseph E. 
 Johnstone, Richard M. 
 
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 253 
 
 Jones, Alfred 
 Jones, Miss Louisa 
 Jones, WaiTen Arthur 
 Juut;, Mrs. E. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kaek. 
 
 Kaler, George H. 
 Kaler, Mrs. George H. 
 Kane, Miss Martha T. 
 Kane, WiUiam H. 
 Kearns, James J. 
 Keeler, Miss Adelie F. 
 Keeler, John H. 
 Keeler, Mrs. John H. 
 Keeler, John W. 
 Keith, Alexander 
 Kellinger, Miss 
 KeUock, Mrs. James 
 Kellock, Miss Margaret 
 Kellock, Mrs. Robert 
 Kellogg, Lewis 
 KeUogg, S. T. 
 KeUogg, William C. 
 KeUogg, Mrs. William C. 
 Kelly, James 
 Kelly, Lawrence J. 
 Kemphn, Miss A. 
 Kemplin, Miss C. 
 KempUn, Miss J. 
 Kennedy, James 
 Keppel, Frederick 
 Keppel, Mrs. Frederick 
 Keppel, Mrs. S. 
 Kerns, S. P. 
 Kerr, George 
 Ketcham, Mrs. D. H. 
 Ketcham, George E. 
 Ketcham, Mrs. George E. 
 Ketcham, Miss Lulu 
 Keyser, Hem-j- T. 
 Kiely, James 
 Kiely, Michael A. 
 Kiernan, John 
 Kilgore, Mrs. R. 
 King, Miss Mary Laura 
 
 King, Di'. Nathan 8. 
 King, Mrs. Nathau S. 
 Kuinan, Arthur P. W. 
 Kinnan, Mrs. A. P. W. 
 Kinnan, Morris Edgerton 
 Kinnan, Mrs. M. J. 
 Kipp, Mrs. Augustus 
 Kirchoil, Adam 
 Kirkwood, Mrs. A. O. 
 Kirkwood, A. S. 
 Kirkwood, Miss Nelhe 
 Kirkwood, Robert O. 
 Kirkwood, William R. 
 Kito, Feijiro 
 Klein, Christian A. 
 Knauff, Grant 
 Kniffen, Mrs. Adehne 
 Kurt. Adolph 
 
 Lally, Thomas J. 
 Lancaster, Mrs. James 
 Landy, James 
 Landy, John R. 
 Lane, D. E. 
 Lapham, Mrs. E. A. 
 Lasher, John K. 
 Lasher, Mrs. John R. 
 Law, Walter W. 
 Lawrence, Arnett Royce 
 Lawrence Brothers. 
 Lawrence, Mrs. C. E. 
 Lawrence, Mrs. J., In Me- 
 
 moriam 
 Lawrence, Harry A. 
 Lawson, Miss 
 Lawson, Miss Cornelia B. 
 Lee, Miss 
 Lee, Mrs. 
 
 Lee, Mrs. Thomas E. 
 Lee, Mrs. WUliam 
 LefflngweU, Miss Helen 
 LeifingweU, Miss Julia 
 Letiingwell, Mrs. Charles R. 
 Lent, WiUiam H. 
 Leppert, Joseph 
 Leslie, Willin.m 
 
254 
 
 YOKKEhS IN THE liEBELLION. 
 
 Lewis, John 
 Lewis, John, Jr. 
 Lews, Miss Rebecca 
 Lewis, Williau) 
 Light, Mrs. Robert B. 
 Linehaa, Miss Annie 
 Linehan, Jeremiah 
 Linehan, John 
 Littebrandt. Mrs. -loliii .1. 
 Locke, Mrs. Jolm J. 
 Loekwood, Arthur J. 
 Loekwood, Charles 
 Loekwood, Miss F. C. 
 Loekwood, Howai'd A. 
 Loekwood, Joseph A. 
 Loekwood, Mrs. Joseph A. 
 Loewenthal, Miss A. 
 Loewenthal, Myer 
 Loewenthal, Mrs. Myer 
 Logan, John 
 Logue, Barnard 
 Lohr, H. 
 
