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YONKERS

THE REBELLION.

TIIK

MONIMKNT WIIKS KKADV WITH UANOII

IIM.I. IN

I'llR

HKDUATH

nil: IIAI'KÂ»IIOlM>.

YONKERS THE REBELLION OF

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INCLUDING A HI8TORY OF THE ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT TO HONOR THE MEN OF YONKERS WHO FOUGHT TO SAVE THE UNION.

THOMAS ASTLEY 4TKINS AND

JOHN WISE OLIVER.

PUBLISHED BY THE YONKERS SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.

)pyn{;ht, 189:2.

Thomas Astlkv Atkdcs

and .John Wisk Oliver.

rillNTKI.

AT THK

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PREFACE. preparing INfurnish as

this

memorial volume, the authors have aimed

complete a history of Yonkees in the Rebellion as

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as

made possible Monument which

the available material the erection of the

Manor which

Hall, is

by the

liberality

well as a full history of

has been placed in front of

and patriotism

of the people,

intended to honor those identified with our town

and

who

faced the enemies of the Union in a long and desperate Rebellion.

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

names, organizations, dates, official

etc.,

known

in obtaining records of

to be reliable.

or less confusion exists as to the organizations in which

them for

served.

want

volume.

and

Even

papers the same persons are recorded differently, and more

And

then, again, doubtless

of information,

;

make

and yet omissions and errors

While these are

some

are omitted,

entitled to a place in this

reasonable labor was spared to

to avoid errors

discovered.

which are justly

some names

the record

will

to be regretted, they

full,

probably be

were unavoid-

YOSKERS 1\

TIIK ItEliELI.IOX.

able.

The authors ask

heeu a

laljor of love, aiul yet, at times, a

for leuieut criticism

on what,

to them,

has

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, others,

who kindly

aid<^d in the

here recorded.

YoNKERS, .IaNTAKY

1. ISitl'.

and

work, sincere acknowledgments are

TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE 5

Preface

Chapter

The Call to Ahms.

— Prompt Response — First Company of Yonkers — Provision for their Families — Presentation Flag — Loyalty and Patriotism — "We are Nowhere

Town-Meeting

Volunteers OF A

Told

— "I

the Bible to Give up the Flag of Our Country"

am Ready to Die under

Chapter

II.

its

Folds"

— War

in Earnest.

Company A, Seventeenth Regiment NEw-Yorav Volunteers.

The Capture of the First Cannon, at Hanover Court-House— The Westchester Chasseurs — Their Record from Official 27

Archi\t3S

Chapter

III.

Sixth iSTew-York Volunteer Artillery.

Union Defence Committee

— Colonel

William H. Morris

— Sol-

dierly Bearing and Discipline— Heroic Fighting Qualities

—Colonel mended

Howard Kitching— List

IN Special

Battles— Com33

Orders 7

—

YOSKERS IN THE

Chaptei! IV. Captain John

TiiF.

Company

Hatch's

Danis

liEliELLloy.

Thikty-Days Men.

— Valiant

SER\acE at

Fort McHenry', Baltimoke— Captain John Padden's Company

— Garrison

Duty

Fort

Ne\v-York

Riciimond,

Harbor

The Home Giards.

Chaptek V. The Draft Riots

New- York— Yonkers Threatened— Dr.

Henry M. Baird on the Situation — The Home Guards Organized

Preserve

Order and

Watch-Tower of the First

Awkward Squad" — Duties Defined

— An

Arrest

and

("oiht

Protect

Presbyterian

— — "An

Property

Church

by Frederick

Cozzens

Martial— Good Service at a

Critical Time

The Sanitary

Chapter VI.

(iuEAT Success

— Over

Aid the Bekevolent

Fair.

Sixteen Thousand Dollars Raised to

Work

ok the United States Sanitary

Commission

(hapter VII. YoNKKUS AT LAOE

TIIK ('l,OSK

At the Close ok the War.

OK TlIK RkHKI.MON

Prohressivk

— The

— (iKuWTll

Census

TlIK

— Celebration

\"ll.-

THE Fall ok Richmond— President Lincoln's Assassination

— Return

ok Ouk liuAVK Soldiers

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Brevet Brigadiee-Geneeal John Howaed

Chaptek VIII.

KiTCHING.

True Christian Services

Creek

— His

Hero— His Commander

Bravery, Military Skill, and

— The

Fatal Shot at Cedar

Untimely Death at Dobbs Ferry

Some Personal Recoeds of the War.

Chapter IX.

Colonel Fisher A. Baker and His Battles— Surgeon

Balch

— Jeremiah

ToNKERS Hero

Who

Died for the Union

— The

First

— Captain

Matt.

Burns and the White House

H. Ellis and His Campaigns— Hand-to-Hand Encounter of

Captain William L. Heermance with Captain B. M. Medina

— The Pilot

ton

Hero and His Crutch — General Thomas Ewing at Kjstob

Clay

— Adjutant

James Millward and the Washing-

Battalion— Major James

Mosby's Band

— Thomas

Oliver's Lost

Palmer and "The Die-No-Mores"— Ralph vices

AND Promotions

— Where

Lawrence

and

Medal — Abraham

E. Prime's Ser-

William Riley Lost His

Arm — Major Frederic

Shonnard's

Captain James Stewart,

Jr.,

Honorable

Career

—

Rescues Generals Hooker and

Williams from an Embarrassing Situation

Chapter X.

At Rest

St. John's,

Cemeteries

Oue Heeoes' Last

Oakland,

St.

105

Sleep.

Mary's and St. Joseph's

— Their Graates Kept in

Reverent Remembrance. 143

YONKEUS IN THE UEliELLION.

A Roll

Chaptek XI. Soldiers and Sailoks of the

of Hoxoit.

Wak now

late RESiDtNO

YONKERS

14!>

The (Ikand Ahmy

(!hai'tek XII.

KiTCHiNO

Post— John

Faced the Rebel Fire

Ouaptek XIII.

The

of the Republic.

Fremont Post— Men in

Who

Bra\'elv

Defence of the Union

Sdi.dif.ks'

and

Sailoks'

169

Moximext

Association. Its

History and Its

Work — The Foirth

Separate Company

Fair— Depew Night

Chapter XIV.

is:{

Erection of the Moximent.

Arrival of the Bronze Statues. and Granite-Work Approvai

—

Layinci

op the Corner-Stone

Chapieu XV.

— The

— Thkir

Erection

19!)

The Dedication.

(iREAT Concourse of I^eofle- The Decorations— The Proces-

sion—The The

Music— The Oration— The Original Poems— — The Dedicatory Address— The Naval

Unveilino

Salute

— lMPosiN(i

Services and Historic Day

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter XVI. The

Enclosure

The

— The

Association's

Memorial

Work

Volume

Completed.

— All

Obligations

Promptly Met

Chapter XVII.

243

Contributors to the Monument Fund.

The Association — Its Officers and Principal Committees

24.5

ENGRAVINGS. The Monument when Ready for Dedication, Manor

Hall

the Background

Frontispiece

The Infantry Statue

-4

The Artillery Statue

General John Howard Kitching

The Naval Statue

140

The Cavalry Statue

ICO

The Color-Bearer

I'^O

The Monument and Enclosure

-^8

^ '^ ''

—

YONKERS IN THE REBELLION.

CHAPTER

THE CALL TO ARMS.

— Prompt Response — Fiest Company of Yonkers — Provision for their Families — Presentation Flag — Loyalty and Patriotism — "We are Nowhere

Town-Meeting

Volunteers OF a

Told

the Bible to Give up the Flag of Our Country "

"I AM Ready to Die under

ABRAHAM

virtue of the

laws,

its

Folds"

— War in Earnest.

LINCOLN, President of the United States, in power in me vested by the Constitution aud the

have thought

fit

to call forth,

militia of the several States of the

aud hereby do

Union

call forth, the

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 eifort to 3

all

loyal citizens to favor, facilitate,

and

aid this

maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of 13

YOXKKHS IX THE REBEI.LIOX.

our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government,

and

wrongs already long enough endured."

to redress

in his Proclamation,

dated at Washing-

morning

lS(i],

So spake the President ton, April 15, 1861.

At four was

o'clock on the at Fort Sumter.

fii-ed

When

otism of the Nation.

sun of liberty for

all

men

of April

lli,

the

smoke

patri-

away, the glorious

rolled

Says

arose upon an expectant universe.

a local chronicler, writing on the

morning

gun

first

tlit-

The echo waked the slumbering

of April 15

event

which has occurred within the recollection of the present generation,

profound and wide-

safe to assume, ever occasioned such

spread excitement as that which has pervaded

absorbing topic

The

first

among

all

gun changed public sentiment

now

toiicliini;-

tain the Oovernnifiit.

in a trice.

(

the duty of the citizen

)ii

vestibule, could be lieard

nient of

The excitement nothing nest,

else

every corner, tlie

remark,

every churcli

now

is,

traitors.'"

Yonkers, as everywhere, was intense.

now upon them

was the subject of conversatinn.

The papers were

lilled

but one

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to sus-

stand by the (rovern-

will

at tliis lionr

and he but expressed the popular

but the war, which was

be of interest.

the

There was but

" There

every car,

in '

country when assailed, as

said a prominent citizen,

classes since

classes of citizens."

one party now, and that the party of the Union. sentiment

all

The war was

upon Fort Sumter was announced.

the attack

feeling.

In fact,

dead ear-

(ndinary topics ceased to with news, or alleged news,

from the seat of war, and edition after edition was exhausted, and \\v d.Tuand for I'roni

had

All.aiiy

news not

sate<l.

came advices

that

i.roni|itly issued a call for li.^.Odd

(iovernor Edwin

men

to the

Morgan

war from the

THE CALL TO ARMS. State of

New- York.

Yonkers in a ferment;

for the Grovernor

Chief of the State Militia, and his otic zeal of

The State quota was but

that

call

the town of

call, set

was the Commander-in-

gave

official life to

the patri-

onr townspeople.

aggregate of 780

months.

This, with the President's

17 regiments, consisting each of an

They were

and men.

officers

Such was the intensity of martial

forty-five years

days

every able-bodied

man

must abandon home and

busi-

seemed to one on the spot as

under the age of

to serve three

zeal those April

ness and enlist.

For days

after these calls the country

For a while

with patriotism.

draft could never be

ti'ied

here,

was on

seemed as

fire

with

zeal, ablaze

such a cruelty as a

and that tens of thousands must

necessarily be rejected as volunteers.

town-meeting was held in Radford Hall, at which

aopeals were

Government.

made

for volunteers to take

Seventy-five

men

up arms

responded, on assurances that the

families

would be aided while the bread-winners were

John

Waring, President of the

stii-ring

in defense of the

village,

at the front.

administered the oath of

allegiance to the volunteers.

Next morning several they did not deem

by a town-meeting.

of the volunteers informed Mr.

Waring that

prudent to leave their families to be cared for "But," said one, "

you

will give

your per-

sonal promise that our families shall receive the promised aid, will go, cheered suffer."

by the

belief that

our families wall not be

left to

Mr. Waring appeared before the men, gave the desired

promise, and the

company went

the confidence reposed in

off in

me under

good

spirits. " I

considered

the circumstances," says Mr.

Waring, " as the highest compliment of

life."

YOyKEIiS JX THE KEIiELLIOy.

The next day Mr. Waring and Ethan Flagg, on

investigation, dis-

men had

families in varied

covered that sixty-five of the enlisted

A fixed amount

circumstances.

and

oflBee

was agreed upon

was an-anged that a member should

for each family,

Mr. taring's

call at

every Saturday and receive the amount promised

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and

arrangement was continued for the term of the enlistment.

ward

Ml-.

Waring was reimbursed by

few quotations from our

Rebellion,

may

the town.

local press, in the early

not be amiss, and

will,

hoist at our

days of the

perhaps, enable us to under-

stand better the pages of history which are to follow. editorial, April 20,

tliat

After-

Said a local

1861

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.

believe that, at a time like this, the display of any

calculated to awaken patriotic emotion

proper, and

and

everj" thing

rejoice to see the Nation's

banner everywhere displayed.

Again It

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

and above

all to

all just

measures for the restoration of peace,

join in the defense of the Capitol in

from whatever quarter

may

to display his devotion to the

come.

It is the

Union

Washington against invasion,

duty of every

citizen, at this time,

an unmistakable manner, and,

need be,

shoulder his musket for that purpose.

Such the

A As

a soul-stirring ap]Âťeal could not be,

young men

local

paper of April

not, lost

upon

says:

l!7, iSfil,

early as Tuesday morning, April

been organized

and was

of tlic village of Yonkci-s.

in so short a time,

2.3,

look

the

tiieir

company

of volunteers, which liad

departure from our village for the

THE CALL TO ARMS. purpose of enrolling their names on the muster-in

roll of

New- York

a regiment of

State Volunteers then forming in New-York. Never before did

witness such an

outpouring of patriotic spnpathy as that which greeted them on every turn, as they proceeded through the viUage

boys

who had

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; deep, reverential, heartfelt sympathy for the

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 it

had a most invigorating

effect

eleven o'clock in the morning the

Volunteers formed in

line,

first

American

we are

flags,

told,

was

dragging their appa-

"tastefully decorated

and covered with

windows on that eventful

Every window and door along the long

final farewell to the

firing of

line of

brave

guns and other

men

Main

of our village."

Street

House

was saluted

patriotic demonstrations.

at the railroad station at the foot of

Main

street,

are told, "the scene

and center

of the

Arrived

seemed as

the whole town had gathered to do the volunteers honor.

march

children, " anxious to take a last view

the procession passed the

by the

Yonkers

and presented quite a handsome appearance."

was occupied by women and and bid a

After the band came the members of

All Yonkers was out of doors or at the

morning.

company

for their escort a long line

Lady Washington Engine Company No. ratus, which,

and

They were preceded

village.

by the Yonkers Cornet Band, aud had and firemen.

it,

and, prior to their departure, marched

through the principal streets of the

of citizens

upon the departing company.

It was,

most intense and exciting

YOXKKUS IX

iuterest, the square

RKBELUOX.

TIIK

being as one vast sea of heads.

Tlie

Youkers

Liederkrauz sang several patriotic hymns, while the thundering echoes of the cannon would occasionally drown

voices for the

tln-ir

time in the notes of war."

And

amid cheer and acclaim our brave boys

left their

homes

for the war, and, says our chronicler, " the train passed ont of

He adds to the account of "May the God of battles

sight."

prayer:

the day's doings the lead our nwii

humble

lionor

t<>

and

victory."

notable event at this time was the success of a subscription

taken in a great hurry to defray the preliminary expenses of the volunteers.

once.

Almost without

The subscription

of large

amounts we

list is

a notable one, and

names

find the

John

Coe, Ethan Flagg, Robert J. Douglass, Bell,

Edward

Underhill,

were subscribed, and at

effort $3,000

among

the donors

Waring, Frederick A.

James B.

Colgate, William

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, Knox, Walter H. Paddock, Robert Shipman,

ajid a

names on the

liost

list,"

of others.

wrote the

J. Tojilis,

"Let

all

local editor,

Jr.,

Isaac H.

Isaac V. Fowler, Ralph wlio ean jilaee their

and

tlie

invitation did

not pass unheeded.

Worthy tion

teers in F.

of preservation in our local records

by Robert

This

Douglass.

Getty Square,

flag

the Hag-presenta-

was presented

an out-of-door meeting

to the volun-

whicli

Thomas

Morris was cjiairman and Ajonzo Hell was secretary. Tile presentation speech

was uukU- by the Reverend Darius

Hre\v<T, re<-tor of St. Paul's

Protestant Episcopal Clnnvli,

K*. tii.'

THE CALL TO ABMS. course of which he said

man we

shall take

away your

are nowhere told in

are directed in the Bible that

coat, to give

him your cloak up the

the Bible to give

also

flag

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but

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

;

"I have lived and fought under that

ready to die under

That our people were thoroughly their first

with and proud of

satisfied

May

1861

cannot refrain from noticing in complimentary terms the brave fellows who

{should the

are

and am

company is evidenced by the following, taken from a local

paper of the date of

flag,

its folds."

all

war

begin in earnest) will represent

our village in the contest.

young, tough and active, compact of form and sinewy.

The

They

quiet

and

gentlemanly manner in which they have conducted themselves at their quarters in

New- York has

Our

local

elicited the

warmest commendations from aU

was equally proud

of "

Our

Charlie."

sources.

It says

Captain Charles H. Smith, of the Westchester Chasseurs, made his appearance

among us a few days ago soldier,

in his full set of regimentals.

looked Uke a true

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 "

for our village It will

went

to the war."

And

thus the war opened

and town.

be noted above that the local writer of the ith of May, 1861,

remarks, in parenthesis, " should the war begin in earnest."

merely gives phrase to what was in the minds of It

was hard

to believe, at that day, that actual

many at that

This time.

war was intended or

YOXKKh-S I\ THE hhBELLfO.W

No doubt many

would come.

To Vonkers

Run.

the awakening of that day

Our dear ones had gone indeed

terrible.

This

volunteered with that idea.

view was rudely shattered by the result of the

first

battle of Bull

was

siekfMiini;

and

to the war.

Shortly after the middle of July, the head-lines of " Dis.\ster to

THE Union Army," and " Retreat of

mand FROM Manassas," drove fore hopeful people.

Yonkers

McDowell's Com-

Ctener.\.l

the iron into the

.soul

of our thereto-

and town were

village

gloom.

Indeed their dear ones had "gone to the war." " But," says a winter of that date, "the feeling of surprise, sanctified

by sorrow

for the gallant soldiers sadly sacrificed in this dis-

way

astrous retreat soon gave

every bosom to spare no

supply

theii-

and avenge

places

the efficiency of the

Another writer learn

what

And flict,

.so

to a stern

effort, either in

Army

first

of the

Yonkers

should

girdeil

lie

our

ous donations of

nifii

a beneficent teacher, but

and went anew into

jtonrcd into

means was responded

its lesson.

tlie lajiof

Every

for the sick

week, those

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now,

with jiride to this day. joiit:

was

denumd

van, and materials

literally jtoured, like

and the record of Yonkers

An<l from .lay to day, w.'ck to

and dreary years, did our

in earnest.

con-

the Nation gener-

reasoiialile

tlie

and wounded were

l)alm, n]ion tlie sutTi'i'iiig soldiers, poiiite(l to

tiie

to affirmatively.

In charities, also, were oiir townspeople in

and money

For four long

Call after call for recruits

met with promptness and generosity. for

to increase

possible despatch."

all

last li-sson."'

its luins

ami moiiry.

or money, at once to

and further

Union with

saddened but having learned well

and weary years our town

men

their death,

said, "Adver.sity is

our

and deep determination in

iiohle

boys go

to the

war

THE CALL TO ARMS.

Among

the

first

service to put

down

the RebeUion, and

New- York Volunteer

commanded by Wicker, James

known

Infantry,

Colonel

pany C; George A.

Yonkers men mvistered into the United States

who went with as the

Abram Duiyea, were James Finnan, Com-

Mitchell, Charles Allen, Charles Fortescue,

W. Brown, David

Crofut, Greorge Hitchcock,

Murphy, John G. Peene, George Post, WiUiam

C. Eyer,

Company F; Ralph

musician.

James

Benjamin

They

all

E. Prime, in

Company G; and Thomas

enlisted in April, 1861.

all

Cahill,

The following joined

the same Regiment at Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, in the 1861:

Henry

James Sheridan, Frank Morgan, and William Sweeney,

Sullivan, in

the Fifth

Duryea Zouaves,

fall of

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 line of battle

Big Bethel, the

first

engagement

The Fifth Regiment was engaged siege of

of the

war fought

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; also in many skirmishes which preceded the battle.

Yorktown, the

House, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Cross-Roads, Malvern

in the battle of Big Bethel, the

battles of Williamsburg,

Hill,

Mill,

Hanover Court-

Peach Orchard, Charles City

Second Bull Run, South Mountain,

Antietam, Blackford's Ford, Petersburg, Chancellorsville, &c.

^"^

4'^ f

-'^^

ox THE EAST

SIDE.

THE INFANTRY STATUE.

The studies and drawings for New-York. life

and

The

action.

shown

soldier is

The

face

this statue

were made by

at " iix bayonets."

The

J. E. Kelly, of

attitude exhibits

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.

The

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Xo part of the Monument gave the Association so much eoneem as the statues.

original drafts submitted

were tame and expressionless, while the Association desired After much thought and labor, and aided by artists of It is rare, indeed, that a group of five statues

vigor and earnest, warlike action.

recognized ability, success was attained. 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.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

CHAPTER

II.

COMPANY

A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT NEW- YORK VOLUNTEERS.

The Capture of the First Cannon, at Hanover Court-Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Westchester Chasseurs

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Their Record from Official

Archives.

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 one hundred young flag

and

Fifth

to preserve the

Union.

for.

In response to this

this

over

number

several joined the

the remainder, about ninety,

company which was known

New-York

call,

enrolled to serve in defense of the

New-York Volunteers, while

organized into a teenth

men were

Volunteers, and which

Company A, Seven-

was mustered

into the

United States service on the 20th of May, 1861, to serve two years, unless sooner discharged.

YONKEIiS ly THE liEBELLIOX.

This company, which was the of war, at

Hanover Court-House, the

service at the expiration of

The majority

war.

first

Yonkers

for the seat

its

Army

cannon taken by the

of the United States

term of enlistment, June

of those mustered out reenlisted

and returned

1863.

to the

append items, culled from various records, relating

company.

The following

War

to leave

The company was mustered out

the Potomac.

this

first

and was composed exclusively of Yonkers men, captured,

the record taken from the

official

archives of the

Department, and from the State card attached to the

the Seventeenth

First.

Regiment New- York Volunteers,

— National Flag,

Spear-head gone.

silk,

flags of

Albany, N. Y.:

embroidered with number of Regiment.

Much

worn.

Presented to the Regiment by eight lady friends of Col. H.

Lansing.

Second.— Regimental Banner, white

silk,

painted on one side with arms of the

New- York, and Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. On the side, an eagle, shield, and number of Regiment. Staflf, with plate inscribed

State of

other

"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

York and inscribed: "Seventeenth Kigimcnt N. Y. V. New-York." Original staff gone.

Tlie Seventeenth Kcginient, .sonu-times

Chasseurs, was organized in the city of 1861. It

was composed

of four

Xew-

Presented by the City of

known

as the Westchester

New-York

in the spring of

companies from Westchester County,

one from Rockland, two from New-York City, one from Wayne, one from Wyoming, of wiir .luiie, lS(il, battk'S of

Hanover

jni.l

;iih1

one from Clieiiango.

left for

pjirlicipat.'d in tlie siege of

Court-lluu.<e, wliere

the seat

Yorktown, and

captured the

first

cannon

COMPANY

SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.

taken from the enemy by the

(known

Army

as the second battle of Bull Run),

and 250 men,

killed

of the Potomac, Groveton

where

lost 13 oflScers

and wounded, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and

Chancellorsville. It

was mustered out

the spring of 1863, after two years'

was immediately reorganized

service,

took the

field in

for three years' service,

September, being the

first

and

of the thirty-nine old

regiments to report for duty. "

Honors

Thomas

of the

Empire State

War

in the

of the Rebellion,"

Townsend, compiler of "The Library of National

Records," on page 292 says

SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT WESTCHESTER CHASSEURS. The Regiment was commanded by Colonel H. as Lieutenant-Colonel.

When

son B. Barti-am became his successor.

Regiment constituted the

Lansing, with Thomas F. Mon-is

Lieutenant-Colonel Morris resigned in 1862, Nel-

The Seventeenth and a Massachusetts

entire infantry force

under General Stoneman on the

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 Seventeenth and Forty-Fom-th New- York, at the battle of Groveton. At the battle of Peninsula,

Bull

Run no

less

than

was saved and rigged

York Bull

f om-

to a

color-bearers lost their lives in defense of the flag ;

new

staff

;

was retiu'ned

as a proof of the valor of the Regiment.

Run

out of 550

who went

into the battle.

to the

Common Council

The Regiment

lost

over 200

New-

men

;

YONKEIiS IX THE HKBELLIOX.

MUSTER-OUT ROLL. Officers.

Charles H. Smith, Captain.

George Reynolds, January

Lieutenant, discharged on account of disability

30, 1862.

RoMEYN BoGARDUS,

Ensign, resigned August

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

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

AiNswoRTH, John, discharged on account of disability August 29, 1861.

AiNSWORTH,

Jo.SEPH, discharged on ac-

count of disability January

3, 1863.

Cain, Michael, wounded August 30, 1862.

Carll, James, made Corporal.

Carroll, Willlam, wounded.

Cavanagh, Thomas, discharged on

Amsby, Marion.

Archer, Thomas

30, 18(i2.

O.,

discharged on ac-

count of disability September 20, 1861.

Avery, William.

count of disability November

1862

;

Barclay, John.

Colwell, Atkins. Coxnell,

Bragg, Willlvm.

wounded August 3(1. I,s(i2. Connkli.v. Thomas, kilUd August

Bromley, James.

IS(J2.

30,

died September 29, 1862.

Bell, George. Brazil, James, died March 24,

ac-

11, 1861.

Cawley, Thomas, wounded August

William, made Corjwral

.Ml,

1862.

Brooks, George.

Delany', Daniel, killed August 30, 1862.

Brown, Charles A.

Donahue, John, woimded August

Burns, Jeremiah.

1862.

30,

;

COMPANY A, SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. wounded August

Flood, Peter,

30,

McCaul, Thomas.

McNamara, John.

1862.

FoLKER, William, wounded Aug-ust

30,

Mills, Thomas.

Murphy, Cornelius, captured August

1862.

Foster, Jajies

30, 1862.

Foster, William W., made Corporal;

NoDiNE, Edward. NoDiNE, Peter, wounded August 30,

captured August 30, 1862.

Garvin, Frank, wounded August

30,

1802.

O'Keefe, Patrick, transferred Jidy

1862.

Glasier,

Newcomb

1862, to

Hampson, Samuel.

HoRTON, Theron

1862, to R.,

wounded August

Company

30,

0.,

wounded Au-

Company

Company D.

Satzger, Charles C, made Corporal. Shotts, John C.

gust 30, 1862.

Simmonds, Edward.

Tansey, Matthew.

Leek, Joseph. Lesnon, Daniel.

Lobdell, Walter

LoGUE, Bernard. G.,

and August

wounded June

30,

30, 1862.

Terry, Thomas F. Walter, William. Watson, John, died July 20, 1863. Welsh, Morris F., made Corporal killed

August

Whiting, John

Malloy, Thomas.

30, 1862.

B.,

The following joined the Company

after

Andrews, Joseph.

Bell, George, No.

Blauvelt, Isaac

Austin, James.

D., killed

August

30,

1862. First Lieuteuaut.

Beckett, Thomas, Captain, wounded 30, 1862.

;

muster

Aebuckle, William. Beardsley, E. H.,

made Corporal cap-

tured August 30, 1862.

Marian, John.

August

Rice, Joseph, transferred Januaiy 10, 1862, to

1862.

Major, Garrett

16,

Plunkett, John.

Kohler, John, wounded August

Lawrence, Thomas

O'SuLLivAN, Daniel, transferred July 16, 1862, to

30, 1862.

EJiowLES, William.

Leary, John

Company

O'Rourke, John, transferred July

Hampson, Eli.

1862,

McCabe, Dennis.

Fisher, Philip.

Bowes, Benjamin, discharged on account of disability, January

Brady. Charles.

1862.

YON KKlis IX THE UK BELLI OS.

McNamara, John, No.

Bretenshaw, Joshua, wounded.

Brown, Joseph, transferred to Company G, One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry Vol-

made Cor-

Mills, John, made Corporal.

Mitchell, Peter, captured at Manassas

August

unteers.

poral.

30, 1862.

Mitchell, Thomas, transferred

Carny, Michael.

to the

Twelfth Regiment New-York Volun-

Clark, Abner H. Clark, Peter, wounded

May

August

30,

Clark, Peter, wounded August

30,

MoFFATT, Andrew, wounded August

Cook, W. H., discharged on account of

Murphy, Willlvm, transferred to Company G, One Hundred and FortySixth Regiment New-York Infantry

1802, age 32.

age

1862,

Died August 20,

30, 1862.

20.

May

14, 1862.

1878.

Coffey, Michael.

disability.

teers,

30, 1862.

Volunteers, June 25, 1863.

CosTELLO, John.

Craft, Isaac, wounded December

IG,

Neil,

Walter

NoDiNE, Frederick A., Sergeant, trans-

1862.

CuLLiN, Paul, died September

2, 1861.

ferred to

Company

One Huneb'ed

and Forty-Sixth Regiment New-York

Doran, John. Fenner, Henry D., wounded August

30,

Infantry Volunteers, June

Ferguson, Thomas.

Seddin, Willlvm, Musician.

Fitch, Charles W., Com. Sergeant.

Shaw, Willlam.

Foley,

Vincent,

wounded August

Captain,

twice

Sleight, C. T. Smith, Irvlng D., Second Lieutenant,

30, 1862.

Fox, Jajies, Second Lieutenant.

transferred to

Gallagher, Martin.

teenth

Hardy, John R.

teers,

Harrison, Bernard, wounded August

Arthur. killed

August

30,

1862.

Kemp, Joseph, wounded

August

1862. KiLi.KiiN,

Seven-

January

1863.

Stanspield, Thomas.

One Hundred and Forty-Si.Mh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteei-s,

Hughes, Patrick. Wiltjam.

Thompson, George W., transfenvd

Hill, Thomas, Sergeant.

Irving,

Company

Regiment New-York Volun-

Taylor, De Witt.

30, 1862.

Ives,

2, 1863.

O'Mara, John, Sergeant.

1862.

30,

Marcli

tietlj

Daniel, made Sergeant.

8, 1H(>3.

Van Okden, Alfred, transferred t<> Company G, One Huiuhvd and F>>rRegiment New-York

Volunteei"s. .Imu' 26,

ISii.'f.

Infantry

CHAPTER

III.

SIXTH NEW- YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.

— Colonel William H. Morris — Sol— Heroic Fighting Qualities Howard Kitching — List of Battles — Com-

Union Defence Committee

dierly Bearing and Discipline

— Colonel mended

Special Orders.

the numerous reverses to

summer of the year 1862, when INthetheUnion arms had caused a profound

anxiety

among

the

people of the North as to the outcome of the great conflict, in

obedience to a three

call

from the President of the United States for

hundred thousand volunteers

for three years,

E. D. Morgan, Governor of the State of

Union Defence Committee

the Hon.

New-York, appointed

for the Eighth Senatorial District of

the State, then consisting of the counties of Westchester, Eockland,

and Putnam

— the

Chauncey M. Depew

names

of Peekskill,

Lewis G. Morris of Fordham,

Gouverneur Morris of Morrisania,

William H. Robertson of Katonah, Saxton Smith of Putnam, and

Edward 5

Shonnard

Yonkers being among those so chosen. 33

YONKERS IX THE REBELLION.

This Committee was charged with the duty of obtaining reinforcements for the Union Avmj'.

began

work by promptly

its

effecting the organization in that district of an infantry regiment

of ten full companies of

more than one hundred men

to serve for three years,

which was designated by the authorities

the State of

New-York

York Volunteer

as the

One Hundred and

Infantry, and

each, enlisted

Thirty-Fifth

New-

was named by the Committee, The

Anthony Wayne Guard. Those who thus associated themselves together

Union were prompted by the same true

defence of the

spirit of patriotism

animated their forefathers in the "War of Independence, jjeriod in the

war no large bounties had been offered

enlistment, and these men,

who

of the

most substantial families

The following

are the

names

to stimulate

so promptly responded to the call

of the President, fairly represented the best bone

many

which

At that

tlie

and sinew and

of the three counties.

original line officers

and of

the plac(-s where they ovgaiii/cd their coiiij.anies

Company A,

Pefkxkill

Captain A. A. Crookstox, Lieutenants (iEuKOK

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

and George

Captain B. B. Valextixe, Lieutenants .James Smith

Kibbe.

Company D, Somers

Captain

Eowahd

.Joxes, Lieutenants

Sckiiinkk and

Platt Benedict. Company E, Port

FoRDHAM Morris

Chester: Captain C.

H. Palmer, Lieutenants

\V. T.

Mukse and

(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.

Hall (wounded), Lieutenants David wounded) and Gouverneur Morris, Jr. (son of Gouverneur

Companxj H, Morrisania: Captain H. B.

Harmel

(mortally

Morris of the Committee).

Company

and

Sing Sing: Captain

Clark Peck, Lieutenants Charles

Hyatt

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,

Yonkers, were mustered into the United States service in F, on

September

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,

Benjamin Price,

killed.

Foui-th Coi-poral.

Judson Abbott, Fifth Corporal.

Edgar

Nodine, Sixth Corporal.

Privates.

Archer, Nathaniel, Barnes, Frederick

killed.

E., died in hospital.

Bragg, William,

all

Company

killed.

Brown, James.

Bennett, Michael.

Burke, James.

Boyle, James.

Cain, Joseph, wounded.

YOXKElm IS THE REBELLION.

Cahkoll, Jajies.

McMahon, John. Morris, John T.

Collin, Patrick.

NoRRis, Michael.

CoNLiN, Anthony.

O'Doxneli,, John.

CouGHLiN, John.

O'RouRKE, Michael, wounded.

Donahue, Michael.

PiLSON,

Foley, John.

Pope, Willlam, dead.

Casey, Daniel.

FoRMAN, Schuyler B.

Reed, James.

Gilbert, James D.

Reiff, Jacob.

Goodwin, Francis.

Rein, Geor(;e, wounded and

Gorman, Patrick.

died in prison.

Ryan, Thomas.

Hallett, Demetrius. Hamilton, William, taken

prisoner,

Sherwood, James

died of wounds.

E., died in

prison of wounds.

Harris, Jacob L.

Sherwood, Richard H.

Henry, John.

Smith, Thomas A.

Hunt, James.

Thompson, William,

Kiley, WiLLLiM,

Vandervlant, Cornelius.

Van Wart, Stephen.

Kelly, Timothy. Lane, Thomas, died of wounds.

VoLZ, George.

Laphaji, Solon, wounded.

Watson, Williaji. Welsh, James. Welsh, Richard.

Lal'NY, Thomas. Lind.say,

William.

Whitlock, Aaron, dead.

LouNSBURY, Paul.

McGann, Philip,

It is

not

now

of the killed,

killed.

Vail, William.

killed.

Keanily, Jeremiah.

killed.

possible to give an accurate statement of the

wounded, and missing, or even of

members of this Com] la to the time of the biit,

J.V3IES.

<r t

all

those

names

who were

hese throe yeans' service. Almost

muster no iiernianent

fiehl-ofiicers

were

cho.><en,

pending their appointment, Lewis G.Morris, of the Committee,

acted as the Provisional Colonel.

SIXTH NEW-YOBK VOLUNTEER AUTILLEBY. The experiences

of actual

war having demonstrated the

necessity

for liaving either thoroughly educated or veteran soldiers as field-

volunteer regiments, the Colonelcy was

officers of

Thomas Arden,

of Cold Spring, a graduate of

his declination, the position

tain

was tendered

first

West

offered to

Upon

Point.

and accepted by Cap-

William Hopkins Morris, also a graduate of West Point, and

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, a gallant

wounded

officer of the Fifth

its

Captain Prime being unable

Lieutenant-Colonel.

immediately secure his transfer from the

Howai'd Kitching, of Dobbs Ferry, a

the Second

New- York Light

of Yonkers,

on the Peninsula under McClellan,

in one of the battles

was appointed

now

New- York Volunteers, who had been

Artillery,

War

bi'illiant

who had

Department,

young

also

officer in

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,

Howard Kitching became

few months

later, after

of Brigadier-General, he

became the Colonel

either as its Colonel or the

formed a

he led

commander

of the Regiment, and,

of the Brigade of

in all of the battles in

which

was engaged

and including Cedar Creek, where he received a wound which

proved J.

part,

the actual Lieutenant-Colonel, and a

the promotion of Colonel Morris to the rank

fatal.

