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^^THIS — the third edition of " New York in the War of the Rebellion "—
ill is published as part of the annual report of the Adjutant-General of
the State of New York for the year 1908 in accordance with the
provisions of chapter 433 of the Laws of the State of New York for the
year 1909, by
NELSON H. HENRY,
The Adjutant-General, S. N. Y.
^^^•^HE compilation here submitted is the result of devoting for twenty- m *m five years almost all hours not demanded by official duties to the
A m L collection of the data contained herein. The work was com- ^^|^F menced in 1883; after the most strenuous labor the first edition was published in 1890; followed the same year by the second edition, which corrected unavoidable typographical errors ; this — the third — edition contains some corrections, changes and additions.
The data were obtained from official or equally reliable sources ; in many instances estimates became necessary and these were invariably based on the most conservative foundations.
This is not a work of fiction, it is composed of bare facts; it is not a work of comparisons ; it is a record of the State of New York during a time which weighed heavily on her sons and daughters, made as complete, correct and concise as it was practicable to make it and its existence is due in a large measure to the Adjutants-General of the State from 1883 to date, to Colonel J. W. Kirkley, statistician of the War Department, and to many officers of New York Volunteers and other gentlemen too many in number to mention by name, whose information proved valuable.
The work consists of six parts; each part and division is preceded by remarks, which explain its scope and intent.
Part I. In the State. II. In the field.
III. The roll of honor.
IV. Sketches of organizations and register of officers. V. Appendices.
VI. Indices.
Albany, December, 1908.
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In 1861 9-26
In 1862 27-38
In 1863 39-46
In 1864 47~5 !
In 1865 52-142
Men called for 57~59
General calls 57, 58
Special calls 58, 59
Credits due the State 59~66
For service in Regular Army 59, 60
For service in Navy and Marine Corps 60, 61
For service in U. S. Volunteers 61
For service in U. S. Veteran Volunteers 62
For service in the Veteran Reserve Corps 62
For service in the Colored Troops 62
For service in Volunteers of other States 62
For service in Militia and National Guard 63
For service in the Volunteers of the State 63
For men who commuted service 63
For representative recruits 63-65
Recapitulation of credits 65
Drafts 66, 67
Periods of service of the men enlisted 67
Individuals in the service 68-70
Nativities of the individuals 70
Ages of the individuals 71, 72
Where the men were obtained 72~78
Organizations in U. S. service 78
Of Militia and National Guard 78-80
Of State Volunteers 80-91
Cavalry 80
Artillery 82-84
Engineers 84
Sharpshooters 84
Infantry 84-91
Of U. S. Volunteers 91
Of U. S. Colored Troops 91
Representation in the General Government 92
Cost of the War in money 93, 94
Bureau of Military Records and Relics 94—141
The women of the State 142
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is aimed here to place on permanent record as concisely as prac- ticable, the stand and action taken by the citizens — sons and daughters — of the State of New York during the War ; to recite or to attempt to set forth the causes which led to the secession movement of the Southern States would be foreign to this aim. The people of this State accepted the result of the political canvass of 1860 in their usual patriotic spirit and, notwithstanding all that had passed, were not willing to believe that war might not be averted.
When the Legislature met on the first day of the new year, 1861, the Governor in his annual message discoursed the attempt at disunion with firmness, but also in a conciliatory tone, stating that the State of New York was ready, in all honorable ways, to aid in reconciling estrangements, and as willing to guarantee the rights of the slave States, as to defend her own. In opening the Assembly the Speaker referred to the perils which environed the country, to the duty of the representatives of the people in the existing crisis, and to the importance of united councils. In the Senate, a leading member of the party which had opposed Abraham Lincoln's election sub- mitted a series of resolutions, asserting it to be the religious as well as the patriotic duty of each State and citizen to preserve the Union, and requesting the Governor to tender to the President, in the name of the people, the militia of the State, to be employed in his discretion, in enforcing the laws and maintaining the Constitution. On the following day there were intro- duced in the Legislature resolutions which received large support from both parties, and recognized slavery as a disturbing element in the National councils, and, to the end that this impediment to harmony be forever removed, proposed, after the admission of Kansas, then not yet a State, to divide the remaining territories into two States, to be admitted as soon as the inhabitants thereof should adopt a constitution republican in form.
Pacification in sentiment and preparation in act were the order of the day. Select committees on federal relations were formed. Bills were brought forward for the more complete enrollment of the militia; to prohibit the
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sale of munitions of war or the loan of money to States in rebellion; for defining treason; for providing arms; indeed for giving form in every way to the sentiment of the people. These measures were but a prelude to many others of like character recorded on almost every page in the legislative journals of that session. The members of both branches were united in action as to the duty of the hour, and the State officials were in harmony with them.
The united, firm and dignified stand of the State of New York, coupled with changes in the President's Cabinet, and a disposition on the part of the General Government to stand by the Union, reanimated public confidence and strengthened the hopes of many, but to be disappointed, for adverse forces were still at work.
On the 9th of January the Star of the West, a swift merchant steamer chartered by the General Government in New York city, and sent from there on the night of the 5th, loaded with needed supplies and men for the relief of Major Anderson, was fired upon in Charleston harbor and fire was continued after the captain had displayed the flag of the country — of the United States.
The news of this act aroused the people of this State and of the whole country. Joint resolutions were promptly introduced in, and speedily adopted, with but three dissenting votes, by the Legislature, referring to the outrage upon the Star of the West; to the seizures of National property by Southern States; to the treasonable avowals of southern Senators; to the value of the Union and the necessity of its perpetuity; hailing with joy the special message of the President, in which he declared his intention to use the military power against all who resisted the Federal authority, and tendering him whatever aid in men and money he might require to uphold the authority of the govern- ment; they also expressed gratitude for the courage and patriotism of those representatives and citizens of and in the South, who labored to save their States from the vortex of secession. These resolutions truthfully reflected the sentiment of the people of the Empire State, and copies of them were trans- mitted to the President, the Governors of the States, and to the United States Senators from this State.
In the South these resolutions did not meet with favor. The Governor of Virginia understood them to be a declaration of the readiness of New York to coerce the slave-holding States into submission to Federal authority. By one or two of the Southern States the resolutions were returned without comment. The Convention of Georgia, then in session, as a response to them, adopted resolutions approving the seizure by troops of the State, of Fort Pulaski, and requested the Governor to hold the fort until the relations of Georgia to the United States should be determined.
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On the 24th of January the Governor transmitted to the Legislature the resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, inviting all states, willing to unite in an earnest effort to adjust the existing controversies and to afford adequate guarantees to the slave-holding states, to appoint commissioners to meet in Washington on the 4th of February following. He recommended the appointment of a commission as requested, and that it be composed of men in whose character and patriotism the people could have full confidence; he also urged that any proper effort should not be left untried to maintain by peaceful means the Union as it had existed for almost a century. Gladly responding tc this invitation of Virginia to aid in effecting a settlement, if possible, of the serious and important questions agitating the public mind, the Legisla- ture, a few days later, elected as commissioners from this state Messrs. David Dudley Field, William Curtis Noyes, James S. Wadsworth, James C. Smith, Amaziah B. James, Erastus Corning, Addison Gardiner, Greene C. Bronson, William E. Dodge, John A. King and John E. Wool. Mr. Gardiner declining, Mr. Thurlow Weed was appointed in his place ; on Mr. Weed's non-acceptance Mr. Francis Granger was selected to succeed him, and took his seat in the convention. The proceedings of this body — the Peace Conference — were without results. It could not be otherwise, for on the day it met, the Provincial Congress or Convention of the seceded states met at Montgomery, Ala., and by the i8th of February had adopted and inaugurated a govern- ment, to be known as " the Confederate States of America."
On the 5th of February the Governor of Georgia ordered the seizure, in the harbor of Savannah, of several vessels owned in the city of New York, in reprisal for the detention, by the Metropolitan police of the city, of arms consigned to the State of Georgia ; three days later, however, the vessels were released. On the 2ist this Governor again ordered the seizure of New York shipping at Savannah, and directed that the ships be detained until the arms, still held by the police, were delivered to his agent in New York city. Munitions of war were being shipped from the North to the Southern States. Proposing to stop this traffic, the police authorities of New York city ordered in the latter part of January the detention of an invoice of arms about being shipped to Savannah. Communication by telegraph ensued, and a formal demand was made on the mayor of the city by an agent of Georgia for the release of the arms. A like demand was also made, by telegraph, by the Governor of Georgia on the Executive of this state, who responded that the grave character and unofficial form of the missive forbade action until better authenticated information should be received. Letters arrived in due time and to the renewed demand of the Governor of Georgia Governor Morgan replied : " * * * Assuming I have authority to do so, you expect me to surrender
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(or formally to withhold) the property alleged to be in the possession of the superintendent of the Metropolitan police, by a given date. Permit me to say, that as Governor of this state, I have no power whatever over the officer who made the seizure, and had no more knowledge of the fact, nor have I any more connection with the transaction, than has any other citizen of this state; but I do not hesitate to say that the arms will be delivered whenever application shall be made for them. Should such not be the case however, redress is to be sought, not in an appeal to the Executive authority of New York to exercise a merely arbitrary power, but in due form of law, through the regularly constituted tribunals of justice of the state or of the United States, as the parties aggrieved may elect. It is but proper here to say, that the courts are at all times open to suitors, and a complaint has not reached me of the inability or unwillingness of judicial officers to render exact justice to all. If, however, the fact be otherwise, whatever authority the Constitution and the laws vest in me, for compelling a performance of their duty, will be promptly exercised. In conclusion permit me to say that, while differing widely with your Excellency as to the right or policy of your acts and of the views expressed in your several communications, I have the honor to b^ * * */' 'j^g police authorities delivered the arms in question to the agent of the State of Georgia on the i6th of March.
On the 1 8th of February the President-elect was received at the Capitol as the guest of the state, and was cordially welcomed by the Governor, the Legislature and the citizens. The chairman of the committee, on the part of the Legislature, pledged him the support of the State of New York in the discharge of his constitutional duties. For this he expressed his gratitude, and added : " While I hold myself, without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have been elected to the presidency, I have a more difficult task to perform than any of them."
Events were daily rendering it more and more likely that the domestic discord would terminate in open hostilities. The probabilities of this, and the means for subduing the expected hostilities were discussed at every fireside throughout the state. The decadence of the military spirit of the people at large had been gradual, but nearly absolute. Public money expended to maintain a Militia establishment was regarded as wasted. But notwith- standing the general apathy of the people, there were still a few men in every portion of the state, and especially at the principal centres, who did not permit the military spirit wholly to die out. The principal lack was in material of war. The strength of the organized Militia was nominally nineteen thousand men ; to arm this force the state possessed but about eight thousand muskets and rifles, and one hundred and fifty smooth-bore field pieces, of
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almost every calibre. The National authorities were not in condition to supply the want, the late Secretary of War having sent thousands of muskets from the Watervliet arsenal to the South. This want had, however, been brought to the notice of the Legislature by the Governor in his annual message, where he pointed out the lack of serviceable military stores, and stated that the organized Militia was not provided with reliable weapons; he asked the Legislature to take early measures to supply these deficiencies, recommending for that purpose an appropriation, to be used at the discretion of the military department of the state, and a bill had been introduced providing half a million dollars for the purchase of arms and equipments. This bill, however, did not become a law until just before the close of the session, when events had demonstrated its imperative necessity.
At half-past four o'clock of the morning of the I2th day of April a shot was fired from the mortar battery near old Fort Johnson, and a moment later fell upon Fort Sumter. This shot, although not the first fired upon the National flag, inaugurated a conflict of gigantic proportions and far-reaching consequences, from which the United States emerged forever as one Country and one Nation.
The bombardment of Fort Sumter was shortly followed by its surrender, which became known at the capital of the State on Sunday morning the I4th. The news came upon the people as an event too sad for full belief. But the suddenness of the intelligence was followed by prompt and efficient action in every quarter. A meeting took place in the afternoon at the Executive chamber. There were present the Governor and other state officers, the Speaker of the Assembly and members of the military and finance committees of the two houses. A committee, consisting of the Attorney-General, the Adjutant-General, the Inspector-General, Mr. Blood of the Senate and Mr. Robinson of the Assembly, was appointed to draft a bill to be submitted to the Legislature the following morning. As drawn by the committee, the bill invested the Governor with the power of its execution, and provided for the enrollment of thirty thousand volunteer Militia to serve for two years, appropriating three million dollars to meet the expense. The Legislature connected the state officers with the Governor in the raising and organizing of these troops and the bill, thus modified, was approved by the Governor on the 1 6th. The commission created thereby was popularly known as the " State Military Board, and consisted of the Governor of the state, Edwin D. Morgan; the Lieutenant-Governor, Robert Campbell of Bath; the Secretary of State, David R. Floyd-Jones of South Oyster Bay ; the Comptroller, Robert Denniston of Salisbury Mills; the Attorney-General, Charles G. Myers of
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Ogdensburgh ; the State Engineer and Surveyor, Van Rensselaer Richmond of Lyons; and the State Treasurer, Philip Dorsheimer of Buffalo.
On the 1 5th of April the President issued his proclamation calling forth the Militia of the several states to the number of seventy-five thousand men, to suppress treasonable combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed. The quota assigned to this state consisted of seventeen regiments, each of seven hundred and eighty officers and enlisted men, making in the aggregate a force of thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty men.
The State Military Board met on the evening of the i6th and the Governor submitted a dispatch from the Secretary of War, to the effect that the men called for were to be mustered into immediate service, and that he would be gratified to have one or more regiments march to Washington before the close of the week. The situation demanded prompt action; the Governor at once issued orders for the available organized Militia to march ; the Board resolved that seventeen regiments of seven hundred and eighty men each, be enrolled and mustered into service for two years, and made provisions for the prompt transportation to Washington of the regiments of the organized Militia ordered into service by the Governor, as well as of the volunteer Militia authorized by it, and for procuring necessary quarters, hospital, medical and other supplies. There was need of this action; communication with Washington was severed, and the condition of affairs there was such, that the state was left in most part to supply transportation for her troops; indeed everything in the way of accommodations for volunteers, sick and well, was to be provided by the state authorities.
The Governor's military staff was composed of men who were competent for the new and weighty duties now falling upon them. Time was not given to deliberate, the work pressed upon their attention at once. The details, as well as the general duties of the several staff departments were instantly and vigorously entered upon. An army of forty thousand men, including the organized Militia, was to be prepared for the field and all the staff officers were more than fully employed. During his administration Governor Morgan's staff consisted of: Adjutant-General J. Meredith Reed, Jr., of Albany, who resigned on account of ill health August 14, 1861, and was succeeded by Thomas Hillhouse of Geneva; Inspector-General William A. Jackson of Albany, who resigned May 17, 1861, to become Colonel of the i8th Volunteers, followed by Marsena R. Patrick, who resigned February 10, 1862, to become Brigadier-General of Volunteers, in whose place was appointed Qiester A. Arthur, who resigned July 9, 1862, to become Quartermaster- General and who was succeeded by Cuyler Van Vechten; Judge-Advocate General William Henry Anthon of New York city; Quartermaster-General
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Cuyler Van Vechten of Albany, who July 9, 1862, was appointed Inspector- General and was replaced by Chester A. Arthur; Surgeon General S. Oakley Vanderpoel of Albany; Paymaster-General Thomas B. Van Buren, succeeded by George Bliss, Jr., February 27, 1862, upon becoming Colonel of the iO2d Volunteers; Engineer-in-Chief Chester A. Arthur, appointed Inspector- General February 10, 1862; Chief of Ordnance, the constitutional Commis- sary-General, Benjamin Welch, Jr., of Buffalo; Aides-de-Camp, Edwin D. Morgan, Jr., of New York city, resigned May 13, 1861 ; Edmund Schriver from May 13 to September 2, 1861 ; Thomas B. Arden from September 2, 1861 ; Samuel D. Bradford, Jr., resigned January 31, 1862; Francis M. Rotch from February 12, 1862; Elliott F. Shepard and John H. Linsly. Several officers of the Regular Army were assigned to temporary duty at Albany about this period, to assist the military department by their experience ; of these were Colonels Delafield, Schriver and Keyes, whose names are prominent in the annals of the war.
Depots were established at New York city, Albany and Elmira, and Brigadier-Generals Charles Yates, John F. Rathbone and Robert B. Van Valkenburgh of the organized Militia, respectively, placed in command of them. Branch depots were also opened at Syracuse and Troy, and Brigadier- Generals Robert M. Richardson and Darius Allen, respectively, assigned to their charge. Orders were issued for the rendezvous and organization of men, of whom many were already arriving at these depots — even before authority to receive them existed — often, indeed, presenting themselves unannounced; and such was the patriotic spirit of the people that many, obviously unfit physically and by reason of age, came with the able-bodied volunteers.
Worthily interpreting the spirit of their constituency, the Legislature prolonged its session and redoubled its labors. Loyal men of all political opinions rallied around the flag of their country ; and it should be remembered as one of the noblest manifestations of that period of danger, how enthusiasti- cally the last hours of the Senate and Assembly were devoted to the duties of patriotism. Nearly a score of these legislators, who with their votes initiated the work of preparing the way of their state, followed up the public pledge, then given, with the sword. The life blood of some of these earnest men too soon became the tribute of their devotion, and they stand conspicuous in the roll of the immortal as the representative heroes of the Legislature of the State.
In this, the eighty-fourth session of the Legislature, the people of the State were represented
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IN THE SENATE BY
Lieutenant-Governor ROBERT
Senator Edw. A. Lawrence, of the istdist.
Thomas A. Gardner, 2d
Francis B. Spinola, 3d
J. McLeod Murphy, 4th
Bernard Kelly, 5th
Benj. F. Manierre, 6th
Richard B. Connolly, 7th
Hezekiah D. Robertson, 8th
Robert Y. Grant, pth
Joshua Fiero, Jr., loth
John H. Ketcham, nth
Volney Richmond, I2th
Andrew J. Colvin, I3th
Joseph H. Ramsey, I4th
Isaiah Blood, isth
Nathan Lapham, i6th
CAMPBELL, of Bath, President;
Senator Chas. C. Montgomery, of the i/th dist. ;
James A. Bell, i8ch
William H. Ferry, ipth
Francis M. Rotch, 20th
Andrew S. Warner, 2ist
Allen Munro, 22d
Perrin H. McGraw, 23d
Lyman Truman, 24th
Alex. B. Williams, 25th
Thomas Hillhouse, 26th
Samuel H. Hammond, 27th
Ephraim Goss, 28th
Peter P. Murphy, ao,th
David H. Abell, 3oth
Erastus S. Prosser, 3ist
Walter L. Sessions, 32d
IN THE ASSEMBLY BY Speaker DE WITT C. LITTLEJOHN, of Oswego;
Lewis Benedict, Jr., 2d district of Albany; Henry Lansing, 3d district of Albany ; William J. Wheeler, 4th district of Albany; Wilkes Angel, 1st district of Allegany; Lucius S. May, 2d district of Allegany; Friend H. Burt, district and county of
Broome ; Nelson I. Norton, ist district of Cattarau-
gus; Franklin Philbrick, 2d district of Cattarau-
gus;
Heman Benton, ist district of Cayuga; Smith Anthony, 2d district of Cayuga; Henry A. Prendergast, ist dist. Chautau-
qua;
Hiram Smith, 2d, 2d district of Chautauqua; Lucius Robinson, dist. and county Chemung; Thomas Carter, ist district of Chenango; Samuel E. Lewis, ad district of Chenango; Henry McFadden, dist. and county of
Clinton ;
Samuel Lasher, 1st district of Columbia; Norton S. Collin, 2d district of Columbia; Loammi Kinney, dist. and county of Cort-
land;
Seymour E. Smith, 1st district of Delaware; Daniel Waterbury, ad district of Delaware; John B. Dutcher, ist district of Dutchess; Samuel J. Farnum, 2d district of Dutchess; Stephen V. R. Watson, ist district of Erie; Victor M. Rice, ad district of Erie;
Benjamin H. Long, 3d district of Erie;
Zebulon Ferris, 4th district of Erie;
Martin Finch, dist. and county of Essex ;
William Andrus, dist. and county Franklin ;
Jas. H. Burr, counties Fulton and Hamilton ;
George W. Wright, dist. and county Gene- see;
Gilbert Bedell, dist. and county of Greene ;
John Markell, ist district of Herkimer;
Josiah Shull, ad district of Herkimer;
David Montague, ist district of Jefferson;
David J. Wager, ad district of Jefferson ;
Harvey Bailey, 3d district of Jefferson;
Andrew J. Provost, ist district of Kings;
Marquis D. Moore, 2d district of Kings;
Nathan Comstock, 3d district of Kings;
James Darcy, 4th district of Kings;
Lucius C. Andrus, 5th district of Kings;
Joseph Nesbitt, 6th district of Kings ;
George H. Fisher, 7th district of Kings ;
Edmund Baldwin, dist. and county Lewis;
Matthew Wiard, ist district of Livingston;
George Hyland, ad district of Livingston;
Orrin B. Lord, ist district of Madison;
Francis A. Hyatt, ad district of Madison;
Martin Roberts, ist district of Monroe;
Lewis H. Morgan, ad district of Monroe;
Benjamin R. Wells, 3d district of Monroe;
Frothingham Fish, district and county of Montgomery;
John Callahan, ist district of New York;
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William Walsh, 2d district of New York; Christian B. Woodruff, 3d dist. New York; William J. C. Kinney, 4th dist. New York; John J. Shaw, 5th district of New York; Samuel T. Webster, 6th dist. of New York; Daniel Young, 7th district of New York; Andrew Craft, 8th district of New York; Horatio N. Sherwood, pth dist. New York; Luke F. Cozans, loth dist. of New York; John Hardy, nth district of New York; John Lambrecht, I2th dist. of New York; Charles E. Birdsall, I3th dist. of New York ; Robert C. Hutchings, I4th dist. New York ; George W. Varian, i=;th dist. New York; Henry Arcularius, i6th dist. of New York; Jay Jarvis Jones, I7th dist. of New York; Henry P. Smith, ist district of Niagara; Oliver P. Scovell, 2d district of Niagara; Francis Kernan, ist district of Oneida; Levi T. Marshall, 2d district of Oneida; Marquis L. Kenyon, 3d district of Oneida ; William Lewis, 4th district of Oneida ; Jeremiah Emerick, ist district of Onondaga; Austin Myers, 2d district of Onondaga ; Abner Chapman, 3d district of Onondaga; Perez H. Field, ist district of Ontario; Stephen H. Ainsworth, 2d dist. of Ontario; Stephen W. Fullerton, Jr., ist dist Orange; Milton Barnes, 2d district of Orange ; Gideon Randall, dist. and county Orleans ; De Witt C. Littlejohn, ist dist. of Oswego; Richard K. Sanford, 2d dist. of Oswego; Mason Salisbury, 3d district of Oswego; Elijah E. Ferrey, ist district of Otsego; Frederick A. Bolles, 2d district of Otsego ; Chas. T. Brewster, dist. and county Putnam; Stephen Taber, ist district of Queens; John D. Townsend, 2d district of Queens ; Charles J. Saxe, ist dist. of Rensselaer;
L. Chandler Ball, 2d dist. of Rensselaer; Anson Bingham, 3d district of Rensselaer; N. Dane Ellingwood, district and county of
Richmond.