 Lonergan, Miss Lizzie 
 Lonergan, Thomas 
 Lonergan, Mi-s. Thomas 
 Lord, Howard W. 
 Lowerre, George H. 
 Loyal Girls of School C. 
 Loyal Women. 
 Loyalty. 
 LjTich, Thomas 
 Lyons, Mrs. Herman 
 
 Machin, Mrs. Sarah 
 Mackay, George D. 
 Maekey, Miss Telia 
 Ma<-k,"v, John 
 Ma.k..y. W. 
 Miickittenek. Mi-s. 
 Mail Mild Express, N. Y. 
 Mall.iii. Edwanl 
 Maiigiii, <'a]>taiM .lnhii 
 Many. F. Ileniiau 
 M.ips, KdwanlC. 
 Martin, Edward 
 Martin. (Charles H. 
 
 JIartin, Mrs. Cliarles H. 
 Martin, Mrs. C. E. 
 Martin, H. 
 Martin, James E. 
 Martin, Miss liose 
 Martine, Miss 
 Martling, Miss 
 Mellifont, Mrs. A. H. 
 Mercer, Mrs. ( 'harl.s T. 
 Mester, J. 
 Mickel, W. 
 Midehin, Andrew 
 Middlebrook, W. W. 
 Millbank, Mrs. Lsaac 
 JliUer, Hiram K. 
 Jliller, Jlrs. Joseph 
 JliUer, Mrs. W. 
 Milliot, Mrs. P. 
 Millward, James 
 Millward, Mrs. James 
 Millward, James, Jr. 
 Milne, Jlrs. John 
 Mitchell, ('. 
 Mitchell, Edward J. 
 Mitchell. Jlrs. (ieorge 
 Mitchell. Miss Mary E. 
 Mitchell, Michael F. 
 MofTatt, James 
 MolTat, John B. 
 Moller, William F. 
 Jlontague, Charles H. 
 Montague, 51 rs. Charles H. 
 Montgomery Club. 
 Monument Lot. 
 Mooney, Michael 
 Moore, Charles H. 
 Moore, Miss Edith 
 Moore, Mre. Herbert M. 
 Moore, Mrs. James, Jr. 
 Moore, Mrs. Thomas 
 Moore, William 
 Moran, James 
 Morgan, William M. 
 Morgan. Mi-s. William M. 
 Morosini, Giovanni 1'. 
 Morrill, G. 
 
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMEI^ 
 
 Morris, Mrs. Edmund Y. 
 Morris, John H. 
 Morris, Mrs. John H. 
 Mon-is, Mrs. Thomas 
 Morrison, Thomas 
 Morrissey, Thomas F. 
 Morse, Miss Edith William 
 Morse, G. Livingston 
 Morse, Mrs. Gilford 
 Mosher, Mrs. Charles W. 
 Moshier, Philip 
 Mott, Abram C. 
 Mott, E. C. 
 Mott, Frank Douglas 
 Mott, Kenneth 
 Mott, WiUiam R. 
 Mott, Mrs. WilUam R. 
 Mulcahey, .James 
 Muldoon, M. 
 Muller, Clarence 
 Munn, EKjah F. 
 MiuTay, C. 
 Murray, J. 
 Myers, David 
 Myers, Mrs. David E. 
 Myers, Miss Gertrude 
 
 McAdam, David 
 McCarthy, Con 
 McCarthy, D. 
 McCarthy, Joseph 
 McClaury, William 
 McCue, Jerry 
 McCue, Michael 
 McElmeel, Edward 
 McFaU, Mrs. L. 
 McGarry, George 
 McGowan, James 
 McGowan, Peter 
 McGowan, S. C. 
 McGrath, Mrs. Denis, Sr. 
 McGrath, Mrs. Denis F. 
 McGrath, John T. 
 McGrath, Mrs. .John T. 
 McGrath, Michael 
 McGrath, Richard 
 
 NT FUND. 
 