H. Robinson, of New-York

signed after a few weeks' service.

City,

was chosen the Major,

liut re-

Charles H. Leonard, of Rockland,

was appointed Adjutant, Frederick Tompkins,

also of Rockland, the

Quartermaster, and Jared G. Wood, M. D., of Brewsters, Surgeon.

YoxKKiis IX THE hehelliox.

The Regiment was 20,

18fj'2,

in the old

Station, then

known

fields

Yonkers on or about August

as the Bedstead Factory, but

The

Plough Works.

assembled

first

building on the river bank south of the Railroad

now as

now known

then existing south of the old Pistol Factory,

the Carpet and

Hat Works

Regiment was not then

part of the

dress-parade took place in the open

first

of the

John

fully uniformed,

other equipments, except that

Waring Company.

and was without arms or

had received a

The

National and State colors, which was then for the

full

stand of

first

time un-

furl..!.

Captain William H. Morris was, on that occasion, presented to

by Lewis G. Morris,

the Regiment as its Colonel,

iu a brief address

which elo(iuently expressed the Committee's appreciation of the great responsibility resting

upon

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 career of Captain Morris, to the confidence of the

Colonel Morris

and

closoil Viy

soldierly reply, expressing his pride

pleasure in being permitted to

and

war

aud

a Regiment composed of

announcement

would arrive on September

after the formalities of the States, the

command

friends, closing with the

that the mustering officers

seat of

l)rilliant

(•iiiuiin'iiiling liim

Regiment.

made a

his lifelong neighbors

warmly

and that

muster into the service of the United

Regiment was expected

to proceed

immediately to the

— an announcement that was n^eeived with cheers.

After the ceremonies of the muster by Cajitaiu W. S. Ivlgcrtoii,

United States Army,

Lewis

was

G-.

Morris of

in the

tlic

presence of Cliaun.-fy M. Drprw and

rninn Drl'mc.' ("nnimitte«\ the

rnibarkc<l u]>om a liarge, taken to Perth

Amboy. and

(•(.niiiiand

theiK-c

SIXTH by way

vail

NEW -YORK VOLUNTEER

report to Major-General Wool.

ARTILLERY.

where

of Philadelphia to Baltimore,

was a period

was ordered

of intense excite-

ment, because of the misfortunes to the Union arms and the then

approaching invasion of the North by the Rebel army. phia

band

of a

had been shocked by the

itself

of Rebel rough-riders,

who had

approach to

safely ridden

city of Baltimore, flanking our forces stationed there,

Philadelits

suburbs

around the

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

The

period.

York and

streets

through which they passed from the

to the Baltimore depots were

conditions,

all in

crowded with people of

all

New ages

a state of frantic excitement, vying one with

another in eager efforts to swell the grand proportions of the wel-

coming ovation.

At Baltimore to a

Camp

the

Regiment was assigned by Major-Geueral Wool

of Instruction, where, under Colonel Morris's masterly

handling, ably assisted by Lieutenant-Colonel Kitching and the

other

officers, it

General its

made such

Wool made

i"apid

progress in

public mention of "

proficiency in drill and discipline,"

tion the

signated talion

War Department it

the Sixth

raised

its

military duties that

its soldierly

and upon

his

bearing and

recommenda-

to the Artillery service,

New-York Volunteer

Artillery.

and de-

third Bat-

and two additional Company organizations were added,

viz.

Company L, Cold Spring: Captain A. B. Truesdell, Lieutenants George D.

Spencer and William G. Ferris.

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 lery service

i-ed

triiximings of the Artil-

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 Army of tlic Sliciiandoali, (â&#x20AC;˘ontimicil

the James, and with Sh.'iidaii's to serve as Infantry.

On and

December

after

26, 18()2, the

Kegimeut was sent

Harper's Ferry, in detachments, upon the receipt by Major-General

the

Schenck, who had in the mean time succeeded General Wool in command of the Eighth Army Corps, of the following despatch

War

Department, Washington, December

Major-General Schenck, Baltimore, Md. You must defend Harper's Ferry with your command. your forces there.

If necessary,

26, 1862

concentrate

Almost everything available about Washington has been sent

to General Burnside.

Keep me

advised of the enemy's

movements.

W. Halleck,

After six months or more of very varied service

General-in-Chiff.

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

during the Gettysburg campaign, ]>ecoming

of the

pai-t of

Potomac

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.

afterward with Ajres's Division of the Fifth Corps, participated

campaigns of the

in all 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

dan's

Army

in the

The following

Army

of the Potomac, with Sheri-

Army

Shenandoah, and with the list

of the James.

more important engagements with the

of its

enemy: With thb Army of the Potomac. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wapping Heights, July 23, 1863. The Grant â&#x20AC;&#x201D; WUderness, May 5, 6, and 7, 1864 Spottsylvania, May 8, 9, 10, 11, and Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Fox, in his work entitled " Regimental Losses

campaign

;

12, 1864.

in the Civil

at the

the

War,"

states that the

Regiment was one of thirty-four regiments

same time engaged which suffered the heaviest

losses of

Potomac on those days. Hanis Farm, Spottsylvania, May

tion of the services of the troops

engaged on

any

in the

19, 1864.

Army

In recogni-

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 InThe gallant manfantry] of Heavy Artillery, in the affair of yesterday evening. 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

Major-General Meade, S. S.

Battles at the

Ford of the North Anna River, May

battles the Sixth Artillery lost in the

Army of

in the Civil

the

War.")

Potomac

at the

in killed

May

June

despatch from the

and

Williams. 27.

In these

and wounded than any other regiment

same time engaged.

Bethesda Church,

The New- York Herald battles:

23, 24, 25, 26,

(

Vide " Regimental Losses

30.

1 said, in reference to

Army

one of these

of the Potomac, dated on

yosKEKs ry the hebellios.

Tuesday

says that the day before the Fifth Corps, advanciug

i)ight,

from the Havre's Store toward Bethesda Church, drove the enemy about two miles. ging

sunset, while the

men were engaged

Rhodes's and Early's Divisions

rifle-pits,

Warren's right flank, causing him to

fall

made an

back from his

The enemy then advanced and charged the second

in dig-

attack on first line.

Kitching's

liue.

Brigade of Heavy Artillery w^as posted there, and opened a heavy fire in

conjunction with batteries on both flanks, which nearly de-

The enemy

molished the Rebel column of attack. rible disorder,

and

Meehanicsville Pike, June 1 of Cold Harbor, Petei"sburgr,

22, 23, 24, tlie

June

June 18

and

;

.3 ;

more or

Long

Bridge, June 13

assault on

;

continuously engaged during June 19, 20, 21,

less

25, 18G4; siege of Petersburg,

June 23 to August

13, 18&4,

including

30. 18(U.

With General Sheridan's Army

the Shenandoah Valley.— Battle of J. Howard Kitching, the beloved Regiment, here received a wound which caused his death Major

Cedar Creek, near Winchester, October Colonel of the

in ter-

field."

Mechanicsville Pike (second position), June 2 ; battle

;

Cliickahominy, near

Mine Explosion on July

back

fell

and wounded on the

left tlieit- (lead

14, 1864.

;

Jones and Lieutenant Raspljerry were killed

;

and

tlie

devolved upon Major George C. Kibbe, a gallant and

With the Army of the James.— Defences gagement, January

22, 1865;

repelled assault,

command

of the

Regiment

efficient officer.

Bermuda Hundred; sharp

en-

January 24; repelled assault on

picket-line, Febi-uary 13. 1865.

Licutfiiaiit-Cokiucl

commanded

the

George

C. Kiblic,

who had ably and

Regiment since Colonel

wounded, was commissioned Colonel March the Regiment was under llniMlie.l. .\i.iil

•_',

lS(i.-).

fire

was

in a

Howard

17,

lS(;r).

irallaiitly

Kitihinii^

The

liriel' enij;;ip'nii'iit

last

was time

ISerniuila

SIXTH NEW-YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. The

original

members

of the

ment New- York Volunteer Infantry were mustered out of States service

the Tenth

York

June

One Hundi'ed and Thirty-Fifth Regithe United

The remainder, with a Battalion

27, 1865.

New-York Artillery, became the consolidated Sixth New-

Artillery, of

which Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Baker,

of the

Sixth Artillery, was chosen Colonel, on account of brave and meri-

and was mustered out July

torious services,

having

13, 1865, after

done General Provost-Marshal duty about Petersbui'g subsequent to the surrender of Lee.

The following

was recently received from Colonel

letter

Wm.

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

was omitted from the

list

Artillery,

by which the Regiment

of his selected " Three

ing Regiments," a position to which

was

Hundred Fight-

entitled

by " the

ti'ail

of blood."

August

Major Feedebic Shonnard, Yonkers, N. Y. Bear Sir : In reply

would say that there

1891.

no question but that your old Regi-

ment, the Sixth Artillery, was a fighting Regiment in every sense of the word, and I

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

The following extract from the report

Henry

October will

William

fraternally.

F. Fox.

Brigadier-Greneral

Hunt, Chief of Artillery, Ai-my of the Potomac, dated

31, 1864, in

which the Regiment

honorably mentioned,

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, Sixth

New- York,

Colonel

Howard Kitching;

the Fifteenth

New -York,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

Colonel

YOyKEli.S IX

44 L. Schirmer,â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

and

3-inch, twelve 10-pounder,

The troops

horn mortars. first,

The Howard Kitcliing, Sixth New- York Artillery, New- York Regiments, six battalions of foot

officers,

This Brigade formed the

and 2,901 men.

and furnished the guards for the reserve and the park attached

this

Ill

and Fifteenth

consisted of the Sixth

ArtUlery armed as Infantry, 84

was

20-pounder Parrotts,and eight 24-pounder Coe-

six

of the reserve were organized into three brigades.

under the command of Colonel

escort

THE UKBELUOX.

twelve batteries of field artillerj-, twenty-six Napoleons, eighteen

all

it,

and

times disposable as a reserve and to reinforce the Corjjs in battle.

way

did valuable service, taking

fighting of the

anny

.share of the

its full

marching and

in addition to its special duties.

That afternoon (the 7th), the Reserve Artilleiy marched to Piney Branch Church,

which place Artillerj-

reached on the morning of the 8th, when Kitching's Brigade of foot

was ordered

for

Hancock, at Todd's Tavern.

to report to Major-General

General Hancock ordered

back

From

the next morning.

to the reserve the

this time this

same

night,

and again

one Corps to another, being either always in action or on the march, until finally,

called

Brigade was marched to and fro from it

was

on the breaking up of the reserve, attached to the Fifth Corps, Major-

General Warren.

Tile survivors of

tliis

l)ravc Rcgiiiifiit,

signally flistinguished tlicinsclvcs

leaving their

homes

and

tlic iiifinlicrs

their patrintic

of wliich so

promptness

to risk tlieir lives in the defence of tlie

ernment, and in their conduct on of the war, again

liy

made manifest

their patriotism as citizens,

many

havd-fought battle-fields

men,

their sterling (jualities as

Gov-

tlieir

orderly return to the

avocations of peace.

On September t.r-in

tlie

1890, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the

riiited

Kegiineut, was held in

States service,

Turn

the

Hall, Yonkers.

survivors attended, clasped hands for the a ci'iitury,

made

mibraced

carli otii.r

s])eerlies,

first

liist

mus-

reunion of

tlie

Over three hundred time

sang songs, laughed,

in a iiuartei- of

crie<l, elieered,

and

around the supper-table, after having organ-

ized tlieniselves into a soeietv entitled Tin- Frati'rnitv of the Sur-

SIXTH NEW-YORK VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. vivors of the Sixth

New -York Volunteer

Artillery,

and

45 elected the

following officers

Frederic Shonnard. President,

late

Major U.

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. J. B.

Eakins, Treasurer, late Sergeant U.

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.

ON THE NORTH

SIDE.

THE ARTILLERY STATUE.

This statue was designed aud drawn by

J. E. Kelly, of

New- York.

presents a gunner in action looking attentively to note in the distance the effect of a shot just fired. scientious, skilful execution,

Fidelity of conception, lofty motive, con-

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

McHenry, Baltimoee

— Captain

— Vai^iant Service at Foet —

John Padden's Company

Garrison Duty at Fort Richmond, New- York Harbor.

CAPTAIN hatch's COMPANY.

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

H, Seventeenth Regiment, National Guard State 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

Company

New -York. The

YOSKERS

/A'

IHE REBELLION.

John McClain, Third Sergeant.

Walter H. Paddock, Fourth Robert A. Getty,

Sergeant.

First Corporal.

Co>r\VAY PiLSON, Second Corporal.

JosiAH Rich,

Jr.,

Third Corporal.

William Macparlane, Fourth John Cahill, Musician. James Kennedy, Musician.

Corporal.

Adams, Charles H.

Morrison, DA\^D M.

Archer, Samuel.

Murphy, John. Odell, James B.

Archer, William Baird,

Edward

Otis,

Bashford, James,

Charles R.

Porter, William B.

Baird, William C. Jr.

Post, James V.

Beale, Willllm R.

Proseus, Joseph L.

Belknai', Ethelbert.

Radclijt,

Bell, Alonzo.

Redding, John F.

Blauvelt, Daniel,

Jr.

Abram S

Rice, Benjajiin.

Bro\vn, James H. B.

Sawyer, Benjamin

Brown, Haviland S. Campbell, John C. Campbell, John C, Jr.

Henry C. Silke, Freeman J. Smith, Samuel L.

Chamberlain, George.

Thayer, Stephen H..

Chamberlain, Isaac E.

TH0M.S0N, William.

F., Jr.

Sawy'er,

Coen, Thomas F.

Tindall, Richard B.

CoEN, John

Tyler,

EicKEMEYKR, Rl-DOLK. Fisher, Philip Frisbie,

George H.

Garrison, George 0.

Edward H. Von Storch, Henry

Ward, James. Waring, Cscar. Wilcox, Richard E.

Haight, Henry.

WiLSEA, James P.

Haley, Thomas H.

Woodworth, James

Jenley, John W.

Jr.

THE THIRTY-DAYS MEN.

CAPTAIN PADDEN\S COMPANY.

On "W.

the 4th of June, 1864, the thivty-days

Padden were mustered

men

enlisted

by John

into the service of the United States, at

Yonkers, and marched the same day over historic ground on Valentine'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

teenth Regiment, Sixth Brigade, National Guard, State Volunteers.

On Sunday morning, June

ment

on a Government transport

sailed

York Harbor, returning home July names

6 the

1864, the Fifteenth Regito Fort

same

Richmond, New-

year.

are copied fi'om the muster-in roll:

Officers.

John W. Padden, A.

WiLLARD,

Captain.

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

Mark

C. Post, Fifth Coi-poral.

Spencer, Sixth Corporal.

Joseph A. George, Seventh Corporal.

Albert Johnson, Eighth

B, Fif-

New-York

Coi-poral.

The following

YONKEJiS IN THE liEBELLlON. Prittiies.

Archer, Charles E. BaKKK,

.lAilES

JdiiNSox,

Charles

Jordan, Thomas.

Brady, Michael.

Kennedy, James.

Brow-n, Caleb V.

Kernan, James.

Cahill, John.

La^vhence, Chahles.

Carv, Patrick.

Lawrence, Thomas

Casuan, James.

Limbert, Benjamin.

Chamberlain, Charles W. CiLVJiPNEY,

Marshall, John.

Edward.

McCready, Thomas.

CoEN, John. Coon, John

Miller, Franklyn.

Mills, Joseph.

Crane, John.

Mitchell, Benjamin.

Crowtheb, Timothy.

Moody, Robert.

Daly, Micil^kl.

MoRUAN, Henry D.

Daly, Thomas F.

Myers, Henry

Daly, Thomas

Parkinson, George N.

Danks, Eli L.

Pethic, Charles.

Donohue, Cil\rles.

Post, Charles

DooLEY, John.

Post, Samuel.

DooLucKTY, John.

Regan, Michael.

DoiouERTY, John.

Ryan, Thomas.

Ellor, Joseph.

Schneider, Frederick.

Fisher, Charles R.

SiMMONDS, George.

WiLLUM.

Fisher, Philip.

SlJIMONS,

Fisher, William H.

Smith, Willlam.

Francis, Kellogo.

Stephens, George.

Gaury, Michael.

Stevens, Edward.

Gorman, John.

Tansey, Roger.

Gr^uiam, John

Tracy, Patrick.

Greitz, Frederick.

Van

Grunsbrall, Henry.

Wilsea, James

GuioN, William M.

Wing, Michael.

Hallihan, John.

Woodruff, Freukkkk H.

Ha.mpson, Thomas.

Â«M|iL

Tassell, S. C. P.

CHAPTER

THE HOME GUARDS. The Draft Riots

New- York

— Yonkers

Threatened

— Dr.

Henry M. Baird on the Situation— The Home Guards OrWatchganized to Preserve Order and Protect Property

—

Tower OF the First Presbyterian Church Squad"

— Duties

Defined by Frederick

Arrest and Court Martial

— Good

— "An S.

Awkward

Cozzens

— An

Service at a Critical

Time.

DURING

the draft riots in

less spirit

New-York,

reached Yonkers.

in July, 1863, the law-

company

of roughs

low approached King's Bridge, with the intention, of capturing the Star

Arms Company's

from be-

was rumored,

stock, in the building

occupied by the John T. Waring Manufacturing Company.

now An-

other rumor was that the Croton Aqueduct was to be tapped.

There were indications of trouble among the quarrymeu at Tuckahoe, in

and avowed sympathy

for the rioters in

New- York, who were

open rebellion against the laws, destroying private property and 55

YOXKEIiS IX TlfK liEIiKLUOX.

and even murdering, inoffensive people.

assaulting,

The

militia

organization had gone to the front to meet an emergoucy, while lai-ge

numbers

of the heads of families

to save the Union.

It is

stances, a general feeling of uneasiness

were

in the

army

battling

not strange that, under such circum-

was experienced.

meeting was held in the store of Acker, Edgar

resulted in the organization of the

Home

peace and protect persons and property.

Co.,

which

Guards, to preserve the Dr.

Henry M. Baird gives

the following account of the Guards and their work:

Judge Atkins

Home Guards

correct in his impression that I acted with the

summer

in the

of 1863.

I fear

services were of

no great account, and, indeed, the services of the entire Guard did not

amount

much more than

what despondent community.

off all

communication by

rail

There were distinct rumors of a probable

with the metropolis. vasion of Yonkers by

who were

some-

was during the time of the "draft

New- York, which had cut

riots" in

men from the marble-quarries

in-

near Tuckahoe

expected to come in quest of pillage, taking advantage

of the absence of our

timore.

to give a little courage to a

Company, then posted on Federal

Hill, Bal-

My brothers, Edward and William, were with the Company.

To meet

the emergency a goodly

number

of us

met and

using Fan-iugton Hall, situated where Radford Building

our iieadquarters.

upon alternate

One night

n'member

that as a

dozen of

nights.

a party of us, armed, patrolled

to got

us,

is,

wf were on duty

inilf

tli<'

distriet

Railroad Depot, where there were several engines brought

New- York,

drilled,

now

them out

of harm's way.

near the uji

from

Another night half a

under command of .ludge Atkins,

slept in the untin-

THE HOME GUARDS.

ished stable on the present pi'operty of Mi-. William Allen Butler, at Palisade

avenue and High

night, sent out parties of

that

all

was quiet

street,

and repeatedly, during the

two or more

to visit

Hog

Hill,

and

see

there.

Another night, Mr. William

Waring,

and

Sr.,

spent in the

tower of the First Presbyterian Church, taking turns in watching for the signal

we might

to call out all

good

and

secrecy,

all

receive to ring the great bell as an alarm

citizens.

The watchword had been given us

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

Everett Clapp, then President of the village, was

men.

active in organizing the force,

and supplied them with carbines

from the Star Arms Cjtmpany.

Lyman

tary,

Thomas

V. Morris

Cobb,

Jr.,

acted as Secre-

was Commander, and Gardner P. Haws

was Adjutant. Company

and

Captain WiLLiAii MoNTGOMEEY, Lieutenants Frederick C. Oakley

T. A. Atkins.

Company B: Captain Edgar Logan, Lieutenants

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.

Willaed and

T. Hill.

A general order, issued by President Clapp, designated that ComA should meet weekly, at the armory in Farrington Hall, for

pany

YOXKEliS IX THE REBELLIOX.

,-,8

on Monday evening at 8

drill,

evening,

o'clock,

Company C on Thursday

Company B

Wi-diicsday

i>n

evening, and ("oiiipany

Saturday evening.

At a meeting declared to be

of the force held July 22, 1863, the object

When

protect property

orders issued

and preserve the peace;

by the

who may

by reason of

was

village authorities to to execute all lawful

village authorities; to protect

well-disposed persons spoliation

upon by the

called

and uphold

all

be threatened with coercion or

their refusing to join riotous assemblages.

the arrival of the carbines at the armory. President Clapp

put them in charge of

and ordered him

Lyman

Cobb,

be in the course of an hour or the promised relief

gave him the password,

Jr.,

watch over them until relieved, which would

was

In the excitement of the time

so.

forgotten.

visiting the

morning, President Clapp found Mr. Cobb here yet!" was the exclamation.

Mr. Cobb.

"Well,"

the

f^iiid

still

armory next

on guard.

President,

"you

You

are a good sol-

Explanations followed, and the circuinstanoes caused

dier."

"I have obeyed orders," replied

much

merament. In addition to the

Home

Guards, a large force of employees was

organized to protect the Star force

was

Arms

Comjiany's property, and that

well equipped with cannon, guns, pistols, &c., for effec-

tive service in case of attack.

seems altogether probable that

these precautions preventccl trouble

the loss of

"It

may

life

and

tliat

yet

The corporations was

have

be said," remarked one of the (Juards. "that

body was an awkward squad, and the ment.

iniglit

resultctl in

])roperty.

some were

drills atfordt>d

tin' iMitire

much amuse-

of aldermanic proportions,

insisted that thev should line front

and

ri'iir.

Manv

THE HOME GUARDS. could not keep step left foot,

—

and when commanded to step

they would start

with the right.

off

Home Guards

with the

see the

go through the manual of arms was truly a comical the

off

Guards

sight.

Still

served a very useful purpose."

Frederick S. Cozzens declared that

case of invasion by an

enemy

was the duty

and not

to defend the village at all hazards,

of the

to leave

Guards

except in

— and then, to get out on the double-

quick. It is related that

Broadway one

two of the Guards, oat on patrol duty on North

night,

saw a man with a bundle enter a barn under

what they considered suspicious circumstances.

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."

Judge- Advocate was on hand to prosecute, and the Court

mercifully assigned counsel to defend the prisoner's "liberty and

He was

life."

searchea^ and two matches were found in one of his

pockets. " There " shouted the Judge- Advocate, with startling emphasis. !

What more do you want ?

not those matches afford con-

clusive evidence that this person intended to

up Yonkers

The

prisoner's counsel

of his trembling client

him "

guilty,

the barn and blow

was earnest and eloquent

— but

all to

and sentenced him

Mein Got

York

fire

no purpose.

to be shot.

exclaimed the frightened German.

keep from bein' murdered

here dan dey vos

down

dere

in the defense

The Court found

His

— and life

I fin'

lef

New-

you vos verse up

was spared.

YOyKEBS IN THE UEBELLIOS.

We it is

Home

have been unable to find the rosters of the

believed that the following gentlemen were

Guarils, but

among

those

who

united with their fellow-citizens to protect Yonkers at a critical period

AcKERMAN, James. AcKERMAN, William G.

East, John A.

AcKERT, Nelson.

Elting, E.

Andeksox, Willlam H.

Embree, John.

ARrmiiALD, William.

Embree, Robert.

FaRRINGTON, THOiUS 0.

Atkins, T. Astley. Baird,

Edgar, William B.

Henry M.

Flagg, Ethan.

Baldwin, Anson.

FooTE, William C.

Barnes, Reuben.

Francis, George

Barry, Samuel

Francis, Kellogg.

Bashford, James.

Garrison, Hyatt L.

Belknap, Charles.

Getty, Robert P.

Bills, Orrix A.

Getty,

Brewer, Rev. Darius R. Brown, Henry.

Hawkins, Joseph W.

Burns, jEREMLiii.

Hobbs, John.

Chadeayne, Charles L.

Jenkens, Dr. J. Foster.

Emmett.

Haws, Gardner.

Keeler, Albert.

Clapp, Everett.

Cleveland, Cyrus.

Knox, Isaac H. Lawrence, Justus.

Coffey, John

Lawrence, Willum H.

Clark,

Coleman, William T.

Major, William.

Condon, L. R.

Mason, John M.

Curran, Huoh.

Mercer, Charles T.

cuthell, tuomas h.

Montgomery, William.

Devoe, Henry F.

MoTT, Willlam R.

Deyo, Philip A.

Neville, Robert.

DiNSMORE, Samuel.

Olmsted, John.

DiNSMORE, Luther.

Otis, E. G.

DoRAN, Walter A.

Pagan, John. Peene, Joseph.

Doty, William H. DOUOLASS, RoilERT

Dkim.mdn, William P.

Perry, Safford G. PiLsoN,' Conway.

THE HOME GUARDS. Quick,

Stout, Theodore B.

Francis.

Eadcliff, Peter E.

Underbill, Edward. Upham, Dr. George B.

Read, Jacob. Bobbins, Jeremiah.

Vail, Jonathan.

Sanders, Jajmes P.

Valentine, James M.

ScRivEN, James.

Von Stoech, Henry

Shipman, Ralph.

Waring, William

Shonnaed, Edward Skinner, George B. Speedling, Alonzo.

Waring, Charles E. Waring, Jarvis. Waring, John

Stare, Benjamin A.

Wells, Lemuel.

Stare, Charles.

woodworth, w. w.

Stewart, David.

YouMANS, James.

Stewart, George.

^"^

CHAPTER

VI.

THE SANITARY

Great Success

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Over

Aid the Benevolent

FAIR.

Sixteen Thousand Dollars Raised to

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 of the widely extended

Sanitary Commission

Officers:

and beneficent work

among

the sick and

Isaac H. Knox, President;

Whiting, James L. Valentine, William

money

in aid

of the United States

wounded Union

soldiers.

Ethan Flagg, James R.

W. Scrugham and

Everett

Clapp, Vice-Presidents; William H. Post, Recording Secretary;

G. Hilton Scribner, Corresponding Secretary urer;

James

C. Bell,

Justus Lawrence,

Morris, Robert P. Getty, Cyrus Cleveland,

William G. Ackerman, Robert R. Hibbard, Mrs. George

;

E. J. Hanks, Treas-

Edward

Martin, John H.

Thomas

C. Cornell,

Douglas, John T. Waring, Mrs. T.

W. Embree, and

Miss Alantha P. Pratt,

YONKEUS IX THE HE BELLI ON.

(i4

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.

Chairman

(Jeoi-irt-

W. Embree,

Mrs. Henry Anstice, Mrs. Samuel D. Babcock, Mrs.

;

Henry W. Bashford, Mrs. Henry M. Henry Bowers, Mrs. Henry

Baird, Mrs. William Bell, Mrs.

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.

Gant, Mrs. Samuel P. Holmes, Mrs. Anson B. Hoyt, Mrs.

Thomas

Kenworthy, Mrs. Justus Lawrence, Mrs. Edgar Logan, Mrs. Ed-

ward Martin, Mrs.

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.

liam C. Waring, Mrs. F.

Lemuel Wells, Mrs. Wilm II.

Thomas

Bellier,

F. Morris, Mrs. Wil-

Mrs. John T. Waring, Mrs.

Beets, Mrs.

W. W. Woodworth,

Mrs.

n. Wolcott, Misses Carrie Gaylor, F. C. Bellamy, Bloomer, Cahill,

Ida Cleveland, I^fary A. Foster,

Grimwood, Kate

Hullicit,

('.

Mary

Francis Gourlie,

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: Jo.seph Agate, Mrs. T.

Mrs.

llil.banl.

Cluiiniiaii;

Mrs.

Binlsall, .Mrs. Willii.ni T. ('..Iniiau, Mrs.

THE SANITARY FAIB. C.

H. Lillientbal, Mrs. Thomas

Reuben W. Van ton.

Pelt,

W. Ludlow,

Mrs. T. M. North, Mrs.

Miss A. Bettner, Miss Chapin, Miss Farring-

Miss Harriet Getty, Miss Elizabeth Hilton, Miss Anna Pendle-

Shannon, Miss Lila Seward, Miss Annie Shipman,

ton, the Misses

Miss Jane Underwood, Miss Edna Waring, Miss Rachel Waring,

WiUiam

T. Coleman,

W. Ludlow,

Jr.,

Hudson Kingsley,

Josiah Rich,

Painting and Fine Arts

James B. Mrs.

Colgate, Mrs.

Edward Miss

Gihon,

Gt.

Cobb,

Jr.,

V. Kellinger, William Bell,

Alfred Jones, Horace

Saunders Coates,

Lyman

Cozzens,

Flagg, Carleton Gates,

Moody, E.

Mrs.

A. Underwood, the Misses

Shonnard, Mrs.

;

Mrs. Saunders Coates,

Frederick A. Coe, Dr. L.

H. Lillientbal, Thomas

William T. Coleman, Chairman

Lyman

Thomas W. Ludlow, Frederick

and

A. Rollins, and Henry Baylis.

C. Moore,

Cobb,

Jr.,

Thomas Gray,

William Shannon,

B. Carpenter.

Printing: John T. \Variug, Chairman; William R. Beal,

Buren Denslow,

W. Padden, Lyman

Cobb,

Jr.,

Van

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. S.

M. Haines, Miss Kate Hurlbert, Miss

M. McAdam, Miss Ida Robbins, Miss Anna Thurber, Miss Kate

Taggard, Miss Lucy Valentine, Edward P. Baird, William C. Baird,

George

Bashford, William H. Doty, David Morrison,

Robbins, Josiah Rich,

Jr.,

Edward

Frederic Shonnard, William B. Strang,

Stephen Struthers, and Marshall Whiting.

;

THE KEBKLLIOX.

YOXKfJIiS IX

(jf;

Rooms and S. Archer,

Decorations:

Thomas

C. Cornell,

Chairman William ;

John D. Hatch, Anthony Imhoff, George Leeds, Charles

Starr, B. Leeds,

John McLain, Valentine Melah, and

Francis

Quick.

Lectures, Music, and Entertainments

Francis N. Bangs, E. S. Cummings,

Robert P. Getty, Chairman

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,

Henry Williams, and George W. Embree.

Refreshments: Philip A. Deyo, Chairman

man, Mrs.

J. C. Bell,

zens, Mrs.

George Embree, Mrs.

IMrs.

Mrs. William G. Acker-

;

Mrs. J. Blake, Mrs. P. A. Deyo, Mrs. F.

Thomas Gray, Mrs.

D. Hatch, Mrs.

L.-wis Loib, Mrs. D. C. Kellinger, Mrs. C.

Sweeny, Mrs. Hull, Mrs. H.

Coz-

H. Godwin, Mrs. A. T. Gourlie,

Moody,

J. S.

Hawkins, Mrs.

Lynch, Mrs.

Mi-s.

A. C. Mott,

.)<>lin

.Mr-

Mr.s. J.

Morrison, Mrs. A. Munkittrick, Mrs. John M. Mason, Mrs. H. N. Otis, Mrs.

W. H.

A. Rollins, Mrs.

Post, Mrs. Eliza Potter, Mrs. S. F. Quick, Mrs. G.

J. C.

Grimwood, Mrs. W. W. Scrugham, Mrs.

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

Wakeley, Miss Wells, Miss Wil-

liams, Bailey

Hobbs, A. Ai-chibald, H. F. Baldwin, Justus Lawrence,

C. Davis,

Frederick C.

TT.

Dut}-,

();ikh y,

.1.

George W. Embree, Duncan MactVnlano,

K. Parsons,

S. Radcliff, T. B. St.ait, S.

Struthers, E. P. Haird, and T. O. Farriiigton.

;

THE SANITABY FAIR.

War

Memorials and Curiosities: Robert

E. S. F. Arnold, H.

eayne,

Henry

Thomas

W. BasMord,

Douglass, Chairman;

B. F. Bunker, Charles L. Chad-

William H. Lawrence,

C. Crane,

Josiali Rich, Jr.,

James Stewart, E. Strang,

F. Morris, Joseph T. Sanger,

Syms, Edward Underhill, Dr. George B. Upham, and W.

S. R.

Woodworth.

Produce, Groceries, and Provisions William G. Ackerman, Chair:

man

;

E. M. Bibby, M. T. Bolmer,

Henry

L. R. Condon, T. A. Collins, P. A. Deyo, kee, Charles R. Dusenberry,

Vermilyea, George

F. Brevoort,

A. Dur-

William B. Edgar, Caleb Fowler, A. F.

Francis, D. H, Kellogg, Dennis McGrath,

Thomas Radford, John

Peter F. Peek, Robert F. Rich, Jacob Read,

W. Rockwell, Edward

James Brown,

Gilman Dudley,

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 Richardson,

Henry Anstice, E. J. Elting, William Macf arlane, M. W. Rooney,

H. L. Stone, Walter Vail, B. Locke, Frederick

Heman

L. White,

John N, Stearns, John

Bellier, A. Munkittrick,

Mechanics and Useful Arts

and

H. Wilgus.

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.

YOXKEHS IN THE REBELLION.

fJH

The main on James pied by in

exhibition was in the large three-story

Howard W. Flagg

Fan-ingtou Hall

was given

1)ric-k

then just erected for Ethan Flagg, and

street,

in the

;

and a

as a hat-factory series of

;

building

now

occu-

the art exhibition was

veiy successful entertainments

Getty Lyceum, a public hall which then formed

part of the Getty House.

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

The President

of the United States,

their best wishes to the ladies

the benefit of the sick and

and the Heads

and managei-s of the

wounded

14. 1864.

of Departments, tender

fair to

lield at

Yonkers for

soldiers.

A. Lincoln,

Wiu.i\M H. Seward, S. P.

Chase,

Edwin M. Stanton, Gideon Welles.

The

letter

sealed.

bore the signature of each

was

cents each, and presented to the village.

list

of the purchasers, in their

occupy prominent places

II.

The

original letter

and

are framed, and

in the City Clerk's office. St.

John's Cliurch, sent a

Knox, President of the Yonkers Sanitary Fair,

saying, " I have the pleasure to inclose

the proceeds of a collection

January

and was formally

own handwriting,

Rev. Dr. Al)raham B. Carter, rector of note to Isaac

official,

sold to three hundi-ed contributors of twenty-five

made

24, 18(54, in aid of the

check for

in St. John's

.^750,

being

Church, on Sunday,

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. concerts, entei-tainmeuts, lation of the

and

collections.

town was something over

16,000,

69 that time the popu-

and the

over one dollar for every man, woman, and child within It

was a remarkably successful event,

socially

and

borders.

financially,

clearly demonstrated the patriotic spirit of the people.

fair netted its

and

—

CHAPTER

VII.

AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. YONKERS AT THE ClOSE OF THE REBELLION LAGE

More Progressive

THE Fall of Richmond

— Return

FROM the

war

— GROWTH OF THE VIL— Celebration op

Census

— President Lincoln's Assassination

Our Brave

Soldiers.

acceptance of the Village Charter to the close of

— ten years six years — was an eventful decade for the

the Rebellion of

— The

of peace, four years

little

the banks of the Nepperhan.

hainlet strung along

In these years healthful progress

was made, and foundations securely

laid

whereon have been

built

the superstructures of the present day.

Many hands

questions there were to be settled, and vdlling hearts and

to settle them.

tled, there

the

offices,

The form

government temporarily

quickly arose the potent question as to

who

administer the law.

those eventful days.

Great

who should

strifes there

setfill

were in

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

YONKERS IN THE liEBELLIOX.