Wm. R. Knapp, dist. and county Rockland; Charles Richardson, ist dist. St. Lawrence; Edwin A. Merritt, 2d dist. St. Lawrence; Clark S. Chittenden, 3d dist. St. Lawrence; John Fulton, ist district of Saratoga; James Sumner, Jr., 2d district of Saratoga; Alonzo Macomber, district and county of
Schenectady ;
Joseph Buckbee, dist. and county Schoharie; Abram V. Mekeel, dist. and county Schuyler ; William Johnson, dist. and county Seneca ; Daniel B. Bryan, ist district of Steuben; Jeffrey Smith, 2d district of Steuben; Redman S. Davis, 3d district of Steuben; James H. Tuthill, ist district of Suffolk; Alexander J. Bergen, 2d district of Suffolk; Stephen St. John Gardner, district and
county of Sullivan;
Cero F. Barber, dist. and county of Tioga; Jeremiah W. Dwight, district and county of
Tompkins ;
Robert Loughran, ist district of Ulster; George T. Pierce, 2d district of Ulster ; Benjamin Turner, Jr., 3d district of Ulster; Walter A. Faxon, dist. and county Warren; Peter Hill, ist district of Washington; Nicholas M. Catlin, 2d dist. of Washington; Jabez S. L'Amoreaux, ist dist. of Wayne; Joseph W. Corning, 2d district of Wayne ; Wm. J. McDermott, ist dist. Westchester; N. Holmes Odell, 2d dist. of Westchester; Benj. F. Camp, 3d dist. of Westchester; John J. Doolittle, district and county of
Wyoming ; Gilbert Sherer, district and county of Yates.
While officials were thus engaged, the people were alive with zeal in preparing to answer the call of the government. They held public meetings, adopted patriotic addresses, raised money and enrolled men, in every part of the state. Past political differences were forgotten. Flags were floating from church steeples, public buildings, school-houses and private resi- dences. The thrilling tones of the loyal press penetrated every household, and gave utterance to the popular enthusiasm ; its representatives threw down the pen and grasped the sword; they proposed to make the history, which they were afterwards to chronicle. All was animation and a state of peace had suddenly been transformed into a condition of war. From every quarter
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came applications for authority to raise troops. The people were sensitively alive to the demands of the hour. Real or fancied delays, whether inevitable or not, were censured without stint, if not without reason. Private liberality was without bounds.
The emergency and the danger to the National Capitol were great, and well it was that some of the genuine military spirit had been kept alive. The militia regiments ordered out by the Governor for a service of three months, responded to the pressing call with an alacrity that stands to their perpetual credit. This prompt response no doubt saved the capitol from capture and spoliation. The hearts of all were quickened, when the lightning flashed from Washington its missive of doubt and despondency, of painful peril, of glad and heartfelt relief! How startling was the first summons, flashed along the wires from the threatened seat of the government; how incessant the fiery messages thereafter. Numberless messages of alarm and counsel poured upon the Governor from Washington and all parts of the state; they were the throbbings of the heart of the people.
On the 1 8th of April the Governor issued his proclamation calling upon the people for volunteers for seventeen of the regiments authorized under the act passed by the Legislature. On the iQth a great meeting of merchants was held in New York city; resolutions to sustain the government were adopted, and at the announcement that several regiments, then organizing, needed assistance, more than twenty thousand dollars were raised in ten minutes' time. On the same day the famous Seventh Militia, amidst the greatest enthusiasm, left for the city of Washington.
The next day, the 2Oth, occurred that memorable meeting in Union Square, New York city, of two hundred thousand of the people. Leading citizens without distinction of party, met there to unite their voices in support of the government. The surging crowds that filled the streets, drowned all noises in their huzzas for the Union. The meeting was an important one in every sense; its action gave direction to popular sentiment everywhere, and the Union Defense Committee was then formed from the foremost citizens of the great Metropolis. Conventions and meetings were held on the same day in Schenectady, Hudson, Utica, Oswego and Rochester, and troops raised and means provided. The people of Poughkeepsie, Troy, Auburn, Syracuse and Buffalo also met to counsel on the best mode of responding to the country's call. Town and village, great and small, were likewise engaged. Albany and Elmira were changed, in a few hours, from business centres into military camps.
On the 2ist, the Sixth, Twelfth and Seventy-first regiments of the Militia left the city of New York en route for Washington. On the 22d, a patriotic
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meeting of the Bench and Bar of New York city took place, at which money was subscribed by the thousands; the city of New York appropriated one million dollars for fitting out soldiers and supporting the families of volunteers; and the Twenty-fifth regiment of Militia left Albany for the endangered Capitol of the country. The succeeding day, the 23d, witnessed a great meeting in Brooklyn, at which Robert J. Walker, a former Cabinet officer, and resident of a seceded state, addressed the people, and the departure from Brooklyn of the Thirteenth, and from New York city of the Eighth and Sixty-ninth regiments of the organized Militia of the state. On the 26th, the Secretary of War wrote to the Governor: " I have to repeat the acknowledgments of this department for your very prompt and energetic action in sending forward the troops of your state." On the 27th the Fifth regiment of Militia of New York city; on the 28th the Twentieth regiment of Militia of Kingston; on the 2Qth the Ellsworth Fire Zouaves, later the Eleventh Volunteers, a two years' regiment, of New York city, and on the 3Oth the Twenty-eighth regiment of Militia of Brooklyn, left the state for active service.
The remaining regiments of the organized Militia were preparing to march, when in the first days of May, their orders were countermanded upon receipt of information from the General Government that no more three months' men were desired. Four companies of the Seventy-fourth Militia volunteered then, and left Buffalo for Elmira May 3d, escorted to the depot by the Home Guards, of which Ex-President Fillmore was major and in command.
The Militia regiments, when starting for Washington, were accompanied to the points of embarkation by the people. Their line of march was a perfect ovation; thousands filled the sidewalks; private and public buildings were decorated with banners, and there were many touching scenes of farewell taking.
The enlistment of volunteers under the Governor's proclamation of the 1 8th of April proceeded with great rapidity. On the 22d, only a week after the proclamation of the President, eighty-two companies had been accepted, and the State Military Board adopted a resolution " to organize the remainder of the force provided for in the act of April i6th."
Firearms were now the serious want. On the 24th of April an agent was sent to Europe to purchase twenty-five thousand stands of the most approved pattern, and also a supply of fixed ammunition. The agent carried a letter of credit for half a million dollars, and a communication from the Governor to Lord Palmerston, requesting him to sanction these purchases by the state. The Governor-General of Canada, meanwhile applied to for authority to
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purchase arms in his territory, replied that he was not permitted to allow munitions of war to be taken from that province. In Europe the agent found that large orders had been sent out from this country and that the Spanish government was a heavy purchaser of arms in the British markets. He, however, obtained nineteen thousand Enfield muskets at a cost of three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. His first shipment was refused passage by the English steamship company, though sent to Galway by the house of Baring Brothers.
On the 25th of April the Governor, in accordance with the resolution adopted by the State Military Board, issued his proclamation for volunteers for twenty-one additional regiments, making the total number of regiments to be organized for two years' service thirty-eight, and completing the force of volunteer Militia authorized by law.
Public manifestations increased. Nationalities vied with each other in the work of raising regiments and sustaining the government. On the 25th of April an enthusiastic meeting of the British residents was held in New York city; followed a few days later by a Union meeting of the French residents. The Germans met frequently in large assemblages, and other nationalities were equally active. Distinctive regiments of Irish, Scotch, Germans and French were being raised for the war. The Common Council of Buffalo made a large appropriation to equip a local regiment. Troy established a special depot and raised money for its support. Other cities and towns were not behind in the work. Collections were made in churches and at other assemblages for furnishing needed supplies for the soldiers and for supporting their families. Active patriotism prevailed in business circles ; bankers and commercial men were furnishing money by the tens of thosuands. Mechanics and manufacturers were vieing with others in the work of for- warding men and providing for those at home. Representatives of all pro- fessions and pursuits were found in the ranks or hastening to the rendezvous. The Union Defense Committee, the Merchants' and the German committees, the Chamber of Commerce, churches and citizens of New York city and other localities, throughout the state, assisted with money in defraying the expenses of the organizations springing up all over the country.
On the /th of May the Governor, expressing his gratification at the alacrity and self-sacrificing spirit displayed by the people, announced that the maximum number allowed by the act of April i6th having been enrolled, expenditure of time or means should not be uselessly incurred by the patriotic citizens of the state in further efforts for new organizations.
May 3d, the President issued a call for forty-two thousand and thirty-four volunteers for a service of three years, and the War Department granted
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authority to committees and individuals to recruit regiments, crediting them to the state, so that when, May 25th, the organization of the thirty-eight two-years' regiments was completed, the number of men required from this state was found to be already filled, while but a part of the troops raised by the state authorities had been accepted by the General Government. This created a serious embarrassment and a delay in forwarding troops. The term of service of the New York contingent had been fixed by law at two years and could therefore not be changed, otherwise matters could have been arranged more quickly. However, the State Military Board insisted that the troops raised by authority of the state should be received without regard to those tendered or raised by committees and unofficial persons, and finally, June 1 2th, Secretary of War Cameron ordered the muster into the United States service of all the regiments which had been enrolled into the state service, and not yet mustered in the United States service. A small number of these had meanwhile been mustered in for three months, which caused at the expiration of that time, when the Governor, at the request of the War Department, ordered them to continue in the United States service for the unexpired term of their state service considerable dissatisfaction and evil. Under the President's call of May 3d and authority received from the War Department, there were organized for a service of three years, principally under the auspices of the Union Defense Committee of New York city : The Garibaldi Guard, the Mozart Regiment, the De Kalb Regiment, the Tammany Jackson Guard, the Second, Ninth, Fourteenth and Seventy-ninth regiments of Militia.
May 1 4th the Secretary of War on the part of the President, again thanked the Governor and his staff, for seconding the call of the President for troops in such prompt and efficient manner.
Early in July the General Government requested some mounted troops and two companies were forwarded, one company composed of volunteers from the First, the other of volunteers from the Third, regiment of cavalry of the Militia; they entered the United States service for three months.
By July 1 2th the last volunteer organization had left the state and at that date there had been placed in the United States service by this state : Of the organized Militia for three months' service 8,534 men; of two years' volun- teers 30,131 men; of three years' volunteers 7,557 men, making a total of 46,224 officers and enlisted men. The depots were closed and recruiting suspended.
The tide of volunteering was still at flood. Applications for authority to raise additional companies were as strongly pressed as at any time since the firing upon Fort Sumter, but the General Government declined to accept more
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men. The Governor asked for the privilege of accepting a certain number of companies and suggested that they be sent to camps of instruction within the state, and thus a well-drilled force be provided for emergencies. Long Island and the vicinity of Buffalo were two of the points suggested for the encampment, and the latter city formally tendered an eligible site on the shores of Lake Erie for this purpose. In regard to the former locality, a competent officer, after examining several points, had selected a suitable place not far from New York city. The Federal authorities, however, had not assented to this policy, when the defeat at Bull Run, July 2ist, changed the aspect of affairs, gave a new direction to the efforts of the state, and opened a new period of the war.
The defeat at Bull Run, while it filled the people with pain and sorrow, did not have a depressing effect on their patriotic spirit ; on the contrary the desire to uphold the Government, to preserve and protect the Union and the Nation seemed, if possible, to grow stronger than at any time before. The people at large were also beginning to appreciate that the struggle had but commenced, and that the end was not as near as many had heretofore believed and expected. Men and means were liberally offered, and when on the day after the reverse, the President approved the act of Congress authorizing the organization of an army of five hundred thousand men, with power to increase the force whenever he should deem it necessary, his action and that of Congress were warmly applauded and supported.
At the request of the President, Governor Morgan issued, July 25th, a proclamation calling for twenty-five thousand volunteers for three years' service, to be organized into twenty-five regiments of infantry, and July 3Oth, the Governor, at the request of the War Department, called for volunteers for four additional regiments, two of cavalry and two of artillery.
On the 26th of July three regiments of colored men to serve during the war, were tendered to the Governor, with the assurance that their arms, equipments, clothing and pay, while in the service, would be provided by the colored population of the state. There being no authority to enroll colored men, the offer had to be declined; but this appreciation of the struggle before the country and the loyal spirit the offer indicated, deserve to be placed on record.
On the 3 ist of July the depots at New York city, Albany and Elmira were reopened, with the same efficient officers in command, and recruiting and organizing recommenced with vigor and energy. A quota was not assigned to the state at the time ; the troops were raised under the act of Con- gress approved July 22d; however, when in June, 1862, it became necessary to determine what the quota should have been, in order to make further calls,
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it was decided that since the President's call of April I5th, this state should have been required to furnish one hundred and nine thousand and fifty-six three years' volunteers. The Union Defense Committee, the German and other committees of New York city, Brooklyn, and the other cities and localities of the state, which had rendered such valuable services in April and May, renewed their former efforts, and aided in every possible way the officers of the state. The ardor of the people cannot be described; requests for authority to raise regiments and to recruit companies flooded the military department, and it became necessary to establish branch depots for the reception of companies and the organization of regiments, to meet the spirit of the people and to enable prompt and fruitful co-operation on the part of the various committees and many persons of influence. Such depots were established between August 23d and November 2d, in the order named, at : Oswego, Saratoga, Buffalo, Rochester, Ogdensburg, Auburn, Kingston, Westfield, in the first district of the county of New York, Syracuse, Brooklyn,
Boonville, Geneseo, Cortlandville, Plattsburgh, Cherry Valley, Potsdam,
»
Malone, Unadilla, Hancock, Madison Barracks, Lyons, Utica, Le Roy and Nineveh.
Up to this time the largest portion of the expenses incurred in recruiting, quartering, subsisting, uniforming, arming, transporting, and even paying the troops raised in the state, especially in the case of the Militia and the two years' regiments, had been borne by the state ; but August 1 5th, the officers of the Regular Army, who had been detailed to muster in the new levy, were con- stituted disbursing officers of the General Government and, Congress having passed the necessary appropriation, provided with funds for the payment of expenses of the nature mentioned, relieving the state largely, but not entirely, from that duty.
In August the regiments of the organized Militia, which had so promptly marched to the front in April, and had since rendered valuable service on the field of battle and in camp and garrison, returned to their home stations and were received by a grateful people with enthusiastic demonstrations of approval and appreciation. Many of these men at once re-entered the service of their country as volunteers.
A better description cannot be given of the situation at this time, of the patriotic spirit pervading all, than is contained in the proclamation of the Governor, issued on the 22d of August, and here reproduced, wherein, while appealing to the people, he speaks for them in unmistakable words: "A conspiracy, not the work of a day, but the result of years of false, wicked and traitorous machinations, has, for several months, disturbed the peace of the State of New York and of the Federal Union. Its movements have been
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marked by violence and fraud. Wherever it has manifested itself, it has dis- regarded the rights of citizens, coerced them into the ranks of its armies, and exercised an absolute control over persons and property, in utter defiance of the Constitution and laws of the land. Ambitious and designing men, disap- pointed in their personal aims, have been enabled, chiefly by misrepresenting the feelings of one portion of the country toward the other, to usurp and exercise a power which has become not only tyrannical and oppressive in the several states whose constitutional governments it has temporarily suspended, but dangerous to the entire Union. The pretenses originally held forth as a justification for acts of lawlessness and treason have been laid aside. The intention of the leaders of this wicked Rebellion to destroy the Union, cemented by the blood of our forefathers, is now fully manifested; and elated by an accidental success, they audaciously threaten the National Capital. As Chief Magistrate of the state, it is my solemn duty to warn all good and loyal men of the dangers to which our institutions are exposed, and to urge upon them the necessity of an earnest and zealous co-operation with the authorities of the state and General Government, of a cheerful contribution of their means to support the public credit, and of active enrollment in the forces now being organized for the defense of the Union, convinced that the tranquillity of the country, so wantonly disturbed, can only be restored by the prompt and vigorous suppression of rebellion and treason wherever they may appear. The Representatives of the people of the United States, lately convened in Congress, at the call of a constitutionally elected President, in view of the perils which surround the Union, have, by legislative enactment, provided for liberal supplies of men and means for the enforcement of the laws, and have thus invited a hearty and zealous response on the part of the several states. New York has never wavered in her devotion to the Union. She prizes it on account of the many blessings which all parts of the country alike have received from it, on account of the memory of her patriot sons by whose blood it was purchased, and for the inestimable benefit it confers upon the present, and secures to future generations. Her noble response to the call of the President, in April last, was such as preserved to her the proud title she has long borne in the family of states. Another stage in the great Rebellion has been reached; and the Government, appreciating the dangers now menacing it, appeals for aid. The whole country, the civilized world, now looks to the State of New York. Let the response be worthy of her history. Let her answer go back in full ranks of earnest men, who justly valuing the magnitude of the interests involved, temporarily relinquish their pursuits and prepare to meet the crisis."
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August 28th, the War Department authorized recruiting for organiza- tions in the field, and ordered details from such as required recruits, to be sent to this state for that purpose.
Since May the War Department had been granting authority to individuals to recruit and organize regiments and batteries, independent of the state authorities. Some of these were worthy men, while others were not calculated to meet with success. Their recruiting parties were over all the state and created innumerable complications and annoyances for the authorities. September 5th, upon the representations of the Governor, the Secretary of War ordered all residents of the state, who had received from his department authority to recruit and organize, to report to the Executive of the State for orders, and to complete their respective organizations with his approval ; empowering him to revoke any authority granted, or to consolidate organizations, as he deemed best for the interests of the country. This action was timely, and put an end to the many vexatious delays and interferences met with by the state officers.
To expedite and simplify the organizing, equipping, subsisting and forwarding of troops, Governor Morgan consented to accept the position of Major-General of United States Volunteers, and October 26th the President created the Military Department of New York, comprising the state, and placed the Governor, as Major-General, in command of it. Major-General Morgan assumed command November ist.
October 28th, the General Government requested that regiments of cavalry be no longer organized, and November 2/th it extended the request also to infantry. December 3d the War Department, in General Orders, directed that more new regiments should not be recruited; that incomplete organizations should be consolidated, and all organizations still in the states forwarded as quickly as possible. This of course discontinued recruiting. Steps were at once taken to consolidate incomplete organizations which, it was thought, would not be able to fill their ranks within a short time. Other regiments nearly completed, and whose ranks, it was known, could be filled in a few weeks, received special authority to continue recruiting.
The recruiting parties for organizations in the field had not been idle ; it is estimated, no exact account having been recorded, that they recruited and sent to their respective organizations before the close of the year about eleven thousand men.
At the close of this year there had been sent to the front since August, or rather since September, for August was more a month of preparation than of action, forty-two regiments of infantry, ten regiments of cavalry, one
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battalion of mounted rifles, two regiments of artillery, two battalions of artillery, one rocket battalion, nine independent batteries, and four companies of Berdan sharpshooters, and there were still left in the state regiments ready to start, and others not completed, numbering fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty-three men ; making the total number recruited for new and old organizations, seventy-five thousand three hundred and thirty-nine men.