 McGrath, Mrs. Richard 
 McGrath, Thomas 
 McKimm, Mrs. William 
 McLaughlin, James 
 McLoughlin, Rev. T. B. 
 McMahon, Thomas 
 McMinn, .Tames 
 Mclntyre, Miss Amy Adele 
 Mclntyi-e, Harold Devoe 
 Mclntyre, James D. 
 Mclntyre, Mrs. James D. 
 McIntjTe, John Chester 
 Mclntyre, Miss Mary J. 
 Mc Vicar, James 
 Mc Vicar, Mrs. James 
 Mc Vicar, Thomas 
 Mc Vicar, Mrs. Thomas 
 
 Naylor, Miss Frances 
 Neidig, George 
 Nelson, Miss Matilda 
 NeviUe, Robert H. 
 Neville, Mrs. Robert 
 Newman, Chester W. 
 Newman, Howard M. 
 Newman, Mrs. Howard M. 
 Newman, Miss Madeline 
 Nickerson, Mrs. R. 
 Nisbet, William F. 
 Noble, Miss May 
 Nolan, James 
 Nolan, Thomas 
 Nold, J. 
 Northrup, Miss 
 
 Oakley, Mrs. Branson K. 
 Oakley, Mrs. David L. 
 Oakley, Marvin R. 
 Oakley, Mrs. Marvin R. 
 Oakley, Mrs. S. D. 
 O'Brien, .James 
 O'Connor, H. 
 Odell, Mrs. James B. 
 Offerman, George W. 
 Olferman, W. 
 O'Leary, Con 
 
 255 
 
25(j 
 
 YOXKEliS IX THE HEliELUON. 
 
 O'Leaiy, William 
 Oliver, Edwin A. 
 Oliver, John W. 
 Oliver. Mrs. John W. 
 Oliver, Jlrs. Thoina.-^ 
 < »!iiist.(l. John 
 Olmsted. Miss Lucy 
 ( rXiill. Francis 
 0.sl)oni, George W. 
 Osterheld, 5Irs. Henry 
 Osterheld, Miss Nellie 
 Osterheld, Miss Theresa 
 Otis, Arthur 
 Otis, Mrs. B. A. 
 Otis, Bradford R. 
 Otis, Charles R. 
 Otis. .Mrs. Charles R. 
 Otis. Charles R., Jr. 
 Otis. Miss Katharine 
 Otis. Norton P. 
 Otis. Mrs. Norton P. 
 Otis, Norton P., Jr. 
 Otis, Sidney 
 Owens, Mrs. James H. 
 O.xholm, Mrs. 
 
 Paddock, Walter H. 
 Paddock, Mrs. Walter H. 
 Pagan, Miss Edith C. 
 Pagan, Miss Ethel Belle 
 Pagan, Jliss Grace Estellc 
 Pagan, Henry W. 
 Pagan, John, Sr. 
 Pagan, Mrs. John 
 Pagan, John, Jr. 
 Pagan & Son 
 Palmer, Jlrs. A. J. 
 Palmer, Charles Andrew 
 Palmer, Charles W. 
 Palmer, Miss Heleu 
 Palmer, Joseph H. 
 Palmer, Mi-s. Josei)h H. 
 Palmer, Miss .May W. 
 Palmer, Miss 
 
 Pai-son.s, Mi.ss Florence J. 
 Parsons, John I). 
 
 Parsons, Miss Josephine F. 
 Parsons, William 
 Parton. Mrs. Arthur 
 Paul. Mrs. Carl W. 
 Paul, Grant 
 Paul, MLss Mary R. 
 Paul, Theodore S. 
 Peake, Cyrus A. 
 Peek, Mrs. Gideon H. 
 Peck, Miss Gladys Anna 
 Peck, Percy Stan- 
 Peck, Mrs. Sidney S. 
 Peckham, George 
 Peene, George W. 
 Peene, Mrs. George, Jr. 
 Peene, Miss Hattie 
 Peene, Joseph, Sr. 
 Peene, Mrs. Joseph, Sr. 
 Peene, Miss Katie 
 Peene, Stephen A. 
 Peene, Mrs. Stephen A. 
 Pentreath, John, Jr. 
 Pentreath, Mrs. John 
 Percival, Charles W. 
 Percival, J. Mortimer 
 Percival, W. A. 
 Perkins, Miss Alice 
 Perkins, Miss Georgia 
 Perkins, Miss Ruth 
 Perkins, William E. 
 Persise. James 
 Pfeiffer, Jlrs. Charles 
 Pfeiffer, Miss Lizzie 
 Phelan, Mrs. Fenton 
 PhUUps, Dr. R. Oliver 
 PhiUips, Mrs. R. Oliver 
 Phillips. Richard Oliver, Jr. 
 Pigeon. ]Mrs. 
 Pike, Charles 
 Pilson, Conway 
 Pitkin, Mrs. (J. I). 
 I'itkin, Miss Louise I). 
 Poole, Mi's. W. • '. 
 " Poor Girl." 
 Post, Mrs. L. 
 Powell. Mrs. ( liarhs K. 
 
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 3WyUMENT FUND. 
 
 257 
 
 Power, William 
 Prendergast, James J. 
 Price, Mrs. T. E. 
 Prime, Alanson J. 
 Prime, Miss Edith 
 Prime, Rev. D. "Wendell 
 P. Robbie 
 Prote, Miss Jennie 
 Prote, Mrs. John B. 
 Prote, Mrs. John R. 
 Prote, J. B. & Son 
 Prote, Miss M. L. 
 Pruyn, Alma T. 
 PrujTi, Captain John I. 
 Pubhc School Xo. 1 
 Public School No. 2 
 Pubhc School No. 3 
 Pubhe School No. 4 
 PubUc School No. 5 
 Public School No. G 
 Public School No. 7 
 PubUc Spirit 
 Pj-ne, Mrs. E. H. 
 
 Quanchi, Mi-s. A. 
 Quick. Edwin A. 
 Quick, Mrs. Edwin A. 
 Quick, Miss Ella F. 
 Quick, Frederick N. 
 Quick, S. Francis 
 Quick, ilrs. S. Francis 
 Quick, Wilbur E. 
 Quinn, Heni-y J. 
 
 RadcUff, Abram S. 
 Radchff, Mrs. Abram S. 
 Radford, Mrs. A. A. 
 Radford, Mrs. Thomas A. 
 Ramage, Mrs. J. 
 Rand, Rev. William W. 
 RandaU. Mrs. Wesley 
 Randolph, Jlrs. C. F. 
 Randolph, Miss M. S. F. 
 Randolph, Miss 
 Ratcliff, William 
 Rau, Frederick W. 
 
 Raj-ner, Mrs. George 
 Raj-ner, Jlrs. George, Jr. 
 Read. .Jacob 
 Read, :Mrs. Jacob 
 Reagan, Michael 
 Redding, John T. 
 Reed, Charies 
 Reed, J. 
 
 Reeves, Miss Emma 
 Reevs, Dr. G. P. 
 Reid. Mrs. George C. 
 Reid, Miss May 
 Reid, Rev. John, D. D. 
 Reid, Mrs. John 
 RejTiolds, Gideon C. 
 Rejmolds, Mi-s. James 
 Rhodes, Mrs. Thomas A. 
 Richardson, Wilham H. 
 Richardson, Mrs. Wm. H. 
 Richmond, Fred. Scott 
 Rider, A. L. 
 Rigby, Franklin A. 
 Roach, Miss Nellie 
 Roberts, Mrs. Carohne "SI. 
 Roberts, R. A. 
 Robertson, William 
 Robin.son, James 
 Robinson, Walter W.. Jr. 
 Robinson, Mrs. Walter W 
 Rockwell, John W. 
 Rockwell, Mrs. John W. 
 Rose. JIi-s. A. Middleton 
 Ross. John 
 Ross. Miss Maggie 
 Ross, :Mi-s. Roderick 
 Ross, Thomas 
 Rowe, Miss Mattie C. 
 Rowe, M. F. 
 Rowland, Mrs. Charles 
 Rowland, Miss Dorothy 
 Rowland, John, Jr. 
 Rowland, Mrs. John, Jr. 
 Rowland, Miss Mary E. 
 Rowland, Ralph w" 
 Rowland, Mrs. Ralph 
 Rowland. Mrs. Wilham 
 
258 
 
 YOXKER.^ IX THE UKBELLIOy. 
 