Fierce were the debates in Getty

and the bounty.

the town-bonding for bounties to substitutes.

were the contests for town Supervisor

Lyceum over

Scarcely less fierce

days of the war,

in those sad

so important were his duties.

Amid of

the clamor of popular

the Nation,

impatient,

this

grew rapidly.

the close of the

many handsome

was bursting

its

bonds.

the north end of the vil-

places had been laid out

Along the Hudson most

Hill

and

built upon.

had been taken up

of the valuable sites

The Flats and the

and improved.

and

war the place had assumed an appearance

not unlike that of the present day. lage

Restless

knocked at Mr. Shonnard's gate on the north,

still

and Mr, Ludlow's on the south.

and despite the convulsion

strife,

village

little

had assumed the appear-

ance which remains to the present day. Along the Nepperhan, once

and factory had come

so pure, the mill

the stream with their

few

filth,

and color

to stay,

streets, or parts of streets, liad

roads slightly improved.

and make odorous

with their dyes.

been opened, and

better class of buildings

was

tlie

old

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

famous

These new-

village election contest of ten years before.

comers brought with able capital.

demand

for labor,

bad, the

mass

tlieiii jikhc!

Along with

of the

progressive ideas and nmcli avail-

these,

came a rougher

and lot,

chiefly

owing

the great

some very good, some

utterly

chiefly indifferent.

this date

inembere.l, and

the ancient town of Vonkt still

I'eai-hed fn-iii the

had nnt been

dis-

S|iuyten Diiyvil ("reek, on

AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAS.

the south, to the Greenburgh town-Hue, ou the uorth

Bronx

chiefly

formed

Around

western.

its

while the

Hudson

eastern boundary, and the

its

the foundry at Spuyten Duyvil, and again at

and

Riverdale, the population clustered, but north lage-line the

;

east of the vil-

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

and line,

there,

upon the

old Post road, north

were the more pretentious

village-

villas of the wealthier classes.

The town roads had not increased much and they were not models

Here

late date.

and south of the

numbers

of late years,

road-making by any means, being

kept up after the ancient method of scooping up dirt from the sides of the road to

ways were

dump

on the middle.

Within the

better kept, but the practice of

was not then

in vogue.

It is

village-lines the

macadamizing them

mud

but a short time back to

roads,

both in village and township, poor as the improved highways of

Yonkers are considered now. Yonkers to

For

all

outwa.-d appearance was not affected

been in Asia, so remote were

had a

men

solid share in putting

its effects.

down

it, it

But

statistics

the Rebellion.

by the war.

might as well have

show that

It is said that

Yonkers enlisted in the Mozart Regiment, and 135 in the

Sixth New- York of

knew

that the people personally

Heavy

Artillery

;

but this

far short of the total

Yonkers enlistment, for one authority says that Yonkers enlisted

254

men in army and

soldiers, of

whom

navy.

find reported 17 deaths

among our

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.

YONKERS IN THE HEISELUOX.

The census and the

town a population

of 1865 gives the

of over 12,000,

In the year 1800 the census gave

village nearly 9,000.

Yonkers 1,176 inhabitants.

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

manufactures

and on the Spuyten Duyvil Creek." several private seminaries, a bank, is

not exact, but

we add number

of both people

meu

and

carried on at

Yonkers

newspaper

This

oflSces."

near enough for a general Gazetteer.

a bank, several churches, a

about 1,000 truth.

"It contains 9 eharches,

number

of mills, a considerable

and houses, and say that Yonkers furnished

for the war,

to the sinews of war,

shall

probably come nearer the

we paid one

County Special Income Tax, and

(juarter of the

whole

in all other

war contributions

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

at the close of the

were not behind other towns.

We find in war

the census reports of that year

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 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." also noted,

increase of expenditure

and a marked improvement

Speaking concerning the that "

much

of livil life iu

the people

soldiers, the historian of that

year notes

the greater portion quietly returned to the avocations

life witli

the

among

in the condition of the poor.

lifld."

an industry

no degree impaired by their recent

of which applied to the

town

Yonkers

that date.

The year ISCm opened

aiui<l

mu<-h unrtTtaiiity and

many

mis-

AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAB.

giviugs as to the future.

The people

town and

village of

Yonkers were thoroughly

tired of the wai-, as, indeed,

were the

inhabitants of

all

prayed for peace.

of the

Every one hoped and

the towns of the county.

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

The new

draft of men.

At Tarrytown

quota of Yonkers was 106 of her sons.

the terrible

wheel was set turning with 1,528 Yonkers names therein

names were drawn. their part, the

so late a date, after so

good people

Yonkers

felt

many

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 212

sacrifices

the weight of this

call,

and additional prayers went heavenward that the cruel war might soon be over.

the weeks wore on into months, and the prospects of peace

a more joyous

increased,

Yonkers rejoiced

A Yonkers

sense

prevailed.

journal, of April

the

fall

at Yonkers,

among

on the

Cannon thundered

forth a joyous

and sundry impromptu exhibitions of fireworks were made.

Village Fathers held a meeting the

That

Richmond,

general rejoicing

on the corners or about Getty Squai-e to talk

over the events of the war.

The

which found vent in various ways." In the evening groups

of people gathered

salute,

other towns

said concerning the victoi-y that,

On receipt of the nt ws of the fall Monday afternoon last, there was a "

people,

With

at the downfall of the Confederacy.

this

Board recommend that the

same evening, and resolved

citizens of this village join in celebrating

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

YOXKEliS IN TIIK UEBELLIOX.

7()

river

was one of enchanting beauty.

display of fireworks

The

news

Music,

I'oar of caiiiion, aii<l

lent gi-eater interest to the festi\nties.

army was

of the surrender of Lee's

received with a

great demonstration, with steam-whistles, cannon, and church bells. It

was a glad day

for everybody."

"And greatly enjoyed by all." "The announcement of the

The

chronicler quaintly adds,

assassination of President Lincoln

came suddenly upon the people

of the

most intense feeling of sorrow."

"V'illage,

over the town, for everybody owned a flag

Appropriate mention was made

oi-

two

village stores

were closed,

in several of the churches.

brief," says a chronicler of that date, "

all

in those days.

churches on the following

in all the

Sunday. Upon the day of the funeral the

and funeral services were held

and jiroduced the

Flags were put at half-mast

"In

Yonkers, by every means

within her power, evinced the depth and sincerity of the sorrow of her people." Oil thi'

cvciiiiii,^

tile

'Jnth

of April, a vast

held at Farringt(jn Hall, at which .ludge

mass-meeting was

Scrugham

presided.

The

night before the Village Tinistees had met and passed appropriate resolutif)ns.

At the south

of the

Railway Station

memorial ardi wastlirown

over the railroad, and under this the funeral train passed northward, while every elevated point along the tracks was occupied by

our saddened

citizens,

who

eyes as the funeral train

Among

stood with niicovercd heads and tearful

moved

slowly by.

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. and

To show how

forgotten.

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 Along the west side of it a strong rail

presents quite an attractive appearance.

has been erected for the convenience of those who wish to hitch their horses thereto.

It is also related that

officer of the

Sixth Artillery brought to

Yonkers two of the blackest contrabands Yonkers people had ever laid eyes upon.

They were

Major Eobinson, and

slave boys of

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

by Thomas Radford,

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. not a pleasant thing to record, but

It is

that but

little

public

when they returned

homage was paid

to iheir

homes

it is

nevertheless true,

to the heroes of the

in Yonkers.

war

local reporter

noticed this, and recorded, for future generations to read, that "in

every place but Yonkers, to our shame be

said, the soldiers of

the Sixth Artillery are handsomely received and entertained." is

certainly an unpleasant record, for the Sixth Artillery

liarly a

was pecu-

Yonkers organization.

That the veterans held together for a while fact that

upon Thanksgiving Day

organized a target company,

of that year the

commanded by

evidenced by the

Yonkers

soldiers

Colonel E. Y. Morris,

and had for once a harmless shooting-party.

But

many 10

for all the public neglect, each veteran friends.

Some returned minus a

was a hero among

leg or arm, but

his

many more

YOXKEUS IS THE HEBELLIOX.

aud within a very short period

in shattered health,

number had passed

quite a

silently

away

But of coin

to pass

item in a local paper

war phase While

For many years now the clink

to other subjects.

had not been heard in the town.

When,

used as current money.

are

Paper had been exclusively

we read

therefore,

made more

of the currency

iu a ear of the

half

aud quarter

Yonkers and New-York Railroad, a few days ago, we saw

We also learn that several

dollars were taken at the Fenian picnic.

Times were not any too easy that seemed high to

the followiui,'

fully acquainted with the

a passenger hand the conductor a fifty-cent silver piece.

air

from

and turmoil.

strife

.silver

after their return

to their long rest

all.

"Everything,

year,

and the

rate of taxation

in short, is taxed,

except the

breathe, and that will jirobably be taxed by the cholera,

next spring." Ill

that

street,

year the Hudson River Railroad

still

ran to Thirtieth

and there were but ten trains each way daily which

at Yonkers.

It is

hard to believe, but

but two mails daily from Yonkers to

it is

.stuppetl

stated, that thei-e

were

New- York, and only one mail

Delays were tVeijuent and often tedious, both as to passen-

north.

gers and mails.

The field

soldier

was apt

who returned

to his

home

to find urgent necessity for

earn a living for himself and family. the labor-market irlutted. and

broke out he

now it

tile

<'oiild

buy

U cents;

(10

cents.

liviii;,' lii.Lrh.

Di.l

once to

easy task just then, with

When

a iioiind of tirst-elass butter for

same quality was

did not exceed

jn-i.'es

after foin- years in the

going to work

the

L':;

he Imy cotton cloth,

now he must pay

IVA ceiit.s.

war

cents; tiieii

Flour, that

AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. in 1860

was $8 a

now

barrel,

per bushel, and corn 57 cents.

Pork

price.

When

when he got home

cents a pound;

risen to three times that

now, alas! worth 30 cents per

at 12 cents of old,

Beans were 6 cents and

pound.

rice 5 cents

now he

a pound;

found the former at double their old price ,and the cost of the nearly trebled.

then he earned a more, while

latter

Had he worked as a day-laborer or farm-hand, dollar a day now he was worth only half a dollar ;

he needed was doubled, trebled, and oftentimes

all

But the brave man only worked the

quadrupled.

$1.30

he went away tea cost 50

had

Wheat was now

sold for $20.

hai'der,

and

fought out the bread-and-butter question as he had those questions at stake in the war.

And

themselves, and

termined

was

In time he had conquered and solved both.

had passed.

Many

questions had solved

many more had been

settled

by our brave and de-

so another period

citizens.

The day was

fast

approaching when Yonkers

to lay aside its youthful appearance, to drop its village

rural attire,

Many

and assume the

alive

and active

and

city.

leadMg men and women of the town and

of the

who were

airs of

in public life

and

village

charities at the out-

break of the war, had been called away at a time when their voices

and assistance were sadly needed. struction fell

upon the younger men

Much

of the

of that day,

work

of recon-

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 sters

who had

still

with

us,

and coached and applauded the young-

their shoulders to the wheel.

CHAPTER

VIII.

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN HOWARD HITCHING.

True Christian Hero Creek

— His him

see

of the

to respect him,

letter

its

He was born

died in Dobbs Ferry,

brief,

to love him.

Yonkers has honored Post.

The

was twenty-seven years

16, 1838,

His

10, 1865.

deeds, not

life's

and

battle

but he lived

old,

years— in thoughts, not breaths

In feelings, not in figures on a

;

dial.

should count time by heart-throbs.

Who

native land a valiant service which

strikingly illustrates the poet's lines

We live in

itself

of General J.

measured by months and

New- York, January

God and

life

New-York, July

in the city of

finished before he

long enough to do for

Cedar

of a soldier in Colonel Kitching^s commatid.

name Kitching

Howard Kitching was very

was

but to know him

Grand Army Posts

choosing for

years.

Bravery, Military Skill, and

Untimely Death at Dobbs Ferry.

From

ONE

— His

Commander— The Fatal Shot

Services as

He most

thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

lives

YoxKKiis IX

84 '

Memorials of

nil-:

ueuellion. remind us

sucli hi-voii- lives as his serve to

tliat

the part of tens of thousands of Union officers and soldiers there

was a deep

and often

patriotic devotion,

than those of

officers

much

sacrifices

larger

whose names are household words throughout

the length and breadth of the laud.

General Kitchiug's father was John

P>.

His mother's

Kitciiing.

maiden name was Maria Bradner Hunt.

Their home, at the

beginning of the Civil War, was at Dobbs Ferry.

The record

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 theirs.

He was

taught from infancy to love

Riding, boating, painting, and music wei'e iug's favorite pursuits.

He sang

which rang so musically on the AVliile heartily

cornet-i>layer.

manhood,

lie

his country.

among Howard

Kitch-

with that deep, clear voice

battle-field,

and he was a

skilful

enjojnng the reereatit)ns of young

did not forget that

heeded the solemn words, "

well,

homes such as

God and

'"life is real, life is

earnest."

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

Thereafter he loved intensely two l)anners the snow-white baiiiKT of a

Fre(|U('iitly

tlic

first

communion.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his country's flag and

cross.

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

he turned his attention

two years of took place

age,

lie

him

to enter

business career.

married Miss Harriet

in ('hi-ist"s

Sundav-Seh..ol when

to a

upon military

When l\i|iley.

life,

he was twentyTlie

ceremony

("hurch, Brooklyn, where he liad attemU^d hov.

Wliei, Fort Suinlertell,

Howard Kiteh-

BBEVET BBIGADIEB- GENERAL

HOWARD

ing, although not yet twenty-three years old,

York and

KITCHING.

went down

New-

enlisted with the Lincoln Cavalry as a soldier of the

Circumstances pi-evented his going to the front with

Union.

the Cavalry, but he soon received a Captain's commission in the

Second New- York

The Major

Artillery.

of that

Regiment was

Alexander Doull, a young Englishman, who had served with great distinction in the Crimea.

and

of real genius,

Doull was "a true soldier, a young

his friendship

was

of great value to the

man new

recruit."

Elm

Park, Staten Island, was the recruiting and drilling

On the 7th of November, Those who were present saw

camp

of the Regiment.

1861, they started for

Washington.

the youthful Captain

mounted on

the spirited gray horse which carried

whole war.

He had a word of

members

of his

Company.

remember one

him through the

cheer for the wives and sisters of the spectator wrote

old gray-headed

mau, pressing

and, with tears in his eyes, begging the young

his

oificer to

way through

the crowd,

The

be kind to his boy.

Captain put his hand on tL^ old man's shoulder, and promised him that he would look after his son.

From

forts

rifle-pits,

mother,

and camp-gi-ounds, from

Howard Kitching wrote sister,

patriotism,

and

wife,

battle-fields, trenches,

which breathed deep

and noble Christian

and

a series of letters to his father,

faith.

affection,

lofty

More than fourscore

those letters have been published in a volume from which a large portion of this chapter has been comj)iled.

heart and reveal a noble soul of delicate fills

;

They unbosom a pure

occasionally they glow with the light

humor, and frequently burn with a Christian

the reader with admiring wonder.

zeal

which

YOXKEKS I\ THE UKUKLLIOS.

Ward and

His Regiment did garrison duty for a time at Forts Ellsworth.

the impression

letter

from Fort Ellsworth, November, 1861, reveals

made upon

Cai)tain Kitching l)y a great re\iew of the

army by McClellan. "I saw the most magnificent witnessed

sight which I ever

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seventy tliousaml men, infantry, cavalry, and

spread over an immense

jjlain, their

artillery,

bright bayonets glistening in

the sun, their bands playing splendidly, cannon roaring from one side of the plain to the other, and, in fact,

the splendid appearance which so large an

words

will

not describe

army makes when drawn

in line of battle."

Garrison

life w^as

He was

too quiet for Captain Kitcliiiig.

eager to witness an engagement that on one occasion,

was a prospect

of a battle,

the batteries, and

he rode out from the

reiuaiii('<l

the morning, waiting for the in the

war he was spoken

tlic

enemy

field till

fort,

when

there

joined one of

about four o'clock in

to appear.

At that

early period

of as " one of the very best officers of the

whole army," but his youthful appearance was not in his favor

He was not twenty-four years of age when he am working very hard at my books, as I find that military men expect me to make ui> witli Ijiaius for absence of whiskers." When he was called into court as a witness the luiiversal opinion among

strangers.

wrote: "I

of the

members

young-looking

began

after he

Howard war, he "

was "an extraordinarily

for a Captain, but that he appeared

and

older

Kitching's friends, when, during the last yi-ars of the

the

same

for a

few days, observed a great change

l)right spirit as ever,

his look

him.

and the old sunny smile

passed at times over his handsome face.

older,

much

to speak."

came home

He was

still

of the court was that he

man

was more often than before

Hut he had grown irrave

and

iiuiet.

and

BREVET BBIGADIER-GENEBAL

HOWARD

KITGHING.

a sense of deep responsibility evidently weighed upon him." desired to be a competent

officer,

and, with his knowledge of me-

became familiar with the management

chanics, he

of guns,

and by

diligent study acquainted himself with fortifications.

As soon

was rumored that the army was about

toward Eichmond, he volunteei-ed to go to the

Upton

(then a Captain in the Regular

participate in the tain Kitching

fii'st

came

So anxious was

front.

Army) wrote

advance General

"Anxious

campaign of the

Army of

my battery and

sought permission to join

he, in fact, that

under me, but he went

still

the Potomac, Capit.

he not only waived his rank to serve

farther,

and took command

of a section

Foregoing every

as the junior Second Lieutenant of the battery.

consideration due to his rank, and ignoring the pleasures and comforts of garrison

he sought service in the

life,

enemies of his country pati'iotism,

but one which

his character as

officer

will forever reflect credit

and a

In 1862 General Mc^Olellan peake.

field

against the

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an act not only indicative of

his ardent

and honor upon

soldier."

moved

his

army

to the

Lower Chesa-

"Over one hundi'ed thousand men were transported by

water and set down on a new theater of operations almost one

hundred miles

and disembarked and horses was daybreak

all

His battery was sent up the Yoi'k River,

West

Point.

An army

of ten thousand

to be transported across the river.

men

Just before

the artillery was landed, with a loss of only one horse

out of five hundred. perience, as well as service that night. tiller,

Howard Kitching was now Adjutant

distant."

an Artillery Brigade.

Adjutant Kitching wrote

my If

knowledge of

My boating ex-

horses, was, I hope, of

you could have seen me standing

steering a huge raft, with one hundred

some

at the

and eighty horses on

yoxkehs in the bebelliox.

88 board,

jumping and kicking aud trying

whilst

all

all sides,

the soldiers,

their best to get overboard,

worn out with hard work, were sleeping on

you would have wondered what kind of

a craft

had got

into."

large force of Confederates,

commanded

lÂťy

Generals Lee and

Smith, attacked the Union troops of General Franklin's command,

determined to push them back into the

was with the

resei-ved

Adjutant Kitching

river.

batteries.

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

men back by mere

drove our

Every few mo-

force of numbers.

ments some poor fellow was carried past us either dead or horribly

wounded.

never

fired

and just as soon as the enemy made

their

ground for a long time, but our tlicn),

and

last

solid shot

they began to

and

retire,

infantry again puslied into the woods and drove

miles before the night

was

force

small, they

came

on.

was

stand

outnumbering us two

lii-e

Station,

lie

were too lirave

two

aliout t'oi'

our

New-

(Jeneral

Gideon's

God was with

army cannot be beaten now.

they

terrilily

Tlicy llicy

fight."

Kitching's love of art features of a cainp.

wrote:

them

to one.

l)ictures([ue

shell

tlieni

and apparently the more

fiercely

shell,

They stood

when our

like veterans,

suffer, the

Howard

believe that this

let

a glorious victory,

ton has stated that our guns saved the day. us.

one gun at a time, slowly and deliberately.

it,

to appeal-,

when we loaded with

their appearance

have

hot for

men began

a shot until our

retreating from the edge of the woods,

made \Vli(ii

liiiii

Ik'

<iiiick to

was

observi'

ncai-

Fair

tiie

Oaks

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL Yesterday

went forward

HOWARD

KITGHING.

surprised to find that the "seceshers" were posted so near that

speak to them, and quite a pretty

pictui-e

we could almost

they made too, in their bandit uniforms

They wear

and broad-brimmed hats and plumes.

clothes

made

of a kind of gray

tight-fitting coats like those of our soldiers, they

homespun, and instead of

where our outside pickets are stationed, and was

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

The young

officer's

very great.

admiration for the soldiers of the Union was

wrote: "It

splendid to witness the perfect con-

fidence of our troops in their ability to

may

Even

be brought against them.

so dreadfully cut

trees.

greatest eagerness to

in the late

have

whip any force which

the regiments which were are waiting with the

battles

opportunity of avenging their

fallen comrades."

His pen sometimes seemed to have the magic of an

artist's

so strikingly did he describe the scenes he witnessed.

have been

firing at

of our Generals.

what they probably think are the headquarters

You ought

just to hear

and

see

some

of the

invented projectiles whirring and whistling through the

sound exactly

brash,

The Eebels

like a

air.

newly

They

locomotive and train of cars going overhead."

In June, 1862, General McClellan decided upon a change of base to

James River.

history.

His famous retreat of seven days

was conducted with great

tated on the part of his troops "fighting night, pushing their

treat!

The troops

all

day and marching

way through dense woods and

growth, and across sluggish streams." first

made

a part of

military ability, but necessiall

tangled under-

Oh, the horrors of that re-

a stand at Gaines's Mill.

General

Upton wrote:

entered the battle about 4

remained

till

p. m., at

nearly dark, under a heavy

once engaging the enemy's fire

of shell

and

case-shot.

artillery,

The

right

and and

YOXKEHS

THE REBELLIOX.

I^'

center sections of the battery were somewhat covered, but the

Captain Kitching, was exposed to the

more than

its

proportion of

full

During

fire.

commanded by

left,

view of the enemy, and received much entire battle

tlie

he served his guns with

great coolness, and was a brilliant example to the men.

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 thousands.

When

Kitcliing

was seriously

eitenieut,

and

ill

from constant exposure, unceasing ex-

sleepless nights passed in the saddle.

resigned

army, and repaired to his home.

his position in the

The family went with him water lying

of disease prostrated hundreds

army reached Harper's Landing, Captain

the

among

Oscawana, that beautiful sheet of

the hills that look

down upon West

Point.

soon recruited his strength, and with restored health he desired to again be with those

who were

fighting for their country.

vain his friends contended that he had done as as could reasonably

])e

crowds of young men

who had done nothing to the front

demanded tli<-

for their country,

ever.

and who ought now

he was

felt that

troops in the fearful struggle

tliat

ev.Tv

was impending, before the end could be New-York,

an<l startled

liis

fit

tliou-^'litt'ul

attaine(l.

only the ex-

him, to connuand

lie

jx-rsnn

knew

had been on

friends on bis return witli the

announcement that he was going back

to tlie field again.

William H. Morris, of the One Hundred and liad invited liinj to iro

he was now

that his services were fitted, as

perience through which he had passed could

a visit to

felt that

There was a general feeling of discourage-

ment throughout the North, and he argued peculiarly demanded.

neither wife nor child,

But he

where they were wanted.

more needed than

liail

for the cause

and that there were

of him,

North, wlio

much

Colonel

Thirty-P''ifth Infantry,

with him as acting Lieutenant-Colonel.

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL The Regiment

HOWARD

KITCHING.

New- York ou September

left

1863,

reaching Baltimore was quartered in Fort McHenry.

was changed

When

into the Sixth

Soon

Regiment of New- York

after

Artillery.

Colonel Morris was promoted, Captain Kitching was ap-

pointed Colonel.

brave young I

and on

The men were

officer,

delighted.

Captain Donaldson, a

wrote

the

men

to turn out in such a

from

his lips

because

storm to do him honor.

Little,

can even now, in fancy, hear the gentle rebuke that

we had allowed

fell

though, did the brave fellows heed the rain, so long as he, their honored com-

mander, was with them.

In August, 1863, he It

commanded

was a responsible position

old.

the largest brigade in the army.

for

officer

only twenty-five years

In the absence of General Tyler, Colonel Kitching

commanded

the whole artillery reserve, consisting of 30 batteries, 2 regiments of infantry,

During the

and about 300 ammunition-wagons.

days of 1863, he was home on leave of absence.

holi-

returned in

January, 1864, and everybody was glad to see him back. In March, 1864, Colonel Kitching was acting as Brigadier-General 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.

personally to General Grant.

Reserve,

Army

He was

introduced

His was the First Brigade, Artillery

of the Potomac.

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

J. F.

the 5th of

Rapidan.

;

Lieutenant Huyfler, Chief Engineer; and

Baker, Surgeon.

May

one hundred thousand

men were

across the

They were indeed marching through the Wilderness.

YOSKKRH IX THE RKBELLIOS.

t)2

was a region

were the

by the point

lines of battle entirely

mander, but no tillery

fighting

of the compass, for not only

hidden from the sight of the com-

could see ten

ofiScer

and cavalry were useless

on each

files

For twelve days

were probably forty

losses

In an engagement where the Confederates were defeated

Howard

with great slaughter, the honor of their repulse belonged to

A soldier of his command

Kitehiiig's battalions.

We are

proud of

once.

see liim

idea of a soldier

whizzing past

oiir

commander â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

us,

will say,

18(54, lie

about four o'clock

with a smile, "

was guaivling

own

tlu'

seven times lliive

iiit

When

tlio

was

liim."

him

and

bullets

any of the up

His

commanding seven of leading one

men have done

Christian

particularly

his troops

necessary to expose himself more

either

wounded

;

and

or IukI

iiis

Colonel,

iiiid

yet, liis

while every horso

killc-d,

sliarp-sliootcr

neck, but did not seriously

sharp-shooter was captured,

at tiiat little

see just

Fredcrickslmrg road, and,

Kitching received only a slight scratdi.

him.

and the

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stand

escape from injury was marvelous.

his licld-officers

he was attacked by Ewell's entire

sueceedeil in breaking the skin of liurt

us,

line,

No ducking

than otherwise would have been necessary

Coloui'l

over

"I had the pleasure

wrote:

were mostly new, he thought

one of

you could

wisii

shells are flying

have made heroes of the meanest cowai-ds.

in the afternoon,

battalion into the fight.

His

wrote

to love him.

seven o'clock Colonel Kitching was

thousand men.

well."

Colonel.

know him

walking leisurely up and down the

in battle

Corps.

little

and gentleman. While the

demeanor and e.xample

May,

the

to respect him, but to

boys should dodge, he

Ar-

side of him.

in such a country.

The Union

was incessant.

thousand.

The troops could

gloom aud the shadow of death.

receive direction only

would

di.'

lie

said: "1 lircd

liappy

.-ould

BBEVET BRIGADIER-GENEBAL

the evening of

from the sand

rifle-pits

May

HOWABB

KITCHING.

which the day before cost him nearly two thou-

lives to hold.

engagement, and referred

desci'ibed a tierce

with gratitude to the valor of Major Frederic Shonnard. The enemy broke column. the

first

tlirougla Colonel

had no time

form

Hardin's

Two

line of battle.

just behind

head of the column broke the men, many of

right into the

and

in less time than I can tell

managed through together,

you

staff-ofacers fell at

Crookston's horse was killed, and Palmer shot through the ankle. fire

says:

and came upon the head

line,

Major Crookston and Captain Palmer,

fire.

Kitchiug wrote home

31, 1864, Colonel

me, also

fell

This terrible

whom had

fallen,

Brigade, excepting one battalion which I

the heroic exertions of Major Jones and Major Shonnard to keep

was saUing across the

Sixth Artillery, and I

My officers are

plain.

fence where any protection could be

made a stand

had

fi'om the

magnificent, and, at the

murderous

fire,

first

they rallied the

for about thirty minutes against the brigades

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 of the

enemy.

was forced

ports,

to fall back,

and got two

put an end to

it.

having no reenforcements.

batteries into position,

...

went

and then had

We hot

fell

back

to our sup-

and heavy

over the battle-field after the fight.

till

night

found one

Brigadier-General, one Colonel, two Lieutenant-Colonels, besides about three hun-

dred men, lying in front of ÂŤiy

Would

ers.

of their wicked efforts,

command

and

the open country, or he attacks us,

also took

about eighty prison-

stop now, rather than sacrifice the lives that

end of the campaign!

lost before the

ages

alone.

that the leaders of this terrible Rebellion could see the certain downfall

greatly

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;that

Whenever we meet

we whip him.

the Rebel attacks

I notice

upon our

the

must

enemy

one thing which encour-

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 riflepits,

and the

and

vice versa.

stars over

me.

altogether, look pi-etty seedy;

command have fuU

pickets are constantly popping at the enemy,

clothes are ragged

but

and

dirty

;

beheve that

confidence in me, which

am tanned like a darky, and, my superior ofiicers and my

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

YOXKERS IN THE REBELLION.

94 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 shot

and

The army was then

than sixty thousand men. flank

movement,

In a letter

his

ilut

to the south side of the

dated July

home

nard leaves for

y as a soldier

respect of

all his

18,

this

mother

di;lighted his

fires

In these conflicts Grant's loss consisted of more

shell.

by a

Colonel Kitehing says: "Major 8hou-

morning.

will be to get

in a fcai-l(>ss

brother

transferred,

James River.

Oh,

him

how safe

envy him, and how

home

He has done

manner, and carries with him the

officers."

Colonel Kitehing was ordered with his cominaiHl to Wasiiington in August, 1864, to take

He had

command

of the defenses of that city.

the oversight of thirteen forts with their garrisons, extend-

In one of his letters he expresses his gi'atitude for

ing eight miles.

the relief from anxiety this strange to be able to of being

blown

On October

lie

to pieces 2,

by a

position gave him:

"It seems so

at night in quiet, without the

danger

mortar-shell."

1864, he received his very honorable discharge

from the service of

tlie

own, on the giuunil of influenced in

new

down

making

United States, upon an api)lication of his uioi-e

than three years' service.

by the conviction

this ai)plication

He was tliat

wife and child ought to be deprived of his presence no longer,

had made went order,

all his

to the

arrangements

War Department

to leave

lb-

Washington, but when he

the Secretary of

and assigned Colonel Kitehing

his

witli

liis

War

revoked the

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 All the world

absent.

Sheridan sped to the

battle-field

troops were borne to

him but

heroic efforts were

HOWARD

when rumors

KITCHING.

his black charger,

of the defeat of his

the world does not

all

;

made by

forces, before their

knows how, mounted upon

know what

his brave officers to rally the surprised

commander reached them.

Howard

Kitehing's

biographer has put on record the daring and skUl of the youthful Colonel that day.

early

dawn on

ber, 1864, the light, struggling

the

morning of the 19th

through a dense

fog,

friend could scarcely be distinguished from foe.

of Octo-

was so dim that

The Rebels, sud-

denly sweeping in overwhelming numbers through the sleeping

camp The

Union army,

of the

surprise

their slumbers

Colonel Kitchiug had barely time to

buckle on his sword, seize his ing only one battalion of his

an almost hopeless

from

startled the troops

was complete.

pistols,

and mount

own Regiment,

effort, in rallying his

his horse.

Hav-

he succeeded, after

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,

not

let

their

fell,

mortally wounded. Colo-

forward and called out, " Stop,

nel Kitching spurred

Jones be made a prisoner

They

rallied to

ground until their Major was safely carried

terward Colonel Kitchiug

brave young fellows

told,

men you ;

will

a man, and stood Af-

to the rear.

with tears in his eyes,

lost their lives in the rescue of

how many officer

they

loved so well.

Just here

was that a young Color-Sergeant was carried by,

life-blood ebbing fast

up and 12

his

away. With a sad but radiant face he looked

said, " Colonel, I did the best I

could

YOXKEK.S IX THE REliEI.LIOK.

Kitching theu reported

Colonel

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

enemy

them," so as to delay the advance of the could be found wh<if they could

With

the

all

ami energy of his

(l;!--!!

and

his clear, musical voice

them

and contend

to "fall in."

until a position

stand.

eharactei',

He spurred among the

self to the difficult duty.

called

make a

he adtkessed him-

disordered soldier}',

rang out over the wild scene as he

They soon began

for every foot of ground.

to rally

around him

But the enemy was

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

Once across the stream, the panic-

the passage of the wagons.

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.

facing the enemy, a

and wounded, he

now field,

In the midst of this wild tumult, while

niiiiic-ball <'i'aslic(l tlu'ougli his foot.

still

sat

subdued tones.

on his horse, ami gave

He was

Wearied

his orders,

though

again and again urged to leave the

but refused until the army had taken a position where they

might repel any attack of the enemj'.

was

at this

moment

General Sheridan rode up to the front, and gave new

life to

that

the

troops by the magnetism of his presence. Satisfied that all tain his

was

riglit

now. Colonel Kitching directed Cap-

Donaldson to accomi>any

wound.

suffering,

lie

Becoming

fainter

liini in

search of a Surgeon to dross

and fainter from

was yet conipelK'd

to i-ide neaily

loss of blood

and

miles to

tlie

t'oui-

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL

HOWARD

KITCHING.

They found an Assistant

rear before he could obtain assistance.

Sui'geon belonging to one of the cavahy regiments, and he dressed

the wound, but discovered

wounded

officer to

to be so serious that he advised the

be carried in an ambulance to where he could

obtain further medical treatment without delay.

The ambulances came rumbling by all filled

were

in rapid succession, but

with wounded men, and Colonel Kitching was unwilling to

stretcher

2>ine poles,

and with

have any poor fellow disturbed to make room for him.

was then made

of a piece of shelter-tent

and

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 General

Edwards

until he

had seen

his

wounded comrade

and

safely

comfortably cared for in the hospital.

While waiting an t5;amination

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a

of his

wound

in this dreary place

bare room, crowded to suffocation with wounded and dying

officers

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the news was received of

the total rout of the enemy.

couch of suffering, and exclaimed willing to lose another leg."

Sheridan's brilliant attack and

Colonel Kitching looked up from his

The

" If this be true, I should be

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.

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.

YOXKEK.S IX THE REBELLION.

have again been favored by a great victory disaster regi-et

— by the gallantry of our

the loss of

;

killed; Colonel J.

Colonel E. G. McKenzie,

not leave the

from

have to

many valuable officers killed and wounded; among

them Colonel Joseph Thorbura,

wounded

— a victory won

and men. ...

officers

field."

Howard Kitching

few hours

himself,

beloved family from

wounded

who

later

Howard

Kitchiug,

would

severely, but

came a

telegi*am

from

evidently desired to save his

the anxiety he could.

all

His father and several other friends went immediately to Baltimore, and in the early morning set out for home. of the Baltimore

The President

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

any way

to their comfort, personally superintending everything, that there

might be no confusion or delay.

While the friends stood around the stretcher station trying to shield Colonel Kitching

Irishwoman with a baby shoulder.

away her it 's

Seeing the

still

her ai'ms looked over his

such a lovely young

pered, "Has he a mother f Och, an' All

pathy

sister's

rosy cheeks and bright curls, she wijied

tears with the corner of her apron,

dreadful

at the I'ailroad

from the cold wind, an

man

it 's

am\

said,

"Och, an'

as that !" and then whis-

the pity for her, jjoor thing!"

day long there were whispered questions, and words of sym-

— fruits and

little

delicacies offered.

come beside him with a the glorious victory of f'oloncl

Vou

cheery, hopeful tlic

A fellow-traveler would word

day before; then

— some

allusion to

a "(iod Idess you,

arc sutVcring iu a glorious cause."

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

HOWARD

KITCHING.

evening the Surgeons, in consultation, decided that amputation

was necessary

to save his

life.

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,

from his

unbosom

have his

little

(the ninety-first)

The

pi'ayer.