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^^•T HE Legislature of the state met in its eighty-fifth session a few days ill after the commencement of the year. Like its predecessor, it was ^^ composed of men worthy to represent a loyal and patriotic people. The Governor, in his message, ably portrayed the situation and de- scribed the work of the past year. The session was largely occupied in author- izing counties, cities, towns and villages to raise means for the equipment of volunteers and for the relief of their families. Ordinances and acts by communities, already passed and executed, appropriating money in aid of the defense of the National Union, were legalized. The Comptroller of the state was empowered to provide means to the extent of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the pay of volunteers still in the state, due on the ist of January, but not yet paid by the United States. There was not, on the part of the authorities and the people, any hesitation in providing for the soldiers the state had called forth, and for the families they had left behind. Measures were also taken for the proper payment and distribution, by the state, of such sums of their pay as may have been or would hereafter be assigned by the volunteers for the benefit of their families or others. Provision was made for the prompt payment of the direct tax levied by act of Congress and apportioned to the state; of expenses incurred in the organization, equipment and subsistence of troops ; and for reimbursement of Militia regiments for clothing and equipments lost and destroyed while in the United States service. Toward the close of the session an act was passed for the better enrollment of the Militia, the organization and discipline of the National Guard, the designation given to the organized Militia, and for public defense. February i/th, the Legislature also passed a concurrent resolution giving thanks to the officers and soldiers for the recent victories of the National arms at Forts Henry and Donelson, at Roanoke Island, Savannah and other points. Chapter 420 passed April 22d, incorporated the Union Home and School for the education and maintenance of the children of volunteers, under the management of noble women of the state. In short every thing that could be done for the comfort of those who had entered their country's service, for those they left behind, and for those who were yet to
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enter the ranks, was promptly and loyally done by this Legislature, the members of which were:
IN THE SENATE:
President, ROBERT CAMPBELL of Bath, the Lieutenant-Governor of the State;
Senator Monroe Henderson, of the ist dist. Jesse C. Smith, 2d
Henry C. Murphy, 3d
Christian B. Woodruff, 4th Charles G. Cornell, 5th
John J. Bradley, 6th
Richard B. Connolly, 7th
Hezekiah D. Robertson, 8th Henry R. Low, pth
Jacob S. Freer, loth
William H. Tobey, nth
Ralph Richards, i2th
John V. L. Pruyn, I3th
Joseph H. Ramsey, I4th
John Willard, I5th
Russell M. Little, i6th
Senator C. C. Montgomery, of the James A. Bell, Alex. H. Bailey, George A. Hardin, Richard K. Sanford, Allen Munro, Henry A. Clark, Lyman Truman, Chauncey M. Abbott, Charles J. Folger, Charles Cook, Lysander Farrar, Almanzor Hutchinson, Wilkes Angel, John Ganson, Horace C. Young,
I7th dist. i8th I9th
20th 2ISt 22d
23d
24th 25th
26th
27th 28th 29th 30th 3ist 32d
IN THE ASSEMBLY:
Speaker, HENRY J. RAYMOND, of New York city;
Willet Searles, ist district of Albany; Almerin J. Cornell, 2d district of Albany; A. Bleecker Banks, 3d district of Albany; William Doyle, 4th district of Albany; Alvah E. Cruttenden, ist dist. of Allegany; Edward D. Loveridge, 2d dist. of Allegany; George Bartlett, dist. and county Broome ; Andrew L. Allen, ist dist. of Cattaraugus; Addison G. Rice, 2d dist. of Cattaraugus; William A. Halsey, ist district of Cayuga; Smith Anthony, 2d district of Cayuga; Emry Davis, ist district of Chautauqua; Henry C. Lake, 2d district of Chautauqua; Tracy Beadle, dist. and county Chemung; David B. Parce, ist district of Chenango; Francis B. Fisher, 2d district of Chenango; Lemuel Stetson, dist. and county Clinton; Jacob Ten Broeck, ist dist. of Columbia; Samuel Wilbor, 2d district of Columbia; Thomas Barry, dist. and county Cortland ; Nelson K. Wheeler, ist dist. of Delaware; Daniel Waterbury, 2d dist. of Delaware; John B. Dutcher, ist district of Dutchess; Edmund Green, 2d district of Dutchess ; John W. Murphy, ist district of Erie; Horatio Seymour, 2d district of Erie ; Ezra P. Goslin, 3d district of Erie;
John A. Case, 4th district of Erie;
Palmer E. Havens, dist. and county Essex;
Albert Andrus, dist. and county Franklin ;
Jas. H. Burr, counties Fulton and Hamil- ton;
Benjamin Pringle, dist. and county Genesee;
Jonathan B. Cowles, dist. and county of Greene ;
Orson Moore, ist district of Herkimer;
George Springer, 2d district of Herkimer;
Jonathan M. Ackley, ist dist. of Jefferson;
George W. Hazelton, 2d dist. of Jefferson;
William Dewey, 3d district of Jefferson;
Andrew J. Provost, ist district of Kings;
Richard J. Lalor, 2d district of Kings;
William M. Thomas, 3d district of Kings;
James Darcy, 4th district of Kings;
Charles L. Benedict, sth district of Kings;
Samuel T. Maddox, 6th district of Kings ;
Edgar McMullen, 7th district of Kings ;
H. D. H. Snyder, Jr., dist. and county of Lewis ;
Matthew Wiard, ist district of Livingston;
Samuel S. Skinner, 2d dist. of Livingston;
William H. Brand, ist dist. of Madison;
Albert G. Purdy, 2d district of Madison ;
Geo. E. McGonegal, ist district of Monroe;
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Eliphaz Trimmer, 2d district of Monroe; Benjamin R. Wells, 3d district of Monroe; Nicholas Newkirk, district and county of
Montgomery ;
John Callahan, ist district of New York; Daniel Leamy, 2d district of New York; George L. Loutrel, 3d dist. of New York; William J. C. Kenny, 4th dist. .'Jew York; James W. Bush, 5th dist. of New York; William J. Coey, 6th dist. of New York; Henry J. Raymond, 7th dist. of New York; William G. Olvany, 8th dist. of New York; Alexander McLeod, pth dist. of New York; Daniel M. O'Brien, loth dist. New York; Noah A. Childs, nth dist. of New York; Andrew Smith, I2th dist. of New York; Alexander Ward, i^th dist. of New York; Royal Phelps, I4th dist. of New York; David S. Coddington, I5th dist. New York; Dennis McCabe, i6th dist. of New York; Edward Jones, i7th dist. of New York; Benj. H. Fletcher, ist district of Niagara; Peter A. Porter, 2d district of Niagara; Charles M. Scholefield, ist dist. of Oneida; Eli Avery, 2d district of Oneida ; Thomas D. Penfield, 3d district of Oneida; Jeremiah Sweet, 4th district of Oneida; Frederick A. Lyman, ist dist. Onondaga; Thomas G. Alvord, 2d dist. of Onondaga; R. Nelson Gere, 3d district of Onondaga; David Pickett, ist district of Ontario; Francis O. Mason, 2d district of Ontario; Daniel R. Hudson, ist district of Orange; John Van Etten, Jr., 2d dist. of Orange; Nicholas E. Darrow, district and county of
Orleans ; e
Elias Root, ist district of Oswego; Willard Johnson, 2d district of Oswego ; Benjamin E. Bowen, 3d dist. of Oswego; LeRoy E. Bowe, ist district of Otsego; Cornelius A. Church, 2d district of Otsego; Thomas H. Reed, dist. and county Putnam;
Isaac Coles, ist district of Queens; Henry D. Hall, 2d district of Queens; Charles J. Saxe, ist dist. of Rensselaer; David G. Maxon, 2d dist. of Rensselaer; Sylvester Waterbury, 3d dist. of Rensselaer; Smith Ely, dist. and county of Richmond; James S. Haring, dist. and co. Rockland; Elias P. Townsley, ist dist. St. Lawrence; James Redington, 2d dist. of St. Lawrence ; Calvin T. Hulburd, 3d dist. St. Lawrence; John Fulton, ist district of Saratoga; Nathaniel M. Houghton, 2d dist. Saratoga; Simon J. Schermerhorn, district and county
of Schenectady; William Lamont, district and county of
Schoharie ; Alvin C. Hause, district and county of
Schuyler;
Peter J. Van Vleet, dist. and county Seneca ; Daniel B. Bryan, ist district of Steuben; Henry Sherwood, 2d district of Steuben; Samuel M. Alley, 3d district of Steuben; John C. Davis, ist district of Suffolk; John S. Havens, 2d district of Suffolk; Benj. L. Ludington, district and county of
Sullivan;
Benj. F. Tracy, dist. and county of Tioga; Ezra Cornell, dist. and county Tompkins; Jesse F. Bookstaver, ist district of Ulster; George T. Pierce, 2d district of Ulster; Ebenezer Westbrook, 3d district of Ulster; Thomas S. Gray, dist. and county Warren; George H. Taylor, ist dist. of Washington ; Philip H. Neher, 2d district Washington; Eron N. Thomas, ist district of Wayne; Abram Pryne, 2d district of Wayne; Pierre C. Talman, ist dist. Westchester; Newberry D. Halsted, 2d dist. Westchester ; Chauncey M. Depew, 3d dist. Westchester; Lucius Peck, dist. and county of Wyoming; Darius A. Ogden, dist. and county of Yates.
The General Government had issued orders, to take effect January ist, placing the recruiting service in the states, for the forces in the field, under the charge of General Superintendents, and directing that general depots be provided for the collection and instruction of recruits. Major John T. Sprague, of the Regular Army, was detailed by the War Department as General Superintendent for this state, and selected Elmira and Albany as points for the establishment of his general depots. The state authorities turned over the barracks, hospitals and other facilities at these points to the
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United States, Colonel E. F. Shepard, aide-de-camp, who had relieved General Van Valkenburgh on the ist of December last, being directed, January i8th, to turn over the depot at Elmira to Major Sprague, and General Rathbone, in command of the depot at Albany, receiving similar directions March 2ist. Under this order of the General Government the state authorities were relieved from the work of recruiting, except for new regiments and companies, but their assistance and co-operation were heartily given to the General Superintendent. These orders remained in force until April 3d only, when the recruiting service for old organizations was also discontinued. An error, whatever may have caused the suspension; men were needed to fill the regi- ments already in the field, and at the time recruiting for new organizations had ceased. Not until June 6th was recruiting resumed, but the state authorities issued orders, May 23d, for the recruiting and organization of companies for regiments in the field in which vacancies for such existed or could be made. January 25th General Yates was relieved from the charge of the depot at New York city to take effect February ist, and Colonel George Bliss, Jr., detailed to perform the duties connected with the organization of volunteer regiments and companies in and about the city of New York.
The defenses of New York Harbor had been a source of concern for some time, and on the I2th of March the Governor ordered General Chester A. Arthur, the Inspector-General of the state, to visit the forts in and around New York city, to report their condition and what would be necessary to place them in a complete state of defense. Upon that officer's report the Governor as commanding general of the department, furnished suitable garri- sons and such armament as could be obtained from the General Government.
Early in April the Secretary of War requested Major-General Morgan to provide accommodation in New York city for the sick and wounded of the army on the Peninsula of Virginia, who might be sent to the rear. The Legislature had already appropriated thirty thousand dollars for this purpose, and plans to expend this sum in such manner as would best promote the object in view, had been decided upon. On the i8th, the Governor ordered Colonel George Bliss, Jr., to put, under the supervision of the Surgeon- General, into proper condition for hospital purposes and for the good care of the sick and wounded of the troops from this state, such of the barracks for volunteers in or near the city of New York, as would be best calculated for that purpose; extensive accommodations were also prepared at Albany. At the request of the General Government the state turned over to it all these hospitals, except the Park Barracks Hospital at New York city, in which over fourteen thousand men of this and other states, received proper care and
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treatment, on the part of this state, during the months of April, May, June, July and August, when it was discontinued.
On .the i8th of April General S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Surgeon-General of the state, was directed to proceed to Fort Monroe and to General McClellan's army to make and superintend on the part of the state, such arrangements for the care and treatment of sick and wounded volunteers, and for their transportation home, as in consultation with the medical officers of the army, he should find best to promote these objects. On the 24th Colonel Francis M. Rotch, aide-de-camp to the Governor, was dispatched to assist the Surgeon- General. May 8th, General Arthur was sent to Yorktown for the same pur- pose. Every effort was made by these officers, as far as in their power, to provide prompt transportation to the state of, and the needful comforts for, the sick. June I2th these efforts were renewed and General Benj. Welch, Jr., Chief of Ordnance, and Colonel Rotch, again, sent to Fort Monroe and the Army of the Potomac to insure success. Colonel Rotch had also a mission to the army relating to the regiments from this state, their condition and the appointment and promotion of officers.
The military department was employed from the beginning of the year to the end of April in completing and forwarding the organizations left in the state on the last day of the past year. By enlistments these had been increased in number, so that when they were turned over to the General Government, their total strength was nineteen thousand and three men, formed in two regiments and four independent batteries of artillery and nineteen regiments of infantry.
May 2ist, the War Department indicated that an additional force of infantry volunteers for three years, would be accepted, and on the 23d, the Governor issued orders to raise as many companies as practicable, designating the depots New York city, Elmira and Albany as places of rendezvous and assigning as commandants of these depots Colonels George Bliss, Jr., and E. F. Shepard, and General Cuyler Van Vechten, of his staff, respectively. Colonel Shepard was relieved by Colonel R. B. Van Valkenburgh July 2ist, 1862, and he by Major Samuel M. Alley August I4th, 1862. On the comple- tion of sufficient companies, they were to be formed, at the depots, into regiments under field officers appointed by the Governor.
The movements of the enemy in the Shenendoah Valley were now developing themselves to the disadvantage of the Federal arms, and on the 24th of May the Secretary of War requested the Governor to forward at once regiments of the organized Militia — the National Guard. The Governor promptly responded to the request by ordering the guard to march without delay. Between the 26th of May and the 4th of June twelve regiments, the
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Seventh, Eleventh, Twenty-second, Seventy-first, Eighth, Thirty-seventh, Thirteenth, Forty-seventh, Sixty-ninth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fifth and Twelfth, completely armed and equipped, numbering in the aggregate eight thousand five hundred and eighty-eight men, left the state and entered the service of the United States for three months; the Seventh called out for thirty days, volunteered for the longer term. More regiments were preparing to follow, but as the Secretary of War, the impending danger having been averted, requested that more three months' men be not sent, their marching orders were revoked. The promptness with which the National Guard responded to the call of the Governor is worthy of notice. Composed mainly of citizens engaged in active business pursuits, it involved no light sacrifice. Most of the regiments had volunteered under a similar exigency and seen service in 1861, and the value of their services had been fully appreciated and acknowledged by the General Government. On this occasion their presence at a critical period, was no less opportune, and the Secretary of War expressed his approval of the alacrity with which they moved to the front, and his sense of the importance of the services rendered to the country.
June 3d, under the act of the Legislature passed April 23d, the Governor ordered an enrollment to be made, forthwith, of all persons within the state liable to military duty, and intrusted the work to the commanding officers of regiments and companies of the National Guard. The enrollment was made, but imperfectly.
June 1 8th, the Trustees of Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, having generously tendered a portion of their grounds for the interment of soldiers, in the volunteer service from this state, who may fall in battle or die of disease, regulations governing such interments, were published by the Adju- tant-General.
June 28th, at the suggestion of the Chief Magistrate of this state, the Governors of the loyal states united in, and forwarded, the following to the President : " The undersigned, Governors of States of the Union, impressed with the belief that the citizens of the states which they respectively represent, are of one accord in the hearty desire that the recent successes of the Federal armies may be followed up by measures which must ensure the speedy restora- tion of the Union, and believing in view of the important military movements now in progress, and the reduced condition of our effective forces in the field, resulting from the usual and unavoidable casualties of the service, that the time has arrived for prompt and vigorous measures to be adopted by the people, in support of the great interests committed to your charge, we respect- fully request, if it meets with your entire approval, that you at once call upon the several states for such numbers of men as may be required to fill up all mili-
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tary organizations now in the field, and add to the arms heretofore organized such additional numbers of men as may, in your judgment, be necessary to garrison and hold all of the numerous cities and military positions that have been captured by our armies, and to speedily crush the rebellion that still exists in several of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our great and good Government. All believe that the decisive moment is near at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to aid promptly in furnishing all reinforcements that you may deem needful to sustain our Government." To this the President replied, July ist: " Gentlemen — fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me in so patriotic a manner, by you, in the communication of the 28th day of June, I have decided to call into the service an additional force of three hundred thousand men. I suggest and recommend that the troops should be
chiefly of infantry. The quota of your State would be . I trust that they
may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. An order fixing the quota of the respective states will be Issued by the War Department to-morrow."
The Governor, on the next day, the 2d of July, called upon the people of this state, in the following proclamation, to respond to the President's reply : " The President of the United States has duly called upon the country for an additional force of three hundred thousand volunteers to serve for three years, or the war. The wisdom of this is obvious to all. Our army in the field has been reduced by the ordinary casualties of the service and must be recruited, and the positions captured by our arms must be held by military authority. The people appreciate these facts. They fully estimate the mag- nitude of the great struggle, and the sacred obligations imposed upon them, and the necessity of exerting a power that will speedily quell the rebellion, restore the rightful authority of the Government and give peace to the country. This appeal is to the State of New York ; it is to each citizen. Let it come to every fireside. Let the glorious example of the Revolutionary period be our emulation. Let each feel that the Commonwealth now counts upon his indi- vidual strength and influence to meet the demands of the Government. The period has come when all must aid. New York has not thus far stood back. Ready and more than willing, she has met every summons to duty. Let not her history be falsified, nor her position be lowered. We cannot doubt that the insurrection is in its death throes; that a mighty blow will end its mon- strous existence. A languishing war entails vast losses of life, of property, the ruin of business pursuits, and invites the interference of foreign powers. Present happiness and future greatness will be secured by responding to the present call. Let the answer go back to the President and to our brave
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soldiers in the field, that in New York the patriotic list of the country's defenders is augmented. It will strengthen the hands of the one, and give hope and encouragement to the other. An order fixing the quota of this state, with others, will be immediately issued from the War Department. The details of organization will be in accordance with the orders from the Adjutant-General of New York. The state will be districted, local committees will be appointed, and regimental camps established."
The quota of this state was fixed at fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and five men, and July 7th orders were issued constituting the senatorial districts, except the first seven, regimental districts, and directing the forma- tion of a regimental camp in each. Colonels were selected and appointed, to be commissioned when the regiments were recruited. Over three thousand authorizations to recruit companies were issued. The state became a vast military camp. Prominent citizens in each district were invited to form military committees, to assist the state officers in recruiting in their respective districts. The response of these gentlemen was what could be anticipated from men who, whatever may have been the difference in their political views, were earnestly desirous of supporting the Government, and ready to devote to that object their means and influence; and the rapidity with which the quota of the state was organized and placed in service, is due in a great measure to their unremitting, gratuitous and well-directed efforts.
As a further means of encouraging prompt enlistments, the Governor issued on the I7th of July the following proclamation offering a bounty on the part of the state : " Formal meetings of the people in different portions of the state, and individuals possessing the public confidence, have recommended me to convene the Legislature, to the end that a uniform bounty may be pro- vided, to pay volunteers raised under the recent requisition of the President, in such manner that the burden shall not fall unequally upon localities. A call of the Legislature and the deliberation incident to the action of that body, necessarily involve delay, at a period when immediate action is of vital con- sequence to the military service. The popular will seems emphatically to demand that an additional premium be at once offered to promote enlistments. The exigency clearly requires the promptest action. Now, therefore, con- fidently believing that the people, through their representatives, will ratify and confirm this act, and after consultation with those officers, charged especially by law with superintending the fiscal concerns of the state, I do hereby offer and declare, that in addition to the bounty offered by the General Government, a bounty of fifty dollars will at once be paid to each private soldier who shall hereafter volunteer into the service of the United States. Regulations to that end will be immediately prepared and issued. This provision applies
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as well to recruits for regiments in the field, as to volunteers for the regi- ments now being raised. Individual and organized efforts are in no degree to be intermitted in consequence of this offer. On the contrary, it is hoped and expected that both will be stimulated thereby. The thinned ranks of our brave soldiers in the field appeal to us. Duty to ourselves, patriotism, every thing we hold most dear, urge us to action. Shall we prove unequal to the crisis? Let the next thirty days answer the momentous question." This was an important measure and its effects were immediate. The Commercial Bank of Albany advanced the money to the state. On the 3Oth day of August this bounty was ordered to be paid after the 6th of September, only to men enlist- ing in organizations which were in the field before the 2d day of July last, and on the 24th day of September it was announced that bounty would not be paid by the state for enlistments made after the 3Oth day of that month.
On the 2d day of October it was officially proclaimed that the quota of the state was not only filled, but that there was also a surplus of twenty-nine thou- sand men to the credit of the state ; recruiting for three years' men on the part of the state, was suspended, and the depots opened for nine months' men.
The arming, clothing and equipping of this large force was a labor second only to that of recruiting and organizing it. The United States officers would turn over to the state authorities from time to time the supplies neces- sary to prepare the troops for service and the issues to the latter were made through the Quartermaster-General, and the Commissary-General of Ordnance of the state, to whom great credit is due for the efficiency of their respective departments.
The regiments of the National Guard, which went into service in May last, having returned to the state, the Governor issued September 6th, the following orders recognizing their services : " The Commander-in-Chief avails himself of the occasion of the return of the Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fifth, Thirty- seventh, Forty-seventh, Sixty-ninth and Seventy-first regiments of the National Guard to the State of New York, to thank them for the services they have rendered to the country, and for the honor they have reflected on the state. Summoned for the second time within thirteen months, by a sudden and urgent call, to the aid of the General Government, they consented cheerfully to the sacrifice of private interests, and abandoned, at almost a moment's notice, all private occupations to hasten to the defense of the National Capitol, then in danger. Habituated to the comforts and enjoyments of wealthy and peaceful communities, they have, during their prolonged absence from their homes, submitted without a murmur to the hardships, the privations and the labors incidental to the life of a soldier, and have discharged with fidelity and
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alacrity, every duty they were asked to perform, and have stood ready to encounter every danger they might be called upon to meet. Their conduct has entitled them to the thanks of the Government they were summoned to defend, and has won for them the gratitude and confidence of the people. It gives assurance that, notwithstanding the vast army of volunteers that the State of New York has sent to the defense of the Union, she has, in her National Guard, always at her command a military force ready, now as here- tofore, to respond to any call that may be made on it by the General Govern- ment, and able at the same time to preserve the peace, maintain the rights and defend the liberties of her own people, in whatever form or from what- ever quarter they may be assailed. The Commander-in-Chief will always esteem it among the most important of his duties to aid, by every means in his power, in promoting the interests and contributing to the efficiency of the citizen soldiery of the State."
September 24th, the Governors of the loyal states, with them the Chief Magistrate of this state, met at Altoona, Pa., and pledged the General Gov- ernment their cordial support in the prosecution of the war; they recom- mended the creation of a reserve army of one hundred thousand men; the emancipation of the colored people, and paid deserved tribute to the army in the field.
August 4th, the President, to increase the strength of the regiments in the field, issued his proclamation calling out three hundred thousand of the Militia of the loyal states for a service of nine months; Congress having previously passed an act lengthening the term of service for which the Militia could be called out, to that period, at the discretion of the President. On the 7th, the War Department issued orders directing that the quotas of this force should be furnished forthwith, and prescribing the manner in which the draft should be conducted in states, where laws providing for a draft did not exist, or where such laws were in any manner defective. The quota of this state was fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and five men. By the law of the state the strength of the organized Militia was limited to twenty thousand men, and of these over eight thousand were already in the field. It became necessary, therefore, to have recourse to a draft. The method provided by state law, for a draft of the reserve Militia, on careful examination was found to be inadequate, and on the I3th it was decided to adopt the plan prescribed by the War Department, and the work of enrollment commenced. On the I4th of October, the enrollment being nearly completed and the books filed, commis- sioners and surgeons were appointed for the different counties, to hear and determine claims for exemption. It now became necessary to determine the number of volunteers already furnished by counties and towns, and this duty
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was assigned to the existing committees, organized in each district, as already stated, to promote recruiting, and, in order not to defeat the object of the draft, it was decided not to allow credit for volunteers furnished previous to July 2d, last. The loth of November was finally selected for making the draft; but in consequence of the failure of a number of counties to furnish returns of the volunteers to be credited, the deficiency for which the draft was to be made could not be ascertained ; in the case of other counties where the deficiency was not large, the committees were desirous of a further exten- sion of time to enable them to fill their quotas and avoid a draft altogether. Under these circumstances the draft was suspended, and, December 3d, the commissioners directed to await further orders.
This delay in answering the requisition for nine months' Militia was not prejudicial to the interests of the country. It resulted in increasing the force of three years' volunteers, men of more value than nine months' men, much beyond what it would have been had the draft taken place in September as originally directed. At that time the quota of three years' men, under the call of July 2d, was not completed, and to have then resorted to a compulsory levy would at once have stopped enlistments for the longer period. In delay- ing the draft and promoting enlistments for three years, the state not only succeeded in completing the quota of July 2d, but also in satisfying the demand of August 4th, the surplus of three years' men each counting for four nine months' men in the settlement with the United States, and leaving still a surplus of men to the credit of the state. The Tenth regiment of the National Guard, Albany, volunteered for a service of nine months, and went into the United States' service as the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh regiment of Volunteers.