 Roys, Charles 
 Russell. Patrick 
 
 Sahapian, Asian 
 Sandford, Mrs. Thomas 
 Sanger, Joseph G. 
 Sanfrer, Miss 
 Saunders, Alexander 
 Saunders, Mrs. Alexander 
 Saunders, En'en 
 Saunders, Miss Helen M. 
 Saunders, Leslie M. 
 Saunders, Miss Mary K. 
 Sawyer, Mrs. Laura K. 
 Scanlan, Thomas 
 Scherp, Jacob 
 Seherp. Mrs. Jacob 
 Schlcssinper, Leopold J. 
 Scldobolim. John H. 
 Schlobohm, Jlrs. WiUiam 
 Schnieckenbecker, Mrs. M. 
 Schooninakcr, E. B. 
 Schooniuaker, Willie 
 Schoix-n, Mrs. Kniil 
 Schultz. Mrs. Charles 
 Scotland, Miss Isabel 
 Scotland, Miss JIarjorie 
 Scott, Fred. (Richra'd, Va.) 
 Scott, Mrs. W. H. 
 Scribner, Miss Florence 
 Scribner, G. Hilton 
 Scribner. Miss Marfruerite 
 Scribner, Miss Marion 
 Scribner, Mrs. Sarah P. 
 Scriven, J. F. 
 Scriven, Mrs. James 
 Scruf;ham,Wm.Warburtou 
 Seaman, Mrs. A. J. 
 See, Alonzo I). 
 See, Mi-s. Alonzo D. 
 See, Thomas (i. 
 See. Mi-s. Thomas (L 
 Seliffiiiau, Isaac 
 Sene, J. E. 
 Servic Club, The 
 S. E. S. 
 
 Shannon, P. 
 Shaughnessy, James W. 
 Shaughnessy, Thomas J. 
 Shaughnessy, Mrs. Thos. J. 
 Shaw, Edward R., Ph. D. 
 Shea, Daniel J. 
 Shonnard, Miss Eugenie F. 
 Shonnard, Mrs. Frederic 
 Shonnard, Horatio S. 
 Shonnard, Kennedy 
 Shonnard, Ludlow 
 Shonnard, Mrs. S. A. 
 Shonnard, Miss Sophia S. 
 Shotts, Miss Ida 
 Shotts, John C. 
 Shotts, Mrs. John C. 
 Shotts, J. H. M. 
 Shotts, Miss Sadie L. 
 Shuler, George 
 Sickley, Jlrs. Cjtus 
 Silkman, Theodore H. 
 Silliman, Benjamin 
 Simmonds, Jlrs. WUUam 
 Simpson, Jlrs. T..uke 
 Skerrett. Jacob 
 Skillman, Mrs. L. 
 Skinner, I^Irs. A. L. 
 Skinner, ISIiss Bertha 
 Skinner, Mrs. Charles E. 
 Skinner, Halcyon 
 Slade, James 
 Sloan, Robert 
 SmaU, Mrs. John C. 
 Smalley, William H. 
 Smith, Miss Agnes 
 Smith, Duncan 
 Smith, JILss Eleanor 
 Smith, Miss Estelle 
 Smith, Mrs. G. C. 
 Smith. Miss Lizzie 
 Smith, Mrs. Rali.h H. 
 Smith, Jliss Tillie 
 Smith. Wallis 
 Smith, Mrs. Wallis 
 Smith. Warren B. 
 Smith. William 
 
CONTRIBUTOES TO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 259 
 
 Snyder, Jlrs. J. B. 
 Soetemon, Peter 
 Soldier's Daughter 
 Somerset, Mrs. S. 
 Spear, Miss Edith 
 Spear, Mrs. H. 
 
 Spillane, T. 
 
 Stahlnec'ker, Hon. Wni. G 
 Stapleton, Miss Tillie I. 
 Stan-, G. H. 
 Starr, G. M. 
 StaiT, H. B. 
 Starret, James 
 Stengel, Miss Edna 
 Stengel, Mrs. Henry 
 Stephens, Mrs. L. J. 
 Stewart, Arthur 
 Stewart, Miss Elsie 
 Stewart, George 
 Stewart, Mrs. George 
 Stewart, George U. 
 Stewart, James 
 Stewart, Mrs. James 
 Stewart, Mrs. James, Jr. 
 Stewart, Mrs. James P. 
 Stewart, J. & G. 
 Stewart, Mrs. K. "W. 
 Stewart, Miss M. E. 
 Stewart, Miss 
 StUweU, Benjamin W. 
 Stilwell, Mrs. Benjamin W. 
 Stone, Miss Amy S. 
 Stone, Mrs. Robert 
 Stone, Miss 
 Strang, Mrs. F. A. 
 Strang, William B. 
 Sullivan, A. 
 Sullivan, James J. 
 Sullivan, John H. 
 Sweny, William H. 
 Sweeney, Denis 
 Swift, Miss Martha 
 Swift, Samuel, M. D. 
 S. W. H. 
 Sykes, Mrs. Lizzie 
 
 Tacoma Social Club. 
 
 TaUmadge, Mrs. G. C. 
 
 Tarbell, John H. 
 
 Tarbell, Miss M. H. 
 
 Tatum, Mrs. H. Viele 
 
 Tatum, Edward 
 
 Taxter, Mrs. David H. 
 
 Taylor, Mrs. Allen 
 
 Taylor, Miss Bessie A. 
 
 Taylor, Miss Carrie 
 
 Thayer, Miss Anna M. 
 
 Thayer, Gordon Gerald 
 
 Thayer, Horace H. 
 
 Thayer, Mrs. Horace H. 
 
 Thayer, Reginald Holdeu 
 
 Thayer, Stephen H. 
 
 Thomas, Walter 
 
 Thomas, Mrs. Walter 
 
 Thompson, D. 
 
 Thomson, John 
 
 Thorne, Miss Anna V. 
 
 Thome, Cleveland May 
 
 Thome, Mrs. Emily C." 
 
 Thorne, Wilham H. 
 
 Tice, .James G. 
 
 Tierney, John 
 
 Tietjen, Christian F. 
 Timm, Mrs. Charles F. 
 
 Titlar, W. D. 
 
 Tobin, Thomas 
 Tompkins, Mrs. Abram H. 
 Tompkins, A. C. 
 Tompkins, Mrs. A. C. 
 Tompkins, Miss G.J. 
 Tompkins, Mrs. Gilbert H. 
 Tompkins, Mrs. J. M. 
 Torphy, Thomas 
 Tousey, Sinclair 
 Treanor, J. J. & F. P. 
 Treanor, Francis P. 
 Tremper, George H. 
 Tremper, John R. 
 Tremper, Mrs. John R. 
 Trevor, Henry G. 
 Trevor, John B. 
 Tripler, Miss 
 
2G0 
 
 YONKElifi IS THE REBELLION. 
 
 Trotter, R. R., M. D. 
 Trow, J. Fowler 
 Turner, Thomas 
 Tyler, Mrs. Bayard H. 
 Tyiueson, Mrs. Eujarene 
 
 UUman, Mrs. August 
 Ulrich, Mrs. August 
 Ulrieh, Miss Lizzie M. 
 Underhill, C. F. 
 UuderhiU, Mr.s. C. F. 
 Underiiill. F]dwai-d 
 UnderhiU. .Airs. Edward 
 Underhill, Henry M. 
 Underhill, Jackson & Co. 
 Underhill, Dr. T. I. 
 UuderhiU, Mrs. T. I. 
 Underhill, Mi-s. Wilber S. 
 Underwood, Mrs. A. L. 
 Union. 
 