This morning

camp

home

quote a few sentences

battle-field

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

letters

which

of his life as

for the front, he repaired to Peekskill

boy baptized, and

there, after his favorite

was

his friends knelt in a parting

and

read, he

extracts from his letters need no took about two hundred and

of the Fourth

although

left

will

At the very beginning

his Christian faith.

a soldier, before he to

from camp and

letters written

Rhode Island

comment.

the men down to the we have no Chaplain and

fifty of

to attend service, as

was very cold standing

Psalm

;

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, you

will find that

Try

darling.

to be with

Him more

every day, and

indeed our Elder Brother and the Friend above

all others.

In April, 1862, he wrote to his wife

God old,

bless you,

my precious

and kneel down

to the

side

same loving Jesus.

one

side as

would

we did

can do

so love to kiss

that sorrowful

this,

in saddle,

marching

In the same Darhng mama,

in the dust or

month he wrote

know

that

and pray

I will

be with you there, even

battle-field.

to his

I do so long for a dear quiet

difference here between

...

on the

night,

darling, although separated.

not forget to go to Jesus at twilight every day, and if

you good-night as of

Sunday

mother

Sunday at home once more.

Sunday and any other day must be

in a

precious mother will be delighted to

The only

man's own heart. hear that Jesus'

YOXKEliS IX THE liEBELLION.

100 presence

seem to come between Him and

and

tell

Him

confidence

me now.

almost always realized by

everything and

and

my soul, but at

Sometimes, such times

it is

true,

have only

dark clouds go to Him

and gives me

at once dispels the darkness

perfect

trust.

In another letter to his wife he says have just come from a poor Lieutenant who

been

telling liim of Jesus, but,

God

even to think.

On one

in his

occasion,

poor fellow, he

mortally wounded.

almost gone, and

mercy and grace have mercv on

when

wi-iting

home, he

his soul.

refers to a little

book

says:

mother gave him, and the comfort he found

his

"In

volume

this

one

hymn which

little

have

hardly able

runs in

it.

my head

all

the

time: " Here in the body pent,

Absent from

Yet nightly

day's

Him

mj'

pitcli

roam.

mo\Tng

tent

march nearer home."

pocket-memoi'andum the following entry was found:

In his

Ix LINE OF BATTLE, just going

into action,

Sunday, July 12, 1863.

My both.

Darling

Bid

anything should happen to me, good-by

Don't forget your Ho\vy

There

all

pay due me from

;

May

dear ones good-by.

but above

all,

;

God

don't forget the

bless

darlings

Lord Jesus.

my death; ask papa to get it. my own little comfort you have my redemption by the blood of his dear

1st to the date of

God

bless you,

been God's choicest blessing to me, next to

;

Son.

Bring

Howy up to

trunk

love me, darling

at Harper's Ferry.

have uotliing to leave you

Colonel Kitehing eagerly cooporatrd with the

and was accustomed

liut

blessing.

Hdward.

Your own,

Army

Cliaiilain.s,

attend jirayer-meetings and revival ser-

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL At one

vices.

for

them

HOWARD

KITCHING.

101

time, while the soldiers were waiting for the order

to enter

where the shadow

was

of death

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

up with a bright

carried past his beloved commander, looking smile,

he exclaimed, " Colonel, I

When Howard

heaven before you."

have the honor of being in

shall

Kitching was lying on a bed

of suffering, he narrated this incident with tears in his eyes.

The marks

hymn-book show

in his pocket

that he found solace

in his soldier life in the lines

Lead, Saviour, lead

The night

amid the

Lead thou me

on.

dark, and I

Lead thou me

Keep thou

feet

The distant scene

;

encircling

far

gloom

from home

;

on.

do not ask to see

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one step enough for me.

After he had been wounded, he seemed one day greatly distressed,

and grasping " Darling,

if I

his sister's hand, with a look of intense anxiety said,

die this morning,

After a moment's

no more doubt

silent

than that you and

" Oh, that is because

about what a sinner I

have

not.

morning camp,

...

you

don't

have been.

I will tell

at Cedar Creek,

was awful

do you think

;

prayer she said, "

can be saved ? "

Why, Howy

I are here

know you ;

You think

don't I

have

know anything

have been good, but

you, and then you will know.

when

now."

That

the Rebels rushed through

we could hardly

tell

friend from foe.

my had

YOXKERS IX THE KKIiKLUOX.

102

my own men — all

only a few of did

n't

gade.

know me, and

to rally them.

when some teamsters and other

perate stand, across the

way

every

I ti-ied

mixed regiments

of those

could not manage them like

field,

enough

make a

panic,

he, " did

Donny," said

Bri-

were making a desfellows

came rushing

and an oath escaped me."

His friend Captain Donaldson had come in and sat him.

— they

my own

down

beside

you ever hear me swear before ?

" Never, Colonel."

"It was dreadful.

the eager whisper, "

His

— but

Do you

sister quoted, "

was

eould have duiic

And

so excited."

of Jesus Christ cleanseth

of Scripture;

was on the

1st of

Vonkers.

all

I'll

little

country, and the

children about

liiiii.

would

(•diiifort

euiible

up the fever that seemed wasting away

hands and both

feet

Then he

sulTered:

how

filled

with tears.

Both hands and both

told her

rated foot

how

feet

and

One day he

life.

Louise, both

own

Why.

darling,

"Jesus all

— how cuultl

for us, too!"

often he had thought that the pain in his

must have been the same kind his

having his

to rally

thought you were asleep."

" Oh, no," he said, his eyes ?

him

siillering intensely, she said, "

you so much worse !

distress,

Getty

Thinking he must be

he endure

his

tlie

change of scene,

IiojhmI tliat entire

suddenly exclaimed, in a tone of real

laci

to kiss

" Well, then,

Dooeniber that he was rcniovfd to

His physicians

witli tlie fresh air of the

wife and

are

Him."

ilciusf,

Ijreak

—

from

and as she stooped

him, a quiet look of peace came over his face. trust

again came

can forgive that

really think Jesus

The blood

and other passages

sin,"

know how

don't

must have been Satan

siitVei'lnt:.

even

of pain that Jesus

witli all tlie alleviations of

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL made

their loving care, liad

tiini

mystery of that death upon the

HOWARD

KITCHING.

103

think more and more of the dread cross.

Colonel Kitching began to improve and gain strength rapidly.

Many

a family gathering

this time

was had around

About

his wheel-chair.

one of his Orderlies, from the Sixth Artillery, arrived in

Most amusing were the interviews

charge of the Colonel's horses.

between the two: the

little

Irishman's humorous repUes to

berless questions about all that

had transpired

num-

since the Colonel's

absence, with occasional sly suggestions from "Pete," the Southern

darky,

who

shadow

generally sat as a

just behind him.

Many

cheery message was sent back to the Regiment, telling them that as soon as he could

lead

them

mount

in the assault

his horse

he would be with them to

on Petersburg.

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 severity,

and

commenced

that evening increased in

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 tions

were completed, he

drawing his

sister close

said,

down

was

to him, he

"If I should not live through

have trusted.

Then repeating received, he

necessffry.

whispered

this, dearie,

the prepara-

Doctor."

Then

you know whom

sure to bring the children to Jesus and to me." the farewell messages she

drew her

had

closer for a lingering kiss.

administered, and the operation performed. his face, then a calm, bright smile

the Lord."

When

"Wait a moment,

so often before

Chloroform was

A shadow passed over

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Howard

Kitching was "with

YONKEKS IK THE HEBELLIOX.

104

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 Is

Ilis

City

;

name

more than fame.

widow and daughter, Edith Howard, hi.s

son,

reside in

John Howard, died two years ago

where he was Vice-Consul.

His mother and

New-York

at Bona, Algeria,

sister,

Mrs. Theodore

Irving, are living in Tarrytown.

His father died July

brother and three sisters have

passed to the spirit-land.

all

19, 1887.

CHAPTER

IX.

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR.

— Surgeon G. B. — 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

Colonel Fisher A. Baker and His Battles

Balch

of Captain William L.

Heermance with Captain

— The

Hero and His Crutch— General Thomas EwiNG AT Pilot Knob Adjutant James Millward and the Washington CLi_v Battalion — Major James V. Lawrence

Medina

—

and Mosby's Band

— Thomas

Oliver's Lost

Medal— Abra-

—

Palmer and "The Die-No-Mores" Ralph E. Prime's Where William Riley Lost Services and Promotions

ham

His

Arm — Major

—

— Captain

Frederic Shonnard's Honorable Career

James Stewart,

Jr.,

Rescues Generals Hooker

AND Williams from an Embarrassing Situation.

FRANCIS

HIGGINSON ATKINS,

District School No.

one time a

and afterward a graduate

scliolav in

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 105

enlist

YOXKEUS IX THE HE BELLI OX.

106 as a private

]\Iassachusetts Vol-

in the Forty-Fi)nrtli ]^f;illH'llt

unteers.

After a campaign in North Carolina, being

much

in need of rest,

he passed the summer of 1862 at home, on South Broadway, YonEntering the service as a medical cadet, he became Acting

kers.

Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy, and was

ragut's squadron in the Gulf.

and has been stationed

since the war,

-s^ith

Far-

has continued in the service in the Soutlnvest.

brother of T. A. Atkins.

1875.

liroke out.

Fisher A. Baker became a resident of Yonkers

was a law

clerk in

went home and

New-York

City

when

war

the

enlisted as a private in the Eighteenth

Begiment

Massachusetts Volunteers, in April, 1861; he was commissioned

Second Lieutenant

in that

Regiment, July

Lieutenant October 29, 1861;

1861

26,

;

1862; and commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel -luly

Regiment was

in the Fifth

and he was with

his

promoted First

appointed Adjutaiil Fdiniary

Corps of the

Regiment every

Army

tiint-

'_'!â&#x20AC;˘,

of the

1S64.

Uis

Potomac,

went out of camp

during the term of his service.

took part in the operations in front of AVashington in the

of 1861, in the siege of

was

ill

tlir

Yorktown,

tullowiiin- liattles:

in the Peninsula

fall

Campaign, and

Second Bull Run, Antietam, Shep-

pardtdwn, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettyslmrg, Bristoo Station,

Rappahannock

Station,

Hill,

Spottsylvaiiia, North

Cold

llailinr,

tion of his

and

Mine Run. Wildniicss, Lauicl

Anna, Bctliesda Cliureh, Toi-opotomy,

I'ltcisliurir.

!!â&#x20AC;˘

was mustered out at the expu'a-

term of service, Septenil)er

2, lS(i4.

SOME FEBSUNAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. Galusha Buechaed Balch, M.

War of the at

Rebellion,

was engaged

North Lawi-ence, N. Y.

1861,

at the

107

breaking

of the

oiit

in the practice of his profession

offered his services in the fall of

and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Ninety-Eighth

New-York Infantry the

D.,

Army

Volunteers.

of the Potomac,

and

The Eegiment was assigned

Upon

Peninsula under General MeClellan.

went to the

in the following spring

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

was given

after he

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.

Simpson,

Medical Director of the Middle Department, reported upon the following langiiage:

"The

Maine arrived was highly were well cared

was

in a

much

for,

creditable

Dr. Batch.

The

and the sanitary condition of the

better state

condition in which the State of sick

vessel

than the others that have lately

arrived."

Dr. Balch returned to his

mained with

Regiment early

in August,

and

re-

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 commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Second Veteran Cavalry, New-

York Volunteers, and went with of the Gulf.

that

Regiment

charge of his Regiment, and was in the battles.

to the

Department

During the Red River Campaign he was Surgeon in field

with

in all of the

During the summer, autumn, and winter following he was

with the Regiment in

its

numerous

raids

and skirmishes, and was

YOXKERS IN THE REHELUOX.

108

exposed to the deadly miasma of the Louisiana swamps, and to the uuci\alized warfare of Ill

ambuscading bushwhackers.

the spring of 1865 he was in the Mobile Campaign, and

with the Regiment on the 12th day of April, when fight

and charge at Whistler's Station, Alabama.

made

was

its last

He was mustered

out of the service with his Regiment in the following November,

having been in over forty engagements during his term of His commanding brave and tised

officer

had occasion

him

service.

He was

For many years Dr. Balch has prac-

efficient officer."

medicine

to say of

Yonkers.

John Bashford hastened

Washington when Rebellion was

threatened, aud arrived there just in time to do good service iu the

Washington Clay Battalion, under command Clay.

Major Cassius M.

After the National Capital was deemed secure, Mr. Bashford

returned to New- York, where he enlisted in

and was assigned try Ijravely,

William

when he was honorably

Blackett was born

tiie

United States Navy,

For a year he served

to the Ironsides.

his coun-

discharged.

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. ing.

He was

1862,

and then

paign

first in

in the 1)attles of

^'i^ÂŤiillia,

His service was severe and try-

the battle of Dranesville, Virginia, in March,

and

Cedar Mountain,

the battles

Fairfax Station, ("haiicellorsville, and

..f

(

was

Cam-

Winclu'ster,

icttyslturg.

In October, 1863, his Regiment was transtVrrod the Cmiil)erlaiid, aud

in Pope's

Aiitiftnin.

t..

tiic

Army

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,

Peaehtree Creek, and Atlanta.

from Atlanta to the

sea.

He marched

Gulp's Farm,

with General Sherman

In 1865 he was in the campaign through

the Carolinas, and in the battles of Edisto River, Bentonville, and Raleigh.

He was

continuous service for three years and six

mouths.

December

died in Yonkers,

in St. John's Cemetery,

1891,

and his body was interred

on Sunday evening, December

when, by

the glimmer of candle-light, his former comrades of Fremont Post

impressively performed the military burial service.

James Bkaziee in

Company

a native of Scotland.

One Hundred and

Fiftieth

served as a corporal

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

After General Meade's victory, which drove

fight of the third day.

the Rebels out of Pennsylvania, he

and was in the several

was

ti'ausferred to the

battles of the Atlanta

West,

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

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 of Yonkers.

A New

citizens

Hampshire man, he was chosen, together with

YOXKKES IX THE REBKLIAOX.

11((

Commodore Farragut,

to represent his uative State during the

war

New England States organized for the general soldier. He was a warm friend of President Lincoln

on the Committee of welfare of the

and Secretary Stanton, and had a "pass" from them

anywhere within the Union

admit him

lines.

army when

visited General McClellan's

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

By what

the residence of the Confederate General Fitzhugh Leo.

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.

Washington, reported the of

War

Burns hastened

facts to President Lincoln

and Secretary

Stanton, and speedily retui'ned with an order to convert the

White House

into a LTnion hospital,

and to use the premises

comfort and welfare of the Union soldiers.

for the

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

The

aftei-,

Wliite

stroyed,

however, Stonewall Jackson advanced upon the place.

House was committed

and the Union army was

to the flames, bridges coin])elle(l to

move.

were de-

The aban-

doimient of this post by General McClellan, the destruction of millions in the shape of provisions

change of front of the

Army

(.f

and ordnance, and the hazardous

the Potomac, in face of

netnv.

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. gave

rise to

many

campaign against Richmond.

of his

Mr. Burns

Henry A. Chadeayne, with President Lincoln's

At the time

New -York men

Run and

Militia, in

response to

in the

Shenandoah Campaigns.

Antietam some anxiety was

of the battle of

from which the following

to preserve the Union.

friends in Yonkei's as to his safety, which letter,

often visited the sol-

several companions, enlisted in the

call for 75,000

in the battle of Bull

and aid them.

to cheer

Ninth Infantry Regiment of

was

But the motive and action

wide commendation.

elicited

and always

diers,

severe criticisms on the conduct of that portion

felt

his

was soon relieved by a

an extract

Another terrible battle has been fought, and once more

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 We marched so quietly that they had not time left, to prevent a flank movement. to throw out skirmishers before we were on them. They were behind a mound of

we were drawu up as if for a dress-parade. We suffered severely, 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

earth, while

owing

to this position.

in our front throwing grape

and

canister,

but owing to the elevation of their guns

among the ranks of the Brigade in our when our ammunition was expended, they had not suflcient men left

they fired over us, but did great execution rear, so that

to relieve us. I

At the

had two narrow escapes.

while sheathed, directly on

without scratching

moments

after, a

to the rear,

had

man

first

of the fight a ball struck

my hip, and split it in two, the

skin.

my bayonet, my clothes

pieces entering

picked the pieces out, and have them now.

in front of

me was

shot in the breast,

few

and while taking him

to pass thi-ough a perfect hail-storm of shot

and

shell.

had

just

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

left

him when

could have caught

my hands.

YONKEliS IX THE KEBELLION.

1> 1

This battle they say was the hardest of the war, and the most horrible sight you ever looked upon.

it.

had

six

Some time

hundred men

after this battle Mr.

New -York

Sixth

killed in our

hope

Brigade

I tell

you the

field

may never see

presented

another like

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; General HartsulFs.

Chadeayne was transferred

Artillery, Colonel Kitehing.

to the

the couclusion

of his term of service he returned to "Westchester County,

hardware business

engaged

in the

removed

to Battle Creek, Michigan,

Katonah.

and

AVjout ISTil ho

where he remained

beginning of the summer of 1891, when he removed to

until tlic

New

Dtluth,

Minnesota.

Alonzo Ceaw was

for the Union.

calling for

men

When

the

first

Yonkers hero

to sustain the laws, Mr. Craw, then in his twenty-

With a number

second year, responded with patriotic ardor. friends he enlisted for the

Ncw-Vork

to give his life

President Lincoln issued his proclamation

Militia.

war

in the

On hastening

of his

Ninth Infantry Regiment of tli.'

front, tlu- Keginieiit

was

placed under (iencnil Patterson.

After the battle of Bull Kuii, the coininand was stationed

Harper's Ferry, with a greatly reduced force. The lines being weak,

men were compelled to do double duty, which soon affected many who were unaccustomed to the rigorous disciThe camp was poorly supplied with shelter, pline of army life. the

the health of

wliili'

the hospital

tutf of necessary tiie

was

l)ut

ranks alarmingly.

was much exposed, and,

Sickness, fever,

and death thinned enthusiastic soldier,

like his conirados,

plied with suitable clothing. in

tilt'

(liscliargc of liis

crudely organized, and almost dcsti-

Young Craw was an

su[)]>li('s.

dutv

was inditTcrontly

\\y ln'caiin' inilis].osc<i, but

suji-

i.rrsisti'.l

until forced to snrrcn.l.T to the I'aiv

SOME PERSONAL BECOIWS OF THE WAR.

He was removed

of a Surgeou. laud,

where

all

to a hotel at

was given him, but

possible attention

113

Sandy Hook, Maryhis disease

assumed a typhoid form, and on Sunday, midnight, August his brave spirit took its departure

from

earth.

1861,

His comrade, Henry

A. Chadeayne, was with him when he died, and accompanied the remains to Yonkers.

Hope Hook and Ladder Company No. a member, paid

him the following

tribute:

death the loss of one of our most worthy and of our best citizens in being

among

the

and Christian neighbors. first to

which Mr. Craw was

"We

recognize in his

efficient firemen,

one

His gallant conduct

volunteer in defence of his country's

honor commanded our highest admiration, and embalms his memory 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

He was honored by

of the congregation.

funeral, which

a public

was very largely attended. The following pall-bearers

accompanied the remains

Greene County, where they were com-

Noah

mitted to the earth, "dust to dust": James Stewart,

Hoyt, A. C. Mott, Joseph L. Proseus, Henry B. Archer, Eichard

Thompson, George Hoyt, and Charles W.

Matt. H. Ellis served

in the

Starr.

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.

entei'ed the

Regiment

at its formation as a private,

missioned Captain December

He was

19, to

was com-

rank from November

19, 1862.

breveted Major for gallant conduct in the capture of Port

Hudson, June

14, 1863.

YONKKRS IN

114 Ill

the Library of National Records

and bravely acquitted himself

march

the

rilK liEBKLLION.

of Gen(>ral

it is

said that "he honorably

in the Ijattles

which occurred during

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

a son of

at Lancaster, Ohio,

Thomas Ewing, formerly United

August

1829.

States Senator from

Ohio, and Secretary of the Treasury under President William H. Harrison, and of the Interior under President Zachary Taylor.

Ewing graduated and

Brown

at the Cincinnati

William Cox, of

efficient

Law

School.

iiracticcil

Rhode

University, Providence,

He mamed

Pi(pia, Ohio, in 1856,

Kansas, wlicre he

and

Mr,

Island,

a daughter of Rev.

and removed

Leavenworth,

law successfully and bore a prominent

For one year

part iu the great Free State struggle.

General Shemian was his law partner there.

He was chosen sas,

Chief Justice of the

first

Supreme Court

resigning that office and entering the Union

He was promoted

Army

Kan-

lS(;i2.

be Brigadier in 1863, for gallant conduct at

the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas for the battle of Pilot

;

and Brevet Major-General,

Knob, Missouri, where he commanded the

Union forces against General Sterling

Price,

September 27 and

28,

1864.

He in

returned to Ohio in 1871, and represented the Capitol District

Congress from 1877 to 1881, and was the Democratic candidate

for

Governor

in 1H7!I.

declincil a I't'iiomiiiation to

Congress and

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. removed

New- York City

in 1882,

115

where he has since practised

law, living in Yonkers.

John Foksyth, pany F

of the

in the fall of 1862, enlisted as a private in

One Hundred and

State Infantry, which

Thirty-Fifth Regiment,

was afterward changed

ment, New-York State Artillery.

He was

Com-

New- York

to the Sixth Regi-

the engagements

all

with that Regiment down to the battle of Spottsylvania Court-

House, Virginia,

May

which he was so badly wounded

12, 1864, in

that he was conveyed to the Lincoln Hospital in Washington, where

he was under treatment for seven months. as to be able to join his Regiment,

then recovered so

was appointed Commissary

Sergeant, and served in that capacity until July

was honorably mustered out

1865,

when he

of the United States service, at Poca-

hontas, Virginia.

Returning to Yonkers, he entered the employ of as a carpenter, with

whom

Francis Quick

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

Company I Volunteers.

ment's

Germany,

enlisted February, 1862, in

of the Ninety-Fifth Regiment,

He was

entii'e service,

in the

Army

and with

of the

New- York

State Infantiy

Potomac during

in over forty

his Regi-

engagements.

His

term of service covered three and one half years.

William

ruary 23, 1837. City.

Heeemance was born

in Kinderhook,

New-York, Feb-

He was engaged in mercantile business in New-York

When Fort Sumter was fired upon he raised a Company of two

hundred men among friends and

their acquaintances, which, at its

YONKEKS IS THE HEUELL10S.

116

own

expense, secured arms and hii-ed a hall in which to

Heermanee was the

Company into active service, he declined

as a private in 1861, this

Company H, Ninth New- York

the honor, and enlisted

State Militia.

Regiment was sworn into the service for

Eighty-Third New- York Volunteers tered in

Mr.

drill.

elected Captain, but not feeling competent to take

tlir

mu;

May,

as the

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the only Regiment so mus-

to that time.

After serving through the

Shenandoah Valley,

summer

of 1861 in

Maryland and the

at the close of the Patterson

commissioned as First Lieutenant

in the

Sixth

Campaign he was

New-York Cavalry.

the fall of 1862 he was commissioned as Captain, and served

Til

witli that

Regiment

until

November,

out, having, a short time before,

1864,

been shot

when he was mustered in the head,

and inca-

pacitated for active service.

On the

April 30, 1863, after takitig the advance of the right wing of

army on

the

way

to Chancellorsville, the

to Spottsylvania Court-House,

Regiment proceeded

where they were sunouuilcMl

])y

General Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade of Confederate Cavah-y, and urde-rcd to surrender.

and cut

right,

The command was given their

way through by

squadron, being on the right, was the right cut nearly severed the nose

Fifth Virginia Cavalry. officer

first to

by fours from the

Captain Heermance's strike the

At the same moment another Confederate

resist the attack, fired,

ball entering his uiM.ii thi- field, I. lit

stomach.

and

enemy. His

from the face of a Captain of the

placed a pistol against Captain Heermance's

wheeled to

cv.T.

to V)reak

saber.

r.']Âť.rtod

He was knocked from drad.

was captun'tl and taUm

left side as

and disabled his bridle-arm, the

lie .s.-a]..',! t..

esting fact that, twenty-seven years

Lil.l.y I'risoii. aftei'

his horse, left

with his It

life.

Iiowint.'r-

the war, Coli>nel Ueor-

SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAB. mance should discover

that the

mau whose

117

nose he had nearly

severed from the face in this desperate hand-to-hand fight was Captain

Benjamin M. Medina, and that both were residents

They

now

are both

loyal to the old flag,

talk over the dangers through

of Yonkers.

and often in a friendly way

which they passed.

Captain Heermance was exchanged in time to join his Regiment

on the march opened the

to Gettysburg.

part of Buford's Cavalry, they

fight of that decisive battle, holding

until the Infantry

came up.

Cemetery Eidge

A few days later he was

the right breast while charging the enemy, protected

shot through

by breastworks,

at Boousboro, Maryland.

On May

11, 1864,

raid around

while with General Sheridan in his famous

Richmond, he charged with

Brook's Pike, captured the

and commanded the

summer

first

first line

command down

his

of the defenses of

Union troops

of 1864, as Senior Captain, he

to enter them.

commanded

Richmond, During the

the Regiment,

was breveted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, but could not receive full rank, as the positions

were

filled

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

com-

mand, during which you have been three times desperately wounded,

and

mour .

have always found you a brave and most

You handled your Regiment

ofiicer.

efiicient

splendidly as Senior Captain,

most cordially recommend His Excellency Governor Seyto

commission you for a Colonelcy in a Cavalry Regiment,

knoAving, as I well do, that you are fully

ments."

to all the require-

YOXKEIiS IX THE REBELLIOS.

118

W. W.

This recommeudation was indorsed by General

commanding

the Division, in the following words:

concur in the within recommendation of General Devin.

have been

command

of the Division, Captain

been prominent as one of the best

and during

from

selected

service with

all

him

While

Heermance has

command,

officers in the entire

last

Merritt,

cordially

year he was more than once

the rest to conduct important expeditions."

In his three years' service with the Sixth New- York Cavalry,

Heermance was

Colonel

in over sixty engagements, including

around Richmond, and

raids

Army

of the

Potomac took

two

the principal battles in which the

all

part.

has been an honored and

useful citizen of Yonkers for twenty-six years.

Ansox iiitd

till'

cember

Hoyt

1803,

have

is beliovi'd to

Union Army wlio was

liccii tlic

comiicllfil

t<>

only

man

iiiustcrt'd

use a cruti'h.

De-

Governor Horatio Seymour commissioned him as

Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth Regiment of New-

York Volunteers, then stationed part of the Nineteenth

ruary

17, 1864, his

at Franklyn, Louisiana,

Army Corps, Department of

forming Feb-

the Gulf.

Regiment was consolidated with the One Hun-

dred and Sixty-Second New- York Volunteers, Colonel Lewis Benedict,

and Cliaplain Hoyt served with that Regiment until April

1864, about which time he

was sent home

lame as he was, he managed

sick.

During

mount and dismount

his service,

his horse as

readily as his comrades. .Mr.

Army

Hoyt has been the Chaplain of the K'eimhiic,

t'oi-

of Lafayette Post No.

the last seven years.

40,

(

liand

SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAR. Alexander 0. Kirkwood

IIJ)

Compauy

enlisted as a private iu

of the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry Volun-

Lucius B. Marsh, on September

teers, Colonel

ment was encamped on Long Island it

was ordered on the screw-steamer Mississippi

sealed orders.

was

so cold in

1862.

camp

The Regi-

December, when

until late iu to

go South under

had frozen

that a soldier

death the night before embarking; three days afterward they were

where heavy clothing was a burden.

in the Grulf Stream,

On December

dawn

26, at

of day, appeared a steamship rapidly

At nine

approaching the Mississippi. the water. port,

but to no purpose

o'clock a

gun boomed over

was put on by the engineer of the

All steam

shotted gun was fired as a signal to " heave

to."

All on board concluded that they were captured

A long row of black ready for action.

gun.

The armament

the surprise of

proved to be a Union It

was a joyful air.

Then another. by

the Alabama.

muzzles appeared on each side of the stranger,

near, the Star Spangled

rent the

trans-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the strange ship steadily came nearer.

all

of the Mississippi

was a

single

on board, as the pursuing ship came

Banner was run

to the

masthead, and

cruiser.

revelation.

Two hundred

struck up "Columbia, the

sailors

Gem

cheer from a thousand throats

manned

the rigging.

of the Ocean,"

voices united in the patriotic song.

The band

and hundreds

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

New Orleans to form

was kept on duty around New Orleans

enlistment. 15

part of the

Regiment was bound

army under General N.

P. Banks.

until the expiration of

More than twenty-five years afterward, the circum-

YOXKEIiS IN THE REBELLIOS.

120

stances of the naval chase were detailed at a in Yonkers,

fire

when

the interesting fact

Grand Army

canij)-

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 the Civil

War

political

movements ending

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.

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

York Heavy

New-

Artillery, then forming.

For various meritorious services he was rapidly promoted tiiruugh the subordinate gi-ades of non-commissioned officers, and in

all

August, 1861, was made a Second Lieutenant, then First Lieutenant,

and Adjutant of his Regiment, which position he retained

War

until the latter part of 1863,

when he was

Department as Commissaiy

of Subsistence with the rank of Cap-

tain.

of the

transferred to the

He was honorably mustered out of service, by special order War Department, in the latter part of 1865, having previously

been breveted a Major for gallant and meritorious services.

the second battle of Bull

the situation, forced to assume succeedetl

extricating

paratively small

loss.

Run he was, by the exigencies of command of his Regiment, and

from

a i)erilous surprise at a

com-

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.

A upon

memorable episode of his

members At the

121

was the price

his military career

set

head by Mosby's command for the capture of two of the of that

band

close of the

of infamous marauders.

war he was

\dce of the United States,

and

for seven years in the civil ser-

in 1868

was sent as United States

Mail Agent and Special Commissioner to of a postal treaty with that country.

Bi'azil to settle the basis

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

also,

West

Indies.

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,

Japan and China.

established the United States mail service with

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

offer to enter the

Japanese postal service, then organizing,

many

tui'ned, after

an absence of

his paternal

home, Yonkers.

John Halstead La^\iience

enlisted

on March

1864,

when in the

fortieth year of his age, for three years of service in the Sixth

York Heavy Artillery, Colonel Kitching, which was then Station, Virginia.

He was

re-

years, to engage in business in

assigned to

Company

New-

Brandy

After a year of service in this Eegiment, he volunteered, with others, to join Light Battery

tain

Langdon.

The

M, First United States

transfer brought Private

Aitillery,

Cap-

Lawrence into the

YOSKEKH IN

122 regular service,

l)ut

TlIK REBELLION.

only as a volunteer.

After

received his discharge on

August

sui-render of

tlic

Lee, he was i-eturned to his former Regiment, and

made

Corporal.

24, 1865.

Private Lawrence was engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, at Petersburg,

on Apiil

reudei- of Loe,

and

1865, he

Cedar Creek.

Petersburg and vicinity until discharged.

what

known

The men were compelled

hours, inactive, and lates that a

At the engagement

many

them were

of the terrific noise of battle,

and while

mud

for

Lawrence

re-

to lie in the

killed.

man lying near him was asleep and

at in

Regiment was sup-

as the Slaughter Pen, the Sixth

porting a battery.

After the sur-

was retained on guard duty

Mi-.

snoring in the midst

in that condition received

bullet through the head.

The

Mr. Lawrence was in good health throughout his service.

This was at

only injury he received was by the kick of a mule. the battle of the Wilderness.

became necessary

ammunition-train, and part of his its

progress.

mules passed.

Company was

A halt was forced, and during the wait a number of A winter of idleness and good feed had made these

animals unusually frisky

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although, two weeks

could be induced to kick was a curiosity.

One

later,

was holding

his

musket

air,

\ve;i|.nii.

One 'i'lie

The heel

mus-

and the man was knocked under the

wagon. At that instant the wagon-train moved. the soldier on the opposite side of the ]>louse of the

kicked.

at right-shoulder shift.

struck his hand, and the other the stock of the ket was whirled into the

a mule that

of these animals,

when alongside of Mr. Lawrence, wheeled around and soldier

advance an

detailed to hurry

Quick as thought,

wagon caught hold

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. Mr. Lawrence's hand was disabled for several days.

and disfigurement were permanent.

123

The

soar

He has been a resident of Yon-

kers for forty years.

Robert B. Light

enlisted in

and Twenty-Eighth Eegiment, teers, in

and

One Hundred

of the

State Infantry Volun-

The Regiment

August, 1862, and served as First Sergeant.

was sent

to the

He was

ber.

Company D

New -York

in the

Department of the Gulf

Hudson

at the siege of Port

Red River Campaign

Decem-

in the following

summer

in the

of 1863,

in 1864.

In June of that year his Regiment returned with the Nineteenth

Army

Corps to the Shenandoah Valley, and he was with

eral battles,

among them Opequon,

Fisher's Hill,

In this latter battle he received a gunshot

He was mustered

arm.

in sev-

and Cedar Creek.

wound

in the left fore-

out of service at the end of May, 1865.

James Millwaed, the present Mayor of Yonkers, was in Washington in 1861,

when

the Rebellion began, and he united with

three hundred others in organizing the of

Washington Clay Battalion,

which Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, was elected Major, and Mr.

Millward was elected Adjutant.

The object

to aid in protecting the National Capital traitors

Soon

who thronged after he

and

of the Battalion its

the city.

was selected by Simon Cameron, Secretary of War,

as bearer of Grovernment dispatches to the North.

then under Rebel tive to

was

treasures from the

conti-ol.

Baltimore was

He was furnished with a special

locomo-

convey him to Annapolis Junction, from which point he

to reach Annapolis as best he ct)uld.

frequently stopped

the

by Maryland sympathizers with

way he was

secession.

But

YOSKEliS IX THE RKBEIAAOX.

124

he managed to reach Annapolis just as General Benjamin F.

Adjutant Millward was

Butler and his force arrived in that city.

furnished with transportation to Perry\ille, and thence to Philadelphia, where he delivered dispatches to General Patterson,

hastened on to

New -York

and

with dispatches for General John A. Dix

and the Union Defence Committee. Adjutant Millward at once enlisted with

ment

New -York

tlic

Xinety-Xiiith Regi-

Volunteers, and went direct to Fortress Monroe,

where he was appointed Captain of the Port, Harbor Master, and Flag-of-Truee Officer.

witnessed the destruction of the United

by the Rebel ironclad Merrimae, and the

States men-of-war

dis-

comfiture of that formidable vessel by the Monitor, and sent the report of the conflict to Washington.

first official

was captured he coln to that city. until

ISti.'),

piloted the steamer that

Captain Millward

ami when

dent Lincoln

uj, tile

.lames River to the Rebel

John H. Morkis was appointed 1863,

rciiiaiiied at

was captured

RicliiiioiHl

by President Lincoln,

for the

When

Norfolk

conveyed President Lin-

Internal

lie

Fortress

Monroe

conveyed Presi-

.-ai.ital.

Revenue

Collector iu

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

one year.

This amount included moneys received for substitutes.

.Ml the

passed through the First National

i>ank of

tiimls

Yonkers.

his olliee

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. William H. Nodine, a private of the land,

New -York

September

thus wrote to his father in Yonkers

19, 1862,

suppose you

about four miles from Shai-psburg.

The

slaughter on both sides.

field,

will

began

battle

have heard of another great

was fought on the

We of General HartWe advanced thi-ough a corn-

at daybreak.

Brigade led the advance of the whole Division.

then to a thick woods, where the Rebels opened

rail fence,

and held

fire

on both

sides of

through

it,

me, but thank God

on us

but we advanced

;

took our position

to pieces.

haversack saved me.

was ordered to take

the neck, and

have not seen Henry A. Chadeayne since

my wounded

against me.

fell

a ball in his thigh, but he

While

doing well.

comrade

was

to the rear.

him

assisting

Our Regiment

He was

seriously

Regiment.

lost

twelve killed and one

many pieces

wounded.

their position,

at the age of seventeen, enlisted as a private in

G, Thirty-Seventh Infantry Volunteers, and served with

that Regiment in the 1861, until

Army

of the Potomac,

was mustered out June

twenty-two engagements.

