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George W. White,
A. C. Clicquinnoi,
Peter De Lap,
Hiram J. White,
William P. Russell,
Harmon Fellers,
D. Tyler Dunning, William H. Roys,
Amos White, Jr.
William Fleming,
Jona W. Folger,
Henry J. Miller,
John Miller, Merritt Cogswell,
William R. Liddle,
George M. Cole,
William Kenyon,
Hiram A. Stephens,
John H. Powell,
James A. Stoutenburg,
Cornelius Collier,
David Verbridge,
Peter Buerman,
John H. Holland.
The above list resulted upon examination at Auburn, as follows :
Accepted for Service and Paid Three Hundred Dollars Com- mutation .- William Thomas, William Eaton, J. A. Ridgeway, P. DeLass, John C. Fleming, J. Otier, H. J. Miller, George Gill.
Paid Three Hundred Dollars .- David Verbridge, J. W. Alger, H. Feller, H. B. Nash, John Cliquenoy, A. Cliquenoy, M. P. Pallister, R. J. Malcolm, Peter Buerman, W. Kenyon, M. Colwell, John C. Fleming, George Gill, John M. Reynolds, John Otier, Robert Malcolm, John W. Folger.
Merwin Pallister,
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Discharged for Physical Disability .- John Miller, M. Coggs- well, J. H. Fish, H. Coggswell, William Fuller, James W. Gordon, William R. Russell, H. Squire, John Carles, S. Borden, A. Platschart, E. L. Cooper, D. Danforth, D. Milham, Isaac M. Fish, Albert Lockwood, Charles Robinson, George Tripp, John H. Powell, Amos White, Jr., John H. Holland, Martin Ham, George M. Cole.
Support of Parents or Children .- William R. Liddle, Melvin H. Fleming, William Pugsley, D. T. Dunning, George W. White.
Substitutes .- A. Albright, Stephen Drum, James H. Stoutenburg.
Over Age and Under Age .- Lafayette White.
Aliens .- M. Faulkner, C. Collier.
At Sea .- William H. Roys.
Went into Service .- John Wood.
Result not Ascertained .- Hiram J. White, Adrian Caton, John Goodman, Henry M. Heath, Abram A. Stephens.
WOLCOTT. Enrolled in First Class 263. Quota Drafted 75.
Noah Wood,
James Boyd,
Abijah W. Moore,
Henry Jacobs,
Loren Gray,
Adrian Easton,
Sylvester Sebring,
Patrick Ragan,
Alphonso F. Barr,
Philander Peer,
John W. Copeland,
William R. Hamilton,
James Covert,
Gilbert Fisher,
Richard Thompson,
Seth Ira Hole,
Lucien Dudley,
Edward C. Jones,
Henry Mitchell,
Erastus Burch,
William H. Worth,
David H. Fink,
Andrew Sebring,
Oscar Pitts,
Robert Raney,
Columbus Hageman,
Edgar Phelps,
Edward Frost,
Joseph W. Mills,
John Malone,
Samuel N. Millen,
Philip Turner,
Lewis Wells,
Andrew B. Medan,
William Roe,
Edward Baker,
George Snyder,
Avery Green,
Wesley Hall,
Daniel Murray,
Lay Fayette Sutfin,
Isaac J. Frost,
William J. Johnson,
Fred K. Flint,
Daniel Wadsworth,
Horace Hendrick,
Edward Shephard,
Nathan Chase,
Oliver Welden,
Morris E. Selover, Andrew J. Creque,
John Cook,
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Willson Edwards,
William Scott,
William Johnson,
George H. Douglass, John Labor,
Simeon Miller,
James H. Chapman,
George Roberts,
Jacob Van Alstine,
Henry Whiton,
Edward Rushloe,
William Eakins,
George P. Dykeman,
Edward Johnson,
Joseph Reynolds,
Philo Edwards,
James Hickok,
Andrew Wilcox,
Robert Douglass,
Ira Drury,
Benjamin Waldron,
Cornelius W. Dewitt.
Walter W. Paddock,
Upon examination the following results were reached :
Accepted for Service and Paid Three Hundred Dollars Com- mutation .- A. B. Wilcox, James H. Chapman, A. F. Burr, Wesley Hall, Andrew J. Creque, A. V. Easton, William D. Johnson, J. Reynolds, Edward C. Jones, G. P. Dykeman, James Covert, Lewis C. Wells, George Snyder.
Discharged for Physical Disability .- Joseph W. Mills, Henry Michael, L. H. Dudley, Ira Drury, William Aikens, John W. Copeland, Nathan Chase, J. Hale, James Hiscock, G. Fisher, William H. Worth, William R. Hamilton, Morris Selover, A. B. Medan, William Scott, Fred Flint, Henry Jacobs, C. Dewitt, William J. Johnson, Patrick Kegan, L. I. Sutphin, E. Johnson, Simeon Miller, George Roberts, Oliver Whedon, Edward Frost, Philip Turner, A. W. Moore, Noah Wood, Benjamin Waldron David O. Fink, William Roe, Erastus Beach, John Malone, Horace Hendrick, Henry Whiton.
Support of Parents .- Daniel Murray, Edgar Phelps, S. N. Mellen.
Over Age or Under Age .- J. Van Alstyne, Isaac P. Frost. Two Brothers in Service .- R. Thompson.