With this year closed the administration of Governor Morgan, the first of the war Governors of the State, and during his term the State furnished for the prosecution of the war :
In 1861. Militia, for three months, 2 troops of cavalry and u regiments of
infantry 8,534
Volunteers, for two years, 38 regiments of infantry 30,131
Volunteers for three years, 10 regiments and i
battalion of cavalry 8,742
2 regiments, 2 battalions, I rocket battalion, and
9 independent batteries of artillery 4,434
i regiment of engineers 855
50 regiments of infantry 43,582
Recruits for organizations in the field and 4 com- panies of U. S. Sharpshooters, estimated 11,000
68,613
98,744
Total for 1861 107,278
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In 1862. Militia, for three months, 12 regiments of infantry 8,588
Volunteers, for nine months, i regiment of infantry 830
Volunteers, for three years, i regiment of cavalry. 1,461 2 regiments, 4 battalions and 14 independent bat- teries of artillery 5»7o8
85 regiments of infantry 78,216
Recruits for regiments in the field, estimated 20,000
In the State, December 3ist, not fully organized,
about • 2,000
107,385
108,215
Total for 1862 116,803
Total for the two years 224,081
To obtain, however, the full number of men in the United States' service from
this State so far, it will be necessary to add :
Men in the Regular Army in service May i, 1861, and men who entered the same service since that day to the end of 1862, enlisted in this State, less 1,000 men transferred from the volunteers to the Regular Army 8,731
Men in the United States Navy and Marine, in service April 15, 1861, a*id men who entered the same service since that day to the end of 1862, en- listed in this State 22,526
30,257
These numbers are allotted here pro rata of time ; in another place will be found the evidence on which the claim is based; this would make, in fact, the total 255,338
A record of which the State and the outgoing Governor could well be proud, and which, more than any thing else, showed the loyalty and love of country of the citizens of New York.
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kN the ist day of January a new administration came in, and Horatio Seymour took the gubernatorial chair of the state, appointing, during his term of office, the following as members of his military staff: Adjutant-General, John T. Sprague, an officer of the Regular Army; Inspector-General, Josiah T. Miller of Seneca Falls ; Judge-Advocate-General, Nelson J. Waterbury of New York city ; Surgeon-General, John V. P. Quack- enbush, of Albany; Quartermaster-General, S. Visscher Talcott, of Albany; Commissary-General of Subsistence, Anthony Eichoff, of New York, re- signed August i, 1863, and succeeded by Charles G. Halpine, of New York city; Paymaster-General, John D. Van Buren, of New Windsor; Engineer-in- Chief, Isaac Vanderpoel, of Albany; Chief of Ordnance, the constitutional Commissary-General, Benjamin Welch, Jr., of Buffalo, who died April 14, 1863, and was succeeded by James A. Farrell, of Hudson; Aides-de-Camp, Bleecker Tibbits, of Albany, from October 21, 1863, and Major Frederic Shonnard, Sixth New York Volunteer Artillery, of Yonkers, from August 3, 1864; .Military Secretary, William Kidd, of Albany, from February 15, 1863. The change of administration indicated no change in the support by the State of the General Government in its defense of the Union. In his message to the Legislature Governor Seymour took occasion to say : " While our soldiers are periling their lives to uphold the Constitution and restore the Union, we owe it to them, who have shown an endurance and patriotism unsur- passed in the history of the world, that we emulate their devotion in our field of duty."
The Legislature assembled on the 6th day of January in its eighty-sixth session and was composed of,
IN THE SENATE:
President, DAVID R. FLOYD-JONES, of South O'yster Bay, the Lieutenant-Governor of the
State ;
Senator Monroe Henderson, of the ist dist. ; Jesse C. Smith, 2d
Henry C. Murphy, 3d
Christian B. Woodruff, 4th Charles G. Cornell, 5th
John J. Bradley, 6th
Senator Richard B. Connolly, of the 7th dist. Hezekiah D. Robertson, 8th Henry R. Low, Qth
Jacob S. Freer, loth
William H. Tobey, nth
Ralph Richards, I2th
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Senator John V. L. Pruyn, of the I3th dist. ;
Joseph H. Ramsey, i4th
William Clark, isth
Russell M. Little, i6th
Chas. C. Montgomery, I7th
James A. Bell, i8th
Alex. H. Bailey, igth
George A. Hardin, 20th
Richard K. Sanford, 21 st
Allen Munro, 22d
Senator Henry A. Clark, of the 23d dist.
Lyman Truman, 24th
Chauncey M. Abbott, 25th
Charles J. Folger, 26th
Charles Cook, 27th
Lysander Farrar, 28th Almanzor Hutchinson, 29th
Wilkes Angel, 30th
John Ganson, 3ist
.lorace C. Young, 32d
IN THE ASSEMBLY:
Speaker, THEOPHILUS C. CALLICOT, of Kings;
William J. Snyder, ist district of Albany; John Cutler, 2d district of Albany; Henry L. Wait, 3d district of Albany; William L. Oswald, 4th district of Albany; Alvah E. Cruttenden, ist dist. of Allegany; Edward D. Loveridge, 2d district Allegany ; Francis B. Smith, dist. and county Broome; Andrew L. Allen, ist district Cattaraugus ; Albert G. Dow, 2d district of Cattaraugus; George L. Post, ist district of Cayuga; William P. Robinson, 2d dist. of Cayuga; John Steward, ist district of Chautauqua; Henry C. Lake, 2d district of Chautauqua; Charles Hulett, dist. and county Chemung; Elizur H. Prindle, ist district Chenango; Francis B. Fisher, 2d district Chenango ; George Adgate, dist. and county Clinton; Peter G. Kisselbrack, ist dist. Columbia; Elias W. Bostwick, 2d dist. of Columbia; Henry B. Van Hoesen, dist. and county of
Cortland ;
Robert W. Courtney, ist dist. of Delaware; Francis R. Gilbert, 2d dist. of Delaware ; Luther S. Dutcher, ist dist. of Dutchess; Joseph C. Doughty, 2d dist. of Dutchess; John W. Murphy, ist district of Erie; Horatio Seymour, 2d district of Erie; Timothy A. Hopkins, 3d district of Erie ; Anson G. Conger, 4th district of Erie; Palmer E. Havens, dist. and county Essex; Albert Andrus, dist. and county Franklin ; William J. Heacock, district and counties of
Fulton and Hamilton;
Loren Green, dist. and county of Genesee; Luke Roe, district and county of Greene ; Griffin Sweet, ist district of Herkimer; Archibald C. McGowan, 2d dist. Herkimer; Charles A. Benjamin, ist district Jefferson; Levi Miller, 2d district of Jefferson; William Dewey, 3d district of Jefferson;
John Paulding, ist district of Kings; Bernard Hughes, 2d district of Kings ; Samuel E. Johnson, 3d district of Kings; James Darcy, 4th district of Kings ; Theophilus C. Callicot, sth dist. of Kings; Henry C. Boswell, 6th district of Kings; Charles P. Leslie, 7th district of Kings ; John Chickering, dist. and county Lewis; Hamilton E. Smith, ist dist. of Livingston; William H. Brand, ist district of Madison; George L. Rouse, 2d district of Madison ; Samuel Skinner, 2d district of Livingston; George E. McGonegal, ist dist. of Monroe; Eliphaz Trimmer, 2d district of Monroe ; William Brown, 3d district of Monroe ; Freeman P. Moulton, district and county of
Montgomery ;
Cornelius Flynn, ist district of New York; Daniel Leamy, 2d district of New York ; George L. Loutrel, 3d dist. of New York; William C. Cover, 4th dist. of New York; Henry Rogers, 5th district of New York; Julius Korn, 6th district of New York; Vincent C. King, 7th district of New York; Thomas H. Hill, Sth dist. of New York; David V. Freeman, gth dist. of New York; Daniel M. O'Brien, loth dist. of New York; Thomas A. Ledwith, nth dist. New York; Andrew Smith, I2th district of New York; Alexander Ward, i3th dist. of New York ; Robert C Hutchings, I4th dist. New York; Gilbert Dean, isth dist. of New York; Michael McCann, i6th dist. of New York; Thomas C. Fields, I7th dist. of New York; Benjamin H. Fletcher, ist dist. of Niagara; William Morgan, 2d district of Niagara; Abram B. Weaver, ist district of Oneida; Daniel M. Prescott, 2d district of Oneida; Asa S. Sherman, 3d district of Oneida; Isaac McDougall, 4th district of Oneida;
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James M. Munro, 1st district of Onondaga; Elizur Clark, 2d district of Onondaga; Joseph Breed, 3d district of Onondaga; Perez H. Field, ist district of Ontario; Lanson Dewey, 2d dist. of Ontario ; John D. Van Buren, ist dist. of Orange; Charles S. Woodward, 2d dist. of Orange ; John Parks, dist. and county of Orleans; Abner C. Mattoon, ist dist. of Oswego; Hiram W. Loomis, 2d dist. of Oswego ; Harvey Palmer, 3d dist. of Oswego; William Brooks, ist dist. of Otsego; Cornelius A. Church, 2d dist. of Otsego; Saxton Smith, dist. and county of Putnam ; Charles T. Duryea, ist dist. of Queens ; Henry S. Lott, 2d district of Queens; James McKeon, ist district of Rensselaer; John A. Quackenbush, 2d dist. Rensselaer ; Ebenezer S. Straight, 3d dist. Rensselaer; Theodore Frean, dist. and co. Richmond ; James S. Haring, dist. and co. Rockland; Elias P. Townsley, ist dist. St. Lawrence; James Redington, 2d dist. St. Lawrence; Abraham X. Parker, 3d dist. St. Lawrence; Ira Brockett, ist district of Saratoga; Nat. M. Houghton, 2d dist. of Saratoga;
John McShea, Jr., dist. and co. Schenectady; Stephen L. Mayham, dist. and co. Schoharie ; Samuel Lawrence, dist. and co. Schuyler ; James McLean, dist. and co. of Seneca ; John W. Taggart, ist district of Steuben; Henry Sherwood, 2d dist. of Steuben; Horace Bemis, 3d district of Steuben ; • Benjamin F. Wiggins, ist dist. of Suffolk; John S. Havens, 2d dist. of Suffolk; William Gillespie, dist. and co. Sullivan; Nathaniel W. Davis, dist. and co. Tioga; Ezra Cornell, dist. and co. Tompkins ; Jesse F. Bookstaver, ist dist. of Ulster; Jacob Le Fever, 2d dist. of Ulster ; Ebenezer Westbrook, 3d district of Ulster; Newton Aldrich, dist. and co. Warren; Asa C. Tefft, ist district of Washington; Ervin Hopkins, Jr., 2d district Washington ; Thaddeus W. Collins, ist dist. of Wayne; Lemuel Durfee, 2d district of Wayne; Pierre C. Talman, ist district Westchester ; John E. Marshall, 2d dist. of Westchester; Chauncey M. Depew, 3d dist. Westchester; Byron Healy, district and co. Wyoming; Guy Shaw, dist. and co. of Yates.
This Legislature, like its predecessors, promptly did all in its power to support the contest, and passed laws, legalizing and confirming ordinances and acts of cities, towns, counties and villages, and enabling the same in the future, to raise money to aid in recruiting, and to assist the families of volunteers in, or who might yet enter, the military service. February 2 ist, the action of Governor Morgan offering in July 1862, a bounty on the part of the state, was confirmed and an appropriation made for the payment of the debt con- tracted thereby. April I7th, a law was passed which provided a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars for each member of the two years' regiments, who, having served his term of enlistment, would re-enter the service for not less than two years, and a bounty of seventy-five dollars to all others, who had enlisted since November ist, 1862, or would hereafter enlist, for three years. April 24th, two very important acts became laws of the state ; the first incor- porated the " Soldiers' Home," and the second authorized the Governor to appoint agents to provide for the transportation and the care of the sick, wounded, and the dead, volunteers of the state, and appropriated two hundred thousand dollars for this purpose. Among the incorporators of the Soldiers' Home were Lieutenant-General Scott, Generals McClellan, Wool and Wads- worth, and the purpose was " to provide a home and maintenance for officers and soldiers who have served, are now serving, or may hereafter serve, in the
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volunteer forces raised or furnished by, or from, the State of New York, who by reason of wounds or other disabilities received, or produced, in the service of the United States, or of the State of New York, shall be unable to support themselves, and all who, having been honorably discharged, shall be decrepit or homeless in their old age." The management of the Home was in the hands of trustees, provided for in the act. This was the precursor of the Soldiers' Home, now in existence, and was to be modelled mainly after the Home of the Regular Army at Washington, D. C. The state agents provided by the second act, when the law came to be executed, furnished relief to the sick, wounded, furloughed and discharged soldiers of this state, while being transported to and from their homes; they ascertained the names and con- dition of all patients from this state in the army hospitals ; kept a register of the same and furnished information to all who made inquiry concerning them, and thousands of relatives and friends obtained through them accurate infor- mation of fathers, husbands, brothers and sons in the service ; they facilitated the removal of bodies of deceased soldiers to their friends, when such action was desired, and later on, they also assisted the discharged soldiers in obtain- ing arrearages of pay and bounty due them. Agencies were established at suitable points, but the main agency was located in New York city, where quarters were also rented and provided for the accommodation of volunteers of this and other states, passing through the city; over one hundred and ten thousand volunteers received relief and comfort at this main agency — known as the Soldiers' Depot — alone, and this depot was not closed until March 25, 1866; the sub-agency at Albany was continued as the Soldiers' Home until 1869, when on the I5th of June its inmates were transferred to the National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers then opened in the State of Maine and the agency was closed. April 27th, the Legislature appropriated one million dollars for the defense of the harbor of New York and the frontiers of the state.
March 3d, the President approved the act of Congress, providing a law, and prescribing a method, for drafting men for the military service, whenever needed, and authorizing him to call forth the National forces by draft. The law created a Provost-Marshal-General for the United States and a Provost- Marshal for each congressional district of the states; provided boards of enrollment for each district and other regulations for drafting men. May ist, all enlistments for volunteers were, by the General Government, placed also in charge of the Provost-Marshal-General, who divided this state into three districts, northern, southern, and western, and to assist him appointed for these districts Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal-Generals. The officers
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acting in these capacities were during the existence of the districts, in the northern: Brevet Brigadier-General Frederick Townsend, United States Army; in the southern: Colonel Robert Nugent, Sixty-ninth New York Vol- unteers, until October 27th, 1863; Brigadier-General William Hays, United States Volunteers, until January 3ist, 1865; Brigadier-General E. W. Hinks, United States Volunteers, until February 2/th, 1865 ; and Major R. I. Dodge, Twelfth United States Infantry, to the close of the office; in the western: Major A. S. Diven, Assistant Adjutant-General United States Volunteers, until December 9, 1864, Major John A. Haddock, of the Veteran Reserve Corps, until April 10, 1865, and Major Samuel B. Hayman, Tenth United States Infantry, to the close of the office.
Between April 25th and July 4th, thirty-three of the two years' regiments, still in the service, returned to the state to be mustered out. Of the Fifteenth regiment of Engineers (Fifteenth Infantry originally), Third Artillery (Nine- teenth Infantry originally), the Third, Tenth, and Twelfth regiments of infantry, which continued in the service, only the men entitled to be dis- charged, returned to the state. The Second Independent Battery, formed principally of two years' men, was also mustered out These organizations, which had left the state with over thirty thousand men, brought back less than half that number ; their losses by death alone had been about four thou- sand officers and enlisted men. They had served in many health-destroying campaigns and hard-fought battles; and, faithful servants of the country, they were now received by the people with proud approbation, heartfelt joy and congratulation. Happiness returned with them to many hearts, and the sorrow for those, who would never return, was gently tempered for many more.
June 1 5th the Secretary of War telegraphed to the Governor to furnish as large a force of the Militia as possible, say twenty thousand men, for a short term of service. The movements of the enemy had then sufficiently developed to indicate that an invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania was contemplated. The Governor replied " I will spare no efforts to send you troops at once," and issued marching orders to the National Guard of the State. On the 1 8th, the Adjutant-General of the state informed the Secretary of War that about twelve thousand men were then on their way to Harrisburg. On the 2 ist Secretary Stanton telegraphed for Militia to be forwarded to Balti- more. Troops continued to be sent with the utmost dispatch. July 2d, the Governor of Pennsylvania asked for more troops and three more regiments were placed en route for that state. The regiments which took the field in this emergency were the Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, Twenty-third, Seventy- first, Fifth, Twelfth, Twenty-second, Thirty-seventh, Sixty-fifth, Seventy-
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fourth, Fourth, Thirteenth, Twenty-eighth, Fifty-sixth, Sixth, Twenty-first, Forty-seventh, Fifty-second, Fifty-fifth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty- ninth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Eighty-fourth. They were mustered in the service of the United States for thirty days. Besides these, the detach- ments of volunteers scattered throughout the state, were organized, equipped and forwarded to Harrisburg. The National Guard received the thanks of the President and War Department for their prompt response and service on this occasion.
The General Government, to replenish the army in the field, had decided in June, without the issue of a formal call for troops, to draft the necessary number, and on the nth of July the state authorities received information that the draft was on that day to commence in New York city. There were then about six hundred men of the National Guard in the city ; the state was virtually stripped of troops; disturbances were apprehended, and the Adjutant- General was sent to Washington to request a postponement of the draft, until a sufficient military force would be on hand. July I3th, there commenced in New York city a riot, unparalleled for atrocity and fiendishness. It is claimed that originally a number of honest working men assembled to protest against the draft; if so, this element rapidly disappeared, and the dregs of the city took advantage of the excitement. It is inconceivable that any decent and intelligent being can have taken part in the riot. All available state troops were ordered to New York city, and as the Hudson River Railroad was torn up, they were directed to take steamers at Albany. The troops in the Harbor, Regulars and Volunteers, Navy and Marine, one company from West Point; and one from New Jersey, arrived on the I3th; and the Seventh regiment of the National Guard on the i6th. These troops and the magnificent police of the city checked the mob and broke the wild phantasy of the miserable creatures; and on the I7th law and order reigned once more supreme in New York city. In other localities disturbances were feared, but did not take place ; in one or two places, however, riots were prevented by the presence of troops only. The draft was for the time suspended, but took place in August without any further disturbance.
October I7th, the President called on the country for three hundred thousand men, and the quota of this State was placed at eighty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three men. It is proper to recall here the fact that since May ist, the state did not have authority to recruit men for the army at large. All this was performed by the Provost-Marshals under the orders of the Provost-Marshal-General, and the whole machinery and management for procuring men was in the hands of the General Government; only the
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recruiting of new companies and regiments, sanctioned by the War Depart- ment, was left to the state authorities.
November I4th, Major-General Dix, commanding the Military Depart- ment of the East, of which this state then formed part, represented to the Governor that a necessity existed for the employment of a military force to protect a portion of the frontier of this state from threatened invasion by traitors sojourning in Canada, and asked that a regiment of the National Guard be ordered to report to him for such service. The Governor at once placed the Seventy- fourth regiment of Buffalo under his orders and the regiment entered the United States service for thirty days.
The organizations in the state on the ist of January and not fully organized numbered about two thousand men; recruiting was almost at a standstill ; February 23d, Colonel H. S. Lansing, Seventeenth New York Volunteers, was placed in charge of all the troops in process of organization in New York Harbor and city; the incomplete organizations were consoli- dated and the regiments formed turned over to the United States.
About the time the two years' regiments were to return to the state, authority was received from the War Department, to re-organize the same or to form new ones of the returned volunteers. Probably three-fourths of these men re-entered the service and their example bore fruit. Every effort was made, besides the authorized regiments to organize also full companies for such of the regiments in the field as had vacancies for them. Still more to encourage enlistments it was later decided, that the state bounty, authorized by the Legislature in April, should be paid to all men enlisting in the army for three years, who should be credited to the state by the orders of the War Department.
During the year there were organized and turned over to the United States on the part of the state authorities, of cavalry : the Twelfth ; Fourteenth ; Sixteenth ; Twentieth ; First and Second Veteran regiments ; nine companies, each, of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth ; ten companies, each, of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first ; six companies of the Twenty-fourth ; two companies of the Twenty-third, regiments, and three companies of the Second Mounted Rifles ; of artillery : four companies of the Eleventh ; five companies, each, of the Thir- teenth and Sixteenth; ten companies of the Fourteenth; eleven companies of the Fifteenth; one company of the Third, regiments, and the Thirty-third Independent Battery; of sharpshooters: the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth companies ; of engineers : one company for the Fifteenth regiment ; and of infantry : the Seventeenth Veteran, the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth, the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth regiments; four companies of the Fifth
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Veteran, three companies for the Sixty-third regiments, and two companies for the Independent Battalion.
The One Hundred and Sixty-eighth and One Hundred and Seventy- seventh regiments of infantry, and the Ninth company of sharpshooters, nine months' organizations, were mustered out October 3ist, September loth, and August 5th, 1863, respectively.
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ITH the new year a new Legislature (the eighty-seventh) met, com- posed as follows:
SENATE :
President, DAVID R. FLOYD-JONES, of South Oyster Bay, the Lieutenant-Governor;
Senator Robert Christie, Jr., of the ist dist.
Demas Strong, 2d
Henry C. Murphy, 3d
Christian B. Woodruff, 4th
Luke F. Cozans, 5th
William Laimbeer, Jr., 6th
Thomas C. Fields, 7th
Saxton Smith, 8th
Archibald C. Niven, pth
George Beach, loth
John B. Butcher, nth
Frederick H. Hastings, I2th
Ira Shafer, I3th
Orson M. Allaben, I4th
James M. Cook, i5th
Palmer E. Havens, i6th
Senator Albert Hobbs, of the I7th dist.
James A. Bell, i8th
Alexander H. Bailey, igth
George H. Andrews, 2Oth
Cheney Ames, 2ist
Andrew D. White, 22d
Frederick Juliand, 23d
Ezra Cornell, 24th
Stephen K. Williams, 25th
Charles J. Folger, 26th
. Stephen T. Hayt, 27th
George G. Munger, 28th
Daniel H. Cole, 2Qth
Wilkes Angel 3Oth
James M. Humphrey, 3ist
Norman M. Allen, 32d
ASSEMBLY : Speaker, THOMAS G. ALVORD, of Onondaga;
Harris Parr, ist district of Albany; Morgan L. Filkins, 2d district of Albany; Thomas McCarty, 3d district of Albany; William L. Oswald, 4th district of Albany; Charles M. Crandall, ist dist. of Allegany; Morris S. Chase, 2d district of Allegany; Mulford Northrup, dist. and co. Broome; Smith Parish, 1st district of Cattaraugus; Albert G. Dow, 2d dist. of Cattaraugus; Benjamin M. Close, ist dist. of Cayuga; William P. Robinson, 2d dist. of Cayuga; John Steward, 1st dist. of Chautauqua; Julien T. Williams, 2d dist. Chautauqua ; William T. Post, dist. and co. Chemung; George W. Sumner, ist dist. of Chenango; Dyer D. Bullock, 2d district of Chenango; George Hallock, dist. and county Clinton ; Amos Miller, ist dist. of Columbia;
Wright H. Barnes, 2d dist. of Columbia; Benj. F. Tillinghast, dist. and co. Cortland; Jerome B. Landfield, ist dist. Delaware; Francis R. Gilbert, 2d dist. of Delaware; James Howard, ist dist. of Dutchess; John N. Cramer, 2d dist. of Dutchess ; Walter W. Stanard, ist district of Erie; Frederick P. Stevens, 2d district of Erie ; Timothy A. Hopkins, 3d district of Erie; Seth Fenner, 4th district of Erie; Wm. H. Richardson, dist and co. Essex; Albert Andrus, dist. and county Franklin ; William A. Smith, district and counties of
Fulton and Hamilton;
Loren Green, dist. and county of Genesee; Wm. W. Pettit, dist. and county Greene ; John H. Wooster, ist district of Herkimer; Ezra D. Beckwith, 2d district of Herkimer;
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George M. Hopkinson, ist district Jefferson; Lewis Palmer, 2d district of Jefferson ; William Dewey, 3d district of Jefferson ; Philip S. Crook, ist district of Kings; John O'Connor, 2d district of Kings ; Edward D. White, 3d district of Kings; Andrew Walsh, 4th district of Kings; John C. Perry, 5th district of Kings ; Angelo Newton, 6th district of Kings ; Jacob Worth, 7th district of Kings; John O'Donnell dist. and co. of Lewis ; Hamilton E. Smith, ist dist. of Livingston; Jonathan B. Morey, 2d dist. of Livingston; John W. Lippitt, ist district of Madison; Daniel F. Kellogg, 2d district of Madison ; Fairchild Andrus, ist district of Monroe; John M. Convill, 2d district of Monroe; William Rankin, 3d district of Monroe; John Kellogg, dist. and co. Montgomery; Jacob L. Smith, ist district of New York; William P. Kirk, 2d district of New York; George M. Curtis, 3d district of New York; James B. Murray, 4th district of New York ; Henry Rogers, 5th district of New York; Walter J. Burke, 6th district of New York ; Erastus C. Benedict, 7th dist. New York; Wm. G. Olvany, 8th dist. of New York; Samuel C. Reed, gth district of New York; Anthony Eichoff, loth dist. of New York ; Corolan O'Brien Bryant, nth dist. New
York;
Joseph A. Lyons, I2th dist. of New York; Thomas Ryan, i3th district of New York; Michael N. Salmon, i4th dist. New York; Stephen B. Pinckney, i5th dist. New York; Michael McCann, i6th dist. of New York; Sidney P. Ingraham, Jr., I7th dist. New
York;
James Jackson, Jr., ist dist. of Niagara; William Morgan, 2d district of Niagara; Abram B. W eaver, ist district of Oneida ; Levi Blakeslee, 2d district of Oneida; Chauncey Brodock, 3d dist. of Oneida; John W. Douglas, 4th dist. of Oneida; Albert L. Green, ist dist. of Onondaga; Thomas G. Alvord, 2d dist. of Onondaga ; Conrad Shoemaker, 3d dist. of Onondaga; Perez H. Field, ist district of Ontario;
Lanson Dewey, 2d dist. of Ontario; Nathaniel W. Howell, ist district Orange; Charles S. Woodward, 2d dist. of Orange ; Edmund L. Pitts, dist. and county Orleans ; Abner C. Mattoon, ist district of Oswego; Hiram W. Loomis, 2d district of Oswego ; Harvey Palmer, 3d district of Oswego; James Young, ist district of Otsego; George M. Hollis, 2d district of Otsego; Jeremiah Sherwood, dist. and co. Putnam ; Charles T. Duryea, ist district of Queens; Charles McNeill, 2d district of Queens; James McKeon, ist dist. of Rensselaer; George W. Banker, 2d dist. of Rensselaer; James Dearstyne, 3d district of Rensselaer; William H. Rutan, dist. and co. Richmond ; James S. Haring, dist. and co. Rockland; George Parker, ist district of St. Lawrence; James Redington, 2d district St. Lawrence ; Abraham X. Parker, 3d dist. St. Lawrence ; Ira Brockett, ist district of Saratoga; Edward Edwards, 2d district of Saratoga ; Charles Stanford, dist. and co. Schenectady; Peter P. Schoolcraft, dist. and county of
Schoharie ;
Lorenzo Webber, dist. and co. Schuyler; William T. Johnson, dist. and co. Seneca ; William E. Bonham, ist dist. of Steuben; Alexander Olcott, 2d dist. of Steuben; J. Harvey Stevens, 3d district of Steuben ; William H. Gleason, ist district of Suffolk; Henry C. Platt, 2d district of Suffolk; J'ames Matthews, dist. and county Sullivan ; James Thompson, dist. and county Tioga; Henry B. Lord, dist. and county Tompkins ; Jesse F. Bookstaver, ist district of Ulster; Jacob Le Fever, 2d district of Ulster; Thomas Hill, 3d district of Ulster; Robert Waddell, dist. and county Warren; R. King Crocker, ist district Washington; Andrew G. Meiklejohn, 2d dist. Washington ; Thaddeus W. Collins, ist dist. of Wayne; Lemuel Durfee, 2d district of Wayne; Franklin W. Gilley, ist district Westchester; Alsop H. Lockwood, 2d dist. Westchester; George A. Brandreth, 3d dist. Westchester; Byron Healy, dist. and county Wyoming; Oren G. Loomis, dist. and county of Yates.
This Legislature passed laws to promote the re-enlistment of volunteers, and to encourage the enlistment of persons into organizations already in the service; it authorized the boards of supervisors of counties to borrow money and to levy taxes for the payment of bounties to volunteers, or for the expenses
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of their enlistment, for aid to their families, to pay any liabilities incurred therefor, or that may hereafter be incurred; it legalized the ordinances of municipalities and other corporations, already passed, for the same purposes; it appropriated means to provide grounds for the final resting place of the remains, and for monuments to perpetuate the memory of the soldiers of this state, who fell in the defense of the Union on the battle-fields of Gettysburg and Antietam; it perfected an amendment to the Constitution of the State, providing for the vote of electors while in the military service of the United States, and passed a law for the protection of the civil rights of the citizens of the state, while serving in the army or navy of the country.
Special permission was received from the War Department to recruit two regiments and one hundred companies for one, two, or three years' service. In organizing and completing these, difficulties were encountered; the ma- chinery of the provost marshal's office gave greater facilities to citizens, who were acting as recruiting officers, than the state could offer, and the payment of bounty on the part of the state ceased under the operations of the law on the 3 ist of March.
On the 2ist of April the Secretary of War requested the Governor to furnish one or two regiments of Militia to guard deserters, stragglers, etc., being forwarded to the army. On the 23d of the same month, Major-General Dix, by the authority of the President, called on the Governor for one or two more regiments to occupy the defenses of New York harbor. July 5th, the Secretary of War, a rebel force having invaded Maryland, requested the Governor to furnish a military force to serve not more than one hundred days, to which the Governor replied : " I will do what I can." The necessary steps to comply with these requests were promptly taken, and the following regi- ments entered the United States service for one hundred days: the Sixty- ninth, Eighty-fourth, Ninety-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth, Seventy-seventh, One Hundred and Second, Twenty-eighth, Ninety-eighth, Ninety-ninth, Fifty- eighth; First Battalion of artillery and companies A and B of the Fiftieth regiment; for thirty days the Thirty-seventh and Fifteenth.
In August, September and October there were again appearances of possible disturbances on the northern frontiers of the state, and all the neces- sary steps were taken by the state Government to defend them; the Militia along the frontier was ordered to be in readiness for instant service and por- tions of the Sixty-fifth and Seventy-fourth regiments of the National Guard were in October and November placed on active duty, until later in November the General Government took charge of the protection of the frontier.
The term of service of a large number of the volunteer organizations expired in the course of this year and they returned to the state for final
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discharge. Many regiments had re-enlisted in the field in the latter part of 1863 and early part of this year, they also returned to the state on veteran furlough, invariably taking the field with increased numbers. All these organizations met in the state with brilliant and joyful receptions and ovations, showing fully the high appreciation of their services by the people, and the respect entertained by all for the country's brave defenders.
In the course of the year there were recruited, organized and forwarded by the state authorities, of cavalry : six companies for the Second ; three com- panies, each, for the Thirteenth and Fifteenth; two companies, each, for the Eighteenth and Twenty-first ; nine companies for the Second Mounted Rifles ; six companies for the Twenty-fourth; the Twenty-second and Twenty-fifth regiments, complete ; of artillery : one company, each, for the Third and Sixth ; seven companies, each, for the Thirteenth and Sixteenth, and two companies for the Fourteenth regiments ; of engineers : one company for the Fifteenth, and two companies for the Fiftieth regiments; of infantry: one company,, each, for the Fifty-seventh, Sixty-third, Eightieth, One Hundred and Twenty- fourth, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh, One Hundred and Forty-second and One Hundred and Fifty-ninth ; three companies, each, for the Sixty-ninth and Ninetieth ; six companies for the One Hundred and Eighty-seventh ; nine companies for the One Hundred and Eighty-eighth, and the Seventh Veteran ; the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth and One Hundred and Eighty-ninth regiments, complete.
The accounts between the State and the United States as to the number of men furnished by the former since 1861 were not brought into harmony until after July this year; the differences existing caused a great deal of annoyance at times, but were finally settled to the satisfaction of all.
With this year closed the administration of the second war Governor of the State, Horatio Seymour; and during it the state furnished men for the defense of the country:
In 1863. Militia for thirty days' service 14475
Volunteers, through the authorities of the State. 14,805 Recruits sent to regiments in the field, through
the U. S. Superintendent of Recruiting 1,653
Enlisted by Provost-Marshals 1 1,060
Re-enlisted in the field, estimated 10,000
Drafted men and substitutes, drafts of July and
August 9,176
46,604
Total for the year 61,169
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In 1864. Militia for one hundred days' service, 5,640; for thirty
days' service, 791 ; total 6,431
Volunteers, through the State authorities 17,261
Re-enlisted in the field 10,518
Drafted men, substitutes, and enlistments and
credits by Provost-Marshals 128,657
— 156,436
Total for 1864 162,867
Total for the two years 224,036
To obtain the correct number of men, there are to be deducted from this sum, the men credited to the State in February, 1864, for service in the navy, but properly apportioned to the years 1861 and 1862, as enlisted during those years 16,722
Leaving a balance of 207,314
And there should be added enlistments in the Regular Army to including November
1863, but not credited, as shown later on, pro rata of time 3.940
Enlistments in New York in the U. S. Navy during the war, but not credited, less
1,000 transferred from the volunteers, pro rata of time 2,409
Making the total number of men furnished in 1863 and 1864 213,663
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/% MOTHER change in the administration of the state took place with TA this year, and Reuben E. Fenton was inaugurated, January ist, as ^ V the Chief Magistrate of the Empire State. In his message to the Legislature the Governor stated that on the ist of December last, the state was credited by the War Department with an excess of men fur- nished of five thousand three hundred and one, and recommended that the laws relating to bounties paid by localities should be amended so as to fix the maximum amount which each locality could raise by legal taxation, and to enable them to raise and pay these bounties with a view to future contin- gencies, so that men could be obtained in advance of future calls, and he con- cluded his message as follows : " The Constitution of the Union makes it the duty of the National Government to maintain for the people of all the States republican governments. It is no less the duty of each state to throw its whole weight and influence firmly on the side of this great fundamental requirement. This Government our fathers intended to establish and trans- mit as a legacy to posterity. Irrespective of the divisions into states, we are called upon to maintain and perpetuate the trust. Eighty years of enter- prise, prosperity and progress have not lessened our obligations, nor checked our devotion to the great cause of civil liberty. It is not a mistake to assume that, whatever exigency may follow, whether domestic or foreign, the great body of the people will go forward to meet and overcome it with the same firm and irresistible energy which characterized our ancestors, and has marked the subsequent course of our civilization. In this patriotic deter- mination of the people for unity, liberty and the Constitution, I shall, at all times, earnestly join."
As his military staff the Governor appointed : Adjutant-General, William Irvine, of Corning; Inspector-General, George S. Batcheller, of Saratoga Springs; Judge-Advocate-General, Alexander W. Harvey, of Buffalo; Quar- termaster-General, Edwin A. Merritt, of Pierpont ; Surgeon-General, Sylvester D. Willard, of Albany, died April 2d, 1865, succeeded by James E. Pomfret, of Albany; Paymaster-General, Selden E. Marvin, of Jamestown; Engineer- in-Chief, James B. Swain, of New York city ; Chief of Ordnance, the consti- tutional Commissary-General, James A. Farrell, of Hudson, until April 25, 1865, when succeeded by Frank Chamberlain, of Albany; Aides-de-Camp,
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Michael J. Farrell, George B. Lincoln, Jr., George W. Palmer, and Military Secretary, George S. Hastings (only those are named who were in office until June 30th, 1865).
The eighty-eighth session of the Legislature of the State commenced January 3d ; its members were in the
SENATE :
President, THOMAS G. ALVORD, of Salina, Lieutenant-Governor of the State;
Senator Robert Christie, Jr., of Demas Strong, Henry C. Murphy, Christian B. Woodruff, Luke F. Cozans, William Laimbeer, Jr., Thomas C. Fields, Saxton Smith, Henry R. Low, George Beach, John B. Butcher, Frederick H. Hastings, Ira Shafer, Orson M. Allaben, James M. Cook, Palmer E. Havens,
the ist dist. 2d
Senator Albert Hobbs, of the James A. Bell, Alexander H. Bailey, George H. Andrews, Cheney Ames, Andrew D. White, Frederick Juliand, Ezra Cornell, Stephen K. Williams, Charles J. Folger, Stephen T. Hayt, George G. Munger, Daniel H. Cole, Wilkes Angel, James M. Humphrey, Norman M. Allen,
I7thdist.;
i8th
ipth
20th 2ISt 22d
23d 24th 25th
26th
27th 28th 29th 30th
32d
ASSEMBLY :
Speaker, GEORGE G. HOSKINS, of Wyoming;
Harmon H. Vanderzee, ist dist. of Albany; Oliver M. Hungerford, 2d dist. of Albany; Alexander Robertson, 3d dist. of Albany; Michael A. Nolan, 4th district of Albany; Charles M. Crandall, ist dist. of Allegany; Albon A. Lewis, 2d dist. of Allegany; Edward C. Merserau, dist and co. Broome; William P. Angel, ist dist. of Cattaraugus ; E. Curtiss Topliff, 2d dist. of Cattaraugus ; Benjamin M. Close, ist district of Cayuga; John L. Parker, 2d district of Cayuga; Sextus H. Hungerford, ist dist. Chautauqua; Martin Crowell, 2d district of Chautauqua ; William T. Post, dist and co. Chemung; George W. Sumner, ist dist. of Chenango; Samuel S. Stafford, 2d dist. of Chenango; Smith M. Weed, dist. and county Clinton ; Walter Shutts, ist dist. of Columbia; Samuel W. Carpenter, 2d dist. Columbia; Dann C. Squires, dist. and county Cortland ; Ira E. Sherman, ist district of Delaware; James Oliver, 2d district of Delaware; James Howard, ist district of Dutchess ;
Mark D. Wilber, 2d district of Dutchess; Walter W. Stanard, ist district of Erie; Harman S. Cutting, 2d district of Erie; John G. Langner, 3d district of Erie; Edwin W. Godfrey, 4th district of Erie; Wm. H. Richardson, dist. and co. Essex ; James W. Kimball, dist. and co. Franklin; Walter N. Clark, dist. and counties of Ful- ton and Hamilton;
John W. Brown, dist. and co. Genesee; Prentiss W. Hallenbeck, dist. and co. Greene ; Henry Tillinghast, ist dist. of Herkimer; E. Bradley Lee, 2d district of Herkimer ; James K. Kellogg, ist dist. of Jefferson; Lewis Palmer, 2d district of Jefferson ; Russel B. Biddlecom, 3d dist. Jefferson; Jarvis Whitman, ist dist. of Kings; William D. Veeder, 2d district of Kings ; Stephen Haynes, 3d district of Kings; Patrick Burns, 4th district of Kings; John C. Perry, 5th district of Kings; Henry C. Boswell, 6th dist. of Kings ; Jacob Worth, 7th district of Kings ;
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Nathan Clark, dist. and county of Lewis; Hugh D. McColl, ist district of Livingston; Jonathan B. Morey, 2d dist. of Livingston; Alfred A. Brown, ist district of Madison; Alvin Strong, 2d district of Madison; Fairchild Andrus, ist district of Monroe; John M. Convill, 2d district of Monroe; William Rankin, 3d district of Monroe; Simeon Sammons, dist. and co. Montgomery ; Jacob L. Smith, ist district of New York; Bryan Gaughan, 2d district of New York; George L. Loutrel, 3d dist. of New York; James B. Murray, 4th dist. of New York; Charles Elauvelt, 5th dist. of New York; Edward S. Maloy, 6th dist. of New York; Thomas F. Stewart, 7th dist. of New York; Jacob Seebacher, 8th dist. of New York; Samuel C Reed, gth dist. of New York; Thomas J. Creamer, loth dist. of New York ; John McDonald, nth dist. of New York; Joseph A. Lyons, I2th dist. of New York; Alexander Ward, i3th dist. of New York; Michael N. Salmon, i4th dist. of New York; Thomas B. Van Buren, I5th dist. New York; John Keegan, i6th district of New York; Sidney P. Ingraham, Jr., I7th district of
New York;
Albert H. Pickard, ist district of Niagara; Guy C. Humphrey, 2d district of Niagara; Abram B. Weaver, ist dist. of Oneida; Lorenzo Rouse, 2d district of Oneida; Thomas D. Penfield, 3d dist. of Oneida; George W. Cole, 4th district of Oneida; Albert L. Green, ist district of Onondaga; Daniel P. Wood, 2d district of Onondaga; Harvey P. Tolman, 3d dist. of Onondaga; Volney Edgerton, ist district of Ontario; Edward Brunson, 2d district of Ontario; Ananias B. Hulse, ist district of Orange; Theodore H. Cooper, 2d district of Orange; Edmund L. Pitts, dist. and co. Orleans; Elias Root, ist district of Oswego;
Richard K. Sanford, 2d dist. of Oswego; Avery W. Severance, 3d dist. of Oswego; Luther I. Burditt, ist district of Otsego; George M. Hollis, 2d district of Otsego ; Jeremiah Sherwood, dist. and co. Putnam ; William Turner, ist district of Queens; Charles McNeill, 2d district of Queens; George C. Burdett, ist dist. of Rennselaer; Robert M. Hasbrouck, 2d district Rensselaer ; Matthew V. A. Fonda, 3d dist. Rensselaer; James Ridgway, dist and co. Richmond; Prince W. Nickerson, dist. and co. Rockland ; George Parker, ist dist. of St. Lawrence; James Redington, 2d dist. of St. Lawrence ; Daniel Shaw, 3d dist. of St. Lawrence; George W. Chapman, ist dist. of Saratoga; Edward Edwards, 2d district of Saratoga; Charles Stanford, dist. and co. Schenectady; Edward Eldridge, dist. and co. Schoharie; Lorenzo Webber, dist. and co. Schuyler; George B. Daniels, dist. and co. Seneca; William E. Bonham, ist dist. of Steuben; Alexander Olcott, 2d district of Steuben; Horace Bemis, 3d district of Steuben; William H. Gleason, ist district of Suffolk; Henry C. Platt, 2d district of Suffolk; James Matthews, dist. and county Sullivan; Wm. W. Shepard, dist and county Tioga; Henry B. Lord, dist. and co. Tompkins ; Jesse F. Bookstaver, ist district of Ulster; Jacob Le Fever, 2d district of Ulster; Andrew S. Weller, 3d district of Ulster; Jerome Lapham, dist. and county Warren; Alexander Barclay, ist district Washington; Sylvester E. Spoor, 2d dist. Washington; Thaddeus W. Collins, ist dist. of Wayne; William H. Rogers, 2d district of Wayne; Pierre C. Talman, ist dist. of Westchester; Alsop H. Lockwood, 2d district Westchester ; George A. Brandreth, 3d dist. Westchester ; George G. Hoskins, dist and co. Wyoming ; Eben S. Smith, dist. and county of Yates.
Such duties as fell to the Legislature to promote the prosecution of the war, were promptly carried out by it. February loth, an act was passed establishing a uniform system of bounties throughout the state, and assuming their payment by the state. This act contemplated and allowed the payment of a bounty of two hundred and fifty dollars to every drafted man ; of three hundred dollars to every volunteer enlisted for one year's service; of four hundred dollars to every volunteer enlisted for two years; of six hundred dollars to every volunteer enlisted for three years; and according to length
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of service, the same amount to each person furnishing a substitute. The law was not perfect however, and was amended from time to time until April 7th, when it was placed in condition permitting operations under it. The intention originally, was to have the bounty paid by state officials to the persons, entitled, themselves; but owing to the delay in perfecting the law, localities were authorized to continue the system under which they had acted heretofore, and were finally reimbursed by the state in accordance with this act and chapter 325, passed later in the session.
February 24th, the Legislature passed a concurrent resolution giving the thanks of the people of this state to the men who volunteered to defend the integrity of the Union and the flag which represents its sovereignty, on the bloody fields where rebellion has raised armed opposition to the National Government.
On the 25th of March the Legislature, representing the people, in concurrent resolutions, gave thanks to Brigadier-General N. Martin Curtis, the Third, One Hundred and Twelfth, One Hundred and Seventeenth, One Hundred and Forty-second, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, One Hundred and Fifteenth, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth regiments of Infantry and the Sixteenth regiment of Artillery, New York Volunteers, commanded respec- tively by Captain James Reeves, Colonel John F. Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis R. Meyer, Colonel Albert W. Barney, Colonel Christopher MacDonald, Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Coan, Lieutenant-Colonel Nathan Johnson, Colonel Alonzo Alden and Major F. W. Prince for the gallant achievements at Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
December 19, 1864, the President called for three hundred thousand men, and January 17, 1865, notice was received that the quota of the state was sixty-one thousand and seventy-six men. To avoid a general draft in the state, authority was asked and obtained from the War Department, to organize new regiments and independent companies. When on the I4th of April the Secretary of War ordered the discontinuance of recruiting and of the draft, the State Military Department had turned over to the General Govern- ment : five companies for the Twenty-sixth regiment of Cavalry ; one com- pany, each, for the Seventy-fifth, and the One Hundred and Ninetieth; two companies for the One Hundred and Ninety-first; the One Hundred and Ninety-second, One Hundred and Ninety-third, and One Hundred and Ninety- fourth regiments, complete; and the Thirty-fifth and a number of other, incomplete, independent companies, of infantry; and the state had received credit on this last call and quota, as having furnished, 34,196 enlistments, to which should be added enlistments in the Navy made in the state during the war but not credited, pro rata of time, 568 ; total 34,764.
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June 7th, the Governor issued the following congratulatory address to the soldiers from this state : " Soldiers of New York : your constancy, your patriotism, your faithful services and your valor have culminated in the main- tenance of the Government, the vindication of the Constitution and the laws and the perpetuity of the Union. You have elevated the dignity, brightened the renown, and enriched the history of your State. You have furnished to the world a grand illustration of our American manhood, of our devotion to liberty, and of the permanence and nobility of our institutions. Soldiers! your State thanks you, and gives you the pledge of her lasting gratitude. She looks with pride upon your glorious achievements and consecrates to all time your unfaltering heroism. To you New York willingly intrusted her honor, her fair name and her great destinies; you have proved worthy of the confidence reposed in you, and have returned these trusts with added lustre and increased value. The coming home of all our organizations, it is hoped, is not far distant. We welcome you and rejoice with you upon the peace your valor has achieved. Your honorable scars we regard as the truest badges of your bravery and the highest evidences of the pride and patriotism which animated you. Sadly and yet proudly we receive as the emblems of heroic endurances your tattered and worn ensigns, and fondly deposit these relics of glory, with all their cherished memories and endearing associations, in our appointed repositories. With swelling hearts we bade God speed to the departing recruit; with glowing pride and deepened fervor we say welcome! to the returning veteran. We watched you all through the perilous period of your absence, rejoicing in your victories and mourning in your defeats. We will treasure your legends, your brave exploits, and the glorified memory of your dead comrades, in records more impressive than the monuments of the past, and enduring as the liberties you have secured. The people will regard with jealous pride, your welfare and honor, not forgetting the widow, the fatherless, and those who were dependent upon the fallen hero. The fame and glory you have won for the State and the Nation, shall be trans- mitted to our children as a most precious legacy, lovingly to be cherished and reverently to be preserved."
The end has come, and at last the greatest of rebellions was suppressed; the army was gradually disbanded, and the sons of New York returned to their state, victors in a just and glorious cause. It is not necessary to describe their reception at their homes. The joy of the people was tempered by the knowledge of the sacrifices made by all, and that with the many who gave their lives to save this country and its people, was numbered the man, selected by God as leader in this momentous and fearful struggle.
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MEN CALLED FOR. QUOTAS AND CREDITS.
Although for a time the accounts of the state did not agree with those of the United States, the figures of the War Department as far as they go, are here used and accepted, as their total was also accepted by the state in 1864.
General Calls.
Quota. Credits
April I5th, 1861, the United States Government took the first decided step toward offensive efforts against the rebellion, the President call- ing on that day for seventy-five thousand Militia for three months' service. The quota assigned to this state, filled by Militia and Volunteer
Militia, was 13,280
and the War Department reports, as furnished by the state 13,906
On the 3d of May, 1861, the President issued a proclamation calling into service thirty-nine regiments of volunteer infantry, and one regiment of cavalry, forty-two thousand and thirty-four men, for a service of three years, unless sooner discharged. A quota was not assigned, but at the request of the President, the Governor called, July 25th, for twenty-five thousand volunteers.
Congress in its acts of July 22d, 25th and 3ist, 1861, authorized the President to accept the services of volunteers for three years in such numbers, not exceeding one million, as he might deem necessary for the purpose of repelling invasion and suppressing insurrection. A formal call was not issued, but men and regiments were furnished by the state by the authority of the War Department, under the act of Congress passed July 25th, 1861.
Before the next call it became necessary to determine the quotas of the states for 1861. This was done in June, 1862, by apportioning the number of men in the field, five hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred and eighty- four, among the states. The quota of New York
was placed at 109,056
and the state was credited, including all men furnished since the call of
April I5th, 1861, with 120,231
Under the call of the President of July 2d, 1862, for three hundred thousand men for three years' service, there were required from this
state • 59,705
and furnished 78,004
It soon becoming apparent that under this last call men would not be obtained to fill up the regiments in the field, the President ordered, August 4th, 1862, a draft of three hundred thousand Militia to serve for a term of nine months. The draft, for reasons stated elsewhere, did not take place
in this state, and on the quota of 59,705
there were furnished by voluntary enlistment 1,781
Under the act passed by Congress March 3d, 1863, the Provost-Marshal- General of the United States, without a formal call on the state, caused a draft in part to take place in July and August. The men received thereby were credited on the next regular call for troops.
October I7th, 1863, the President issued a call for three hundred thou- sand men, to fill the companies and regiments in the field; a quota was not assigned.
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Quota. Credits.
February 1st, 1864, another call was made; this time for five hundred thousand men, to include the number called for October 17th, 1863. The
quota of the state was placed at 81,993
for a service of three years, and there were credited, including the men drafted in 1863, and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twelve men, who paid the legal commutation 75.751
March I4th, 1864, followed another call, this time for two hundred
thousand men for three years' service; and on the quota of 32,794
the state received credit, including two thousand two hundred and sixty- seven men who paid commutation, for 44,207
Under the call of July l8th, 1864, for five hundred thousand men, the quota of the state, reduced by excess of credits on previous calls, was
placed at 77,539
and there were credited to the state forty-five thousand and eighty- nine men for a service of one year; two thousand one hundred and twenty-eight men for a service of two years ; thirty-six thousand five hun- dred forty-seven men for three years' service; seventy- four men for four years' service, and five men who paid commutation, total 83,843
The quota of the state, under the last general call of December igth
1864, for three hundred thousand men, was placed at 61,076
and on this call there were furnished up to April I4th, 1865, when re- cruiting and drafting was discontinued, for one year's service, nine thou- sand one hundred and fifty men ; for two years' service, one thousand six hundred and forty-five men ; for tfiree years' service, twenty-three thou- and three hundred and twenty-one men; for four years' service, sixty- seven men ; paid commutation, thirteen men ; total 34, 196
Quota of the general calls 495,148
Total credit on the general calls 452,819
Special Calls.
May 24th, 1862, the War Department requested the Governor to for- ward regiments of the Militia for three months' service; a quota was not specified, and the state furnished of the National Guard 8,588
Under the requests of the President for Militia for short terms of ser- vice, dated April 23d and July 5th, 1864, the War Department fixed the
quota at 12,000
and there were furnished by the state from the National Guard for
three months and one hundred days, including recruits forwarded later... 5,640
Total of all quotas 507,148
Total of credits and enlistments '. 467,047
The Adjutant-General of the United States Army under date of Novem- ber Qth, 1880, supplemented by a statement dated July I5th, 1885, reports the total number of enlistments made under the various calls of the President, to have been 2,865,028, including1 therein 86,724 who furnished commutations, but not taking1 into consideration the enlistments for a period of less than sixty days. He credits this state as having- furnished of these enlistments 467,047, including 18,197 who paid commutation, but not including the thirty
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days' men. In proportion to the total, the enlistments credited to this state are as i to 6.134, or 16.30 + per cent.
In this statement there is a credit included for enlistments in the Regular Army of only 6,089, while as will be seen, the state justly claims an additional credit of.. 12,671
For service in the United States Navy and Marine there were credited to the state 42,155 enlistments, but here again, as will be shown later, the state is justly and fairly entitled to credit for additional enlistments to the number of 8,781
June I5th, 1863, the War Department called for Militia for short term service. The state furnished at this call, for a service of thirty days, of the National Guard I3,97i
November I4th, 1863, Major-General Dix, commanding the Depart- ment of the East, made a request for an armed force for the protection of the frontiers of the state, and received for a service of thirty days, of the National Guard '. 504
Under the requests of the President for Militia for short terms of ser- vice, dated April 2jd and July 5th, 1864, the War Department fixed the quota at 12,000, but gave credit only for the three months' and one hun- dred days' men and recruits forwarded later. There were furnished by the state under these calls, for a service of thirty days, from the Na- tional Guard 791
Total thirty days' men for whom credit has not been received 15,266
Total of additional credits claimed 36,718
This added to the number credited as furnished under the general and special calls, will make the total furnished by this state 503,765, or in round numbers and allowing liberally for errors, not less than five hundred thousand.
CREDITS DUE THE STATE. For Service in the Regular Army.
The statement of the Adjutant-General of the United States Army, dated July I5th, 1885, estimates the number of men in the Regular Army during the war at 67,000. As far as can be determined from the reports of the Assistant Provost-Marshals-General of this state, as published in the reports of the Adjutant-General of New York for the years 1863 to 1865, the number of men credited to the state, enlisting or re-enlisting in the Regular Army, is 6,089, and covers only the period of the war from December 1863, to April, 1865, for men were not credited for such enlist- ments prior to December, 1863.
There were in the Regular Army, July i, 1861, as officially reported, 16,422 officers and enlisted men; up to this time the large cities of this state were the principal recruiting fields of that army, and taking therefore from this number but one-fifth (by no means an over-estimate), as having been enlisted in this state, would entitle New York to a credit of 3,284
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As already stated from December, 1863, to April, 1865 — seventeen months — there were credited to the state for enlistment in the Regular Army 6,089 men ; and it is but fair to suppose that the state furnished from July i, 1861, to November, 1863 — twenty- nine months — a proportionate number, and an additional credit is therefore claimed of 10,387
Total additional claim for credit for service in the Regular Army I
Add to this credit the number of men found to have been credited 6,089
and the total of 19,760
will give the number of men, who it is claimed, served in the Regular Army of the United States, and were enlisted in, or credited to, New York.
Under orders of the War Department the enlistment or transfer of volunteers into the Regular Army was permitted in 1862 and part of 1863, and it is estimated that probably one thousand volunteers of this state were thus transferred; to avoid all appearance of making excessive claims these one thousand men are deducted, and on the part of the state claim is made for additional credit, for service in the Regular Army, for only 12,671 men.
For Service in the Navy and Marine Corps.
For service in the Navy and Marine Corps, men were not credited to New York until February, 1864, and then credit was received for 28,427, as having been enlisted in this state since April I5th, 1861. The Adjutant- General of the United States Army, under date of July I5th, 1885, credits New York with 35,144 enlistments in the Navy, which includes no doubt those enlisted in the Marine Corps, a few hundred at the most. From the statements of the Assistant Provost-Marshals-General it appears however, that credit was given the state for 41,380 such enlistments.
The Secretary of the Navy, under date of April loth, 1884, in a communication to the United States Senate, reported the number enlisted in the Navy between April I5th, 1861, and February 24th, 1864, to have been
67,200 men, of whom there were credited to this state 28,427
that the number enlisted between February 24th, 1864, and the 3Oth
day of June, 1865, was 37,577, of whom were credited to this state. . 13.728
42,155
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that the number enlisted during the war, but not credited to any
state, was 20,177, of whom were enlisted in this state 6,817
Total 48,972
The Secretary reports further, that, not including the men who were in service April 15, 1861, the total number enrolled during the
war was 124,954
of this number the men credited to New York are 39.19 per cent. The report of the Secretary is accepted as correct.
But there must be added the number of men in service April ist, 1 86 1, which an annual report of the Navy places at 7,600 men; and of this number there is claimed as due to this state the same percentage that has been found of those enlisted between April 1 5th, 1 86 1, and June 3Oth, 1865 as due to New York, namely 39.19 per cent., or 2,964
This would make the total number who served in the Navy during the war, 132,554, of whom there came from this state. . . . 51,936
For a time volunteers were permitted to enlist in, or to be transferred to, the Navy, and it is estimated that at the most one thousand men were thus transferred; these require to be deducted from the claims made here for additional credit.
It is accepted as a fact that there were duly credited to New York, 42,155 men, and the remainder, after deducting those transferred from the volunteers (1,000), an additional credit of 8,781 is fairly due to the state.
For Service in the United States Volunteers.
In his statement of July I5th, 1885, the Adjutant-General U. S. Army estimates the number of officers and enlisted men who served in this body at about 11,000, but as far as this state is concerned only the officers of U. S. Volunteers appointed from this state, and four companies of Berdan or First U. S. Sharpshooters are claimed as due to New York, about 1,375 officers and enlisted men. These were no doubt duly credited at the time by the proper authorities.
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Por Service in the United States Veteran Volunteers (Hancock's Veteran
Corps) .
In the statement of the Adjutant-General U. S. A., already quoted, the number of men who served in this body, is given as 10,833, but records are not available from which even an approximate number, of those furnished by this state, could be obtained. As shown under " Quotas and Credits," etc., New York furnished of all the enlistments 16.30+ per cent; allow the same per centage of those who served in the United States Veteran Volunteers, and the state would be entitled to credit for 1,770 men for service in this branch of the army. As these were veterans, who had served in the war before, and their entry into the service was undoubtedly credited at the time, claim cannot be made for extra credit.
For Service in the Veteran Reserve Corps.
The number of officers and enlisted men who served in this corps is stated as 60,508, and the portion of this number due New York, based on the same percentage as in the foregoing case, would be 9,862 men. These were men transferred from the volunteers, or enlisted after a service in the volunteers, and have without doubt all been duly credited to the state. In this number are included 222, who re-enlisted as veterans in this corps, and were specifically credited to New York.
For Service in the Colored Troops.
In the afore-mentioned statement the number of colored troops in the United States service is reported as 178,975; the state is, however, credited with but 4,125, and although evidence is on file in the office of the Adjutant- General of New York that 5,829 men are claimed as due the state, claim for extra credit is not made, and the number reported by the United States authorities is accepted as correct and final. The Twentieth, Twenty-sixth and Thirty-first regiments of these troops were organized in this state.
For Service in the Volunteers of Otlier States.
That men of this state entered the volunteers of other states, is a well- known fact. A correct number of them is impossible to obtain, but it is believed that they numbered at least five hundred, and that the state received due credit for the same.
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For Service in the Militia and National Guard.
Of the Militia and National Guard there entered in the service of the United States for short periods 38,028 officers and enlisted men, of whom there served for one hundred days in 1864, 5,019; for three months in 1861, 8,534; in 1862, 8,588; in 1864, 621; total, 17,743 men; for thirty days in 1863, in the Pennsylvania campaign, 13,971, at Buffalo in November 504, in 1864, in New York harbor 791, total 15,266 men. The Adjutant- General of the U. S. Army gives the state credit for all, except the thirty days' men; and there is therefore a credit claimed on this account of 15,266.
For Service in the Volunteers of the State.
For service in this branch of the armies of the United States, 370,232 enlistments are claimed; this number, originally estimated, has been con- firmed by count and estimates in part of the number of men who served' in each volunteer organization of the state, appearing in another place. Drafted men and substitutes, are counted here as volunteers.
For Men who Commuted their Service.
Under the laws regulating the drafts, those drafted were accorded the privilege, by payment of a certain sum, to commute their service; the money thus obtained was used by the Provost-Marshal-General of the United States to pay bounties to volunteers re-enlisting in the service. The Adjutant- General of the Army credits this state on this account on the call of February ist, 1864, with 15,912; on that of March I4th, 1864, with 2,267; of Juty ]8th, 1864, with 5; of December I9th, 1864, with 13; total 18,197 men.
For Representative Recruits.
In July, 1864, the Provost-Marshal-General of the United States appealed to the patriotism and generosity of persons not required by law to perform military duty, but who possessed ample means, to cause themselves to be represented in the service by men procured by themselves. Under this appeal 1,292 representative recruits were obtained, and credited to the respective states, President Lincoln being one of the first to respond to the appeal. From the State of New York were obtained 119 men. While this may seem a small number, it is susceptible of proof that citizens of this state, before this official appeal, had quietly procured men to serve in the army as their representatives. Those of this state who acted on his suggestion, are reported
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by the Provost-Marshal-General to have been (arranged according to the, then, congressional districts) :
Dist. ist. Thomas Barrow, A. W. Nathans, Geo.
L. Peck. 3d. Anthony F. Campbell, Sidney Dorian,
J. W. Frothingham. 4th. John S. Sammis. 6th. Cyrus H. Loutrel. 7th. Charles Easton.
8th. William O'Brien, John O'Brien, George Collins, Jr., Victor L. Conrad, Peter Cooper, Charles Donohue, Edwin M. Hulburt, Richard M. Hoe, Percy R. Pine, Wm. L Taylor gth. Henry K. Bull, Edgar Ketchum, Ben- jamin F. Raynor, Abram Wakeman. loth. D. J. Blauvelt, Wm. F. Bates, Wm. R. Brown, Hugh N. Camp, Charles B. Fosdick, J. H. Goodwin, Jr., Wm. F. Moller, Samuel Purdy, H. »F. Spaulding.
I2th. Edward C. Cline, Charles W. Swift. I4th. J. J. Austin, Henry M. Benedict, Wm. Newton, T. W. Olcott, R. M. Van Sickler, C. P. Williams. i6th. Edwin S. Bogue, Thomas S. Gray, Wm. H. Richardson, Samuel T. Richards. 1 8th. Master Walter Butler, James M. Cook, igth. Norman Bis sell. 2Oth. Zenas Eldred.
23d. Arthur Holmes, DeWitt C McGraw,
Daniel McGraw, Timothy R. Porter.
24th. James C. Avery, Charles E. Avery,
Martha R. Avery, Mrs. E. H. Avery,
Joseph P. Barber, John H. Chedell.
Dist.
Mrs. John H. Chedell, Rufus Dun- ham, M. D., E. G. Day, George B. Daniels, Henry Henion, Wm. Hills, George Hocknell, John E. Leonard, Miss E. Leonard, George W. Leon- ard, Christopher Morgan, Mary E. P. Morgan, Adam Miller, George W. Mead, George W. Peck, George R. Peck, Asa S. Parker, A. R. Rey- nolds, Shirley R. Snow, Willie B. Woodin, Wm. Wasson, Annetto Wasson, Wm. H. S. Wasson.
25th. Stephen H. Ainsworth, Frank O. Cham- berlin, George W. Gates.
26th. George D. Beers, John H. Hawes, John Southworth.
27th. Alvine C. Barney, Thomas A. Johnson.
28th. John H. Denio, Henry R. Selden.
29th. Duncan Cameron, Abel Minard, Hop- kins C. Pomeroy, Franklin Spauld- ing, Thomas Scovil.
30th. Allen W. Adams, Daniel S. Bennett, Charles V. D. Blackman, Philip Dorsheimer, Charles Ensign, Elisha W. Ensign, Solomon S. Guthrie, Henry D. Garvin, Wm. H. Peabody, Dexter P. Rumsey, James G. Ste- vens, William E. Sanders, Jacob Schoellpopf, George Taylor.
3 1 St. David H. Bowles, Frederick Eaton, Reuben E. Fenton, John D. Hillyer, Newton Slawson, Patrick Shafer, E. C Topliff.
As the records do not show the place of residence of these patriotic citizens, the composition of the districts is here annexed to allow a closer identification of the same. During the period of the war from 1862, the following counties or wards formed
Dist.
1st. Suffolk, Queens and Richmond.
2d. 6th, 8th, 9th, loth, I2th, i4th, i6th, 1 7th, i8th and 2Oth wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots and New Utrecht, in the county of Kings.
3d. ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, nth, I3tli, I5th and igth wards of the city of Brooklyn.
Dist 4th. ist (including Governor's Island), 2d,
3d, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th wards of
the city and county of New York. 5th. 7th, roth, I3th and I4th wards of the
city and county of New York. 6th. pth, isth and i6th wards of the city
and county of New York. 7th. nth and I7th wards of the city and
county of New York.
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Dist. 8th. i8th, 2Oth and 2ist wards of the city
and county of New York. 9th. I2th (including Randall's and Ward's Island), ipth (including Blackwell's Island) and 22d wards of the city and county of New York.
loth. Westchester, Rockland and Putnam.
nth. Orange and Sullivan.
i2th. Dutchess and Columbia.
I3th. Ulster and Greene.
I4th. Albany and Schoharie.
I5th. Rensselaer and Washington.
i6th. Warren, Essex and Clinton.
I7th. St. Lawrence and Franklin.
:8th. Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Sara- toga and Schenectady.
Dist.
igth. Delaware, Otsego and Chenango.
20th. Jefferson, Lewis and Herkimer.
21 st. Oneida.
22d. Madison and Oswego.
23d. Onondaga and Cortland.
24th. Cayuga, Wayne and Seneca.
25th. Ontario, Livingston and Yates.
26th. Tioga, Tompkins, Broome and Schuy-
ler.
27th. Chemung, Steuben and Allegany. 28th. Monroe and Orleans. 29th. Genesee, Niagara and Wyoming. 3Oth. Erie. 3 1 st. Chautauqua and Cattaraugus.
Recapitulation of Credits.
The state furnished for service in the war 503,765 enlistments and this number of men served in the general organizations of the military forces of the United States as follows :
In the Regular Army of the United States, 19,760; of whom 1,000 are estimated to have been transferred from the volunteers; being properly credited to the volun- teers, they are deducted here, leaving credit for service in this branch. . . ., 18,760
In the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 51,936; of whom 1,000 are estimated to have been transferred from the volunteers; being properly credited to them, they are here deducted, leaving credit for service in this branch 50,936
In the United States Volunteers, 1,375 ! of whom about 380 are estimated to have been transferred from the volunteers as officers, and as they are a proper credit for the volunteers, they are deducted here, leaving credit for service in this branch 995
In the United States Veteran Volunteers, 1,770; these men served their first enlist- ment no doubt in the volunteers of the state ; their enlistment in this branch con- stitutes, however, a special credit, and was so credited to the state i,77O
In the United States Veteran Reserve Corps, 9,862; most all of these men were transferred from the volunteers and are properly credited to them; of those who enlisted in this corps after a term of service in the volunteers no estimate can be made, but the state received special credit for such re-enlistments to the num- ber of ., 222
In the United States Colored Troops, the number credited to the state by the Adju- tant-General of the army 4,125
In the volunteers of other states, 500 men, estimated, making a credit of 500
In the Militia and National Guard of the state, as already shown 38,028
Men who commuted their service, and are credited to the state officially 18,197
The remainder of the credit claimed for the state represents enlistments in the
volunteers of this state to the number of 370,232
Making the total credit of enlistments due New York, as already claimed 503,765
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DRAFTS.
The census of 1860 gave this state a population of 3,880,735, of whom 1,933,532 were males, and 1,947,203 were females, being an excess of the latter over the former of 13,671.
Under the call of August 4th, 1862, for three hundred thousand nine months' men, the state authorities made arrangements for a draft, which however were not carried out. The enrollment, not entirely completed, showed a population of 3,829,707 ; had it been completed it would probably not have varied much from the census of 1860, notwithstanding the number of men who had entered the service and left the state. Subject to military duty, according to the laws of the state, that is between the ages of 18 and 45 years, were found to be 764,603 males, and of these had been declared exempt from military service at the time proceedings closed 139,158. The average ratio of the number enrolled to the population was one to five and one-tenth ; the ratio of exempts to the number enrolled was one to five and five-tenths.
When in 1863 the General Government took charge of drafting and general recruiting, drafts when made, were only for such numbers as would insure the filling of the quota called at the time. The enrollment made in the state, under the supervision of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau from June, 1863, to April, 1865, numbered 431,462 men, or 22.31 per cent of the male population, or ii.n per cent of the total population according to the census of 1860. This enrollment included males between the ages of 20 and 45. The total number drawn was 151,488; of these there were held to personal service, 3,210; furnished substitutes, 13,332; paid commutation, 18,197; not examined for various reasons, 48,743, and exempted after examination, 68,006 men. Of those exempted from military duty, 32,086 were exempted for physical or mental disability, or 31.22 per cent of those examined — 102,745 men.
The result of each of the drafts was as follows :
Draft of July and August, 1863, the number drawn was 95.795
Of these there were held to personal service, 2,300; furnished
substitutes, 6,998 ; paid commutation, 15,912 ; total 25,210
Not examined for various reasons, 15,820; exempted after ex- amination, 54,765; total 70,585
95,795
Draft under call of March I4th, 1864; the number drawn was 11,713
Of these there were held to personal service, 153; furnished
substitutes, 2,003 ; paid commutation, 2,267 ; total 4423
Not examined for various reasons, 2,852; exempted after ex- amination, 4,438 ; total 7,290
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Draft under call of July i8th, 1864; the number drawn was 10,227
Of these there were held to personal service, 47; furnished
substitutes, 1,708; paid commutation, 5; total 1,760
Not examined for various reasons, 6,796; exempted after ex- amination, 1,671 ; total 8,467
10,227
Draft under the call of December igth, 1864, not completed; the number drawn was. 33,753 Of these there were held to personal service, 710; furnished
substitutes, 2,623; paid commutation, 13; total 3,346
Not examined for various reasons, 23,275 ; exempted after ex- amination, 7,132 ; total 30,407
33,753
Of the men exempted after examination, there were exempted for physical and mental disability at draft in July and August, 1863, 25,701 ; at draft under call of March, 1864, 2,391 ; at draft under call of July, 1864, 1,030, and at draft under call of December, 1864, 2,964.
PERIODS OF SERVICE OF THE MEN ENLISTED.
Of the men credited to this state there served during the war, or rather enlisted for service, for periods ranging from thirty days to four years — for thirty days, 15,266; for three months, 17,743; for one hundred days, 5,019; for nine months, 1,781; for one year, including estimated number in the Navy, 62,500; for two years, 34,723; for three years, 348,395; for four years, 141; commuted their service, 18,197; total, 503,765, or all reduced to a three years' standard, considering those who commuted their service as three years' men, 412,568.
These converted into three years' enlistments would give
15,266 thirty days' men 424 three years' men
!7,743 three months' men 1,478 "
5,019 one hundred days' men 458 "
1,781 nine months' men 445 "
62,500 one year men 20,833 "
34,723 two years' men 23,148
348,395 three years' men 348,395
141 four years' men 188 "
18,197 commuters, each equal to one three years' man '. 18,197 " " "
503,765 Total 413,566
18,197 deduct commuters 18,197
485,568 Total number of actual enlistments, converted into three
years' service, equal to 395,369
It may be claimed that this number represents also practically the number of individuals in service. But see " Number of individuals in service " page 46.
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INDIVIDUALS IN THE SERVICE.
The numbers so far dealt with represent enlistments or entries into service, and, as many men entered twice, three and some even four times, the number of enlistments does not represent the number of individuals who served during the war. Positive data or information is not on record on this subject, and to obtain this number of individuals recourse must be had to estimates.
It is well known, that of the Militia and National Guard a very large proportion entered the volunteer service after the expiration of a short service in the Militia, and that a considerable number performed a second and third, and some even a fourth, short service in the Militia ; also that a number of discharged volunteers served short terms in the National Guard, especially in 1863. Estimate then, that of those in service in 1861 — 8,534 — aH re-entered the service in one way or another except 500
That of those in service in 1862 — 8,588 — all re-entered the service or had been in service except 500
That of those in service in 1863 — 14,475 — all re-entered the service or had been in service except 3,ooo
And that of those who served in 1864 — 6,431 — all served again or had served before except 3,ooo
This would make the number of individuals who rendered service in the Militia or National Guard exclusively 7,000
Of those who served in the Regular Army, from this state 19,760
there are known to have re-enlisted to the credit of the state 2,137, but it
is estimated that the number re-enlisted during the war is at least 2,500
These deducted would make the number of individuals from this state serving in the Regular Army exclusively 17,260
Of those who served in the Navy and Marine Corps, from this state, in- cluding the 51,936
it is estimated in the absence of any kind of data on the subject, that ten
per centum entered the service twice at least, this would be 5,194
And these deducted, would make the number of individuals from this state serv- ing in the Navy and Marine Corps exclusively 46,74.2
Those who served in the United States Volunteers as of this state, of whom about 380 were officers cransferred from the state Volunteers, represent individuals to the number of 1,375
Those who served in the United States Veteran Volunteers, 1,770, and those who served in the U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps — 9,862, total 11,632, of whom the former had served one enlistment to the credit of the state and the latter were transferred from the state volunteers, less 222 re-enlisted, represent individuals to the number of 11,410
Those who served in the U. S. Colored Troops and were credited to the state — 4,125, and 763 transferred from the state volunteers as officers to the Colored Troops, total, 4,888, represent but one entry into the service, and individuals to the number of 4,888
Those who served in the Volunteers of other States, but credited to this, rep- resent individuals to the number of 5°°
Total . 89,175
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Of those who served in the Volunteers of this State — 370,232 — there have been accounted for and require to be deducted
those who were transferred to the U. S. Volunteers as officers 380
those who served in the U. S. Veteran Volunteers i,77o
those who were transferred to the U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps 9,642
those who were transferred to the U. S. Colored troops as officers 763
Total 12,555
To this must be added the men transferred to the Regular Army and the U. S. Navy, in total 2,000
Total to be deducted 14,555
Of the remainder credited to the state volunteers — 355,677 — it is estimated
that of the nine months' men, 1,781, there re-entered the service. 1,200
that of the two years' men who entered the service in 1861 — 30,131 — there re-entered 18,000
that of the three years' men enlisted up to April 30, 1862, there are known to have re-enlisted as veterans on the field, and have been credited again from December, 1863, to April, 1864 18,076
that of those discharged in 1864 by reason of expiration of their term of service, there re-entered the service 4,000
and that of the men discharged for disability reported by the Provost Marshall General in his final report to have been 24,908 men, there probably re-entered 4,000
Total re-entries into the service 45,276
To be deducted from the remainder of credits to the state volunteers — 355,677 — leaving the number of individuals exclusively in such service 310,401
The total individuals thus obtained as having served in the war from this state
would be 399,576
Or in round numbers four hundred thousand individuals.
The United States census of 1860, gave New York, a population of 3,880,735, of whom 1,933,532 were males; based on these figures the indi- viduals in service during the war, from this state, bear the ratio of i to 9.7, or 10.30 per cent of the population of the state, and of I to 4.8 or 20.68 per cent of the male population of the state.
Not until July, 1862, was there an effort made on the part of the state to keep an account with localities of the number of men furnished by them. In 1863, the recruiting fell in the hands of the United States authori- ties and the state was furnished with information only as to the number credited on calls and not to localities. To confuse matters still more, many men went from their homes to other places to enlist. There is therefore no means to say how many men were furnished by any one locality. The only way to arrive at an approximate number, is to take the male population of
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such locality in 1860, take of this, 20.68 per cent, and the figure derived will not be the exact, but only about, the number of men furnished by that locality.
NATIVITIES OF THE INDIVIDUALS.
Mr. B. A. Gould, actuary of the United States Sanitary Commission, in his " Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of the American Soldier, 1869," gives the nativity of 337,800 individual soldiers from this state, based on that of 230,267 men obtained from official records, as follows: Natives of the United States, 203,622; of foreign birth, 134,178. Of those of foreign birth, 19,985 were born in British America; 14,024 were of English birth; 51,206 were born in Ireland; 36,680 in Germany, and 12,283 m other foreign countries.
The nativities obtained by him must have been principally of enlistments made in 1863, 1864 and 1865; to obtain the nativity of most of the men entering in 1861 and 1862 from the records, except possibly company descrip- tive books, is as far as this state is concerned, almost impossible. It is well known that more men of foreign birth entered the service in 1863 and 1864, than in 1861 and 1862, and thus it may be explained why Mr. Gould's figures of persons of foreign birth in the service to the credit of this state, are so large, 39.71 per cent of the whole, and why they are considered too high.
The history of a regiment of the Regular Army, organized in July, 1861, and receiving about three-fifths of its membership in 1861 and 1862, gives the nativity of its 3,574 members as ascertained from official records. This regiment received in 1865 up to April but a few men, and in many other particulars is a fair example of a regiment serving through the war ; estimates based on the figures set forth in that history, applied to the men furnished by this state, are deemed to be more equitable than those of Mr. Gould.
On this basis, there would have been of the four hundred thousand individuals 279,040 natives of the United States, and 30.24 per cent or 120,960 of foreign birth. Of the latter 42,095 are to be credited to Ireland; 41,179 to Germany; 12,756 to England; 11,525 to British America; 3,693 to France; 3,333 to Scotland; 2,014 to Wales; 2,015 to Switzerland, and 2,350 to other foreign countries.
In the Seventieth Infantry served a native of China, John Tommy, who lost both arms and both legs July 2, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg, and died of his wounds October 19, 1863; reported as a good and brave soldier; in the P"orty-third Infantry served a man born in Hindostan of natives of that country.
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AGES OF THE INDIVIDUALS.
Mr. B. A. Gould in his work, already referred to, gives the ascertained ages of 183,281 New York volunteers. Based on his figures, which compare favorably with the ascertained ages of a smaller number of men, there were of the four hundred thousand individuals furnished by the state at the time of their entry into the service :
37 thirteen and less years old; 137 fourteen years old; 334 fifteen years old; 978 sixteen years old; 1,526 seventeen years old; 43,074 eighteen years old; 35,427 nineteen years old; 24,638 twenty years old; 44,143 twenty-one years old; 29,875 twenty-two years old; 25,133 twenty-three years old; 20,707 twenty- four years old; 18,873 twenty-five years old; 15,899 twenty-six years old; 13,581 twenty-seven years old; 14,517 twenty-eight years old; 9,934 twenty-nine years old; 11,946 thirty years old; 7,174 thirty-one years old; 9,893 thirty-two years old; 7,267 thirty-three years old; 6,842 thirty-four years old; 8,479 thirty-five years old ; 6,268 thirty-six years old ; 4,803 thirty-seven years old ; 5,912 thirty-eighl years old ; 4,055 thirty-nine years old; 6,890 forty years old; 2,767 forty-one years old; 5,024 forty-two years old; 4,513 forty-three years old; 6,870 forty- four years old; 1,814 forty-five years old; 190 forty-six years old; 89 forty-seven years old; 116 forty-eight years old; 50 forty-nine years old; and 225 fifty and over, years old.
Making the average age 25 years, 7 months and 26 days; or taking into consideration that, in order to be accepted, many less than 18 and 21 years old, gave their age as such, twenty-five years. This covers no doubt some commissioned officers but principally enlisted men.
There were by actual count 16,873 individuals who served long enough as commissioned officers to be entitled to be taken into consideration; or say in round numbers and to allow for possible errors 17,000. The ages of 16,721 of these individuals were ascertained to be as follows : Eighteen seventeen years old, 538 eighteen years old, 683 nineteen years old, 742 twenty years old, 1,493 twenty-one years old, 1,304 twenty-two years old, 1,220 twenty- three years old, 1,220 twenty-four years old, 1,036 twenty-five years old, 921 twenty-six years old, 804 twenty-seven years old, 777 twenty-eight years old, 639 twenty-nine years old, 657 thirty years old, 481 thirty-one years old, 545 thirty-two years old, 386 thirty-three years old, 429 thirty-four years old, 396 thirty-five years old, 330 thirty-six years old, 286 thirty-seven years old, 297 thirty-eight years old, 226 thirty-nine years old, 239 forty years old, 154 forty-one years old, 181 forty-two years old, 134 forty-three years old, 171 forty-four years old, 108 forty-five years old, 53 forty-six years old, 46 forty-seven years old, 35 forty-eight years old, 31 forty-nine years old, 141 fifty years old and over, making the average age of these officers on entry into the service 27^2 years.
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The foregoing would establish the average age at time of entry into the service to have been of the commissioned officers 27^2 years, and of the enlisted men, 25 years.
WHERE THE MEN WERE OBTAINED.
It is impracticable, in fact impossible, to obtain any accurate figures of the number of men furnished during the war by each county, city, town and village of the state. The best that can be done, is to indicate here the organi- zations (original or new; recruits not considered) to which the counties of the state contributed men; those marked * being entirely recruited in the county, to which they are credited, all others only in part. There were recruited :
IN THE STATE AT LARGE: Infantry; 44th regiment; the original plan, for each town and ward to furnish one man, was not adhered to closely.
IN THE COUNTY OF ALBANY :
Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 6th, 7th, gth, I2th, I3th, i6th, i8th, 2Oth, 2ist, 22d, 25th, ist Mounted Rifles, ist and 2d Veteran.
Artillery; regiments, battery M, ist; bat- teries C (new) and M, 2d; 4th, 7th, I3th, I4th and i6th; independent batteries, nth and I2th.
Sharpshooters; companies, Qth.
Engineers; regiments, isth and 5Oth.
Infantry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 7th Veteran, 9th, I7th Veteran, i8th, 2Oth, 22d, 30th, 34th, 43d, 44th, 6ist, 62d, 63d, gist, 93d, I04th, I48th, I75th, I77th, i86th, i88th, iSgth, io2d,
IN THE COUNTY OF ALLEGANY: Cavalry; regiments, 5th, 6th, I2th, isth, 22d,
2d Mounted Rifles, 1st Veteran, ist Dra-
goons.
Artillery; regiments, 4th and I3th. Engineers; regiments, ist and 15th (new). Infantry; regiments, 2ist, 23d, 27th, 64th,
76th, 85th, i04th, I36th, i4Qth, i6oth, I79th,
1 84th, i8o.th, iQ4th.
IN THE COUNTY OF BROOME: Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 6th, nth, 1st Vet-
eran, ist Dragoons. Artillery; regiments, battery M, 3d; inde-
pendent batteries, i6th*.
Engineers; regiments, 15th and soth. Infantry; regiments, 27th, 8gth, poth, lopth,
I24th, I37th, I55th, i6ist, i68th, I79th,
1 94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS: Cavalry; regiments, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 22d,
2d Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran. Artillery; regiments, 3d, I3th and I4th. Sharpshooters; companies, 9th. Infantry; regiments, I9th, 37th, 64th, 7ist, 8sth, looth, losth, I22d, I54th, i6oth, I79th, i87th, i88th,
IN THE COUNTY OF CAYUGA: Cavalry; regiments, 8th, loth, nth, 22d, 23d,
24th. Artillery; regiments, batteries A (new), C,
D (new), G (new), K (new), 3d; 4th,
9th, i6th; independent batteries, ist*. Engineers; regiments, isth and soth. Sharpshooters; companies, 8th. Infantry; regiments, igth, 24th, 75th, inth,
n6th, i6oth,
IN THE COUNTY OF CHAUTAUQUA: Cavalry; regiments, 9th, I5th, 22d. Artillery; regiments, I3th, I4th. Engineers; regiments, 15th (new). Sharpshooters; companies, 7th, 8th. Infantry; regiments, 2ist, 49th, 72d, goth,
looth, ii2th, I54th, I56th, I79th, i83d,
i8;th, i88th, I94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF CHEMUNG: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 5th, 7th, loth, I5th, i6th, 2ist, 24th, ist Veteran. .
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Artillery; regiments, batteries B, F, K and
L, ist; C and M, 3d; 5th, I3th, I4th, l6th;
independent batteries, 33d. Engineers; regiments, I5th, 50th. Infantry; regiments, 3d, 23d, 33d, 35th, 38th,
86th, iO3d, iO7th, I4ist, i6ist, I79th, i87th,
1 94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF CHENANGO: Cavalry; regiments, Sth, loth, 2Oth, 22d. Artillery; regiments, battery A, 1st; battery
L (new), 2d; batteries C (new) and M,
3d. Infantry; regiments, I7th, I7th Veteran,
I9th, 26th, 76th, 89th, ooth, ii4th, I37th,
I57th, i6ist, i68th,
IN THE COUNTY OF CLINTON :
Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 9th, nth, I2th, I5th,
25th, 26th, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, I3th, i6th. Engineers; regiments, ist. Infantry; regiments, i6th, 22d, 34th, 6oth,
9ist, 96th, iiSth, I53d, i7Sth, i86th,
IN THE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, I2th,
ist Mounted Rifles, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, 5th, i6th. Engineers; regiments, ist. Sharpshooters; companies, 8th and 9th. Infantry; regiments, I4th, 20th, 3Oth, 65th,
9ist, i28th, I54th, i56th, i59th, i87th.
IN THE COUNTY OF CORTLAND: Cavalry; regiments, loth. Artillery; regiments, 3d, i6th. Infantry; regiments, I2th, igth, 23d, 76th, 93d, ii4th, I56th, i57th, I75th, iSsth, I94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF DELAWARE: Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 5th, 25th, ist Vet-
eran. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 8th, and independ-
ent batteries, 8th. Infantry; regiments, 3d, 7ist, 72d, 78th, Sgth,
93d, loist, i44th*.
IN THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS : Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 4th, 6th, 9th, i8th,
25th. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 5th, and independ-
ent batteries, 7th, I2th. Engineers; regiments, ist.
Infantry; regiments, 3d, 5th, 7th Veteran, 9th, 1 7th Veteran, i8th, 2Oth, 3oth, 38th, 47th, 57th, 6sth, 87th, I28th, i43d, isoth*, I54th, isgth, i68th, i76th, i87th, i88th, I92d,
IN THE COUNTY OF ERIE: Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 5th, 8th, loth, nth,
i2th, i3th, i6th, i8th, 23d, 24th, 26th, ist
and 2d Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran. Artillery; regiments, battery I*, ist; nth,
I3th, i4th, isth, i6th, Marine; independ-
ent batteries, nth, 27th, 33d. Engineers; regiments, soth. Sharpshooters; companies, 7th and 8th. Infantry; regiments, I2th, I7th Veteran,
2 ist, 33d, 35th, 36th, 49th, 69th, 78th, looth,
ii2th, ii6th, i32d, isist, I55th, i6oth, i64th,
I76th, I78th, I79th, i87th,
IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX : .
Cavalry; regiments, 2d, sth, nth, I4th, 2d
Veteran.
Artillery; independent batteries, 23d. Infantry; regiments, 22d, 34th, 38th, 77th,
93d, 96th, n8th,
IN THE COUNTY OF FRANKLIN : Cavalry; regiments, I2th, I3th, 26th, 2d Vet-
eran.
Artillery; regiments, I3th, I4th, i6th. Engineers; regiments, I5th (new), 5Oth. Infantry; regiments, i6th, 24th, 39th, 6oth,
92d, 96th, gSth, io6th,
IN THE COUNTY OF FULTON : Cavalry; regiments, 7th, loth. Artillery; regiments, battery M, 3d; 4th,
I3th, i6th. Infantry; regiments, 32d, 77th, ii5th, i53d.
IN THE COUNTY OF GENESEE: Cavalry; regiments, Sth, 9th, I4th, I5th, 23d,
2d Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, Sth, nth, and inde-
pendent batteries, I9th, 22d, 25th. Infantry; regiments, I2th, I4th, 28th, looth,
i04th, I05th, i20th,
IN THE COUNTY OF GREENE: Cavalry; regiments, 5th, 25th. Artillery; regiments, 5th, isth. Engineers; regiments, ist. Infantry; regiments, 6sth, i2oth, I56th.
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IN THE COUNTY OF HAMILTON: Infantry; regiments, 97th, usth.
IN THE COUNTY OF HERKIMER: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, i8th, 2Oth, 2d
Mounted Rifles, Oneida company. Artillery; regiments, battery A, ist; bat-
terries K, L (new), M, ad; I3th, I4th,
i6th. Infantry; regiments, 26th, 34th, 97th, 115th,
I2ist, i52d, I53d, i64th, i86th.
IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 6th, 7th, nth, I3th,
i8th, 2Oth, 24th, 25th, 26th, ist Veteran. Artillery; regiments batteries C*, D, H, 1st;
batteries H, L (new), 2d; 5th, 8th, loth,
I3th, I4th, i6th, independent batteries,
20th, 28th. Infantry; regiments, 24th, 35th, sgth, 94th*,
1 86th, I93d.
I3th,
I3th, 5th
Vet- 3ist, 67th, 95th,
IN THE COUNTY OF KINGS : Cavalry; regiments, 4th, 5th, loth, nth,
i6th, 25th. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 5th, nth,
I5th, i6th; independent batteries,
20th.
Engineers; regiments, ist, I5th.
Infantry; regiments, 3d, 5th, 7th, 7th eran, 9th, loth, I7th Veteran, 2Oth, 36th, 47th, 48th, 54th, 57th, SQth, 62d, 69th, 74th, 84th*, 87th, 88th, goth, I02d, I27th, i32d, I33d, i39th, 155th, I59th, i63d, i64th, i6sth, I76th, i86th.
IN THE COUNTY OF LEWIS : Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 7th, aoth, 1st Dra-
goons. Artillery; regiments, batteries D and H, 1st;
5th, 8th, loth, I3th, I4th. Infantry; regiments, I4th, 35th, 59th, 97th,
1 86th.
IN THE COUNTY OF LIVINGSTON: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 6th, 8th, 22d, 24th,
ist Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran, 1st Dra-
goons. Artillery; regiments, battery E, 1st; 8th,
nth, I3th, I4th.
Engineers; regiments, I5th (new). Infantry; regiments, I3th, 27th, 33d, Sgth,
looth, I02d, I04th, I36th, i4ist, I79th,
i87th, i88th.
IN THE COUNTY OF MADISON : Cavalry; regiments, 2d, i8th, 22d, 1st
Mounted Rifles, Oneida company. Artillery; regiments, batteries A and K, 1st;
battery L (new), 2d; battery C (new),
3d; I4th. Infantry; regiments, I2th, igth, 24th, 26th,
35th, 6ist, 76th, loist, ii4th, I57th, i6ist,
I76th, i84th, i88th,
IN THE COUNTY OF MONROE:
Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 6th, jth, 8th, I4th, isth, i6th, 2ist, 22d, 24th, 1st Vet- eran.
Artillery; regiments, batteries L and M, ist; battery M, 2d; batteries A (new), C (new), 3d; 4th, 8th, nth, I4th; independ- ent batteries, i8th, 24th, 26th, 33d.
Engineers; regiments, ist, isth (new), 50th.
Sharpshooters; companies, 6th.
Infantry; regiments, I3th, 2Oth, 24th, 26th, 27th, 33d, 78th, Sgth, looth, io4th, io8th*, I20th, I40th*, I5ist, I56th, I75th, I78th, i88th,
IN THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY : Cavalry; regiments, 25th, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, battery K, ist; I3th,
i6th; independent battery, I2th. Infantry; regiments, 32d, 43d, 115th, 153d.
IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK:
Cavalry; regiments, ist, 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, nth, I2th, I3th, I4th, i6th, i8th, 23d, 25th, ist Mounted Rifles, 2d Veteran.
Artillery; regiments, companies A, B, C, D, E, F and I, 2d; battery B (new), 3d; 4th, 5th, 6th, nth, I3th, isth, i6th, Marine; battalions, ist and 2d; independent bat- teries, 2d*, 3d*, 4th*, 5th, 6th*, 9th*, loth* (new), I3th*, 2Oth, 28th.
Engineers; regiments, ist, I5th.
Infantry; regiments, ist*, 3d, 4th*, 5th, 5th Veteran*, 6th*, 7th, 7th Veteran, 8th*, 9th, loth, nth*, I2th, I5th, I7th, I7th Veteran*, 20th, 25th*, 29th*, 3ist, 32d, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th*, 4Oth, 41 st, 42d*, 43d, 45th*, 46th*, 47th, 48th, 5 ist*, 52d*, 53d, 54th, 55th*. 57th, s8th*, 59th, 6ist, 63d, 6sth, 66th, 68th, 6gth, 7oth, 71 st, 72d, 73d, 74th, 78th, 79th*, 82d*, 83d, 87th, 88th, 9Oth, 94th, 95th, ggth, loist, load, iO3d, ngth, I27th, I3ist, I32d, I33d, I45th, 1 55th, I56th, isSth, i62d*,
IN THE STATE
75
i6sth, i68th, I70th,
I76th, i 78th, i82d*, i86th, loxrth*, ipist,
iQ2d: Independent Battalion Light In-
fantry*.
IN THE COUNTY OF NIAGARA: Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 7th, 8th, I5th, ad
Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, battery M, 1st; 8th,
9th, nth, independent batteries, I2th, i7th,
ipth, 23d, 25th, 33d. Engineers; regiments, soth. Infantry; regiments, 2ist, 28th, 49th, 78th,
looth, losth, I32d, isist, i64th, I78th,
i79th, :87th, iQ4th, 35th independent com-
pany*.
IN THE COUNTY OF ONEIDA:
Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 7th, 8th, nth, I3th, I5th, 2Oth, 22d, 24th, 1st Mounted Rifles, OneSda company.
Artillery; regiments, battery A, 1st ; batteries G*, L (new), and M, 2d; battery C (new), 3d; 4th, nth, i3th, I4th, i6th.
Engineers; isth (new), 5Oth.
Infantry; regiments, jd, i4th, 24th, 26th, 57th, 78th, 8isit, 97th, loist, H7th, I4ist, I46th, i6lst, i64th, I79th, iSgth, I92d, I93d, I94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF ONONDAGA:
Cavalry; regiments, troop F*f 1st; 2d, loth, I2th, isth, i6th, 2Oth, 22d, 24th, ist Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran, Oneida com- pany.
Artillery; regiments, batteries A and B, 1st; new batteries, A, C, D, F, G, 3d; I3th, I4th, i6th; independent batteries, loth (old) and I2th.
Engineers; regiments, 15th (new), 5Oth.
Infantry; regiments, 3d, I2th, I4th, igth, 2Oth, 24th, 86th, loist, I22d, I49th, I76th, I79th, iSsth, i87th,
IN THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO: Cavalry; regiments 8th, 9th, isth, 24th, ist
Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran. Artillery; regiments, battery K, 1st; 4th, 9th,
nth, i3th, i6th.
Engineers; regiments, ist, isth (new), 5oth. Infantry; regiments, i8th, 27th, 28th, 33d,
38th, 85th, looth, i26th, I48th, I54th, i6oth,
I79th, i88th, i94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF ORANGE: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 5th, 7th,
25th, ist Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran, ist
Dragoons. Artillery; regiments, 7th, I3th, I5th, i6th;
independent batteries, 7th. Engineers; regiments, ist, I5th (new). Infantry; regiments, 3d, 5th, 7th Veteran,
9th, i8th, 36th, s6th, 6sth, 7Oth, 93d, 98th,
H5th, I24th, I53d, is6th, i68th, I76th,
1 79th, I92d.
IN THE COUNTY OF ORLEANS : Cavalry; regiments, 3d, 6th, 8th, 22d, 2d
Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, 8th, I4th, l6th; inde-
pendent batteries, I2th, I7th, 25th. Infantry; regiments 21 st, 27th, 28th, poth,
I04th, I47th, I54th,
IN THE COUNTY OF OSWEGO: Cavalry; regiments, 7th, nth, I2th, I5th,
i6th, 2Oth, 24th, ist Veteran. Artillery; regiments, batteries F, G, 1st; bat-
tery M, 2d; 3d, 4th, 6th, gth, nth, I3th,
I4th, i6th; independent batteries 2ist. Engineers; regiments, ist (new), soth. Infantry; regiments, 19th, 21 st, 23d, 24th,
37th, 8ist, iioth*, I37th, I43d, I47th,
IN THE COUNTY OF OTSEGO: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 6th, loth, 22d, 2d
Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, battery A, ist; battery
L (new), 2d; battery M, 3d; I3th, i6th. Engineers; regiments, ist. Infantry; regiments, 3d, 43d, 76th, ox>th,
I2ist, I46th, I52d, I54th,
IN THE COUNTY OF PUTNAM : Cavalry; regiments, ist Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 6th, I3th, I4th. Engineers; regiments, ist. Infantry; regiments, 38th, 59th, 6sth, 95th, 1 54th, I94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF QUEENS: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, I4th, 24th, 25th. Artillery; regiments, battery L (original),
2d; independent batteries, I2th. Engineers; regiments, iSth.
76
IN THE STATE
Infantry; regiments, 5th, 7th Veteran, I5th, i;th Veteran; 20th, 74th, goth, iipth, I32d, i 39th, I45th, issth, I5<5th, , i6sth,
IN THE COUNTY OF RENSSELAER: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th,
nth, i2th, i6th, i8th, 2ist, 25th, ist
Mounted Rifles, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, 4th, I3th, I5th, i6th;
independent batteries, I2th. Infantry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 7th Veteran,
loth, 22d, 3Oth, 6ad, 6sth, gist, 93d, io4th,
I25th*, is6th, logth, i 75th, I77th,
IN THE COUNTY OF RICHMOND:
Cavalry; regiments, nth.
Artillery; regiments, batteries A, B, K, 2d ;
independent battery, 5th. Infantry; regiments, 5th, gth, I7th Veteran, , is6th, i86th, i88th, igist.
IN THE COUNTY OF ROCKLAND:
Artillery; independent batteries, 7th.
Engineers; regiments, ist.
Infantry; regiments, i7th, 95th, I35th, I4ist.
IN THE COUNTY OF ST. LAWRENCE:
Cavalry; regiments, 6th, 7th, pth, nth, I2th,
I3th, :6th, i8th, 20th, 24th, 26th. Artillery; regiments, battery D, ist; battery
L (new), 2d; I3th, I4th, i6th. Engineers; regiments, 5oth. Infantry; regiments, i6th, i8th, 24th, 6oth,
92d, looth, io2d, io6th, I42d, i64th, i6pth,
I93d.
IN THE COUNTY OF SARATOGA:
Cavalry; regiments, 7th, I2th, 25th, ist
Mounted Rifles, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, 4th, i3th. Infantry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 22d, 3Oth, 53d,
77th, iisth, i53d.
IN THE COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY:
Cavalry; regiments, 7th, 25th, 1st Mounted
Rifles, 2d Veteran.
Artillery; regiments, battery M, 3d; 4th,
I3th, i6th.
Infantry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 7th Veteran,
i8th, 30th, 43d, gist, I34th, I75th, I77th,
IN THE COUNTY OF SCHOHARIE: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, i6th. Artillery; regiments, battery G (new), 3d;
4th, 8th. Infantry; regiments, 3d, 76th, io2d, I34th.
IN THE COUNTY OF SCHUYLER: Cavalry; regiments, 24th. Artillery; regiments, battery M, 3d; 5th,
I4th, i6th; independent batteries, 2Oth. Engineers; regiments, isth, 50th. Infantry; regiments, 3d, 23d, 6oth, 8oth,
looth, io6th, io7th, i4ist, i6ist, I75th,
I79th,
IN THE COUNTY OF SENECA: Cavalry; regiments, 8th, nth, 22d, ist Vet-
eran. Artillery; regiments, battery H, 2d ; batteries
C, D (new), G (new), 3d; nth, i6th. Engineers; regiments, 15th (new), soth. Infantry; regiments, igth, 26th, 33d, 75th,
looth, i26th, I48th, i6oth, I75th,
IN THE COUNTY OF STEUBEN : Cavalry; regiments, 6th, 22d, 2d Mounted
Rifles, ist and 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, batteries E and K, ist;
4th, loth, I3th, I4th, i6th; independent
batteries, 28th.
Engineers; regiments, I5th (new), 50th. Infantry; regiments, 23d, 34th, 35th, 78th,
86th, looth, io2d, io4th, io7th, I4ist, i6ist,
i75th, I79th, i88th, iSg±.
IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. Cavalry; regiments, nth, I5th. Infantry; regiments, I2th, 74th, goth, iO2d,
I27th, I28th, I3ist, i39th, I45th, 155th,
i 59th, i 76th.
IN THE COUNTY OF SULLIVAN : Cavalry; regiments, i5th, 25th, 1st Mounted
Rifles, 2d Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, 5th, I5th; independent
batteries, 8th. Infantry; regiments, i8th, 28th, s6th, 141 st,
I43d.
IN THE COUNTY OF TIOGA : Cavalry; regiments, 5th, 8th, 2ist. Artillery; regiments, 3d, I3th. Engineers; regiments, I5th (new), soth. Infantry; regiments 3d, igth, 23d, 26th, 64th, "6th, logth, I37th, I79th,
IN THE STATE
77
IN THE COUNTY OF TOMPKINS: Cavalry; regiments, I5th, 2ist. Artillery; regiments, battery M, 3d. Engineers; regiments, 5Oth. Infantry; regiments, ipth, 23d, 32d, 64th, 76th, logth, I37th, i43d,
IN THE COUNTY OF ULSTER: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 5th, 7th, iSth, 25th,
ist Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 5th, I3th, I5th; in-
dependent batteries, 7th, I2th. Engineers; regiments, ist, I5th (new). Infantry; regiments, 7th Veteran, 2Oth, 48th,
56th, 7ist, 8oth, io2d, i20th,
I43d, I56th, i68th,
IN THE COUNTY OF WARREN : Cavalry; regiments, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, i6th; independent bat-
teries, 23d. Infantry; regiments, 2d, 22d, 77th, 93d, 96th,
iiSth, I23d, I53d, i69th, I75th.
Artillery; regiments, battery L, ist, 3d, 9th, I4th.
Engineers; regiments, I5th (new).
Infantry; regiments, I3th, I7th, igth, 24th, 27th, 33d, 6sth, 67th, 75th, 9Oth, 96th, gSth, 105th, i nth, i6oth, I93d, I94th.
IN THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER: Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 4th, nth, i6th, 25th,
ist Mounted Rifles. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 5th, 6th, I3th; inde-
pendent batteries, 5th, 7th, i2th. Engineers; regiments, ist, i5th (new). Infantry; regiments, 5th, 7th Veteran, gth,
1 7th, 27th, 32d, 38th, 48th, 49th, 59th, 6sth,
95th, i64th, i68th, i76th, i86th,
IN THE COUNTY OF WYOMING : Cavalry; regiments, 5th, 9th, 2d Mounted
Rifles, ist Veteran, ist Dragoons. Artillery; regiments, 8th; independent bat-
teries, 24th. Infantry; regiments, I7th, 20th, 33d, looth,
i04th, I05th, I36th, i6oth, i79th, i87th.
IN THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON : Cavalry; regiments, 2d, 6th, 7th, ist Mounted
Rifles, 2d Veteran. Artillery; regiments, 4th, 5th, i6th. Infantry; regiments, 2d, 3d, 22d, 43d, 53d,
87th, 93d, 96th, I23d, :6ist, i69th, I76th,
i77th.
IN THE COUNTY OF WAYNE: Cavalry; regiments, 8th, loth, I5th, 22d, 2d Mounted Rifles, ist Veteran.
The following states also contributed men to volunteer organizations of this state, thereby increasing the number of men who served therein, but not- decreasing the number credited to the state, inasmuch as these men were credited properly to the states from which they came:
IN THE COUNTY OF YATES : Cavalry; regiments, 8th, I5th, 2Oth, 22d. Artillery; regiments, battery B (new), 3d;
i 3th, I4th.
Engineers; regiments, soth. Infantry; regiments, 3d, 33d, 76th, 87th,
I26th, I36th, I48th, I79th, iSSth, I94th.
Connecticut, furnished men to Companies A, C and D, 2d Cavalry, Battery I, 2d Artil- lery, 9th, 48th and 6sth Regiments of In- fantry.
Illinois, furnished men to Batteries B and G, ist Artillery, 4th Independent Battery, the Marine Artillery, and the 6oth Regiment of Infantry.
Indiana, furnished men to Companies F, H and I, 2d Cavalry.
Maine, furnished men to the 2d and 6jth Regiments of Infantry.
Maryland, furnished men to the 68th Regi- ment of Infantry.
Massachusetts, furnished men to the 5th and 6th Regiments of Cavalry, the 7th Inde- pendent Battery, and the 2d, 4Oth, 48th, 53d, 63d, 7oth, 72d and 74th Regiments of Infantry.
Michigan, furnished men to Company K*, ist Cavalry, and the 7Oth and 78th Regi- ments of Infantry.
New Jersey, furnished men to Companies A, B and K, 2d Cavalry; Company M*, 3d Cavalry; Company I*, 5th Cavalry, nth
IN THE STATE
Cavalry; Battery A, 4th Artillery; Bat- tery L, 6th Artillery; the Marine Artil- lery; the 6th Independent Battery; the ist and isth Engineers, and the 5th, pth, i5th, 20th, 4ist, 48th, 62d, 68th, ;oth, 7ist, 72d, 83d, 88th, I02d Regiments of Infantry.
Ohio, furnished men to Company L*, 3d Cavalry; Company H, 4th Cavalry; nth Independent Battery, and the 59th and 65th Regiments of Infantry.
Pennsylvania, furnished men to troop C*, ist Cavalry; Company H, 2d Cavalry; 4th and
9th Regiments of Cavalry ; Company B,
i5th Artillery; ist and soth Engineers; the
2gth, 4oth, 4ist, 68th, 70th, 71 st and 74th
Regiments of Infantry. Rhode Island, furnished men to the 65th
Regiment of Infantry. Vermont, furnished men to Company F, 2d
Cavalry, and the 2d and 3d Regiments of
Infantry. District of Columbia, furnished men to the
Marine Artillery.
ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES SERVICE. The state furnished during the war the following numbers of
organizations :
Of the Militia and Nat. Guard. Of the State Volunteers Of the U. S. Volunteers Of the U. S. Colored Troops
Cavalry
Sharp- Artillery Engineers shooters Infantry
Total
|
Regs. Cos. Regs. Cos. Regs. |
Cos. |
||
|
Guard. |
2 . . |
.. 3 •••• |
|
|
27 8 |
ic -34 -i |
4 |
|
|
4 |
|||
|
)OOS. . |
|||
Regs. Cos. Regs. Cos.
|
63 |
2 |
63 |
7 |
|
182 |
8 |
227 |
54 |
|
4 |
|||
|
3 • |
3 |
Total . . .
15 37
248 10 293 65
Or an equivalent of three hundred regiments.
The first organization to leave the state was the Seventh Militia, which left April iQth, 1861 ; the first two years' organization to leave the state was the Eleventh regiment, which left April 29th, 1861 ; the first three years' organizations to leave the state were the Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth regiments, which left May i8th, 1861.
The last organization from this state to be mustered out of the United States service was Company A of the Twenty-first Cavalry, mustered out August 3 ist, 1866, and the last volunteer from this state to leave that service was Major David Gribben, Additional Paymaster U. S. Volunteers, who was mustered out June ist, 1869.
Below will be found not only the organizations which entered the United States service, but also those which failed to be completed.
OF MILITIA AND NATIONAL GUARD.
ist Cavalry, Company A; left the state July I3th, 1861 ; service 3 months : mustered out October 23d, 1861.
3d Cavalry, Company C ; left the state July 24th, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out November 2d, 1861.
Artillery, Varian's Battery; left the state April 20th, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out July 20th, 1861.
ist battalion Artillery, 2 companies; mus- tered in August 3ist, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out November 22d, 1864.
IN THE STATE
79
4th regiment Infantry; left the state June i8th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 24th, 1863.
5th regiment Infantry ; left the state April 27th, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 7th, 1861.
5th regiment Infantry; left the state June :8th, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 22d, 1863.
6th regiment Infantry; left the state April 2ist, 1861 ; service 3 months; mustered out July 3ist, 1861.
6th regiment Infantry; left the state June 22d, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 22d, 1863.
7th regiment Infantry; left the state April igth, 1861 ; service 30 days; mustered out June 3d, 1861.
7th regiment Infantry; left the state May 26th, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out September gth, 1862.
7th regiment Infantry; left the state June i6th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 20th, 1863.
8th regiment Infantry; left the state April 23d, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 2d, 1861.
8th regiment Infantry; left the state May 29th, 1862; service 3 months; mustered out September pth, 1862.
8th regiment Infantry; left the state June i8th, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 23d, 1863.
nth regiment Infantry; left the state May 28th, 1862; service 3 months; mustered cut September i6th, 1862.
nth regiment Infantry; left the state June :8th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 2Oth, 1863.
I2th regiment Infantry ; left the state April 21 st, 1861 ; service 3 months; mustered out August 5th, 1861.
I2th regiment Infantry ; left the state June 6th, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out October i2th, 1862.
i2th regiment Infantry; left the state June i8th, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 2oth, 1863.
I3th regiment Infantry ; left the state April 23d, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 6th, 1861.
1 3th regiment Infantry; left the state May 30th, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out September 28th, 1862.
I3th regiment Infantry; left the state June 20th, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 20th, 1863.
I5th regiment Infantry; mustered in June 6th, 1864; service 30 days; mustered out July 7th, 1864.
I7th regiment Infantry; left the state July 3d, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out August I3th, 1863.
i8th regiment Infantry; left the state July 3d, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out Au- gust I3th, 1863.
ipth regiment Infantry; left the state June 4th, 1862; service 3 months; mustered out September 6th, 1862.
2oth regiment Infantry; left the state May 7th, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 2d, 1861.
2ist regiment Infantry; left the state June 27th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out August 6th, 1863.
22d regiment Infantry; left the state May 28th, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out September 5th, 1862.
22d regiment Infantry; left the state June igth, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 24th, 1863.
23d regiment Infantry; left the state June i8th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 22d, 1863.
25th regiment Infantry; left the state April 22d, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 4th, 1861.
25th regiment Infantry; left the state June 4th, 1862; service 3 months; mustered out September 8th, 1862.
28th regiment Infantry; left the state April 30th, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 5th, 1861.
28th regiment Infantry; left the state June 20th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 22d, 1863.
28th regiment Infantry; mustered in Sep- tember 2d, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out November I3th, 1864.
37th regiment Infantry; left the state May 2Qth, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out September 2d, 1862.
37th regiment Infantry; left the state June ipth, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 22d, 1863.
37th regiment Infantry; mustered in May 6th, 1864; service 30 days; mustered out June 6th, 1864.
8o
IN THE STATE
47th regiment Infantry; left the state May 26th, 1862; service 3 months; mustered out September 1st, 1862.
47th regiment Infantry, left the state June 26th, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 23d, 1863.
5oth regiment Infantry; Company A; mus- tered in September 2d, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out December 3d, 1864,
5oth regiment Infantry, Company B; mus- tered in September 2d, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out December 3d, 1864.
52d regiment Infantry; left the state June 22d, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 25th, 1863.
54th regiment Infantry; mustered in July 24th, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out November loth, 1864.
55th regiment Infantry; left the state June 24th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 27th, 1863.
56th regiment Infantry; left the state June 2oth, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 24th, 1863.
56th regiment Infantry; mustered in Au- gust 2d, 1864 ; service 100 days ; mustered out November 6th, 1864.
58th regiment Infantry; mustered in Au- gust 27th, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out December 3d, 1864.
6sth regiment Infantry; left the state June ipth, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 30th, 1863.
67th regiment Infantry; left the state June 25th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out August 3d, 1863.
68th regiment Infantry; left the state June 24th, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 25th, 1863.
6gth regiment Infantry; left the state April 23d, 1861 ; service 3 months ; mustered out August 3d, 1861.
6gth regiment Infantry; left the state May 30th, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out September 3d, 1862.
regiment Infantry; left the state June 22d, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out July 25th, 1863.
6gth regiment Infantry; mustered in July I3th, 1864; service 3 months; mustered out October 6th, 1864.
7ist regiment Infantry; left the state April 2ist, 1861 ; service 3 months; mustered out July 30th, 1861.
7ist regiment Infantry; left the state May 28th, 1862 ; service 3 months ; mustered out September 2d, 1862.
7ist regiment Infantry; left the state June i8th, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out July 22d, 1863.
74th regiment Infantry; left the state June ipth, 1863; service 30 days; mustered out August 3d, 1863.
74th regiment Infantry; mustered in No- vember i6th, 1863; service 30 days; mus- tered out December i6th, 1863.
77th regiment Infantry; mustered in Au- gust 2d, 1864 ! service 100 days ; mustered out November ipth, 1864.
84th regiment Infantry; left the state July 3d, 1863 ; service 30 days ; mustered out Au- gust 4th, 1863.
84th regiment Infantry; left the state July I3th, 1864 ; service 100 days ; mustered out October 29th, 1864.
93d regiment Infantry; left the state July 20th, 1864 ; service 100 days ; mustered out November 1st, 1864.
98th regiment Infantry; mustered in Au- gust 25th, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out December 22d, 1864.
99th regiment Infantry; mustered in Au- gust 22d, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out November 9th, 1864.
iO2d regiment Infantry; mustered in Au- gust 25th, 1864 ; service 100 days ; mustered out November I3th, 1864.
Recruits, infantry; left the state Septem- ber and October, 1864; service 100 days; mustered out November and December, 1864.
OF STATE VOLUNTEERS. Cavalry.
1st regiment, left the state by companies from July 2ist to September 7th, 1861, for 3 years; mustered out June 27th, 1865.
2d regiment, left the state September and October, 1861, for 3 years; mustered out June 23d, 1865.
3d regiment, left the state by companies in August and September, 1861, for 3 years ; transferred July 2ist, 1865, to 4th Provis- ional Regiment of Cavalry as Companies B, F, H, I and L.
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4th regiment, left the state August 2gth, 1861, for 3 years ; transferred February 27th, 1865, to 9th Cavalry, as Companies B, E and L.
5th regiment, left the state November i8th, 1861, for 3 years ; mustered out July iQth, 1865.
6th regiment, left the state December 23d, 1861, for 3 years; transferred June I7th, 1865, to 2d Provisional Regiment of Cavalry as Companies A, B, C, D, E, I, L and M.
7th regiment, left the state November 23d, 1861, for 3 years ; mustered out March 3ist, 1862.
8th regiment, left the state November 2pth,