22,

ruins of the Colored the rioters, he

from the spring of

1863, taking part in

returned to New- York, and was in

the city during the riots, July 13-26, 1863.

While viewing the

Orphan Asylum, which had been burned by

was assaulted by a mob because they noticed

wore the blue pantaloons of a Union

The week following he the Eighteenth in the

General of a full

and captured

of artillery.

Thomas Oliver,

Company

died.

The whole Brigade now numbers but half

But thank God we drove the Rebels from

shot in

to the rear, he received

hundred and twenty-five wounded. Many of the wounded have since Hartsuff

comrades feU

A minie-baU passed

tearing the whole side out.

think the Yonkers boys are safe, but

the time

was cut

until our Brigade

battle,

There was great

16th.

steadily at a quick march, ouv Brigadier-General leading us.

by a

Eegiment

in the Ninth Infantry

State Militia, under date of Hagerstown, Mary-

Before this reaches you

suff's

125

enlisted as a private in

New- York Cavalry, and served with

Department

that he

soldier.

Company C that

Regiment

of the Gulf, as a bugler, in all of its thirty-four

YONKERS IX THE liEBELUOy.

126

His only wound was received

engagemeuts.

engagement at

in the

May

Governor Moor's Plantation, near Alexandria, Louisiana,

in the

which day there was continuous fighting from eight o'clock

1864, on

morning

He was

until siindown.

acting as Orderly on that

day, and as such was a special target for the enemy, as they appeared to be

aiming specially at

and struck Orderly

him on the ground.

John field,

officers.

A bullet passed through his horse, The horse threw and dragged

Oliver's foot.

Commander

Dr. G. B. Balch, the present

Fremont Post

and dressed the wound. At the time he was thrown.

Oliver lost a Veteran's badge of his of 1890 this

badge was turned

the finding appeared in a

u\)

by a farmer's

i)low.

(

)rderly

tin-

spring

notice of

paper, Mr. Oliver A\Tote to the

Superintendent of National Cemeteries his identity,

enlistment.

first

New- York

was Brigade Surgeon on the

of Yonkers,

in Louisiana, sent

proof of

and the badge was returned.

After five years' service and fifty-six engagements, he was mustered out witli the Eighteenth

now Annnivr

AuuAHAXi

uary

New-York

of the Fourth Separate

Palmer was born

18, 1847, in the

Cavalry. M.iy

Company

:'.,

1S(;(;.

of Yonkers.

Frenchtown,

New

Jersey, Jan-

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

over fourteen years of age, on July

30, 18G1,

little

he enlisted as a

pri-

vate in Comj)auy D, Foi-ty-Eighth

Regiment New-York State

Volunteers, Colonel .lames

and was

tember I'oit

"20,

lS(i4.

11.

Pci'iy,

lie ])artieipa1e,| in the

K'oyal Feiiy.

iniistcicil

engagements

out Sep-

at I'ort

Dawfuskie Island, Fort Pulaski, Blufton,

Royal, (

'oosa-

walchie. l'.,eotali-o. Morris Island, Fort Wagner, Bennnilaliuiidied,

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR.

Much

Strawberry Plains, and Petersburg.

127

of the time he acted as

Orderly to the Colonel.

He was and

1863,

captured at the assault on Fort Wagner, September

months

for nine

18,

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 necticut,

entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Con-

where he graduated with the highest honors

was then admitted the

work

to the

years.

stationed at the Park

Avenue

where he subsequently served a second pastorate of three In 1885 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred

upon him by the Syracuse University and by Allegheny

He was

In 1876 he was transferred

of a Methodist minister.

New-York Conference, and

Chiu'ch,

in 1870.

Newark Conference, and entered upon

College.

appointed pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church

The following year he was

in Yonkers, in the spring of 1886.

made Presiding Elder

of the

New- York

District,

but has continued

his residence in Yonkers.

Dr. Palmer

most popular

a natural and cultivated orator.

effort is his lecture

an eloquent tribute

Probably his

The Die-No-Moi"es."

Company

This

D, to which

was largely composed of young men from their camp-fires they

A favorite with

hymns.

to the private soldier.

Dr. Palmer belonged,

Christian homes.

would sing familiar

them was the hymn with

this refrain

We 're going home, we 're going home, We 're going home to die no more !

And

Company D came

to be

known

as "

The Die-No-Mores."

In the lecture the heroism and sufferings of the young patriots are 16

;

YOXKEIiS IK THE REBELLIOX.

128

gi-aphically portrayal.

Grant,

who was

Grant's request,

Day

was twice delivered before

deeply affected by it

aud

it;

Ot'iiei-al

after his death, at Mrs.

was delivered before a vast concourse on Patriot

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

and arouses a of

})oiiifj;

its first

delivery,

and

always

stirs

an audience

Dr. Palmer enjoys the distinction

lofty patriotism.

the youngest enlisted private

Union

soldier of the war.

Kali'h E. PiUME was l>orn in Fishkill, Dutchess County,

York, March

"JH,

1840.

enlisted in the

vate, April 30, 1861, in the Fifth

Second Lieutenant, September

1862; Captain, September 30, 1862 for gallantry in the field.

Sixth

New-York

1863, he

He was

to be Sergeant,

detached service

June

as the

1861

1861; First Lieutenant, July

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

last

two promotions being

subsequently transferred to the

Artillery, as Lieutenant-Colonel;

was nominated

New-

for the Union, as pri-

New- York Volunteers, known

He was promoted

Duryea Zouaves.

war

and on March

l)y

President Lincoln for Brigadier-General.

October and November, 1861, he super-

intended the construction of a fort at Relay House Junction, Balti-

more and Ohio Railroad, Maryland.

New Kent

Court-House, and also

He was

in the

in the skirmish at

campaign on the Eastern

shore of Virginia and Maryland.

He was engaged

tlic

following

1861; Siege of Y'orktown, April, 1S62; 1862; Ashland Bridge, Mill,

June

.Mountain,

Sii>1iiiili,i2(1,

Big Bethel,

.Iniic 10,

Hanover Court-House, May,

May, 1862 Mechanicsville, June ;

26; Gaines's

musket-ball passed through his thigh; South

27, wlnr.' a

Fnnl, September

liattles:

14;

lS(i2.

Antietam, September 17;

Blackford's

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR.

When tillery,

129

appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth New- York Ar-

he found that the feelings of the

listed in favor of the

were strongly en-

officers

former incumbent of the

convinced that he could not serve as

efficiently,

office,

and being

under the peculiar

who was endeared by former association

circumstances, as his rival,

and acquaintance with the Regiment, he waived his undoubted right,

and resigned

In appreciation of this

in his favor.

Edwin M.

act,

Stanton, Secretary of War, wrote to Lieutenant-Colonel Prime,

under date of February

28,

1863

Your

i-esignatiou

to-day by the Department, and accepted.

To mark

placed on the

inated on Monday." tion through

your

of Brigadier-Grenerals to be

nom-

The appointment

some hitch

After returning to

list

approval

services,

of your coxirse, and estimate of your character

name has been

was received

and

failed to receive confirma-

in the Senate.

civil life,

of the law in Youkers, where he

Mr. Prime resumed his profession still

remains, enjoying a large and

lucrative practice.

William Riley was born

in Yonkers,

on the 18th

May,

the 9th of October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in

G, Fifty-First Regiment of

New-York Volunteers.

1840.

Company

going to

the front the Regiment formed part of the Burnside expedition to

North Carolina.

It participated in the battles of

and Newbern, both

Army.

which resulted

Roanoke Island

in victories for the

also participated in the battles of second Bull

Chantilly, Virginia,

and

in the battles of

Union

Run and

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,

YONKEBS AY

130

ThJ-:

UKhELLlOX.

He was

rendering amputation necessary near the shoulder. discharged from the sei-\nce December

o7-a])ly

hon-

Eeturn-

1862.

ing to Yonkers, he studied law with Ralph E. Prime, and has continued to practice in

liis

nativi' city to the present time.

James Sheridan enlisted May

19, 1801, as a private in

New-York Infantry Volunteers,

F, Fifth

In the second battle of Bull

years.

that entered above the right hip

bone.

lay

Run he was wounded by a baU

and came out just below the breast-

upon the ground within the enemy's " I 'vc a

days without attention.

Company

which he served two

good mind

lines for seven

put you out of your

misery," said a heartless Confederate, "Ijy i-unniiig

l)ayonet

through you."

At the time

of the

"John

kers.

New-York

night, as they liad not I coni])lied

sei'vice.

Cobb,

Jr.

Sheridan had served out

Waring and Ethan Flagg came

"and askcl

Slieridan,

riots ]Mr.

and was working for Isaiah Anderson

his first enlistment,

would patrol

lict-n

with the

alilc to find

recjuest,

The headquarters were

lino-

HiH and

any one

Yon-

to me," says

Mr.

tli.'(;l.'n

to iicrfonn that

and was sworn

Fan-ington Hall.

by Lyman I

had

report every night at twelve o'clock and at four in the morning."

reenlisted in

lery.

During

He was

when Lee

the

Company

B, Second Connecticut

Heavy

Artil-

his serN-ice he fouglit in sixteen general engagements. first

line of skirniisliers at

Apjiomattox Court-House

.surrendered to CJeneral Grant.

Frederic Shonnard, in the spring of the year 18G1, at the outbreak of the Rebellion, was a member of the Hamilton College School

Clinton,

New- York.

Having

liad tlif

Law

a<lvantage of a

SOME PERSONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR. careful traiuiiig in the cWll of the infantry soldier,

by a

battalion, age,

was

gi'aduate of

at that time

neighborhood.

West

Point, he, although not yet of

one of the few competent drill-masters in that

Upon

the ascertainment of this fact, and of his

two and three hundred

in the

spirited

month

May, between

young men, students

of the college,

willingness to act as instructor, early in the

and others resident

131

company and

in the neighborhood, assembled in a large

room

basement of the Methodist Church, effected a temporary

organization, and under his

course of

members

management commenced a vigorous

Many men who have

drill.

of that

"awkward

squad."

since

become famous were

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 Fourteenth Eegiment

went

to the

New-York Infantry

war about the 17th

of Oneida County,

May, 1861.

He was

which

offered the

Captaincy, but declined the position out of respect for the remon-

strances of his parents, whose only child he was.

year

latei",

little

over a

with their consent, he assisted in the organization of the

One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Eegiment New- York Infantry

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which was afterward changed to the New- York Artillery, â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and accepted a commission as First Westchester County,

tenant of

He was moted

Lieu-

Company K. mustered into the service on September

to the

rank of Captain, and

torious services,

all

of the

until about the 19th of July, 1864,

the Seci-etary of

finally to that of

1862,

War

to a special

was pro-

Major, for meri-

and was honorably discharged January

Mr. Shonnard participated in

ment

Sixth

28, 1865.

campaigns with his Regi-

when he was

duty on the

detailed

staff of the

Gov-

YOXKEBS IX THE UEBELLIOX.

132

ernor of the State of New-York, connected with the threatened raids

by the Rebels

command

Wapping

of his

Canada on the northern borders

of the State.

Company, he participated

engagement

Heights, Vii-ginia, July 26, 1863.

in the

As an

acting aide on

the staff of Brigadier-General Robert 0. Tyler, during the brief

Mine Run Campaign,

Company having been

his

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

and was ordered home on recruiting

of Major,

to tlie

rank

Having

service.

secured some five hundred recruits by enlistment and transfer, he reported for duty on the battle-field of Spottsylvania.

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-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

vania series Corps.

Regiment then belonging

cuiiimaiid of

Ill

lowing cugageuuuits

May

liis

the forced crossing of the North

23; second advance.

River,

May

25; operations in that neighborhood.

;

near

May

Long Bridge, June

;

24,

and

2.");

Canipai;,^!

lir

vor,

Anna

26 and 27;

Cold Harbor, June 3

assault on Petersburg,

;

Mechan-

Chickahoniiny,

June IS;

act ivcl

19, 20, 21, 22,

and the siege of Petersburg.

^lajoi- Slioiiii,ir<l

iiMMilion,

Ivi

30; Mechanics\ille

engaged with the enemy before Petersburg on Jnne 2.3,

Anna

Mechanicsville Pike, second position, June 2

icsville Pike, third position or

the fol-

24; Jericho Road, near North

Bethesda Church, part of Cold Harbor, Pike, June

Army

to the Fifth

Battalion he also took part

i-cicivi'd

nearly

lS(i;;,

and

(lird

no wonn<l ^^\

wliicli

he considerc.l woi'th

typhoid U-wv during

Ids horsi's

tin- K'apiijan

were shot nnd.i' liim on three

SOME PEE SONAL RECORDS OF THE WAR.

occasions.

member

of the

Loyal Legion, of the Society of the

of the

Grand Army

of the Eepublic,

Army

and was the

the Fraternity of the Survivors of the Sixth

Samuel Stevens was born York, November in

Company

12, 1836.

D, First

133

of the first class of the Military Order of the Potomac,

first

President of

New- York

Ai-tillery.

in Somers, Westchester County,

New-

In July, 1861, he enlisted as a private

New-York Lincoln

Cavalry.

He was

pro-

moted successively as Corporal, Sergeant, First Lieutenant, Captain,

and Brevet Major, and served

He was stei-'s

to the close of the war.

in the battles of Annandale, Fairfax Court-House, Sang-

Station, in the siege of

Yorktown, battles of West Point,

Fair Oaks, Gaines's Mill, Savage's Station, White

Malvern

Hill,

Oak Swamp,

Five Forks, Winchester, Martinsburg, Fisher's

Cedar Creek, Appomattox, &e.

Hill,

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.

men

turned him over to General Custer, one of the bravest

that ever lived."

James Stewakt,

Jr., at

the age of twenty, responded to the call of

President Lincoln for 75,000 three-year ern Rebellion, and in

Danbury

men

put down the South-

enlisted as a private in

A, Fifth Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers.

through

all

Company He passed

the intermediate grades, and returned with his

pany as Captain

at the close of the war.

He was

Com-

in all the engage-

YONKEHS IN THE

i;^4

luents

ill

Sheiiaudoali

the

iucludiiig the

memorable

retreat

Cedar Mountain; the second Bull

May,

ISH'J;

liaiiks,

the battle of

('amiiaiirn; lln- battles of

ii'iin

— his engagement as a commissioned — Chancellors\'ille — during which he was slightly wounded

Antietani, Fredericksburg, officer,

HEIIKJ.I.IOX.

under General X.

Valley

first

and taken prisoner, but escaped and joined vious to the

fall

engagement was

Company

his

of General Stonewall Jackson.

just pre-

His next important

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

They sought

caught in a very embarrassing position.

bchiml the cdnicr of a stone wall, from a Rebel force

and could not

niovi; -without

being exposed to their

protection, in anilmsh,

Lieuten-

lire.

ant Stewart, in coniniand of two Companies, went to their " Wlicic are the

Rebs

point out the location of the enemy, fast about his head.

He dropped

when

St. -wart

and

his

men made

the way, and the two Generals were

The next engagement

Vjalls

whizzed thick and

very suddeuty behind the wall,

and shouted, "Over there!" pointing Lieutenant

in the direction of danger. ;i

dash, the

explode that

kili-'d

wiiich Lieutenant Stewart

While repulsing

whnv

took part h.'

saw the

the Confederate (ini.nd I'olk.

Swinging around on Marietta, the next

Farm.

Rebs got out

liaiipily releaseil.

with his Regiin<;n( was the battle of Pin.' Knoli, shell

relief.

General Hooker stood up to

was asked.

battle

was

Kulp's

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. disabled him.

was thought the wound would prove

he was sent home. restored

him

135 fatal,

and

Careful nursing and treatment, however, so far

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

He reached G-eneral Thomas's army command in the battle of Nashville.

Confederacy. take a special

The Fifth Connecticut Regiment formed part

just in time to

of Greneral Sher-

man's army in the march through Georgia, and was on a return

march from the Atlantic Coast

to the interior,

Stewart was welcomed back to his

Company as

when Lieutenant

Captain.

He was in

the engagement at Averysborough, where he lost his First Lieutenant,

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 valCaptain Stewart

iant qualities.

a manufacturing hatter, and has

been a respected public-spirited citizen of Yonkers since 1867.

William Welsh in

enlisted for the

Company A, Ninth New- York

to the Eighty-Third

was assigned

New- York

Company

war

May,

1861, as a private

State Militia, afterward changed State Infantry Volunteers.

D, Sixty-Eighth

New-York

State Infan-

try Volunteers, and successively promoted to Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant,

He was

and Captain.

in the battles of Harper's Ferry, Winchester,

South

Mountain, second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, &c. 17

He was twice knocked down by

spent shells,

YOSKEUS IX THE UEBELLIOK.

i;](i

but was never seriously hurt. service he

He went

until

December, 1864.

New-York

after

tlie

he came to Yonkers as one of the

war,

fii-iu

Welsh.

David A. Winans enlisted

New-York

State

Company

A of the Fourth Regiment,

Heavy Artillery Volunteers,

He was

served continuously for four years.

Regiment during that

of his

into the dry-goods business in

where he continued Weller

After nearly fom* years of active

was honorably discharged

Novemlieiin all llic

and was not absent

time,

1861,

and

engagements for a day.

In February, 1862, his Regiment was detailed to the

Army

the Potomac, and remained in defence of the capital for altout a

year. In the little at

Regiment poral

lo.'^t

K'eani's Station, Virginia,

'Mo

men

Winans was taken

his gun,

and

his piece

August

25, 1864, the

wounded, and missing.

killed,

Cor-

prisoner just as he had finished loading

was

fired

upon the Union

He was

forces.

soon rescued, however, and returned to his Regiment.

the 20th of April, 1865, while in pursuit of Lee from Peters-

burg, his Regiment land's Station.

the works.

About

made

a charge upon Rebel works at Suther-

Sergeant Bogan and Corporal Winans rushed over

The Rebels

thirty obeyed.

upon the retreating

"Halt! surrender

ran.

was the shout.

Two Rebel cannon, ready loaded, were tm-ued foes

and

Tliev also ea]>tnred

fii-ed.

tlie

Rebel

colors.

At Hatcher's Run, Mrginia, was wounded

October, 1864, Corporal

the right shoulder, but not seriously.

mustered out of service Xoveniber

1S65.

Winans

He was

SOME PERSONAL BECOBDS OF THE WAR.

137

M. X. WiSEWELL conducted a Military School on South Broadway, corner of Hudson Street, Yonkers, and afterward at Perth Ambo\',

New

Jersey.

was appointed Colonel

the

commencement

of the

of the Rebellion he

Twenty-Eighth

ment, and served with distinction.

At the battle

New

Jersey Regi-

of Fredericksburg

he was shot through the mouth, and was supposed to be mortally

wounded.

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.

1888.

He was born

died in the former city, April 11,

Brandon, Vermont,

May

buried in the family vault at Pompton Plains.

15, 1827,

and was

9^(K

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

an enemy in a hand-to-hand struggle.

a sailor about to engage

It is exceedingly graphic.

The

sculptor and bronze-workers have well retained the spirit of the original

The

figure is of high artistic merit, and a perfect embodiment of 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:

drawing.

lofty daring.

;

(Uniler the Statue)

COURAGE. (On the Die)

THE UNION

MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED.

THE UNION SAVED.

CHAPTER

OUR HEROES' LAST At Rest

in St. John's,

eteries

MANY

Oakland, St. Mary's, and St. Joseph's Cem-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Their Graves Kept in Reverent Remembrance. of our brave defenders have crossed the great river,

never to return. thus silently, with

names

Their memories are dear to us, and we

dewy eye and bowed

head, tenderly

commit

their

our children and children's children to remotest genera-

tions, for their

reverence and esteem.

city lie all that is left of our heroes.

hands

SLEEP.

may

In the cemeteries of our

Loving hearts and willing

decorate their gi-aves.

NAMES OF SOLDIERS BURIED ST.

MARY'S,

AND

ST.

IN ST.

JOHN

OAKLAND,

JOSEPH'S CEMETERIES.

AiNSWORTH, Joseph, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Volunteers. F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.

Archer, Nathan, Company Barnes, Frederick Beasley, James

E.,

E., Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.

143

YOXKEKS IX THE

1J4

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 NewYork 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

Clancy, Henry, Company

Regiment New- York Heavy

Artillery.

Second Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery.

Cle\t:land, Henry.

Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Volunteers

CoNTJELL, William,

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 Cronin, Eugene, Company

Ninety-Fifth Regiment

Artillery.

New-York

Volunteei-s.

CUMMINGS, WiLLiAJi, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Volunteers.

Cunningham, John

.J.,

Company A,

First

Regiment California Volunteers.

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.

Danks, W.

H..

DOWNES, ClL\RLES A. Doyle, Harold.

Dromley, William. Dubois,

H., Fittli

Kiginunt United States Cavalry.

Dupp, Delmar.

DupPY, Patrick, Company Easton, Frederick

J.,

Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York

St;>lc Militia.

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

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. Ferguson, H.

B.,

Gaul, Theodore, Company D, Fifth Regiment New-York

Geary, Thomas, Company

Ninety-Fifth Regiment

Militia.

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 Volimteers

;

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 Hamilton, John, Sixty-Fourth Regiment New- York Volunteers. Hamilton, William, Company

F, Sixth

Artillery.

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

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

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.

;

and

YOXKEIiS IX THE KEBELLIOS.

140

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

Morris, Thojias

Sixth Regiment

F., Colonel

New-York Heavy

Artillery.

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 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

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.,

Reynolds, James

Company

A., First

F, Sixth Regiment

New- York Heavy

Artillery.

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

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.

New-York Volunteers. Skinner, John W., Sixth Regiment Missouri Volunteers. Smith, John, Company G, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New-York Volunteers. Sickly, James M., Thirty-Second Regiment

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

Swift,

S. M.,

Company

New- York

Mihtia.

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

;

YOXKEKS L\

14H

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 New- York.

Forty-Tiiird Regiment

Thirteen Unknown Graves.

DIED IN THE SERVICE. Burgess, David, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavj-

Artillery.

Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy ArtilK-ry. Sherwood, Joseph M., Company F, Sixth Rcginieiit New-York Heavy Artiller Halves,

J.\C'0B,

DIED IN YONKEHS.

lU'lUE!)

Gn.LEO, Jacob, Sergeant, Company F, Sixth

Keves, Edwin

R., Chaplain, Sixth

EESEWIIEHE.

New York Heavy

Regiment New- York Heavy

Artillery. Artillery.

Taylor, Henry H.. Company H. One Hundred and Sixth Regiment New-York Volimteers.

Wandell, Evert

H., Musician,

Conipany F. Sixth Nrw-York Heavy

.\rtillery.

CHAPTER

XI.

A BOLL OF HONOR. SOLDIERS

AND SAILORS OF THE WAR NOW OR LATELY RESIDING IN YONKERS.

Acker, James, Company A, SLxty-Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. AiNSWOETH, Allen, Company G, Tbdrty- Sixth Regiment New- York Volunteers. Allison, Robebt, Company G, Thii-ty-Sixth Regiment unteers;

Company

E, Twelfth Regiment

New -York

New- York

Militia;

Infantry Vol-

Company D,

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. Fifteenth Regiment

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 Infantry Volunteers

;

Baldwin, Charles

Second Regiment Veteran Cavalry New- York Volunteers. E. 149

;

YONKKits IN THE liEBELLION.

150

Baldwin, John, Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

Baldwin, William H., Captain, Company L, Ball, Wn.Lnsi C. Barker, Oscar

F.,

Bahnes, Jerome

First

Repnient New-York Enjrineers.

United States Navy.

Company

D.,

F, Sixteenth Regiment

Bartlett, William H. C, Professor

Beaumont, Williasi

West

New-York Heavy

Becker, Henrv, Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy

Willum

Artillen,-.

Point.

H., United States Navy. Artillery.

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 NewBelknap,

H.,

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 Volunteers.

Brennan, Thomas, United States Navy.

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 InBrill, Jacob G.,

fantry Volunteers.

Brown, Brown, Brown, Burke,

Calvin C, Company B, Sixth Regiment New-Yoik Heavy

Artillery.

John W., Company B, Sixth Regiment New-York Hea\'>- Artillerj-. Samuel F., Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavalry. 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.

Company F, Twenty-Second Regiment New-York Cavalrj-. Callahan, Thomas, Company I), Forty-First Regiment New- York Infantry

Cahill, John

unteers.

J.,

Vol-

A BOLL OF HONOR. Cantwell, Michael

J.,

Company

C, Thirtieth

151

Regiment Massachusetts Infantry

Volunteers.

Carey, JoH^f, Company E, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Vokmteers. Cabrall, Bernard, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry Volunteers.

Carroll, Willlwi, Company

C, Sixth

Regiment New- York Heavy

Carter, James W., United States Navy

Heavy

;

Company

C, Sixth

Artillery.

Regiment New- York

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. S., Company E, Third United States Light Artillery Second LieuCompany L, First New- York Engineers; and Captain, Company G,

Clark, Jere tenant,

;

Second Regiment United States Colored Collins, Thomas,

Company

Artillery.

One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Regiment

Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers.

CoLNAN, Thomas, Company D, Forty-Eighth Regiment New-York Volunteers. CoMELius, Alonzo

G.,

Company

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 Volunteers.

Coyne, Martin, Company

Fortieth Regiment

New- York Infantry Volunteers

;

United States Navy.

Craft, Moses A., Company F, Forty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. S., Company F, Eighth Regiment New- York Militia. Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Regiment New-Y'ork

Crane, Stephen Crimins, John,

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.

;

YOyKKJiS IX THE UKBELUOX.

152

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

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 Volunteers.

Dreslit, David.

Dudley, Orville

D..

Company A,

Duffy, Patrick, Company

Fifth Regiment

New-York

liif;iiitry

Volunteers

Twenty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-

teers.

DURAND, Frederick

Company

J.,

Company H,

First

Regiment New-York Veteran Cavab-y

Twenty-Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

Eaqan, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy

Artillery.

New-York Infantry Volunteers. Seventieth Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-

Edie, jAiiES K., Fourteenth Regiment

Edwards, John, Company

teers.

ElMER, George, Coni|)any

Sixth Regiment

New-York Heavy

Arlillery.

Ellerbeck, Charles H., Company E, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

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

dier-General and Brevet Major-Geneml United States Vnhinleers.

Eyck, Charles Lee, United States Navy.

;

Briga-

A BOLL OF HONOR.

153

Feexlet, M.

Fegan, Peter, Company F, Ninetieth Regiment New-York Veteran Infantry Volunteers.

Company F, Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. Flanagan, Patrick. Company G, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry VolFink, John N.,

Fisher, William H.,

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

T.,

Company H,

Regiment New-York

Infanti-y

Regiment New- York

Infauti-y

C, Ninety-Eighth

Volunteers.

Gray, Stephen

Fifty-Sixth

Volunteers. I, Ninety-Fifth New-York Infantry Volunteers. Grimshaw, Henry, Company G, Thirty-Sisth Regiment New-York Infantry

Grevert, John, Company 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 GuiON, Heney

p.,

United States Navj'.

Militia.

YOXKEIiS IX THE REHELLIOX.

154

Haley, Thomas, Company K, One Hundrdil ami Fourth Regriment, New-York Infantrj' Volunteers.

Company H, (Sixth Kefjimeut Kew-York Heavy Artillery. 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 Hall, H.

B., Captain,

Halsey, Williaji

L.,

Volunteers.

Habri.son, Thoma.s.

Hastings, John, Company

1),

Twenty-Second Regiment

New-York Infantry

Volunteers.

Hatfield, William M., Company F,

Heath, ]^Iaecellus C. Hedley, John, Company Heermance, William

First

Regiment New- York Lincohi Cavalry.

Regiment New-York Infantrj- Volunteers. Company H, Ninth Regiment New- York State Militia;

F, Ninth

L.,

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth Regiment New- York Cavalry.

HendricKSON, George

York Hea%'y

R.,

Company

and

Coiiipiuiy A. Sixth

Regiment New-

Artillery.

HiCKERSON, Henry C, Company A and Company K. Klcvenlh Regiment

New

Jersey Infantry.

Hill, John Martin, Hill.s,

Company

L, Fourth Regiment

N.w-York Heavy

Artillery.

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 Volunteers.

Hodges, George, Ninth Regiment New- York HOPFM.^N, William

H.,

Company

A.,

Militia.

First

Regiment Connci-ticul

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.

Infantry

;

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 NewYork Infantry Volunteers. Company K, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry

HiiDDY, William, Volunteers.

Hume,

Isaac,

Infantry

Company

Two Hundred and

Volimteers

;

Company

Thirteenth Regiment Pennsylvania

G, Ninety-Ninth Regiment

Pennsylvania

Infantry Volunteers.

Company A,

Irvin, Joseph E.,

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

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; Captain,

JOSLYN,

Company

Andrew

Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Regiment New-

C, Seventy-Eighth

J.,

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

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 19

;

Bugler, Ninth Regiment United States Infantry.

;

YOyKEHS IN THE BEBELLION.

156

Company

KiPP, Augustus,

Thirty-Secoud

I),

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%->Lawrence, James V., Major, Volunteers on General Staff.

Lawrence, John Light Battery

Lawton, James Lawton, James

H.,

Company

31, First

F.,

H.,

E, Sixth

United States

Artillery.

Regiment New-York Hea\^-

Artillerj-

Artillerj-.

Company C, First Regiment New- York Engineers. 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

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

JIcCartiiv, Calvin.

McCAltTV, Fifty-Ninth Heginient Ncw-Yurk Infantry Voluntt

Artil-

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

Mackey, Geeffen, Company

Ninety-Fifth Regiment

Artillery.

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 Volunteers.

McMahon, John, Company McMela, Jacob.

F, Sixth

New-York Heavy

McPherson, William

H., United States Navy.

Manners, Samuel

Company F and Company

L.,

Artillery.

B, Eighth Regiment

New

Jersey

Infantry Volunteers.

Manning, Ezra

Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment New-

L.,

York Infantry Volunteers Company K, Fom-teenth Regiment Veteran Reserve ;

Corps.

Maroney, Edwabd

B.,

United States Navy.

Maeean, Peter, Company

E, Twelfth Regiment

Maetin, William. Maxwell, Richard, Company

New- York Infantry Volimteers.

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

First

Regiment New-York Cavaky.

Messenger, Edwabd A. Miller, Archibald Edgae, Company E, Eighth Regiment New- York

Miller, DA^ao

J.,

Militia.

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 Ninety-Ninth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. ;

Mitchell, Edward try Volunteers.

J.,

Company

E, Thirty-Seventh

Regiment New Jersey Infan-

YONKERS IN

158 Mitchell, George

A.,

Company

TllK

KKUKUJOX.

F, Fifth Regiment

New-York

Infantrj'

Volun-

teers.

JIoxToojiERY, James,

Company G,

First

Regiment New-York Mounted

MonKis, Michael, Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Hea\-y

Rifles.

Artillerj-.

Mosher, PniLrp, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. MuNN, Daniel S., Company G, Sixty-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

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 Nealy, Benjamin, Company A, Thirteenth Regiment

New

Militia.

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- Volunteers.

Nichols, Frederick

0.,

Company

C, First

Regiment Connecticut Hea^â&#x20AC;˘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

O'Brien, John,

Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

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 Volunteers;

Company

Osterheld, HENTtY,

C, Eighteenth

Regiment New- York Cavalry.

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. Palmer, Abeam

Company D,

J.,

Forty- Eighth Regiment

159

New- York Infantry Vol-

unteers.

Paitlding, Pieree L.,

Company

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

P, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

Company Company

G.,

Peiece, Charles A.,

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. Company F, Fifth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

Post, George C,

Prescott, William H. Prime, Ralph

E.,

Companies G, C, and B, Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry

New-York Heavy Artillery. Proseus, Joseph L., Company B, Fifth Regiment New-York Heavy Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Militia.

;

Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth Regiment

Artillery;

QuiNCEY, Edward,

Randall,

Wesley, United

Redding, John

T.,

States Navy.

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.

YOXKERS IN THE UEliKLUOX.

160

Reynolds, Seymour H., Company

York Heavy

and Company H, Sixth Rogiment New-

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 Volunteers.

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

Ninety-Third Regiment New- York

Ryer, Williaji C, Company E, New- York

Scheleerr, James

Militia.

Volunteei-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

Second Regiment

District of

Columbia Infantry

Volunteers.

SlEBERT. Jacob,

Company E, Twentieth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. Company C, Twenty-Second Regiment New Jersey Infantry

SiEVERS, Albert, 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

One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment New-

York Infantry Volunteers. Skidgell, WiLLiAii, Company A, Eighteenth

Regiment New-York Infantry Company D, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. Skipper, Thomas, Company A. Third Regiment Maryland Cavalry. Volunteers;

;

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 Cavalry

;

Company

F, Fifty-Seventh

Regiment

Smith, Robert, Fifth Regiment New-York

New -York

Infantry Volunteers.

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 Volunteers.

Stewart, James,

Company A,

Jr., Captain,

Fifth Regiment Connecticut Infanti-y

Volunteers.

Stockholm, Frederick

G.,

Company A,

Sixth Regiment

New-York Heavy

Ai'tillery.

Stone, Willl\m

S.,

Company

Seventy-First Regiment

New- York Infantry

Volunteers.

Stouffer, George A., Company H, First Regiment Maryland Infantry VolunStraley, 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 Fourth Regiment

Illinois

Thirty-

Volunteers.

Sullivan, John, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers. Sullivan, Michael

T.,

Company

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 Volunteers.

YONKEHS

162

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 Volunteers.

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

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

Fifty-Ninth Regiment

New-York Infantry

Volunteers.

Washington, George

H.,

Company

C, Eleventh

Regiment United States Colored

Artillerj'.

Webb,

Jajies,

Company

Seventy-Second Regiment New-York Infantry Volun-

teers.

Wellinghast, John. Wellm^VN, W. Prescott, Seventh Regiment New-York

Welsh, James, Company Wki.sii.Wili.iam,

Mjlitia.

New-York Heavy .Vriill.ry. Caiitain.Coniimny D.Si.\ly-Kiglith Heginient New-York F, Sixth Regiment

Infantry.

A ROLL OF HONOR.

163

Wheaton, Joseph C, Compauy A, Thirteenth Regiment New-York Mihtia. Whitehead, John C, Company G, First Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers. Whiting, Joseph, Company F, Second Regiment New- York Cavah-y. Williams, Charles John, United States Navy. Williams, Edwin H., Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-Second Regiment New- York Infantry Vohinteers. Willis, William. WiLLOUGHBY, Charles, Company D, Fourth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. WmANS, David A., Company A, Fourth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery.

Wolf, William H., United States Navy. Woodruff, Frederick H., Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Militia. Wyatt, David W., Company G, Thirty-Sixth Regiment New -York Infantry Volunteers.

Yerks, William W., Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy

Artillery.

ON THE SOUTH

SIDE.

THE CAVALRY STATUE.

This

desiij'ii

ing figure.

was furnished by It

repi-eseuts a

J. E. Kelly, of

New-York.

It is

dismounted cavalryman on the

with carbine ready, dauntless resolution, and every sense discover and repel the approach of an enemy.

Inscriptions

(Under

llie

alert, intent to

The martial bearing

form and the heroic cast of features combine to render impressive.

an impos-

picket-line,

VALOR

PARAMOUNT OBJECT IS TO SAVE THE UNION.

(Oil tlie BasL-

LET US HAVE PEACE.

this statue very

CHAPTER

XII.

THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. KiTCHiNG Post

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; John

Fremont Post

Faced the Rebel Fire

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Men

Who

Bravely

Defence of the Union.

KITCHHSTG POST NO.