In Service March 3d .- Loren O. Gray, George H. Doug- lass, Daniel Wadsworth, Edward Shephard, James Boyd, Philander Peer, Oscar Pitts, John Cook, John Labor, Robert Douglass, W. W. Paddock, Philo Edwards.
Result not Obtained for this Chapter .- Wilson Edwards, Edward Rushloe, Sylvester Sebring, Andrew Sebring, Robert Raney, Seth J. Hole, Columbus Hageman, Edward Baker, Avery Green.
Some attempt was made at this time to take official action by towns in aid of the drafted men. All that could legally be done was to aid the families of those who were obliged to go into the service.
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At a mecting of the Town Board of Palmyra, held August 4th, 1863, the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That we sympathize deeply with all those who have been drafted, and who are not able to pay the three hundred dollars required by law to exempt them, and whose circumstances are such that it will be a great trial to leave their families, who are dependent on them for support.
Resolved, That while we regret that we cannot see our way clear under the law passed May 17th, 1863 to levy a tax upon the towns for the purpose of paying three hun- dred dollars either to the drafted man who goes, or to the military authorities to procure a substitute. Yet we claim unlimited power under the law to raise money for the relief of the families of all drafted men from this town, and feeling it to be a pleasure as well as a duty, we pledge our- selves that the families of all drafted men who shall go into the service of the United States, shall be well taken care of, and the amount necessary to do it shall be taxed upon the town of Palmyra.
H. S. FLOWER, Supervisor. MALTBY CLARK, J. A. HOLMES, Justices. M. C. FINLEY,
J. A. CROOKSTON, Town Clerk.
The work of enlistment went steadily forward during the summer and fall of 1863. A few of those drafted in July, enlisted immediately before being required to report. Proof of this was a sufficient defense for non-appearance at Auburn. There were also some important movements towards the formation of new companies and regiments.
At Palmyra Captain Draine had said in his brief speech, at the reception of Company B, of the Thirty-third, that he designed to enter the service again. He made this state- ment good by his prompt movements in aid of the first Vet- eran Cavalry regiment which was organized in the summer and fall of 1863. His company was assigned to the position of I in the regiment. The company was raised very largely at Palmyra. Captain Draine was aided by Allen Vandebo- gert as First Lieutenant. He had enlisted from Sodus in April, 1861, and had been with Company I of the Seven- teenth through its two years patriotic service. He brought to this new enterprise the skill and firmness of a veteran, though still young in years. Frank A. White, who became Second Lieutenant, was also a veteran.
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The company as it left Palmyra in November, 1863, com- prised the following names :
CAPTAIN DRAIME'S COMPANY, NOVEMRER, 1863.
Henry J. Draime, Captain. Allen Vandebogert, Ist Lieutenant. Frank A. White, 2d Lieutenant.
William Beck,
Henry Birdsall,
John Birdsall, Clark Barron,
Howard Campbell,
Henry Crane,
Lewis Camp,
James M. Clapper,
Eli Darling,
Royal E. Duke,
James Doran,
Allen Duer,
John L. Edgar,
John Fetterer,
Richard H. Ford,
John Goodman,
George F. Goodell,
Edwin R. Goodell,
John Grattan,
John G. Hyslop,
Munson G. Hill,
George Hickey,
John Heid,
Albert Henderson,
Alfred Howell,
William Hunt,
John Huxley,
Henry M. Heath,
James H. Gwin,
James Jeffrey,
William Jeffrey,
James Johnson,
Thomas Johnson,
Robert J. Johnson,
Milo C. Kellogg,
Morton A. Leach,
John Lennon,
James Leonard, John Lambley,
John Murphy,
James McMorgan,
John Orr,
Otto Paulus,
John Possee,
George H. Randall,
John Ryan,
John M. Rouse,
James Stebbins,
Hiram A. Stevens,
Moses Severigen,
Paul Stickler,
Alvin Treat,
David Treat,
George Turner,
John A. Vowers,
George Van Winkle, Andrew Welch,
James B. Vandyne, Albert M. Williams, (All of Palmyra.)
William Bostwick, John O. Parker, Mark M. Woolston, Nicholas Holez,
Thomas Connor, George Eisvear,
Other Towns. Patrick Hogan, John Vaney, Edgar Harris, C. W. Lawrence,
Stevens Porter, Crosby Hopkins,
Stephen Kilmer, Meyer Kelly, Elias Lockwood,
Orrin Langdon,
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Aaron Rogers,
Philip Koplear,
Martin F. Borland,
Patrick Muldoon,
George W. Kenny,
S. W. Luctivett, John Cowan,
William Millman,
Alpheus Gorham,
William L. Williams.
Dead .- James R. Marion.
TWENTY-SECOND CAVALRY.
It was in the fall of this year that the Twenty-second Cavalry was organized.
James C. Van Marter, of Lyons, was active in the work of enlisting for this organization, and he secured a large number of recruits in this county for Company H, of which he became Captain.
The Twenty-second was formed at Rochester, and its members were drawn from eleven or more counties. It was mustered, into the service in February, 1864.
The staff officers were: Samuel J. Crooks, Colonel ; Johnson B. Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel; Peter McLeman, Major ; Joseph H. Suggett, Adjutant ; George B .. Brand, Quarter-Master ; