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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. 


32 


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. 


(^ 


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 

55 


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. 


61 


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  ! " 

12 


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. 


^ 


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- 

15 


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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ON   THE    WEST    SIDE. 


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. 


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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. 


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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. 


srrie 


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. 


THE  SOLDIERS'  AND  SAILOES'  MONUMENT  ASSOCIATION.     193 

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. 


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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 


THE  DEDICATION.  03]^ 

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. 

0  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, 
0  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. 

0  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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