60.

latter part of the year 1867, a number of the men who INhad been in the United States service for the suppression of tlie

the Rebellion between the years 1861 and 1865, learning that there

had been an organization formed for

Grand Army

the

Republic,

made

their benefit, called the

application

McKean, who was then Grand Commander

James B.

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 Hendrickson, William Riley,

and Daniel

be known as Kitching Post No.

Munn,

to organize a Post to

60.

On the 18th day of March following, the muster in took place, Edmund Y. Morris was elected the first Commander. Daniel

and

YOSKEHS IX

170 S.

Munu was elected

there were fifty-five

Tilt:

HEIiELLIOS.

Comniandei- on the 1st of January, 1870, when

names on the

also served as such for the

The membership increased

year 1872.

when William Riley assumed command names on the

muster-roll

was

179.

In the year 1871

muster-roll.

John Kuester was Comniandei-, and he

so, that in

January, 1873,

of the Post, the

He was

also in

number

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 to

C. Shotts; 1881,

September

sell,

June

Frank A. Curran;

17, 1882, 17, 1884,

when he when he

17, 1884, to July, 1885,

1882,

James V. Lawrence,

resigned; Sherburne C.

resigned

Van

Tas-

Galusha B. Balch, from

;

when he resigned

;

James Sheridan,

from July, 1885, to January, 1H87; and from 1887 to and including 1891,

John

C. Shotts.

November, 1801

Officers,

John C. Shotts, Commander. Augustus Kipp, Senior Vice-Commander. George Hexdrickson, Junior Vice-Commander.

Edward

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.

Acker, Jasper W., Company B, Sixth Eegiment New-York Heavy

171

Artillery.

Allison, Robert, Company E, Twelfth Regiment New-York Militia

Company New- York Infantry Volunteers Company D, Fifteenth Regiment New-York Engineers. Andrews, Joseph, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry VolG, Thirty-Sixth Regiment

;

imteers.

Arbuckle, William, Musician, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

Bailey, Augustus, Musician, Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers.

Baldwin, John, Company G, One Hundred and Second Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

Barker, Oscar

T.,

Barnes, Jerome

United States Navj'.

D.,

Company

F, Sixteenth Regiment

New-York Heavy

ArtiUery.

Betts, George, United States Navy. Blaitvelt, Willi.\m,

Bloomer, William

Company D, E.,

Fifty-First

Regiment New-York Volunteers.

United States Navy.

Bowes, Benjamin, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

Brady, Jeremiah, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Massachusetts Light

Artillery.

Brazier, James, Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

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. Brill, Jacob G.,

Carey, John, Company E, Sixty-Ninth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

Caeroll, William, Company

C, Sixth

Carter, James W., Company

C, Sixth

Regiment New- York Heavy

Artillery.

Regiment New- York Heavy

Artillery

United States Navy. Casey, Daniel,

Company

F, Sixth

Regiment New- York Heavy ArtiUery.

Cashin, Patrick, United States Navy.

YOXKEKS ly THE RKliELLIOX.

172

Company E, Third Regiment United States Light ArtiUerj-; Fourth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers; Company G, Second Regi-

Clark, Jere

S.,

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

Drehfahl, a.

J.,

H.,

Company B, Fifteenth Regiment New- York Militia. Company F, Fifty-Eighth Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-

teers.

Dudley, Orville

D.,

Company

.\, Fiftli

Regiment New- York Infantry Volun-

teers.

Durand, Frederick

Company Edie,

JyUiiES,

J.,

Company H,

First

Regiment New- York Veteran Cavalry

;

Twenty- Seventh Regiment New- York Infantry Volunteers.

Fourteenth Regiment New-York Infantry Volunteers.

Ek'KHORN, Charles

F.,

Company H, Fifty-Seventh Regiment New- York

Infantry

Volunteei-s.

Eimer, George, Company

Ferguson,

Hugh

H.,

Sixth Regiment

Company

New- York Heavy

F, Forty-Eighth Regiment

Artillery.

New-York Infantry

Volunteers.

Field, John P., Fink, John N.,

Company C, Fourth Regiment Vermont Company F, Ninth Regiment New-York

Infantry Volunteers. Infantry Volunteers.

FiNNEOAN, James, Company F, First Regiment New-York Mounted

Rifles.

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>-. Fisher, William H.,

GoRAViN, John, Company

GORDINEER, William

J.,

C, Sixth

Regiment New-York Heavy

Artillery.

United States Navy.

Graham, Edward, Company C,Ninety-Eightli

Heginieiii

Ni-w-Vork Infantry Vol-

unteers.

Grevert, John, Company

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

Company F, First Regiment New-York Engineers. Hampson, Thomas, Company A, Eighteenth Regiment New-York Cavah^'. Company C, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. Hargraves, Job, 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 Halsey, William

Heavy

L.,

Ai-tiUery.

Henry, George

Company A, Seventy-Tlm-d Regiment New-York

S.,

Infantry

Volunteers.

Hickerson, Henry C, Company

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,

Jones,

Company A,

Alfred

Fu-st

Company

M.,

Regiment New-York Cavalry.

B, Seventy-Eighth Regiment United States Colored

Infantry.

Company

Jones, Samuel B.,

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; Company 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

Lawton, James

F.,

F, Sixth

Company

Regiment New-York Heavy

C, First

Artillery.

Regiment New-York Engineers.

Light, Charles, Ninth Ohio Independent Battery.

YONKERfi IX THE REBELLWS.

174 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 Volunteers. 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-

Mackey, Geiffen, Company

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. 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-

Mitchell, George

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 Volunteers.

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. Company K, Sixty- Eighth Regiment .^Jew-

O.STERHELD, Henry, First Lieutenant,

York Infantrv

Volunteei-s.

;; ;

THE GBAND ABMY OF THE REPUBLIC. One Hundred and

F., Company E, New- York Volunteers; United States Navy.

Paulding, Pierre

175 Regiment

Sixty-Eiglitii

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.

Company F, Sixth Regiment New- York Heavy Artillery. 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-

Reitf, Jacob,

Rein,

John

H.,

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 Volunteers.

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.

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-

-Smith,

unteers. 21

ITAVA'iVt'.S'

â&#x20AC;˘

176

jy THE KEBELLION.

Company I, Ninety-Fifth Kegrinient New-York Infantry Volunteers. SuLLn'AN, Michael T., Company I, Ninety-Sixth Regiment New- York Infantry Still, John,

Volunteers.

Tallmadge, Robert TiCE,

James

G.,

P.,

Sixth Ohio Independent Batterj*.

Company H,

Ninety-Fifth Regiment

New-York

Infantrj*

Volun-

teers.

TlDABACK, John, Company D, Fifty-Second Regiment Pennsylvania Infantn- Volunteers.

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 Volunteers.

Veitch, William H., United States Navy.

VoiGHT, Heney, Company

Washington, George

Company

H.,

Fifth Regiment United States Veteran Cavalry. 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.

Company F, Sixth Regiment New-York Heavy Artillery. 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. Cain, Joseph,

Carlton, Ch^vrles

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

Everkst, James Fenner, John

B.,

R.,

Company

Rifles.

D, Fifty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.

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. FiSHEE, Charles R.,

Company

B, Fifteenth

177

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, Company

Glosqtte, Joseph,

Hendeick, a.

a..

Sixth Regiment

New- York Heavy Artillery. New- York Volunteers.

G, Forty-First Regiment

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 MOEEIS,

Edmund

F, Twelfth Regiment

Y., Major, Sixth

New- York

Regiment New- York Heavy

State Militia. 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

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.

YONKERS IX THE HEBELLION.

178

JOHN

the 19th day of May, 1886, a

NO.

number

'.90.

of honorably discharged

United States Army, who had sei"ved in the

late

for the suppression of the Rebellion against the Union,

met

soldiers of the

war

FREMONT POST

in the City of Yonkers,

of a Post of the

liminary meetings the the Horatio

and took steps looking to the formation

Grand Army

of the Republic.

new Post

Seymour Post No.

the following

named comrades

started

590,

its

Department

as officers

After several precareer of

June

29, as

New-York, with

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.

1S77,

Balch succeeded Coniiiiandor Shonnanl, .January

and has remained since

.At a

that .late in tlie

regnlar encanipinent li.M

,,n .Inly 24,

Post was changed to John C. Fremont

by General Order No. Ileaihinarters.

September

;

same ISiM).

'J.'),

luisitioii.

the

name

..f tlie

the change being ratified

25,

1890,

from Department

THE GRAND ASMY OF THE REPUBLIC.

179

Bakee, Fisher A., Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers.

Balch, Galusha

B., Assistant Surgeon, Ninety- Eighth

Eegiment New- York In-

fantry Volunteers; Second Regiment Veteran Cavalry

Baldwin, William Henry, Captain, Company L,

First

New- York Volunteers. Regiment New- York

Eng^ineers.

Belknap, William Betts, Charles

D.,

Company A, Thirty- Eighth Regiment New- York Militia. Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment New-

H.,

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

;

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. Captain,

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

Ellis, Matt. H., Captain,

New-York Infantry

F, Eighth Regiment

New-York

Militia.

Company K, One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Eegiment

Volunteers.

EwiNG, Thomas, Colonel, Eleventh Regiment Kansas Infantry Volunteers dier-General and Brevet Major-General, United States Volunteers.

;

Briga-

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.

YO\KEI{S IX THE UKliKLLIOS.

180 Ives,

Hugh

Company

M.,

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

Company D,

F.,

Company

C, First

Regiment United States Sharp-Shooters;

Sixth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps.

Lawrence, James

V., Major, Volunteers

Lawrence, John

H.,

on General

Company E and Company

Heavy Artillerj'. Lelr'a, Carl von, Captain, Company

Staff.

B, Sixth Regiment

C, Fifty-Eighth

New-York

Regiment New-York Infan-

try Volunteers.

Lester, MoSes H., United States Nav>-.

Manning, Ezra

L.,

Company H, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment NewCompany K, Fourteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve

York Infantry Volunteers

;

Corps.

NicoLL, Augustus W., Company E, Seventh Regiment New-York

Militia.

Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New-York Militia Company 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. Odell, James

B.,

Radcliff, AbRjUI

Randall,

;

S.,

Company H, Seventeenth Regiment New-York

^lilitia.

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, York

.James, Secomi

iiiiuti'iunit, ('<>iii]iaM.v

II.

Tliiriceutli

Regiment New-

Militia.

Stkwaf.t. Jamks, Jh.,

r.ii.taiii.

Tiiaveh, Stkphkn H..

('(inii>aiiy II,

(

'..iniiaiiv

A, Fifth Itcgiinciit ('Dnnecti.Mit Infantry.

Seventeenth Regiment New-York

Militia.

THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Van

Ness, Theodore,

Company K, Twenty-Sixth Regiment New

18] 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 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Fourth

Fair

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Depew

Separate Company

Night.

on the even-

at Music Hall, Yonkers, IN the course of an address William Allen Butler, Esq., who

ing of

at the

May

30, 1888,

presided

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,

armed

when

its

existence

was imperiled by

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

yoxkehs in the uebellion.

184

that preserved the

while Yonkers sent

heroism of

Union by the erection

its soldiers

monuments, and that

quota to the war, up to this date the

its full

has been unnoticed."

the 12th day of June following, Mr. Butler appointed, "pur-

Memo-

suant to the resolution of the meeting held on the evening of rial

Day," a committee of twenty-five citizens, "to be

Yonkers

Cyrus Cleveland, knap,

and

Soldiers'

Sailors'

Harvey

Irving Bui-ns,

known

Monument Committee,"

Bell,

Thomas

as the

as follows:

Galusha B. Balch, Ethelbert Bel-

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.

Walter H. Paddock,

Otis,

Francis

War-

Quick, Frederic Shonnard, John C. Shotts, James Stewart, ren B. Smith, Stephen H. Thayer,

Edward

Underhill, and Charles

E. Waring.

In his letter of

vored

name

iii>i>i>iiitiiiciit

citizens wlio,

.Mr.

identification with public ti-usts, terprises, will fitly

and

I'.iitlci'

wroti':

their dllieial

"I havt- endea-

rel;iti<>iis

whose active cooperation

the accomplishment of the object of their ajipointment

sailors."

monument

and

itself to

first

meeting of

tlie

-Jd,

of the

Union

the generous

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the erecsoldiers

and

ISHH.

whom

it is

Manor

sympathy

of our

worthy memorial of those our special duty to honor."

Yonkeks Soldiers'

MENT Association was held June

memory

result in the ereetion of a

brave defenders of the Union

The

and

will insure

In concluding, ^Ir. Butler expressed " the hope that this

movement may enmnieiid citizens,

their

fully rejiresent the leading interests

industries of the city, and

tion of a suitable

and

and with important business en-

Hall,

.\xd Saii.oi;s'

Mom-

Wednesilay evening,

Cyrus Ch'velan.l was eleeted President

;

("liarl.'s

THE SOLBIEBS' AND 8AIL0BS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. Gorton and John

C. Shotts

were elected Vice-Presidents

;

185

Charles

R. Otis was elected Treasurer, and E. Alexander Houston Secretary, of the Association.

On motion

of Colonel

name

of Mr. Shotts, the

William Allen Butler was added to the Association.

Heermance, the names of John W. Oliver and

Holden were

A Finance

On motion J.

Gr.

also added.

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

1889,

on motion of Colonel

Ellis, a resolution

adopted providing " that a shaft or column, to cost not $5,000,

the

be erected in some public place in the

Monument Fund amounted

1889,

to $98.

less

was than

February

a meeting held April

city."

Mr. Cleveland's resignation as President of the Association

was accepted, and Mr. Gorton was elected President, John

Shotts First Vice-President, and Dr. G. B. Balch Second VicePresident.

the 6th day of July, 1889, the Committee on Site reported

that the

Common

Council had consented that the

should be placed on the Manor Hall Grounds.

Monument

The fund had

reached $432.13.

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 raise

meetings followed, and various methods were proposed to

money and

ation resigned,

progress the work

;

some members

and new members were

definitely accomplished

March

elected;

1890.

of the Associ-

but

little

was

At a meeting on that

YONKEUS IN THE liEBELLION.

186

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

appeal for funds and to manage Vice-President Shotts,

who

tlie

Oliver,

and William F.

as such committee.

From more

Chairman, to

presided at the meeting, appointed

Colonel William L. Heermance, John

MoUer

lie

finanees of the Association."

this

time forward the work of the Association advanced

satisfactorily.

The Ways and Means Committee was

consti-

request

tuted an Executive Committee, with iiHTcasid of Colonel Heermance,

Chairman and ;

and on

)io\vcrs.

his motion, Mr. Oliver

was made

Mr. Oliver's request, Charles E. Gorton,

Ir\ing

Burns, and Joseph F. Daly were added to the Executive Committee.

Subscriptions to the fund, $5,488.71.

July

11, 1890,

Charles Henry Butler proposed that

tional subscriptions to the

gate to

;};l,(i(l(),

he would of

Van

wciv

(loiiatf

addi-

the aggre-

lodged by July 22, 1890, at twelve o'clock,

proceeds of the lot on the northeast corner

Cortlandt Park Avcnni' and Lawrence Street, to be sold at

auction at the

New-York Real Estate Exchange,

The proposition was was the means

accepted.

The

lot

was

at that time.

sold for $1,050,

of securing $1,509.50 additional

of $2,559.50 for the

Among

tin'

Monument Fund, amounting in

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; making

Monument Fimd through Mr.

Butler's offer.

the contributors was Mi's. Helen Veile Tatum,

$324.38 to complete the $1,000, in the

names

and

a total

who gave

of her thr.-e little girls

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alice, Kuth, and Georgie Perkins. At

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. unanimously adopted. south side of the

187

For the inscription on the base of the

Monument

the words originally

and adopted were, "Peace Eestored."

gratify

recommended

what seemed

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 The contributions had

appointed Historian of the Association. reached $8,018.21.

On Thursday

evening, September 25, 1890, the Executive

mittee met at the residence of

John W.

Warburton Avenue, with a view

Oliver,

to put the

Com-

Chairman, No. 192

Monument under

con-

There were present Colonel William L. Heermance, William

tract.

F. Moller, Charles E. Gorton, J. Irving Burns, Joseph F. Daly, and

John W.

Oliver, being all the

Hon. Norton P.

Otis, T.

Shonnard were present by cago,

whose plan

members of the Executive Committee;

Astley Atkins, John C. Shotts, and Frederic invitation.

George H. Mitchell, of Chi-

Monument had been

for the

accepted, was also

present by previous an-angement.

After

which

full

all

explanations from Mr. Mitchell, and free discussion in

present participated, the design was formally approved.

The following contract was agreed upon, and executed the next day in the office of This agreement,

Joseph F. Daly, Warburton Building made

this 26th

Mitchell, of the City of Chicago,

and the of

Soldiers'

and

Sailors'

day of September, 1890, between George H.

Cook County, and State

Monument Association

Westchester, and State of New-York,

That the said party of the

first

of Illinois, of the first part,

of the City of Yonkers,

County

of the second part, witnesseth

part, in consideration of the covenants on the part

of the party of the second part hereinafter contained, doth covenant

and with the said party of the second

part, that

will

and

agi-ee to

provide and pay for

all

the

YOXKEIiS IN THE REIiELLIOX.

188 materials,

and do the work

pletion of a fications

Monument

and drawings

And

agreement.

liereto

New- York, according

to the speci-

attached and marked A, which form a part of this

that he will erect the said ^Monument in full accordance with

sum

the said specifications and drawings, for the dollars ($10,500)

and erection and com-

necessarj' for the construction

in the City of Yonkers,

which amount

;

of ten thousand five

hundred

shall include the entire cost of the said

ment, including the statuary, and

its

erection in the place designed

Monu-

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

prompt

fulfilment of all the covenants of the said party of the

nant and agree with the said party of the

sum

representatives the said

first

and

part, doth cove-

first

part to pay to him or his legal

of ten thousand five hundred dollars, in the following

manner, and at the following times First,

The sum

and

of seven hundred

when

fifty dollars ($750)

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.

The sum

Second,

of seven huncb-ed

and

fifty dollars ($750)

Artillery models are ready to be cast in bronze, and, with the

Bearer, are accepted 'lliird,

The sum

of twenty-five hundred dollars (.$2,500)

figures are accepted

The sum

Fourth,

Monument Monument Fifth,

when the Naval and

model of the Standard-

said committee.

by the

of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500)

and

when

workmanship and

when

the material of the

quairied,

ready for erection, and accepted by said committee.

The sum

the four bronze

said committee.

all

the

of one thousand dollars ($1,000)

lettei-ing perfoi-med,

when

the

and the

Monument and

statu-

ary are delivered and ready for erection in the City of Yonkers, at such place as the

and in a manner satisfactory to the said committee. The balance, two thousand dollars (.$2,000), when the said Monument and

said committee shall direct, Sixth, all its

parts shall have been completed

specifications

and

furnished,

and

all

and erected

in its place,

according to said

plans.

It is further agreed,

work

by and between the parties hereto, that to be performed, shall be furnished

and done

ner as shall be satisfactorj- to the committee having the erection of in charge,

and that no payments

shall

further agreed, liy

and between the

Monument

aecei)t(d

part, then the part or portion of said

such a man-

sjiid

be made or become due until the

in its various parts, is accepted as satisfactory

tion or part of .said

material to be

all

Monimient sjiid

work,

by the said committee.

parties hereto, that

and

Monument

i)aid for

shall

by the

whenever any pori)arty of the

second

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, the

name

of,

and the

loss if

It is further agreed, that

any payable if,

for

and the

to,

policy of insurance shall be in

the party of the second part.

any reason, the

said party of the

refuse or neglect to furnish the proper materials, or perfoi-m the

first

work

part should

man-

in the

ner required by the drawings and specifications, then, in that case, the party of the

may do

second part

the said work, and finish the same, in the

manner provided by first part and

the drawings and specifications, at the cost of the said party of the

;

out of the contract price, after paying for finishing the said contract, a balance

left,

the said balance shall be paid to the said party of the

cost of finishing the said

of the

first

work exceed the

and

part,

first

the

said contract price, then the said party

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

part shall, on the

first

making

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 comMonument shall dii-ect, and that the same, when so

mittee in charge of said delivered, shall

be free and clear from any claim or hens.

It is further agreed,

by and between

be completed and erected

the parties hereto, that the

Monument

shall

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,

January

by and between the parties hereto, that at any time before

1892, the said party of the

first

part

the second part, furnish the material,

and

erect

sure, according to the plans

hundred and

and

will,

upon request

of the party of

around said Monument, an

sum

specifications submitted, for the

fifty dollars ($1,250), to

be paid when the said inclosure

completed, according to said plans and specifications, around the said

inclo-

of twelve

erected and

Monument in

the City of Yonkers.

In witness whereof, the parties hereto have set their hands and

day of September, 1890.

seals, the

26th

Signed,

George H. Mitchell.

For the Association

J. W. Oliver, W. L. Heermance,

Joseph F. Daly,

Charles

Gorton,

MajoriUj of Committee.

YOXKEHS

190

County of Westchester,

City of Yokkers.

}

day of September,

this 26th

me known

Mitchell, to

as party of the

I.\

first

THE

JihIiELLJOX.

1890, before

personally

came George H.

to be the individual described in the foregoing instrument

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

be erected in Yonkers,

ment Committee, designed by George H. Mitchell, 24

Granite.

New-York, by

Adams

the .Soldiers'

— To be of the very best quality of selected dark blue Barre granite, of

from shakes, seams, and all other defects. Workmanship of the Monument must be such as to hold the full the design and specifications no patchwork will be accepted all joints to be cut fidl, true, and square top and bottom faces of all

an even

Monu-

Street, Chicago, Illinois.

color, free

;

parallel level

and perfectly even surfaces

;

all

sizes required

beds, builds,

and

stones dres.sed to

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

be equidistant fi-om the vertical axis

;

when erected. Xo stone will be accepted that The Monument throughout must be uniform include every and erection

upon

all

site in

expense for

may be measured,

inaccurately cut, dressed, or

in color,

first-class material

Yonkers, New- York, on or before

Generai, DniENSIONS.— Nine feet

the sides shall

and the Monument must be perpendicular

and workmanship,

May

until its

15, 1801.

sciuarc at base; total height, forty-.-;ix feet

foundation to top of standard.

liUWKK Base. Seooni)

— Nine feet square, one foot ten inches high.

Base.— Seven

feet nine inches square,

set.

and the contractor must

one foot

five

inches high.

from

THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILOES' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. Third Base.— Seven

The

feet square,

sides of these three bases to

be finished with a

quarry faces, projection or wash on each to be finely

Fourth Base.— Six feet four inches polished for lettering on four sides,

191

oue foot four inches high. fine dressed margin-line,

with

(

square, one foot five inches high, to be highly

lettei-s

raised in sunken panel.

Die Plinth. — Five feet seven inches square, one foot high,

highly

foiu- sides

polished.

Die.— Five piece,

feet seven inches square, thi-ee feet six inches high

each pilaster to be

sides of the recess

Cap.

— Six

hammered

fluted,

and

die.

molded on four

feet eight inches square, one foot high,

dressed, except the four plain sides, which

Pediment Cap. — Six of the fom- sides cut

to be cut in one

;

front faces to be highly polished, also the four

feet six inches square,

molded pediments

sides appropriate lettering to be nicely

two

feet

two inches high

On each

to receive statues.

and

sides,

and

wiU be polished.

artistically

executed

;

on each

of the four

raised polished

letters.

Shaft Plinth. — Thi-ee molded on four

sides

Spire or Shajt.

and

— To

feet finely

one inch square, two feet four inches high

hammered

;

to be

dressed.

measure two feet nine inches square at base, two

three inches square at top, sixteen feet three inches high

;

in one stone.

feet

All ex-

posed surfaces to be highly poUshed. Capital.

— To measure three

be elaborately carved on four

Statuary.— To Artillery, Cavalry,

new and

feet square at base,

two

feet nine inches high

;

sides.

consist of five pieces, representing the Infantry Soldier, Sailor,

and the Standard-Bearer on top each and ;

The four lower

original designs.

all

to be

from entirely

statues to be seven feet high, executed

from best standard bronze, specimens of the bronze to be submitted to and approved

by the committee. feet to the head,

granite.

the model

by the

the upper statue or Standard-Bearer to measure eight

All modeling to be itself

contractor.

•23

And

and eleven

feet to top of standard, to first

be executed in

fine statuary

approved by the committee, either by inspecting

by photographs representing the

different sides, to be provided

YOXKEIiS JX THE RF.liELLlON.

192 Lettering.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; All letterinfr to be cut in the polislied surface in plain, sharp, well-

defined letters.

Foundation.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The plans and specifications for the foundation of the Monument be furnished by the contractor, and the materials and work will be supplied by

will

the Association.

George H. Mitchell. The above

contract did not include the drawinjrs for the bronze statues.

On Monday evening, Octoljev Company National Guard I.

Pruyn, opened a

(5,

1890, the gallant

of the State of

fair in their fine

which continued for eight evenings. lent spirit

and

judgnioiit,

Armory on Waverley It

On Monday sembled

oration on

Street,

was conducted with

excel-

proved a center of social attraction for

the time being, and put the generous

Monument Fund,

Fourth Separate

New-York, Captain John

sum

of $1,652.66 into the

carrying the total up to $10,342.72.

evening, December

1890, a brilliant audience as-

Music Hall, to hear Hon. Chauncey M. Depew deliver an

"The Men who Saved

the Union."

Howard, United States Army, presided.

Major-General O. O.

Miss Louise Cowles sang

"The Star-Spangled Banner," with a chonis

and

of fifty voices,

full

band aeeonipanimont.

Julius Jordan sang " Fair

doni," with full choru.s

and band accompaniment, the words and

music composed by himself.

This not only i)rovided a

entertainment, but put $500 into the

Land

of Fri'c-

tlelightful

Monument Fund, bringing

to $11,026.86.

DcccmlH'r

28, tin- Association iiiiiininionsly

the Monuineiit and iiiclosure were proiK'rty should tliat

tile

jietuity.

lie

coiii|ileteil

voted that, when

and

jiaid

for.

tin,'

presented to the City of Yonkers, providing

city shall consent to

assume

tlieir

proper care

per-

THE SOLDIERS' AND At a meeting

SAILOES'

MONUMENT

Gorton was requested to the granite- work for the

visit

193

the quarry at Barre, Vermont, where

Monument was

being prepared, and report

on the progress and character of such work. formed

ASSOCIATION.

of the Association held April 10, 1891, Charles E.

This mission was per-

to the complete satisfaction of the Association

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mr. Gorton

reporting that the stone and the workmanship were excellent.

this

mittee,

meeting

was determined

to appoint a Dedication

and Colonel William L. Heermanee,

C. Shotts,

Com-

Irving Burns, John

Judge Matt. H. EUis, and James V. Lawrence were ap-

pointed by the President as such committee.

had reached

$11,061.62.

The contributions

THE TOP STONE.

STATUE OF THE COLOR-BEARER.

This noble figure measures

ciglit

eleven feet to the top of the eolor.

the It

feet It

top

the

caji,

and

veiy appropriately surmounts

Monument. was sculptured from

flue statuary-gTanite at

Color-Bearer stands with cannon and balls at his

drawing his sword

to defend the flag.

The

Ryegate, W-ruiout. feet,

position

and

is in

The

the act of

natural, the expres-

sion strong.

The statue,

patriotic

women

Yonkers furuished the money

and mostly by dollar subscriptious.

pay for

this

CHAPTER

XIV.

ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT. Arrival of the Bronze Statues and Gtranite-Work

Approval

— Laying

Juue

of the Corner-Stone

— The

1891, the four bronze statues for the

— Their

Erection.

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 kers, it

the granite statue of the Color-Bearer reached Yon-

on the Hudson River Railroad, from Ryegate, Vermont, where

Two

was executed.

of the Executive

ordinary truck to remove discovered that

On Thursday

was

Committee spoke

billed at four tons they

evening, Juue

tain

changed

their plan.

that

and

was one

critical

invi-

James R. Brevoort, Arthur Parton, and Cap-

W. H. Brownson, U.

careful

a meeting of the Association was

held in the basement of the Church to view the statues. tation, Alfred Jones,

for

Manor Hall Grounds, but when they

S. N.,

were also present.

After the most

examination there was but one opinion, and

of entire

and emphatic approval.

Y(LXKKI{S IX rilE KKliKLLIoy.

200

this

meeting the resignation of Charles R. Otis as Treasurer

was accepted, and John W.

who

Oliver,

acting as Treasurer, was elected to

for

some time had been

the vacancy.

fill

LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE.

The

Monument was

cornei'-stone of the

with simple though

laid

Manor Hall Grounds, on Saturday

impressive ceremonies on

after-

noon, June 27, 1891, at five o'clock.

The members office of

of the

Monument

Association assembled in the

make

the Board of Water Commissioners to

arrangements for the ceremony.

the final

Thomas McVicar produced

copper box he had made for the corner-stone. provided were deposited in the box, and

The

the

several articles

was hermetically sealed

with a soldering-iron in the presence of the Association.

Kitching Post No.

60,

mander Augustus Kipp 590,

Grand Army

command; and

of the State of

Grand Army in

of the Republic,

command John ;

of the Republic,

of people filled the grounds

and

B. Balch

Company, National Guard

New- York, Captain John tlie

Vice-Com-

Fremont Post No

Commander Galusha

the Fourth Separate

formed a hollow square about

Pruyn

foundation. streets,

while

command,

vast concourse

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

M.ivor Millward find

tlic

Monument

Association, tollowed Ky

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

and other representative

Butler,

citizens,

marched into the hollow

square.

Colonel William L. Heermance, Chairman of the Committee on Dedication, directed the services. of the

Rev. Dr. Alvah

John W. Oliver announced the contents

The Declaration States

Hobart, pastor

Music by Harvey's Band followed.

with an appropriate prayer.

the

Warburton Avenue Baptist Church, opened the proceedings

of Independence;

and of the State of New-York

names

of those at the

of the

box as follows

Constitutions of the United ;

Political Register, containing

head of the National and State Govern-

ments; New-York World Almanac for 1891; New- York Tribune

Almanac

for 1891

Annual Reports Yonkers to the

;

American Coins of 1891

of the City Officers

fight for the

Charter of Yonkers

;

Rosters of Soldiers

;

Union, of the two Grand

Army

who

left

Posts, of

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

Cole's Bicentennial

Address

;

Programme

York City and Yonkers papers Programmes ;

1888, 1889, 1890

;

Dr.

Depew Night New;

Memorial Services,

and 1891 Engraving of Manor Hall; Annual Mes;

Mayor Millward; Grand Army Button; Loyal Legion

sage of

Button

Monument Fund

;

Yonkers

List of Yonkers Chm-ches ;

and Pastors Sanitary Code ;

Last Printed Report of the Board of Education

and Regulations of the Gi'and

Army Engraving ;

;

Rules

James Stewart,

upon which was recorded the fact that as master-mason he superintended the laying of the corner-stone

;

and Postal Card containing

YONKKRS IX THE UF.BELLION.

202 the

the mectiiif^ of the

call of

Monument

Association to lay the

corner-stoue.

President Go)

toil's

Mr. Gorton was

theTi introduced,

The ceremonies

of to-day are brief

Afhiress.

and said

and simple,

Ijecause

fittinj::

services will soon be held on the occasion of the dedication of the

Monument and

;

seems unnecessary to hold two elaborate

brations so close together for substantially the It has,

however, just been suggested that

to say a

few words at

mation of our which

will be

The

when we

efforts,

when we

are able to

would be proper

for

are near the consuni-

mark

the time within

completed a memorial worthy of our

to the purpose,

the heroes

this time

cele-

same purpose.

city,

and, more

worthy to commemorate the bravery and loyalty of

who fought

to save the

last of the material

Union.

necessary to complete the work was ex-

pressed from Vermont, on five cars, on the 24th of this month, and

Unless very improbable

ought to be here within two or three days. 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

you

see the completed

well

and

we will

confidently

\\ir

Civil

War

more appropiiatf than and

sailors

llif

ht)i)e

that wlien

be convinced that we have

faithfully discharged the duties

Although

diers

work you

imposed upon

riidcd long ago, there

us.

was never a time

present to rear testimonials to the sol-

who fought

to preserve the Union,

when

nioiiu-

jnents are being roareil to lionor tliose wlio were (â&#x20AC;˘(inspieuous for

ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT. trying to destroy

and other

A section of

it.

the country

and that

203

calling for school

down a wicked

histories that shall write

struggle for liberty,

Eebellion as a

on the pedes-

shall elevate its leaders

tals of heroes.

Time does not change

The war was an infamous Rebel-

facts.

lion,

seeking to destroy the best of governments, and

were

traitors

and

rebels.

should be kept alive

ties,

names those

This

of the

men who

It will

wiU

Union might

live.

are about to erect will,

commemorate the valor

will look

May

the

are to

to battle

from

come

as loyal

'61 to '65,

need be, will dare as much for their country.

Monument

that

to rise

this

for all time, a loyal, united, peaceful people of the

who

down on men with hearts

and arms as strong as they who went forth and who,

we trust, be more than

of the defenders of their

also inspire with patriotism those

Long hence

after us.

for their

Patriotism will not suffer the

fought for the South to be written above

that the

Monument we

a history. land.

who were conspicuous only

dismember the Nation.

who fought

leaders

neither do I believe in the effort to per-

;

petuate the memories of those efforts to

its

do not believe that sectional animosi-

Monument

Association,

lay this corner-stone, the

first

its

;

foundation ovei'look,

and now, in the name

authority,

and

in its behalf, I

stone of the Memorial which

dedicated to the Soldiers and Sailors of Yonkers

to be

who fought

save the Union.

Rev. A. A. Lings, pastor of

St.

Joseph's

Roman

pronounced the benediction, three volleys were

Catholic Church,

fired

by the Fourth

Separate Company, and the corner-stone was declared formally 24

TOXKEItS IN THE liEBELLIOK.

204

laid.

intervals during the

ceremony National tunes

wei-e flayed

Hai-vey's Band.

THE ERECTION. It is

Monument

proper to state here that the granite-work for the

arrived in Yonkers on tive cars on June 30, but, owing to un-

avoidable delays, the erection did not begin

and the workmen employed by him

was no

delay.

design, the stone,

was placed

which there

and the workmanship became apparent.

Tuesday, July

in position.

more than

21, at

realized as the

Mr. Mitchell was paid in

full

Monument was completed

When

it is

accomplishment of

his sons of

be readily understood.

work

Mr. Mitchell

skill of

Woodlawn, who

"I have erected a groat

ments," said Mr. Thompson, "but

this

stated that the stones handled

weighed from two to fourteen tons each, the

and of A. Thompson and

and the people, and

on his contract.

It is worthj' of note, that in the

no accident occurred.

Expec-

work pro-

twelve o'clock, the Color-Bearer

July 23 the

to the entire satisfaction of the Association

will

(leorge H. Mitchell

block was placed upon block, the beauties of the

tations were high, but they were

gressed.

until July 16, after

assisted

him

many monu-

never erected one where the

stones were so large, and yet so uniformly good."

The Executive

Committee were so well pleased with the manner

which Mr.

Mitchell completed his contract, that they united in the following just tribute: To

Whom

May

Concern

As members of the Executive Committee of the Monument Association, we wisli, iiersonally and

Yoiiktrs Soldiers' niul Sailors' eoUeetively, to

rommeud

the

EEECTION OF THE MONUMENT. integrrity of character,

205

courteous deportment, and artistic taste of George H.

Mitchell.

placed his services at

value.

cellence than skill

a consideration far below their actual

oui- disposal for

has given us more than his plans promised, and a work of greater ex-

we had any reason

His

to expect.

artistic designs, the

consummate

he has shown in their development, and his affable bearing, have greatly

assisted us in the erection of a

heroic

men who

Monument

that stands as an eloquent tribute to

faced the enemies of the Union, and

to our city, surpassing the expectation of critics

and

a permanent adornment

eliciting the

admiration of

beholders.