 Valentine, Mrs. Peter 
 Van Houton, Abram R. 
 Van Houten, Mi-s. A. R. 
 Van Xostrand, Bert 
 Van Steenburgh, Mrs. I. 
 Van \'orst, Mrs. Seymour 
 Varian. Mrs. (". 
 Varian, Mrs. M. E. 
 Verplanck, Miss Kate A. 
 Verplanck, I'liilip 
 Verplanck, Mrs. Philip 
 Vincent, .1. S. 
 Vogel, ('. N. 
 Von Storcli. Frederick 
 
 Wadsworth, Mrs. Ansel A. 
 Wagner, Miss Bertha 
 Wagner, JIi-s. Jolm M. 
 Walker, Miss Mabel H. 
 Wallace, John 
 Wallace, John. Treasurer of 
 
 Foiu-th of .July Parade 
 Wallace, Jliss Jlav 
 Wallace, Miss N.rta 
 Waller, J. F. 
 
 Walsli. Mrs. E. 
 Walsh, Michael 
 Walsh, Mi-s. Thomas 
 Wandell, Jacob 0. 
 Ward, Mrs. Clarence 
 Waring, Miss Ada R. 
 Waring, Arthur B. 
 Waring. Charles E. 
 Waring, Jlrs. Charles E. 
 Waring, Hall B. 
 Waring, Mi-s. Jarvis A. 
 Waring, John T. 
 Waring, Miss Mabel W. 
 Waring, Miss Ruth 
 Waring, Whitney Newton 
 Warren, Mrs. George 
 Warren, Jolm S. 
 Warren, Mi-s. John S. 
 Warren. Mm. S. P. 
 Washburn. Mrs. Hannah 
 Washburn, W. F.. Jr. 
 Washburn, Mrs. W. F. 
 Waters, Mrs. L. P. 
 Watson, James Albert 
 Watt, John 
 W. C. R. 
 
 Webb, Mrs. James 
 Weeks, 5Irs. Catharine 
 Weicht, Theodore 
 Weiderhold, C. 
 Weller & Welsh. 
 Weller, Jliss Grace A. 
 Weller, .Mi-s. James H. 
 Wellnian, Jliss Grace 
 Welsh, John 
 Welsh, Mrs. Thomas 
 Welsh, Mrs. William 
 Westcott, Mrs. A. F. 
 Westney. Mi-s. Willi;im 
 Wlialen'john J. 
 Whalen, Joseph 
 Wl.eeler. Charles W. 
 Wheeler, Miss Florence E. 
 Wheeler. Frank E. 
 Wlieeler, Mrs. Lucy 
 Whiffler, Jo.soph 
 
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT EUND. 
 
 261 
 
 White, Miss Emma 
 White, Miss MOlie 
 Whitney, S. R. 
 Widman, Mrs. G. 
 Wiggins, Mrs. Lewis H. 
 Wilcox, Richard E. 
 WilUams, F. C. 
 Williams, Mrs. John E. 
 Willoughby, Miss M. C. 
 WUsou, John 
 " Wish It Was More " 
 Wood, Edgar F. 
 Wood Place Fair. 
 Woodruff, Frederick H. 
 Woodruff, Thomas 
 Worden, Amos W. 
 Wordeu, J. Perry 
 Wray, George B. 
 Wray, Mrs. George B. 
 
 Wray, Miss Mabel V. 
 Wray, Miss May 
 Wright, Mrs. P. M. 
 Wyer, H. S. (Nantucket) 
 Wyman, C. Dinsmore 
 Wyman, Mrs. C. Dinsmore 
 
 Yerks, Ehjah M. 
 Yerks, Mrs. Elijah M. 
 Yonkers Club. 
 Yonkers Lyceum. 
 Yonkers Military School. 
 Yonkers Photographic Club. 
 Yonkers Police Force. 
 Youmans, Edgar W. 
 Youmans, Mrs. Edgar W. 
 Youmans, Miss F. Zeta 
 Young, Mrs. George 
 
 Boys' Branch Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 Carpenters' and Joiners' Local Union No. 273. 
 
 City Hose Company No. 3. 
 
 Columbia Hook and Ladder Company. 
 
 Columbia Lodge No. 122, Knights of St. George. 
 
 Committee on World's Fair at Van Cortlandt Park. 
 
 Company A, Hibernian Rifles. 
 
 Employees of D. Saunders' Sons. 
 
 Employees of W. F. Washburn Brass and Iron Works. 
 
 Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association. 
 
 Finishers of the Yonkers Hat Manufacturing Company. 
 
 Fourth Separate Company, N. Y. S. N. G. 
 
 Holsatia Lodge No. 297, D. O. H. 
 
 Hope Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. 
 
 Houston Hose Company No. 6. 
 
 Hudson Hose Company No. 1. 
 
 Irving Hose Company No. 5. 
 
 .John C. Fremont Post No. 590. G. A. R. 
 
262 YOAKEJiS IX THE UKllKLLIoy. 
 
 Kitchiug Post No. GO. G. A. K. 
 
 Lady Wasliington Enarine Coinpany No. 'J. 
 
 Miss M. I. Bliss and School. 
 
 Members of Boys' Branch Y. M. C. A. 
 
 Mountaineer Engine Company No. 2. 
 
 Nepperhan Lodge No. 736, F. A. M. 
 
 Palisade Hose Company No. 4. 
 
 Proceeds of Children's Parlor Entertainment at Mrs. iSykes's 
 
 Residence. 
 Proceeds of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew's Lecture. 
 Proceeds of Exhibition of Yonkers Photographic Club. 
 Proceeds of Fourth Separate Company Fair. 
 Proceeds of Law-n Fete at No. 211 Warburton Avenue. 
 Proceeds of Magic Lantern ExhibitioTi at No. 170 Pali.sade 
 
 Avenue. 
 Proceeds of Magic Lantern Exhibition by Clarence Muller 
 
 and Arthur Stewart. 
 Proceeds of Opera of " Pinafore." 
 Proceeds of Punch and Judy Show. 
 Proceeds of Wood Place Fair. 
 Protection Engine Company No. 1. 
 Rising Star Lodge No. 450, F. A. M. 
 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. 
 United German Societies. 
 Veteran National (iuardsmen. 
 Viewville Litei-ary Association. 
 Westminster Church Young People's Association. 
 Yonkers Liiiuor Dealers' Protective Association. 
 Yonkei-s Lodge No. 2.32, I. 0. O. F. 
 Yonkers Lodge No. 1872, Knights of Honor. 
 Yonkers Lodge No. 265, Knights of Pythias. 
 Yonkers Rebekah Degree Lodge No. 93. 
 Yonkei-s Schuyler Electric Light Company. 
 Young Men's Catholic Association. 
 Young Men's Clirislinn Assiiciation. 
 
THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT 
 ASSOCIATION, 
 
 AS CONSTITUTED AT THE COMPLETION OF THE WORK. 
 
 Charles E. Gorton, Fresident. 
 John C. Shotts aud Galusha B. Balch, Vice-Presidents. 
 E. Alexander Houston, Secretary. 
 John W. Oliver, Treasurer. 
 J. Irving Burns, Willi.^ai Allen Butler, 
 
 WILLL4M L. Heermance, J. Harvey Bell, 
 
 Charles R. Otis, Ethelbert Belknap, 
 
 Joseph F. Daly, Frederic Shonnaed, 
 
 James Stewart, Stephen H. Thayer, 
 
 S. Francis Quick, Edwin A. Quick, 
 
 Wm. Fred. Lawrence, Augustus Kipp 
 
 Edward Underhill, Charles E. Allison 
 
 Matt. H. Ellis, a. O. Kirkwood, 
 
 J. G. P. HOLDEN, WILLI.4JI WeLSH, 
 
 James Millward, Walter Thomas, 
 
 James V. Lawrence, William F. Moller, 
 
 James Sheridan. 
 
 EXECUTR'E COSIiVnTTEE. 
 
 John W. Oliver, Chairman, Charles E. Gorton, 
 
 Joseph F. Daly, Secretary, WiLLLiM L. Heermance, 
 
 J. Irving Burns. 
 
 DEDICATION COMMITTEE. 
 
 William L. Heermance, Chairman, John C. Shotts, 
 J. Irving Burns, Secretary, Matt. H. Ellis, 
 
 James V. Lawrence. 
 
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