Yonkers, September 17, 1891. J.

Oliver,

Chables E. Gorton, William L. Heermance, J.

Irving Burns,

Joseph F. Daly.

several

was

in the heat of

members

midsummer, and owing

of the Association

and other

to the absence of

citizens

whose pres-

ence was desired, the time of dedication was deferred to Thursdayafternoon, September 17, at half-past three o'clock.

THK MU.M-.MENT ASK KNCLHSIRE.

—

CHAPTER XV. THE DEDICATION.

— The Decoeations — The Peoces— The Oration—The Original Poems —The

Geeat Concoukse of People siON

The Music

Unveiling — The Dedicatory Address— The —Imposing Seevices and Histoeic Day.

Naval Salute

THURSDAY, September 17, 1891, will long be remembered with pleasure

by the

citizens of Yonkers, for

Monument was

dedicated.

the festal day.

The

upon that day the

glories of early

autumn marked

skies were flecked with fleecy clouds, through

which the glorious sunlight streamed upon the city the delightful flavor of Indian

the grand event

Monument

summer.

was an

;

the air bore

ideal

day

for

— a day which suited exactly the members of the

Association and thousands of others anxious for favor-

able weather.

The Committee on Dedication had requested Hon.

Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary vessel to fire the salute.

of the

Navy, to send a National

He promptly and

and the great war-ship Boston lay

graciously complied,

at anchor off the city.

The

citi-

zens of Yonkers showed their patriotism by displaying flags and

YOXKEKS IX THE

210

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

crowded together, they preserved

Hall Grounds were densely

good nature, and good

their

order was the result.

While no parade, the

efforts

were made to mark the occasion by an elaborate

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 entertaining organizations, presented a fine

body

of men,

and gave

the lovers of a procession something that deserved and received their admiration.

the

Monument

and not a

the exercises went off with astonishing facility,

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.

day, the reciters of

pated in any

way

tlie

The presiding

officer,

the orator of the

poems, the clergymen, and

in the exercises of the afternoon,

performance to have been well worthy of

all

who

partici-

proved by their

selection.

In view of the very large concourse of people, estimated as high as 20,000,

and the character and intricacy of the programme,

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

At 1.1

Imlf-past

South

two o'clock

I'KOCKSSIOX.

tlic

jirocession

iJioaihviiv, un.liT the

command

formed on

(ictty Sijuai

of (iran.l Marslial .loh

THE DEDICATION.

211

Peutreath, of Kitching Post, with the following Aides Oliver, of the

Fourth Separate Company

and William H. Fisher, of Kitching Post

John

Fremont Post

;

Thomas

Colonel E. J. Mitchell,

;

Charles

;

Von

Leliva, of

Bard, Dr. E. F. Brush, Oliver Dyer,

William Archer, John Dawson, Colonel Alfred Cooley, Milton Rathburn, 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. in

Farnswortli Post No. 170, of

Senior Vice-Commander Augustus Kipp command.

Mount Vernon, mth Sons

of Veterans.

Frank M.

Clark commanding.

Tarrytown

Ward

Citizens'

Band.

B. Burnett Post No. 496, of Tarrytown, with Sons of Veterans. Parnell,

Harry

Commander.

Edward

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. Cromwell Post No. 466, of White Plains.

Delegation from the Fourth Veteran Cavalry. Colored Guards, and others.

SECOND DIVISION. Officers of

John

Fremont Post No.

590, of Yonkers.

Haverstraw Band.

Edward Pye Post No.

179, of

MorreU Post No.

General Ira M. Hedges, Commander. Sumner A. Smith, Commander. Katonah. Edward Hitt, Commander.

Haverstraw.

144, of Sing Sing.

McKeel Post No.

120, of

Peekskill

Abram Vosburgh

Drum

Post No. 95, of Peekskill.

Corps.

George L. Hughson, Commander.

Fraternity of the Survivors of the Sixth

John

Fremont Post No.

590, of Yonkers.

Heavy

Artillery.

Galusha B. Balch, Commander.

YOXKEJiS IX THE liEBELLIOX.

212

THIKD DIVISION. Twenty-Fii-st Kejjimcnt Band.

Nineteenth Separate Company, National Guard of the StatÂŤ of New- York, of

Poughkeepsie.

Captain WiUiam Haubennestel In command. David's Island Band.

Eleventh Separate Company, of Mount Vernon.

Captain E.

Kiudler

commanding. Murray's Brass Band, of Yonkers.

Fourth Stparate Company, of Yonkers.

The procession through Nortli

New Main

Captain John

started at half-past

two

Pruyn loninianding.

o'clock,

aud marched

Street to South Bi'oadway, thence northward to

Broadway, to Quincy Place, to Warburton Avenue, and

Manor Hall Grounds, where

the Veterans and

Guardsmen took the

seats provided for them. It

was an admirable procession

streets

of about one thousand

were crowded with people to see

men.

The

go by, aud the paraders

encountered a continuous salute of cheers along the whole route of the march. in the

Good order was preserved throughout, and every man

long line conducted himself nobly.

DEDICATION. Exercises on

The formal dedicatory past three o'clock, on

Manor

JIall (honiuJs.

exercises were

begun promptly

Manor Hall Grounds.

lialf-

For hours beforehand

people were on hand to secure good positions for seeing and hearing,

The grand stand

and a very animated scene was presented.

against Warl)urton Building was occu]tied by fully one thousand jâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;.,,pl,._ the

West Point Band

iiiid

tlic

chorus

..f

alioiit t\v<.

Iiuii-

THE DEDICATION.

213

dred singers occupying the middle portion.

was the

in the center,

At the extreme

front,

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.

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. able windows, porches, balconies,

occupied.

and housetops

All avail-

in the vicinity

the west of the grand stand several

can flags were hung, partly protecting the occupants from the rays of the sun in the western heavens.

form a few large and handsome their

were

immense Ameri-

About the

warm

speakers' plat-

plants, well placed, contributed

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

high order, and their instruments were superb.

were

rich, the tones lovely;

pleasure.

and the great audience

The leader was Charles E. Moscow.

was of a

The harmonies listened with

Programme

of the

concert

— " Dichter und Bauer "

Overture

Selection

Waltz

" Traumereien "

Galop

from " Attila

— " Wiener Boa-Bons "

— " Alanen "

Suppe Verdi Strauss

Schumann Hertel

YOyKERS IX THE UEBELLIOS.

214

The Opeuiuf/ Address

After the concert the great audience was called to order, when President CTorton delivered the following opening address:

More than gan and the

thirty years

war our respected

of the

dejit of the village of

have passed since the great

troops was issued.

first call for

fellow-citizen,

Q,\\\\

War

be-

During the early years

John

Waring, was Presi-

Yonkers, and aided and encouraged by his

patriotic zeal, the in-oniiiieiit

men

of the

town and

came

village

forward to give their support in favor of the Union.

At a

hastily assembled town-meeting, seventy-five

teered to go to the war

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

by Captain Charles H. Smith. the village respomled

nolily

first

men

volun-

Yonkers Companj^ commanded

Through the four succeeding years with

men and means

to carry

the war.

We have of

assembled to-day to dedicate this Monument to the

Yonkers who, dui-ing that storjny period, fought This ^Monumciit

riiion. alty.

enipliatii-ally the people's tribute to loy-

The individual subscriptions

for

have ranged from

three cents, and through entertainments given in

have contributed to the success of

its

$l,Or)0 to

aid thousands

this enter j>rise.

have collected and expended over $11,000.

pulilisli

men

to save the

shall

soon

an illustrated History of Yonkers in the Civil War, ami

there are other things

necessary to finish our work.

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. Wlien the applause that ensued

215

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

John's Protestant Episcopal Church, offered the

St.

fol-

lowing prayer

O God who and Lord of

art the blessed lords, the

and only Potentate, the King

Almighty Ruler

of Nations,

of kings

we adore and

magnify thy glorious name for the great things which thou hast done for

We render thee thanks for the goodly heritage

us.

thou hast given enjoy, us.

and

us, for the civil

religious privileges

which

which we

and for the multiplied manifestations of thy favor toward

Grant that we

blessings

may show

forth our thankfulness for these thy

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

country, restore

them

thee,

Lord, the blessings of peace to this

to nations deprived of them,

to all the people of the earth.

May

the

kingdom

Peace come, and, reigning in the hearts and

them

ill

holy fellowship, so that

show forth with greatest them, and

theii*

only

We implore thy blessing upon ecutive authority, that they

of the Prince of

lives of

men, unite

may be, who shall him who hath loved

strife

zeal the praises of

made them kings and

and secure them

priests unto God. all

in legislative, judicial,

may have

grace, wisdom,

and

ex-

and under-

standing, so to discharge their duties as most etfectually to promote

YONKEUS ly THE

216

liEJIKLLlOX.

thy glory, the interests of true religion and virtue, the safety, honor,

and welfare

and Nation.

of this State

We thank thee that thou didst inspire direct the wills, of the brave

Thou

orate to-day.

the hearts, that thou didst

men whose heroic deaths we commem-

art our gi-eat defense in every righteous cause.

Let thy fatherly care be ever with the soldier and the sailor who offer (\i>

And

themselves a willing sacrifice for their country's good.

tliou (lirc<-t

gracious

our generation in

lis ill

all

our ddings with

and further us with thy continual

I'avor,

our works liegun, continued, and ended

in thee

help, that in all

we may gloiify thy

holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting ask this in the

name

Our Father who

Thy

come.

art in heaven, hallowed be thy

will

be done on earth as

it is

life.

him who, when we pray, taught us

most

tliy

to say

name, thy kingdom

in heaven.

Give us

this

day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those

who

deliver us

trespass against us,

and lead us not into temptation, but

from

e\al, for

thine

A chorus of

two hundred

the

under

direction of Robert

accomjianiment, and

Among

the singers were the

vocalists in the city.

J'hi'

lion. Oiiaihio

i;.

and

tlic

a fine volume of tone was produced.

leed.

the jiower

witli liand

voices,

G. Jackson, sang " Hail, Columbia,"

most talented amateur

kingdom and

Amen.

the glory for ever and ever.

i'ottcr,

tlic

and spoke as follows:

OidliiDt.

orator of the day, was

llu'ii

intro-

THE DEDICATION.

and Members of

3Ir. President

MonHment

Association

the

217

Yonkers

Soldiers''

and

Sailors^

Ladies and Gentlemen

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

It is

most

fitting that this dedication

should occur on the anniversary of the battle of Antietam, the great battle in which the Confederate feated

and driven back, and by which

whatever

and

sacrifice of life

Army

was made

treasure, the

first

was

of invasion

de-

certain that, at

American Union must

and would be preserved. This

Monument commemorates

of Yonkers,

who put

life

Union and Government

the sacrifices of freemen, citizens

and property in a

hazard in support of our

most important and decisive

ci'isis

our country's history.

The importance action,

rendered.

of the service is to be estimated, like all

results effected,

Let

and

us, in the brief

view of

difficulties

human

under which

time allowed by the duties of this

hour, endeavor to estimate justly this service.

minority

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; less

than one third

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of the

States of the

Union

proposed to break up and destroy our Government at their will,

and

and without regard

own

to the rights of the majority of the States

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 cooperation of the States, without central authority acting directly

upon the

citizen, to

which

direct allegiance

The Constitution provided

and obedience were due.

for the indefinite

and continued

exist-

ence of the National Union through unbroken and endless succes-

YOyKKIiS IX THE UEliELUON.

218

sion of legislative, executive,

and other

oflBcers, all

whom

placed

under most solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend this Constitution.

gave to

this

and navy, and power

means

Government aU the means by an army by

to support these

taxation,

requisite for maintaining, perfoi-miug,

of the nations of the earth all National obligations

commerce and

regulation of foreign States,

and

all

power

all

and

other

as one

duties, the

commerce between the

to maintain peace

and

and exacting

and levy war with

all

the

resources of the country.

This Constitution contained no provision looking tion, or to the dissolution or

moi-tality

ti)

its

termination of the Union.

was pennitted within

termina-

seed of

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 securing to each and every State and

of government, exemption from disturbance, either from

States or from the outside world, exercising tionality

among

and self-government

and respect throughout the world.

for its people its great duties of protection ficially

all

otlur

the powers of na-

the nations of the earth, and securing to the people

of every State peace

tion

return

people a republican form

its

home, and considera-

nation ever performed

and security more bene-

than these were performed by this Nation from the adop-

tion of the Constitution until attonptcii secfssion.

Our :iii(l

Ifrritory, oiii;iuiilly liinitc<l

by the

tliiity-liist

been exteniied uiidiTllie

ii.ir.ill.l

tlie

Mississippi on the West,

n.-rth latitude

Nalioiiiil I'uioii

till

ÂŤm the South, had

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 parallels

on the

Pacific,

on the Atlantic

and the twenty-sixth and

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more

forty-fifth parallels

than three times the area of the country

at the adoption of the Constitution.

Twenty-one new States within added

Union, each with

to the

all

this National

domain had been

the powers, rights, and duties of

the original States, and each organized, created, and advanced to

Statehood under and by the Union

permanent protection tional Constitution

itself,

upon the

security of

in self-government as provided in the

and organized

in the

Na-

whole structure of the

Government.

Our population had increased during the Union from about 4,000,000 to 32,000,000; first

and our commerce had advanced

to the

rank among the nations. 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

A patriot

among

nations during the same period.

statesman of one of the seceding States, than

brighter star has shone in the galaxy of great

men

whom

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,

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that

condition of the people of that State within the Union was

symbolized by the happiness and security of the our race in the garden of Eden.

Nor did

the affections or confidence of his State.

first

the fitly

parents of

this declaration estrange

She intrusted

to him,

YOXKEKS IN THE REBELLION.

220

more than secession,

any

otluT,

guidance through the darkness of

lioi-

and he guided her footsteps and those of her wayward

sisters in their first return to light, life, aiid lilit-rty in a iireservcd,

Union.

restoi'ed, indissoluble

But notwithstanding the Union

of tliese States

was organized as

a perpetual and indissoluble Government; and notwithstanding the obligation to continue the exercise of

and security

tection

States

its gi-eat

powers of pro-

in self-government for the people of all the

had increased with eveiy extension

of its ten-itory,

renewed with the admission of each new State

to the

and been

Union, until

the people of thirty-four instead of thirteen commonwealths de-

pended for security faithful

power

in tlicir

Union toward the people

the

of self-government

upon the

performance and exercise of the obligations assumed by 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;

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there

lia<l

been put forward by subtle statesmen in

the Southern States the deadly tlnory, fatal

acquiesced in to the

of the Union, that each State could at

continuous

life

might

withdraw or secede from the Union

its

elect

any time

in the exercise of

inherent rights as a State.

This theory was .sustained by

mcn, and pfi'sistmlly taught generation,

ance

and

arguments by tin'

Smith

cniiniMit stat*'s-

foi-

niorr tlian

had gained general, though not universal, accept-

in that part of

tiii'

hajtpiiiess enjoyetl

Union had, however, section in wliieh

sulitle

tlin.ii.<,di

I'nion.

offered

was

Tlie general jirosjierity, progress,

by the people of

ail

the States within the

no opportunity or temptation to the

entei-taine(l to aet

upon

tliis

llieory.

THE DEDICATION. At

221

the adoptiou of the Constitution, and for

cannot be doubted that

many

years after,

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.

importation of

The

that

instrument, of a date before which the

slaves

might not be prohibited, and the great

determination in

dedication by Virginia of vast territory to free labor in the then

Northwest ceded by her

the Union, place this fact

beyond

question.

The great by the

stimulus, however, given to this system of slave labor

cotton-gin,

and the vast material

interests of the slave States

dependent upon the production and supply of cotton to the world

the only system of labor then available and adequate in those

States, arrested

and postponed,

they did not change, this ex-

pectation and willingness of the South, that in due time the sys-

tem It

of slave labor

would be superseded.

cannot be doubted that at the time secession was resolved upon

and attempted, a large slave States

had come

part,

vast interests then dependent ciety

not a majority, of the people of the

to believe that their

upon

it,

system of labor and the

as well as the structure of so-

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,

most powerful It

if it

had not already become, the

factor.

may be admitted

that the leaders of public opinion in the se-

ceding States, and the people of those States led by them, by secession

whom

was resolved upon and attempted, were actuated by the

purpose to provide better security for those States and their system 26

YOSKEBS IX THE

â&#x20AC;˘2-22

and society

of labor

tliaii

liEliELlAOS.

tlicy believed

could be enjoyed

witliiii

the Union.

But they took no account of the calamities and desolation which

must bnng upon the other States

secession

of the Union, nor

of the rights of the people of those gi-eat States north of the

which had become, since

and justly

its

relied for perpetual

the Mississipi)i

and

its

members

formation,

Ohio

of the Union,

freedom of commerce by sea upon

tributaries, all the

waters of

navigaVile

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

South and of Virginia, soldiery

from

all

he led and suffered with the citizen

the original States,

North as well as South,

him and

sustained

which sustained the greatest son of the

wlicii

upon the

in the struggle for

battle-fields of the

independence

;

or which

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 struggle, 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'

every State

1)C

self-govcniiii.iit

daries of

grievances there, to the end that the rights of jiresei'vod, \n-

lint

and the advance of

liiihlcrcd or

diflficulties

and dangers from

expected to be exemjit by it

tlie

boun-

tlic Kt'iiulilic.

Secession, so far as ac<'oniiilislied, confionti'd

with

free constitutional

endangenMl within

<li11iÂŤ-ult

its

wliicli

tlie

National rnioii

niiglit w.ll

have been

founders, but against and for which

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

crisis in

our history and Government second in dan-

ger to none which had before occurred or can hereafter occur. the

war

had

for independence

The

season.

colonies,

could have been but for a

failed, it

animated with the purpose of self-govern-

ment, could not long have remained under the yoke of a Gov-

ernment three thousand miles Constitution had failed

would have been postponed federacy would have

made

any State the necessity rectly

upon the

for its

own

should

the adoption of the

till

success, the

Union

continued suffering under the Con-

too clear to be doubted

by the people

Government operating

for a National

citizens of every State, with

its

own

territory.

But

if,

be able to protect its

own life and

of the

powers and duties for which

which

would

its

own dissolution be

this

Government

continue the exercise

had been

had been intrusted by the people of

self-

after seventy years

and happiness under the Constitution,

fail to

of di-

powers adequate both

preservation and for securing each State peace and

government within of progress

distant.

when crowned with

all

accomplished, but

created,

and with

the States, not only all

hope for the per-

manence and extension of constitutional liberty and self-government

upon

this continent,

under the scheme devised by Washington and

The success

his compatriots,

would be

would of

demonstrate to the loyal States and to the world

that

oiii-

itself

Union, so

at an end also.

suflficient for

of secession

the exercise of National powers

and duties with other nations, lacked the power of cohesion and self-preservation in a dissension

themselves.

If this

between the States of the Union

Union, cemented by the

ties

of a

common

YuyKEltS IN HIE UKhKI.IAOX.

224

struggle for independence, by the experiences of the Confederacy,

and by seventy years tion,

could iKiw be

of progress

and happiness under the Constitu-

(lisiiitegi-ated at

the

of the States, there could remain

itj'

"will

or passion of a minor-

no hope that any scheme of

united Government could be devised undeV which free constitu-

and extended upon

tional self-government could be continued

tliis

continent.

Secession accomi)]isheil would not only remove from the Union the .seceded States, but, by establishing the

withdraw

would destroy the

at will,

i-ight of

each State to

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 all

times to destraction at the caprice or passion of a minority of

the States or a single State. Secession, therefore,

Government, and, eral

menaced

successful,

Government created

The powers

the Nation with de.struetioii of the

made impossible any Union

to secure the

of the National

same

or Gen-

gi-eat ends.

Union had been found

anijile

for

maintaining peace and conductimr war with the whole resources of the country with the outside woild.

power of

any or

all

be engaged. of the ti>

the test of unity and tluin that

foreign wars in which the Nation had been or could

The work now made necessary was the

Uniou and the

tlieir

IWit

which secession called the Union was greater

<'oii(|uest iiud

plares within

il.

i)reservation

icstoraliou of the seceded States

will: the lii^hts of tlie

paired, save as the necessary coiidurt of

tlie

several States unim-

war

whieli secession

compelled might change them. Thi" resources,

Itotli

of life

and treasure,

i-e.iuired

for

tliis

work

THE DEDICATION. were

to be

steadfast within the Union, while every either side

225

drawn wholly from the States aud people remaining

was the

life

be sacrificed on

and

of a citizen of the Republic,

all trea-

sure and property to be expended or destroyed in the contest

Not only were

both sides were part of the Nation's wealth.

upon 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

and Congress through the obstacles and dangers

to the Executive

The great

with which they were surrounded.

the Executive of the Nation and those ecutive administi-ation,

who

trust

imposed upon

shared with him the ex-

their oaths of office, to pi'eserve, protect,

and defend the Constitution of the United States, was fully comprehended by him and them. the

Government

Union, in exercise of

all its

composed

Never were men

called to fulfil

happy Nation

own

thereto.

of this great family of forty-four free self-governing

States, each

their

How

powers, as defined in the Constitution

well they did this, a reunited

and laws made pursuant gi'eater trusts.

imposed the one duty to preserve

in its integrity throughout the tenutory of the

and aU rejoicing in the strength of the Nation as

strength, sufficiently attests

The part performed by the people and upon the services this

sea, in the

and

army and navy, with whom

Monument commemorates were

an honorable part,

commemorated by

more pertinent

this

shall forever attest.

of the loyal States, in the field

to this hour.

Monument were rendered

perpetuate the Union of these States, which of the people of all the States.

those whose

identified

and bore

The

services

to preserve

and

the equal protection

They were rendered by the

actors

YOXKEKS IX THE

22(i

•(juiilly

tliosi' witli

t'(ir

their children.

must meet

trpng and

was a service

eacli

HF.UKLLIOX.

wliom they contended as for themselves and

()ther in

which brothers and kindred

deadly combat on the

field,

— the

most

painful patriots can be called to render for their country.

Without military organization or a trained soldiery with which meet

this crisis,

to preserve

was

and

essentially

i)r()nii>tly

rendered

home, and family

Such

service could only be rendered

paramount duty

jx'rform

nerved

and

fell

love

liy

I'liioii,

eaii liberty

the

foi-

left

busi-

to country.

Not a

soldier

Union army or navy whose arm was not

American

and by the

and

by a soldiery who understood

the issue and the object for which they contended.

fought or

sacrifices

the citizen soldiery.

l»y

vuluntcer service, in which citizens

ness,

Government

for the

and transmit the Union but for the

services willingly It

would have been impossible

liberty as secured

convii-liou that

would perish with

it.

by the Constitution

the riiioii i)erishe(l Ameri-

Educated

in tln' si-liools of their

several States, citizens of tliese States and of the I'liitcd States,

they had experienced and

born elsewhere,

come

also to

citizenship Ciiioii

only thfir of

tile

know

knew what American

lil)erty

was: those

tasted the liberties of other lands, had

the value of American liberty and American

— every They well as experience. — knew that this liberty rested for security and

by contrast as

soMicr

iiiaiic-iicc

who had

all

].er-

upon the liiicrtics

I'liion

and Constitution; knew

and rights were enlarged

to the

that liy these

whole territory

Kepublic instead of being confined, as before the Union, to

the States in which they lived.

They were many

them merchants

and men of Imsiness, and knew well the difference between a single State and the Kepultlic as the

Some

tliciu

iiad

lircii

field of their

int. Tested

enterprise and labor.

or .nii.l..vrd in foreign roni-

THE DEDICATION. mei'ce,

aud

all

of them,

whether from

227 factory, or couuting-

field,

room, kuew what the regulation of commerce, interstate and eign,

number

thirty-four States, or an indefinite

self-protecting Republics,

descendants;

knew

ways and avenues

would import

commerce between

children were dependent

;

and

their

own

markets, and to

They were

country.

success and happiness for themselves and their

upon peace between the

the nations of the earth, secured

and maintain

for themselves

the importance of having the navigable water-

the ocean, within the territory of their

men whose hopes of

for-

of competing

and with

States,

by a power adequate

command

and they knew well that such peace could not be

provided for through thirty-four or any other number of disunited, separate States or Republics, each advancing its terests

own

in-

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. tion of the rights

and

They fought only

for the preserva-

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

created and secured under the

American

liberty as

American Constitution and Union.

This liberty, under which the citizen the Nation in self-government in his

secured by the power of

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

YOSKERS IS THE UEUELI.IOS.

â&#x20AC;˘2-2H

world,

l)y wliicli tlie

of the weakest

and

sailors

power

of all the States

and of eveiy

becomes the strength

citizen of the Republic, the soldiers

whose services and

sacrifices this

Monument commem-

orates had determined, with their great Commander-in-Chief and

the whole

army and navy

from the

of the Union, should not perish

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

war

entitled to the highest respect, that, since the

for the preser-

vation of the Union, "the old and respectable doctrine of State in-

dependence

now no more than an

high source,

will

archaeological relic, a piece of

This statement, notwithstanding

historical antiquarianism."

its

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

cept in minds infected with the heresy of secession. it

existed under the confederacy,

Such

ex-

right, as

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

own

States, but

firld

of its powers.

IIr'

all

the States, not merely within and upon- their

upon and throughout

preservation of

Xcitlifiit

aiul

just rights of the States.

forever securing

them by

tion liy the .services

beyond

doiiht

oi-

istence and the

the whole Union, in the whole

the adoption of

tlic

we now

power

its

ami

nor

can lessen iiny

by eidarging and

of the Nation.

conniii'iiiorate

exercise of

<'(>iistitiitioii

oi-

Tlie adoption modified

the

denial the ability of this full

tlif

Union lessened

The

jireserva-

siieh as ilie-e jilaeed

Union

to maintain its ex-

great powers for the protection

THE DEDICATION. and perpetuation of it

self-go vei-iiment,

under

229 difficulties greater

than

can ever again encounter.

The

services

tion the

against

we commemorate have placed beyond

paramount duty of every

citizen to

dissensions or dangers, and have furnished the highest

all

example of duty and allegiance to which It will

further ques-

maintain the Union

citizens

can ever be called.

never again be doubted that maintenance of the Union

maintenance of the rights and

liberties of the people of the States,

and that the most valuable of

all

State rights

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

tion's ability

has forever put an end to doubt of the Na-

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

mand and

is less

capable than any other government to com-

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

each citizen within his

own

the strength of protection surrounding 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

YONKKUS IX THE ItEBELLION.

230

their ropreseutatives

these powers

Nor

and

and elected or

agents, control of

ai)ip()iiit('(l

their exercise.

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

laws and in the

its

whole conduct of the General Government, the just interests and needs of every section are made

known

the representatives of each section to

which tain

may aften\^ard

all,

and the

interest of

injustice

excuse injustice toward their own, makes cer-

and constant the vigilance

any State or

make no precedent of

section.

of all to permit

no injustice toward

Do unto others as ye would that

they should

do unto you," thus becomes the rule which the interest of tions

demands, and must enforce,

in this gi-eat

Temporary and

toward one another under the Union. partures from

there

than the tvaiisicnt

may

be, but they

slight de-

cannot be more lasting

or passion which

s('<'tional aiiiliition

all sec-

brotherhood of States

may

cause

them. Fellow-citizens,

what advancement

man government may

man under

possible for

hu-

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

flow, now, shall

which

this

we estimate

its

structure!

the services on land and sea by

Union was })reserved and perpetuated

mate them

l)y results

integration

and destruction of the Union

already accomplished.

])rev('nted,

unity and the power and duty to maintain

Wc may

esti-

Not only was the disbut

its

perpetual

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. States, each

03]^

becomiug part of our great National

life

and power,

possession and enjoyment forever of the rights and liberties which the

Union

confers.

But that conquest

greatest which conquers the hearts not less

than the arms of the enemy. States

comes equal evidence

the Union was preserved.

Fi'om the people of the conquered

of the value of the services

by which

Conquered to self-government within a

preserved indissoluble Union, whose protection and benefit they shall forever

enjoy equally with their conquerors,

they will never again be found

it is

among its enemies.

safe to say

The only cause

which estranged them temporarily from the Union was abolished in the necessary progress of the

might

live.

Union and the great objects rate these or

war

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; abolished that the Union

Henceforth, no interest not in harmony with the for

which

any other States from

was created

Whatever estimate we may place upon the and perpetuated

this

Union,

will

as they shall enjoy its benefits

higher

monuments

to those

services

which saved

be increased by posterity so long

and

blessings.

As we now

who achieved independence,

they build higher and whiter to those

American

shall sepa-

its love.

who

build

so shall

secured and transmitted

liberty in a pi'eserved indissoluble Union.

Enthusiastic applause and cheers were given concluded.

when

the orator

"America" was then grandly sung by the chorus,

with band accompaniment.

YOSKEKS IX THE BEBELLION.

232

" The

The next feature

Men Who Saved

the L'niun.^

programme was the

of the

recitation of the

following poem, written for the occasion by S. R. Whitney, of Yonkers.

Subject, "

The Men

P. McLoughlin, of the

the reciter.

Saved the Union."

of the

Rev.

Thomas

Immaculate Conception, was

His dear, ringing voice and self-possessed manner,

combined with duced a

Who

Church

patriotic sentiments of the excellent

tlie

He was

tine eflfeet.

telling sentiments

Now draw

aside the

cnfoldiiif.' veil

With bended brow and reverent let

liand.

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 Descend, ye

And walk

tears.

spirits of the brave,

onc^>

more the

solid earth,

Behold the land your valor <rave

The impulse

longer

to a nol)ler birtli.

the idle boast

Of Freedom on

Now we A

and the

wore received also with demonstrations of

appreciation.

And

poem, pro-

enthusiastically applauded,

lli(>

lips of

men

are free from coast to coast.

frreater, better race

than then.

THE DEDICATION. The cry

mighty host from every

And

233

of Freedom, dying, di-ew

thousands,

who

side.

to rescue flew,

In shock of battle nobly died.

holy brotherhood of death

Thy honor none can take away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 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 Is

year by year the rich increase

garnered from a

The ground

And

every

holy where they sleep.

mound an

A loyal, grateful The

fi-uitful soil.

altar

where

people keep

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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 They left

And

survives.

their plowshares in the field.

thrust aside all selfish strife

They nerved

theii'

brawny arms

;

to wield

Their swords, to save the Nation's Ufe.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

234

YOSKKRS IX THE

l<i:iiKI.LI(jy.

Through days of toil and nights of

pain,

When darkness lower'd on ev'ry And bullets fell as drops of rain,

side,

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.

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.

noble race,

all

not least

it is

the gloi-ies of thy past.

That love should be

tlie

great high priest

To make thy woes a bond terraced

so fast.

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

Nor ever turned

sea.

their backs to foes

;

They earned thy love by honoring thee Wlioro

fell

the battle's thickest l)lows.

The tnmiping

your marching

Tlif wild liuiTah

The piercing

No more

life

feet,

and deafening cheer.

and

ilnim's loud beni

shall start the listening ear.

;

THE DEDICATION. No Roman

235

ever more deserved

Tbe plaudits of imperial Rome

Than

those brave

Our

State,

men who freely served it Freedom's home

and made

Deserve of us, for duty done,

For dangers brav'd through For many

When on them hung

And Of

all

the Nation's

ever cherish those

'11

and

toil

stiife,

won,

battles duly

who

life.

fought,

to oui- children tell wdth pride,

the good devotion brought

When

for the

Union

Unveilinff the

patriots died.

Monument.

John W. Oliver next escorted Miss Susie Leeds Heermance, daughter of Colonel Heermance, to the Monument; and that young lady unveiled the granite Oliver, Infantry,

pile,

with the assistance of Thomas

and Samuel Lynt,

Artillery, of

Kitching Post;

and of David A. Winans, Cavalry, and Moses H. Lester,

Sailor,

Hymn" was

played

John

Fremont

Post.

"Keller's

by the band during the ceremony. from the Monument, and there

American

stood out in

the flags were removed all its

beauty, unveiled,

was hearty and long-continued cheering and applause.

YOXKEUS IS THE KEHELLIOS.

23tj

The DedUutinfi Address. President (xorton

formally

tln'ii

(loflir-ated

the Monnnii'ut, as

follows

all

ages iiioiiiuiunts have been erected to commeiiiorate

valor of the soldier

oi'

tlie

have usually marked a single

honor of citizens

and

cause, of civil liy

fell

life in

battle-field

The memorials

only one man.

oi-

tli.-

They

achievements of the eoiuiueror.

honored the memory of

of the citizens of oui" Republic are

who became

like themselves,

soldiers in a holy

for their country, or returned to the peaceful walks

a land saved liy their valor.

the cause of Innnaiiity

the immortals.

They

foi' wlii.'li

are

all

alike

Li\nng or dead, glorified

they fought, they dwell with

memory

heroes in the

of a

grateful Nation.

In our affectionate remembrance there

They stood together as

the greatest

from the bosom of a Republic the cause of

human freedom.

no distinction of rank.

and noblest army

that ever rose

do battle for her defence and for

The great

host have sunk to rest, and the rank and

leaders of that mighty

file

that remain are grow-

ing old, and are swiftly pushing on toward the ford where Lincoln

and Farragut, Sheridan and Sherman, crossed the soon the rear-guard

memory and

will

their

memory, and

work

in its

completeness,

to the

river.

left

All too

heliind their

immortal remendiranee, and

we consecrate

and the people of

memory

rnion."

ami have

their work.

sociation

liave crossed,

this

Monument.

this fair city dedicate this

"the men of

Yoiiker.s

who fought

to that

This As-

Monument \o save the

;

THE DEDICATION.

We the

dedicate

God

in the solemn belief that

of our fathers,

faith, liberty

whom

237

under the protection

Lincoln trusted with unwavering

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,

bade them remember the qualities of mind and

and he

soul, for

they

were everlasting.

We have built to brave souls

commemorate the patriotism and

who went

forth prepared to

of life for their country.

very.

They saved

The one included the

make the

the

valor of those

ultimate sacrifice

Union and abolished

sla-

Lincoln said in his second

other.

annual message to Congress, " In giving freedom to the slave

assure freedom to the free."

And

dedicate this

Monument

to the

men

Yonkers who

nobly bore their part in the endeavor to make freedom as broad as our beautiful laud

;

cement a Union that

shall never be

to secure peace that shall never be interrupted

broken

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 of the

Manor Hall

flagstaff

by Timothy Murphy,

to the top

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.

Monument

Just as they were

fired,

two doves flew over the

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; regarded as an omen of peace.

proposed three cheers for the

flag,

Colonel Matt. H. Eflis

and they were given with a

will.

;

YOKKEBS IK THE REBELLION.

238

The followiug Lyall,

was

was neatly was

Our

Jfo)/or

Loi/al

Men

pocin, written for the occasion hy ^Irs. Jennie L.

recited

by Mrs. Eleanor Georgen.

and

replete with art

Tlic

fiiir

grace.

Her voice can-ied

received hearty ap])lause from an admiring audience.

Peace reigns In dust

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our glorious land

lies

Our honored

fields

flag floats proudly

soldiers trod,

harvests rich for years have

hist'ry"s

thousands

Who

lie

wore the

Our noble dead

They met the

And

waved

sod.

page are written names

Of gallant men and

And

now

to main.

Above the blood-stained

free

with flowers are bright, to-day,

Where once our

And

Slavery's chain

From bounding main The

true.

unknown, unsung.

loyal blue.

Witli front of steel traitorous

blow

m this earven monument

Our gratitude we show.

With

iiearts tliat swell

We And

with thankful joy

these glad tributes bring.

l:iy

the offerings at his feet.

Anil hail

recitationist

and looked charming, and her reciting

attired in white,

tlie siililier

king!

well,

and she

THE DEDICATION. For sweet

the sound of the

fife

239

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

And rear the pile on high And ask God's blessing on the For which they chose

true

land

to die.

Father of Nations, we offer Thee praise!

Dii-ect

and preserve

The land of our

May Freedom and The torch that

may

its

us.

Thou Ancient

love, oh,

uphold

Days

Equity govern with might.

blazing in Liberty's hand,

pure beams so illumine the land,

That Virtue and Knowledge That wrong

May

in right,

shall lead

men

to see

enslavement, and right liberty.

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 May Each

the Union of States, it

oiu'

Nation's great plan.

teach us the lessonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; man's fealty to

loyal to each,

and one motto

" United we stand, divided we

man

for all

fall."

"The Star-Spaugled Bauuer" was then admirably baud accompaniment.

suug, with

IX THE UEBELLKjy.

YOyKEl{,'i

240

The

Rev. then

l)i-.

.liiliii

lit'id,

Closiuf/ I'raifer.

pastor of the First Presbyterian Chureli,

oflfered the following? jirayer:

Almighty and Eternal God, we desire now

t(Âť

niidcr unto thee

our hearty tribute of praise and thanksgi\nng for the divine favor

which has marked for the brightness

this

hour and these exercises.

and the beauty of the day

generosity which have attended the pleasure which have crowned

;

tliank thee

for the kindness

and

plans; for the success and

its

them

all.

Lord, thou wast the overhanging Rock that sheltered our land in tlie

time of storm,

Still tliou

alone ait

pray that around

(

tlie

strong Refuge to which the people

whom

Jod, in

this

and

make

it it

com-

and honored

to save the Union,

and because

and would be courageous in the right

humlily pray that around fluences which will

own

fled.

Imnibly

illustrious

of our

who fought

sailors

also love liberty

And we

trust.

Monument, which we have erected

memorate the names and deeds soldiers

our

is all

there

may

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we

gather and play those in-

a perpetual lesson to our children

and

our children's children unto the remotest generation of the com-

munity

in the

midst of whieh

reared.

great cost at which the Nation preserved

us ever

our

guard her institutions with

liV)erty as

And

more than our

as in this

its all

Reminding us purchase,

may

holy

and

zeal,

of the teaeli

to iiold

life.

same way the preserved

honors (he memory and enshi-ines

\\u-

iui>ulilii'

jialriotism

.v. lywh.i-e

her sailors

THE DEDICATION. and

soldiers

may

people

who fought be a li\ing

her battles,

monument

And now may

241 that everywhere her

to advocate her union

greatness, to advance her usefulness

all

we pray and her

and her

glory.

the presence and the peace of Almighty God, with

plenty and prosperity, prevail

among you and throughout

length and breadth of this land so long as time shall

last.

the

Amen

and amen.

William

Bright gave the "taps" by bugle, and then the

Fourth Separate Company

the

gi-eat,

happy crowd

fired three volleys in perfect unison.

dispersed, the

baud played a

lively air.

THE EVENING.

The Yonkei's Corinthian Yacht Club honored the occasion by a grand lantern parade on the Hudson. liantly illuminated

thirty electric lights.

Forty boats of various classes were in

bearing one thousand lanterns.

mand, and the boats moved

Admiral A.

age.

Prime was

spectators.

line,

com-

The procession

Torches were burned on the yachts, and there was a

its

Ludlow, thence to Grlenwood, and then back to the anchor-

play of fireworks

had

bril-

at half-past eight o'clock.

The Club House was crowded with went

The boat-house was

by nearly three hundred showy lanterns and

off the

Club House.

fine dis-

The big war-ship Boston

powerful search-lights in operation, and saluted the

with fireworks and long blasts from her deep whistle.

was half a mile

long.

was viewed by thousands

fleet

The parade

of people along

YONKHHS IS THE RKltELLION.

242

After the jtarado daueiug ami refreshmeuts were

the rivei'-frout.

enjoyed

in flu- lioat-liunse.

Never in the

Boat Chib did

liistory of the Palisade

look prettier than

did on that night,

when a

were given in honor of the dedication. prettily

draped about, and lanterns

The guests began

used for dancing,

was

fifty

Flags of

had assembled.

all

nations were

and shortly

after that

The boat-room was

The music

the boats having been taken out.

all

furnisheil l>y luomlters of the

boat-house

wei"e conspicuous.

to an-ive at eight o'clock,

time two hundred and

its

reception and dance

led

by Charles

Lieutenant

W. A. Ed-

West Point Band,

E. Moscow.

The gar,

officers of the

Ensigns F,

Boston present wen;

Haeseler and C. F. Hughes, Pajnuaster

Hobbs, and Assistant Engineer E. H. Scribner.

The handsome costumes of the gentlemen,

pleasant contrast.

of the ladies, the conventional dress suits

and the uniforms

of the naval officers

Dancing was kept up

when refreshments were served

until

al)ont

in the ineefiug-rooin

made

midnight,

on the second

floor.

The committee, who deserve was composed

credit for the success of the affair,

Edwin M. Jackson,

C. P.

Marsden,

Jr.,

(".

I5el-

knap, E. E. Bashford, Carroll Moore, Hall B. AVariug, an<l P. B. Rossire.

CHAPTER

XVI.

THE ASSOCIATION'S WORK COMPLETED. The Enclosure

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The

Memorial Volume

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; All

Obligations

Promptly Met.

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

the following letter

Mr. John W. Oliver,

Dear

Monument

Sir: In

was received

after the circular

was mailed

Treasurer.

answer

an appeal from the Executive Committee of the

Association, received this morning, I take great pleasure in inclosing

herewith a check toward the completion of the Monument. I desire in

and

addition to say that, as a citizen of Yonkers,

owe

your committee,

to yourself especially, a debt of gi-atitude of wliich this check

a weak

The debt remains uncanceled. Your persistent and unwearying efforts, overriding every discom-agement

expression.

fi-om

your warmest friends, have resulted in the dedication, yesterday, of a most beautiful tribute of respect to the

As a work sentiment

of art will

it is

memory of

those to

an ornament to our

whom we owe

city of

which

all

much.

may be

proud.

be pointed to with respect in coming years by the descendants of

YOXKEB.S IX THE KEBELLIOS.

244 those

who

clieerfully f^avc

up their

our Republic might

lives that

live iutaet

and

undivided.

As a reminder to those of us who are in

which bis

lot is cast, it

may,

left of

trust,

the duty each owes to the

be of untold value.

Again, Mr. Oliver and gentlemen of the Executive Committee, tender to you

The

accompanied

elieek that

thi.s

work

made

gift was, that the

In exactly one

of the donor should not be published.

made

your

highly coinplimeiitary letter

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a condition of the

the time the appeal was

all

Citizen of Yoxkers.

for $1,000, being the largest iiulividiial subscription

the patriotic

and

tliank you,

sincere congratulations in the well-earned reward of

labors.

was

community

for $lJ,000, the

name

month from

amount was more

than made up.

At a meeting

of the Association held October

1.'),

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

Monument.

to correspond with the

was authorized

to contract for the work.

As T.Astley Atkins had completed E. Gorton and .lolin

the woi-k

to publish

The

Olivci-

fcti-tlic )(rcss,aiiil til.'

huoU.

Edwin A. Quick & Sou,

The Executive Committee Cost, about $1,000.

his task as Historian, Charles

were appointed to edit and jirepare

the ExecutiveConimittee

iiiorr tliaii |iai(l

t'.-v

was authorized

its.-lf.

entire expenses of the Association, inchnliiig

tlir

Moinuiicut,

the dedication, the enclosure, and the i)nl)lication of this Memorial

Volume, amounted sibility

experience

fact that

to $1.5,000;

much

and those intrusted with the respon-

.satisfaction in

bt-ing alilc tn iccoid the

every o1)ligation was jiromjitly met wiien

brcaiin'

due

CHAPTER

XVII.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. The Association â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Its Officers and Principal Abrams, Miss Edna Wilson Ackerly, Miss Alice Aekerly, Geo. M. Bailey

C'ommittees.

Alexander, Miss Marion Alexander, Miss May Alexander, Mrs. Robert E.

Ackerman, Jolm W. Ackerman, Mrs. John W. Ackerman, William H.

Allen,

Adam, Mrs. Thomas

Allison, Robert

Adams, George E. Admirer of the Monument. Affleck, Frank B.

Alton, Mrs. C. D., Jr.

Affleck, Miss Affleck,

Grace

James James James G.

Affleck, Mrs. 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. Affleck,

Allen, C. D.

WiUiam

Allison, Rev. Charles E.

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.

YOXKEIiS IN THE REBELLION.

24(i

Beaudrias, Ali)honso J.

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.

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

Baird,

Henry M., D. 1). Baird, Mrs. Heni-y M.

BeU, Mrs. John T. Benedict, Dr. A. C.

Baird, Miss JiUia F.

Benedict. D.

Baird, Jliss Margaret

Bennett, Mrs. James

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.

Bent, E. M.

Ball, Bertran

Ballard. Arthur

Bereaved Mother. Bernstein, J. S.

Berrian, John. Berrian, M. L. BeiTie, Mrs.

Beutler, Jlrs.

Wm.

Blanchard, Col. B. W. Blatzheim, Mi-s. Franz JIi-s.

Hogart, Mrs. R. Holza, Mrs. A.

Molza. Miss Bertha

Barnard, A. Barnes, Mrs. Jerome

Booth, 1).

Barnes, Mrs. R.

Bashlord, Jlrs. Esther A. Bates,

(

Mary

Holton, Miss

Barclay, Mrs. Saiiiufl

Bartlett, Mrs.

Bloomingdale Brothers. Blute, J. H.

Barclay, Samuel

Barker, Byron

B. H.

Blauvelt,

1).

Banker, Mrs. (Jeorge Barclay, Charles G. Barclay, Miss Florence A.

M. H.

Beutler. William E.

"Larles P.

Baxter, Mi-s. A. M.

Thomas

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. Bragg, Mrs. H. T.

247

YONKEUS IN THE KEliELLIOX.

248

Howard

Clapp, Mrs.

Connell, E.

Clapperton, Miss CLirk, Miss Alraira

Conniff, P. J.

Clark. Miss Kmiline R.

Constable, WilUani J.

Connolly. Jliss Bertha

WiUiam

Clark, Lucius E.

Constable,

Clark, Mrs. Salter S.

Constable, Mrs. William P.

Clarke, J. A.

Cook, Cook, Cook, Cook, Cook,

Clerkie, Patrick

Cleveland, Cyrus Cleveland, Mrs. Cjths

Clune, Francis

Miss Florence M. Miss Fredericka J. Frederick S. Miss Isabel B. Miss Mary

Clune, Peter

Cooley, George

Cobb, Miss Bessie Cobb. MissC. Schuyler Cobb. Mifis Carrie Otis

Cooley,

Cobl), Miss

Cobb, Cobb, Cobb, Cobb, Cobb, Cobb,

(

'ornelia

(ieorfre

Miss Hazel Lyniau, Jr. Mrs. Martha C. Raffaelle Raffaelle, Jr.

& Colquhoun. Cochran, William F.

Coclirane Coffey,

John

Cole, Mi-s. Albert Cole,

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.

Thomas WilUam

Cornell.

Arthur Martin

Corwin,

Cole, ('larence Stewart

Cor win. W. H.

Cole. Rev. David, D. D.

Costin,

Cole, F.

Edward

Costin, M.

David Frank

Cole, Mrs. Cole,

Com-ter,

James

Courtney, John T.

Cole, J.

Courtripht, Theodore

Coles, Mrs. A. Y.

Couzens, Matthew K. Couzens, Jlrs. William S.

Wyckoff Cole, Mrs. J. Wyckoff

EUa J. Miss EUa Y.

Coles, Miss Coles,

Coles, Mi-8. E. RussoU

Cojme, J. Coyne, Mrs. Mary D. Cozzens, Charles L.

Collins, Charles

Cozzens, Mrs. Charles L.

Collins, Mrs. Charles

Craig,

Collins, Mlss

Mary Terry

Mi.'is

Annie L.

Crandall, Mrs.

Color Rearer.

Crislield.

Columbia.

Crisfield. Mi.ss

Condon. .1. Condon. L. R. Conklin, Mrs.

Mr.-s.

Edith

("rosby, Mi-s. E.

Sou.

('luirles

H., Jr.

Charles R.

H. (Egypt)

Crosby. Mi.ss

Crowther, Mrs. Joim

CONTRIBUTOBS TO THE C. S., Junior.

MONUMENT FUND.

Daly, Mrs. George

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.

Daly, J. Daly, Joseph F. Daly, Mrs. Joseph F. Danforth, Mrs. C. D.

Doyle, Edward ElUs Drinkwater, Walter A. Dubois, Mi-s. Lewis

C. S., Senior.

Cummings, Frederick Cummings, John Wesley Curran, Mrs. F. A. Curtis, Mrs. Alvin T. Cutbill,

Miss Amelia

James

Dailey,

Daniels, Miss Beulah

Deane, Mrs. M. J. Dee, Miss B. F. Dee, Michael Deitzel,

August August

Delaney, Daniel Delaney, R. Dennerleia, John C. Deviue, John

John

Devitt, Mrs.

Deyo, Deyo, Deyo, Deyo, Deyo,

John

Andi-ew

PhiUp A. Mrs. Philip A. Miss

M. E. Dickson, Arthur A. Dick, Mrs.

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

John

Dusenben-y, Mrs. Chas. R. Dusenberry, Miss Dutton, Mrs. Albert Dykes, Mrs. James East,

John A. John A.

East, Mrs. J.

Mrs. Andi-ew

Doolity,

Ducros, Miss Reine Duffy, 0.

Dunn, Miss Jennie Dimn, W.

Deitzel, Mrs.

Devitt,

Doyle, Albert

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.

David Robert EUis, Matt. H. Eifert,

Ellen,

Ellis,

Mrs. Matt. H.

Ellsworth, William

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.

249

YOXKERS IN THE HEliELLION.

250

James S. James

Embree, Mrs. John Englehart, Georpe

Fitch,

Eschinann, Miss Elsio

Fitch,

Eschmann, F. W. R. Eschmanu, Mrs. F. W. R.

Fitzelle, Albert E.

Fitch, Mrs.

Etheradge, Mrs. Jennie Evans, W. Everson, E. W. Ewald, John Ewing, Miss Beall

Ewing. Ewing, Ewnng, Ewing,

James

Eylers,

Fitzelle,

Francis A., Jr.

Fitzelle, Mi.ss

Marion G.

Fitzgerald, C. H. Fitzgerald, J. Fitzgerald,

John

Flagg, Miss L.

William

Flagg, Mrs. L.

W. W.

Flagg, Miss Flannery, Patrick J.

Eva E. John John D.

Eylers, Miss Eylers,

Fitzelle, Calvin R.

Flagg. Mrs. Ethan Flagg. Miss E. P.

Miss Maria Mrs. Thomas

Eylers, Charles

Theodore

Flannerj', Sirs. Patrick J.

Eylers, Winifred C.

Flood.

Mr.s.

Foerst,

John

Foerst, Airs.

Farrington, Benjamin

Farrington, Mrs. Emma L. Fairington, Miss Jessie

Mathias

John

Fogarty, Mrs. B. M. Foley, D. Foley,

James

Fawcett, Mrs. Robert

Fones, Miss Slaggie Fones, Dr. Robert A. Fones, Mrs. S. A.

Fechteler, Caspar

Foote, Miss H. D.

FaiTington, Samuel L.

Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson. Fiedler.

. I

Miss Ethel M.

Forsyth, B. A.

Miss Isabelle G.

Forsj'th. Miss

John H.

Forsj^h, Miss Marion

Mrs.

iiM

loliii

11.

Fields. Aii.lnw

Fink, H.

(

Fisher, Miss (i

l.l.i !,'.

Fisher, Miss Lillian Fisher, Miss

Marion

Fisher, Miss R. L. Fisher,

Fisher,

Raymond P. WiHiam H.

Fisher, Mrs. William H. Fiteh,

Edward A.

Filch. Mi.ss

Foster, Mrs. E. R.

Willard

Fo.ster,

Fowler, Arthur Melville

â&#x20AC;˘

Fink, Mrs. John H. Finnel, William Fisher,

Fannie E.

Foster, Mrs. Atherton

Flonncr M.

Fowler, Miss Jennie A. Fowler, Mrs. Peter U. Frankenberg, Charles Frazier, George Frazier, Miss Lizzie J. Frey. Mrs. B. Friend.

(0)

Friend, A, Richmond, Va.

A Loyal Friend, A True

Friend,

Friend of the Cause. Frost.

GONTRIBUTOBS TO THE MONUMENT FUND. Fuhs, Mrs. Catharine Fuller, Mrs. Margaret

Greeuhalgh, Miss Mabel Gregory, Michael Grieve, A.

Gadsby, Mrs. H. H. Gale, Joseph C. Garmbrandt, William GaiTal)raiidt, William, Jr

Gan-ison,

Hyatt L. Garrison. William fl. Garnjost, Miss Edna Garnjost, Frederick W. Gaid, Theodore ;\Irs.

Grieve, D.

Grieve,

Grifflng, Mrs.

A. Grimmel, Mrs. H. Guion, Mrs. H. G. Gunn, Miss Nellie M. Gwynn, Miss M.

Gault, Mrs. Eliza

Haas, Mrs. S. Haight, Abram H.

Geagen, Mrs. William Getty House. Getty, Miss R. M.

Halliday, A.

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,

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

Hale, J. Hale,

Thomas

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

John G. 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. Hatfield,

Hatfield, Mrs.

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

Healey, William J.

251

YOSKERS IN THE UEliELLIOX. Heertuance, Miss Georgie Heermance, Miss rielon

Hoy an.

Heernianci-. .Mi^~ .losic

Hubbard. C. T. Hubbard, S. T.

Heenii;iiiii

Mi-~ K. L.

E. J.

Hojt, Colgate

Heeriuaiici-. .Mis^ I'aulinc

Hubbell. Mrs. J.

Heerniancf, Miss

Humason, Virgil P. Humasou, Mrs. Virgil

Heerniauce, William L.

Heerniance, Mrs. Win. L. " Helping Hand.'" Herlihy, Jlrs. John

Hermance, Mrs. R. M. Hermans, Mrs. Joseph Henneberger, Mrs. John Henry, L.

HutÂŤhins,

Waldo

lli.-k.y.

Miss Gertrude Miss Minnie

Antony In Memoriam. In Memory. W.

lli.'k.v.

Ipson, A.

Hi'pwortb, Miss Constance Hci)\v(irth,

Hi.ks. Henry Hiers,

WilUam

F. S.

Miss S;irah J.

M. T.

Hillli.nise,Mrs.

(i.

H. M. M. H.iar. Mrs.

William

Hans Moritz

IL.triiiMM,

C. R.

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

Hul,r. Bernard 11. .I,,-.

Imhoff,

1{.

Higgins, Mrs. Arthur Higgins, S. Hill'. Mrs. A. Hill.

Mrs. G.

HolVman, Mrs.W. H. Ilog.l. Herbert A. Holioiiii, Miss Lilly F. Holden, J. G. P.,andfaniily. Holden, Miss Mai-y

Jardine, John Jardine, Mrs.

John

Jardine, Mabel D.

Mrs. C. B. Jenkins. Charles J.,

Jewell, Frederick E. Jewell.

Raymond A.

Holder, Francis T.

Jewell, Miss Sanih E.

Holme. William

Jewell, Stephen S.

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.

Hunt, E. R. Hunt, airs. E. R. Hunt, James M. Hurd, Mi-s. Asa Huston, S.

I{oliert

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. Jones, Alfred Jones, Miss Louisa

WaiTen Arthur

Jones,

Juut;, Mrs. E.

K. Kaek. Kaler, George H.

Kirchoil,

Kaler, Mrs. George H.

Kane, Miss Martha Kane, WiUiam H.

Kearns, James J. Keeler, Miss Adelie F.

Adam

Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Kirkwood,

Mrs. A. O. A. S. Miss Nelhe Robert O. William R.

Keeler,

John H. John H. Keeler, John W.

Kito, Feijiro

Keeler, Mrs.

Klein, Christian A.

Keith, Alexander

Kniffen, Mrs.

Kellinger, Miss

Kurt. Adolph

KeUock, Mrs. James Kellock, Miss Margaret Kellock, Mrs. Robert Kellogg, Lewis KeUogg, S. T. KeUogg, William C. KeUogg, Mrs. William C.

James Lawrence J. Kemphn, Miss A. Kelly,

Kelly,

Kemplin, Miss C.

KempUn, Miss

Kennedy, James

253

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

Knauff, Grant

Lally,

Adehne

Thomas

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. Lawrence, Mrs.

C. E.

In Me-

Keppel, Frederick Keppel, Mrs. Frederick Keppel, Mrs. S. Kerns, S. P. Kerr, George Ketcham, Mrs. D. H.

Lawrence, Harry A. Lawson, Miss Lawson, Miss Cornelia B. Lee, Miss

Ketcham, George E. Ketcham, Mrs. George E. Ketcham, Miss Lulu

Lee, Mrs.

Keyser, Hem-j- T. Kiely,

James

Kiely, Michael A.

Kiernan, John Kilgore, Mrs. R. King, Miss Mary Laura

J.,

moriam

Lee, Mrs. Lee, Mrs.

Thomas E. WUliam

LefflngweU, Miss Helen LeifingweU, Miss Julia Letiingwell, Mrs. Charles R.

Lent,

WiUiam H.

Leppert, Joseph Leslie, Willin.m

YOKKEhS IN THE liEBELLION.

254

Lewis, John Lewis, John, Jr. Lews, Miss Rebecca

JIartin, Mrs. Cliarles

Lewis, Williau)

Martin, James E. Martin, Miss liose Martine, Miss Martling, Miss

Light, Mrs. Robert B.

Linehaa, Miss Annie Linehan, Jeremiah Linehan, John Littebrandt. Mrs. -loliii Locke, Mrs. Jolm J. Loekwood, Arthur J. Loekwood, Charles Loekwood, Miss F. C.

Mellifont, Mrs. A. H. .1.

Loekwood, Howai'd A. Loekwood, Joseph A. Loekwood, Mrs. Joseph A. Loewenthal, Miss A.

Mercer, Mrs. Mester,

Mickel,

(

'harl.s T.

Midehin, Andrew Middlebrook, W. W. Millbank, Mrs. Lsaac JliUer,

Hiram K.

Jliller, Jlrs.

Joseph

JliUer, Mrs.

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.

Milliot, Mrs. P.

Loyalty.

Moller, William F.

Thomas Herman

LjTich,

Martin, Mrs. C. E. Martin, H.

Lyons, Mrs.

Machin, Mrs. Sarah Mackay, George D. Maekey, Miss Telia

Millward, James Millward, Mrs. James Millward, James, Jr. Milne, Jlrs. John Mitchell,

('.

Mitchell,

Edward

Mitchell. Jlrs. (ieorge Mitchell. Miss

Mary

Mitchell, Michael F.

MofTatt,

MolTat,

James John B.

Jlontague, Charles H.

Montague,

51 rs.

Charles H.

Montgomery Club. Monument Lot.

Martin,

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'.

Martin. (Charles H.

Morrill, G.

Ma<-k,"v,

John

Ma.k..y.

Miickittenek. Mi-s. Mail Mild Express, N. Y. Mall.iii.

Edwanl

Maiigiii, <'a]>taiM .lnhii

Many.

F. Ileniiau

M.ips,

KdwanlC. Edward

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMEI^NT FUND. Edmund

Morris, Mrs.

John H. Morris, Mrs. John H. Morris,

Thomas Thomas Morrissey, Thomas F. Mon-is, Mrs.

Morrison,

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. WilUam

Mott, Mrs.

Mulcahey, .James Muldoon, M. Muller, Clarence

Munn, EKjah

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.

McGarry, George McGowan, James

McGowan, Peter McGowan, S. C. McGrath, McGrath, McGrath, McGrath, McGrath, McGrath,

Mrs. Denis, Sr. Mrs. Denis F.

255

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

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.

John T.

Odell, Mrs.

Mrs. .John T. Michael

Offerman, George Olferman, W.

Richard

O'Leary, Con

James B.

YOXKEliS IX THE HEliELUON.

25(j

Parsons, Miss Josephine F.

O'Leaiy, William Oliver, Edwin A. Oliver, Oliver.

Parsons, William

John W. Mrs. John W.

Oliver, Jlrs. Thoina.-^ »!iiist.(l.

John

(

0.sl)oni,

George

W. Henry

Osterheld, Miss Nellie Osterheld, Miss Theresa Otis,

Paul, Grant

A. Bradford R.

Otis,

Charles R.

Mary

Paul, Theodore S.

Peake, Cyrus A. Peek, Mrs. Gideon H. Peck, Miss Gladys Anna Peck, Percy StanPeck, Mrs. Sidney S.

Peckham, George Peene, George W.

Arthur

Otis,

Paul. Mrs. Carl Paul, MLss

Olmsted. Miss Lucy rXiill. Francis Osterheld, 5Irs.

Parton. Mrs. Arthur

Otis, Mrs. B.

Miss Katharine Norton P. Norton P. Otis, Norton P., Jr. Otis, Sidney Owens, Mrs. James H.

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.

O.xholm, Mrs.

Percival, J. Mortimer

Otis. .Mrs. Charles Otis.

Charles R., Jr.

Otis. Otis.

Otis. Mrs.

Percival,

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.

Perkins, Miss Alice

Palmer, Miss .May W. Palmer, Miss Pai-son.s, Mi.ss Florence J. Parsons, John I).

Poole, Mi's. W. " Poor Girl."

Perkins, Miss Georgia Perkins, Miss Ruth Perkins, William E.

James

Persise.

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. I'itkin,

(J.

I).

Miss Louise

I).

•

Post, Mrs. L.

Powell. Mrs.

(

liarhs K.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 3WyUMENT FUND. 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. John R. Prote, J. B. & Son Prote, Miss M. L. Pruyn, Alma T.

John Pubhc School Xo. 1

Reid, Rev. John, D. D. I.

Richmond, Fred. Scott Rider, A. L.

Spirit

Quanchi,

Mi-s.

Rigby, Franklin A. Roach, Miss Nellie Roberts, Mrs. Carohne

Robin.son,

Quick, Wilbur E. Quinn, Heni-y J.

Abram S. Abram

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. Randolph, Miss William Rau, Frederick W. Ratcliff,

James

Robinson, Walter W.. Jr. Robinson, Mrs. Walter Rockwell, John W. Rockwell, Mrs. John W.

Quick, S. Francis Quick, ilrs. S. Francis

RadcUff,

"SI.

Roberts, R. A. Robertson, William

Quick. Edwin A. Quick, Mrs. Edwin A. Quick, Miss Ella F. Quick, Frederick N.

Radchff, Mrs.

Gideon C.

Rejmolds, Mi-s. James Rhodes, Mrs. Thomas A. Richardson, Wilham H. Richardson, Mrs. Wm. H.

PubUc School No. 5 Public School No. G Public School No. 7 Pj-ne, Mrs. E.

Reid, Mrs. John RejTiolds,

Public School No. 2 Pubhc School No. 3 Pubhe School No. 4

PubUc

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

Prote, Mrs.

PrujTi, Captain

257

Raj-ner, Mrs. George Raj-ner, Jlrs. George, Jr. Read. .Jacob

Rose.

JIi-s.

Ross.

John

A. Middleton

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

YOXKER.^ IX THE UKBELLIOy.

258

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

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

John M.

Scherp, Jacob

Shotts, Mrs.

Seherp. Mrs. Jacob

Shotts, J. H.

Schlcssinper, Leopold J.

Shotts, Miss Sadie L.

Scldobolim. John H.

Shuler, George

Schlobohm,

Jlrs.

WiUiam

Sickley, Jlrs. Cjtus

Schnieckenbecker, Mrs. M. Schooninakcr, E. B. Schooniuaker, Willie

Silkman, Theodore H.

Schoix-n, Mrs. Kniil

Simpson,

Schultz. Mrs. Charles

Skerrett.

Scotland, Miss Isabel

Scotland, Miss JIarjorie

Skillman, Mrs. L. Skinner, I^Irs. A. L.

Scott, Fred. (Richra'd, Va.)

Skinner,

W. H.

Benjamin Simmonds, Jlrs. WUUam Silliman,

Jlrs. T..uke

Jacob

ISIiss

Bertha

Scribner, Miss Florence

Skinner, Mrs. Charles E. Skinner, Halcyon

Scott, Mrs.

James

Scribner, G. Hilton

Slade,

Scribner. Miss Marfruerite

Sloan, Robert

Scribner, Miss Marion

SmaU, Mrs. John

Scribner, Mrs. Sarah P.

Smalley, William H.

Scriven, J. F.

Smith, Miss Agnes

Scriven, Mrs.

James Scruf;ham,Wm.Warburtou Seaman, Mrs. A. J.

Smith, Duncan Smith, JILss Eleanor Smith, Miss Estelle

See, Alonzo

Smith, Mrs. G. C. Smith. Miss Lizzie

See, Mi-s. See, See.

I).

Alonzo D.

Thomas (i. Mi-s. Thomas (L

Seliffiiiau,

Sene,

Isaac

J. E.

Servic Club, S. E. S.

The

Smith, Mrs. Rali.h H. Smith, Jliss Tillie

Smith. Wallis Smith, Mrs. Wallis Smith. Warren B. Smith. William

CONTRIBUTOES TO THE MONUMENT FUND. Snyder,

Jlrs. J. B.

Tacoma

Soetemon, Peter Soldier's

TaUmadge, Mrs. G. C. Tarbell, John H. Tarbell, Miss M. H. Tatum, Mrs. H. Viele Tatum, Edward Taxter, Mrs. David H.

Daughter

Somerset, Mrs. S. Spear, Miss Edith Spear, Mrs. H. Spillane, T.

Stahlnec'ker,

Hon. Wni.

Stapleton, Miss Tillie Stan-, G.

Starr, G.

StaiT,

Taylor, Mrs. Allen Taylor, Miss Bessie A. Taylor, Miss Carrie

Thayer, Thayer, Thayer, Thayer, Thayer, Thayer,

Anna M. Gordon Gerald Horace H. Mrs. Horace H. Reginald Holdeu Stephen H. Thomas, Walter Thomas, Mrs. Walter Thompson, D. Thomson, John

H. B.

Starret,

259

Social Club.

James Edna Henry

Stengel, Miss Stengel, Mrs.

Stephens, Mrs. L. J. Stewart, Arthur Stewart, Miss Elsie Stewart, George Stewart, Mrs. George Stewart, George U.

Miss

Stewart,

James Stewart, Mrs. James

Thorne, Miss Anna V. Thome, Cleveland May Thome, Mrs. Emily C." Thorne, Wilham H.

Stewart, Mrs. James, Jr. Stewart, Mrs. James P.

Tice, .James G. Tierney, John

Stewart, J. & G. Stewart, Mrs. K. "W.

Timm, Mrs. Charles

Tietjen, Christian F.

Stewart, Miss M. E. Stewart, Miss

StUweU, Benjamin W. Mrs. Benjamin

Stilwell,

Stone, Miss

Amy

Stone, Mrs. Robert Stone, Miss

Strang, Mrs. F. A. Strang, William B. Sullivan, A.

James J. John H. Sweny, William H. Sullivan,

Sullivan,

Titlar,

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.

Sweeney, Denis Swift, Miss Martha Swift, Samuel, M. D. S. W. H.

Trevor, John B.

Sykes, Mrs. Lizzie

Tripler, Miss

Tremper, John R. Tremper, Mrs. John R. Trevor, Henry G.

YONKElifi IS

2G0

M. D. Fowler

THE REBELLION.

Trotter, R. R.,

Walsli. Mrs. E.

Trow,

Walsh, Michael Walsh, Mi-s. Thomas Wandell, Jacob 0.

Turner, Thomas Tyler, Mrs. Bayard H. Tyiueson, Mrs. Eujarene

UUman,

Mrs. August

Ulrich, Mrs.

August M.

Ulrieh, Miss Lizzie

Underhill, C. F.

UuderhiU,

Mr.s. C. F.

Underiiill. F]dwai-d

Edward Henry M.

UnderhiU.

.Airs.

Underhill,

Underhill, Jackson Underhill, Dr. T.

Co.

UuderhiU, Mrs. T. I. Underhill, Mi-s. Wilber S. Underwood, Mrs. A. L. Union. Valentine, Mrs. Peter

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.

Van Houton, Abram R. Van Houten, Mi-s. A. R. Van Xostrand, Bert Van Steenburgh, Mrs. I.

Waters, Mrs. L. P. Watson, James Albert Watt, John

Van

Webb, Mrs. James

Mrs. Seymour

\'orst,

Varian. Mrs. Varian, Mrs. M. E. Verplanck, Miss Kate A. Verplanck, I'liilip Verplanck, Mrs. Philip (".

Vincent,

Vogel,

Von

.1.

('.

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.

C. R.

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

Wheeler, Miss Florence E. Wheeler. Frank E. Wlieeler, Mrs. Lucy Whiffler, Jo.soph

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MONUMENT EUND. White, Miss Emma White, Miss MOlie Whitney, S. R. Widman, Mrs. G. Wiggins, Mrs. Lewis H. Wilcox, Richard E.

WilUams, F.

Wray, Miss Mabel V. Wray, Miss May Wright, Mrs. P. M. Wyer, H. S. (Nantucket)

Wyman, Wyman,

Williams, Mrs. John E. Willoughby, Miss M. C.

WUsou, John " Wish It Was More Wood, Edgar F.

Wood

Dinsmore

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

Place Fair.

Woodruff, Frederick H. Woodruff, Thomas

Worden, Amos W. Wordeu, J. Perry Wray, George B. Wray, Mrs. George B.

Boys' Branch

Young Men's

Christian Association.

Carpenters' and Joiners' Local Union No. 273. City

Hose Company No.

Columbia Hook and Ladder Company.

Columbia Lodge No.

122,

Knights of

Committee on World's Fair

Company A, Hibernian

Van

St.

George.

Cortlandt Park.

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.

N. G.

Holsatia Lodge No. 297, D. O. H.

Hope Hook and Ladder Company No. Houston Hose Company No. 6. Hudson Hose Company No. 1. Irving Hose Company No. 5. .John C.

Fremont Post No.

590. G. A. R.

261

262

YOAKEJiS IX THE UKllKLLIoy. Kitchiug Post No.

GO. G.

Lady Wasliington

Enarine Coinpany No.

Miss M.

Members

Bliss

A. K.

Branch Y. M.

Nepperhan Lodge No.

736, F. A.

Company No.

Mountaineer Engine Company No. Palisade Hose

'J.

and School.

of Boys'

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

Protection Engine

Place Fair.

Company No.

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. Yonkei-s Schuyler Electric Light

Young Men's Young Men's

93.

Company.

Catholic Association. Clirislinn Assiiciation.

THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION, AS CONSTITUTED AT THE COMPLETION OF THE WORK.

John

Charles E. Gorton, Fresident. Shotts aud Galusha B. Balch, Vice-Presidents. E.

Alexander Houston, Secretary. John W. Oliver, Treasurer.

Irving Burns,

Edward Underhill, Matt. H. Ellis, G. P. HOLDEN, James Millward, James V. Lawrence,

Allen Butler, Harvey Bell,

Willi.^ai

WILLL4M L. Heermance, Charles R. Otis, Joseph F. Daly, James Stewart, S. Francis Quick, Wm. Fred. Lawrence,

Ethelbert Belknap, Frederic Shonnaed, Stephen H. Thayer,

Edwin A. Quick, Augustus Kipp Charles E. Allison a. O. Kirkwood,

WILLI.4JI

WeLSH,

Walter Thomas, William James Sheridan.

EXECUTR'E

Moller,

COSIiVnTTEE.

John W. Oliver, Chairman, Joseph

Charles E. Gorton, Daly, Secretary, WiLLLiM L. Heermance, J. Irving Burns.

DEDICATION COMMITTEE. William J.

Heermance, Chairman, John

C. Shotts, Irving Burns, Secretary, Matt. H. Ellis, James V. Lawrence.

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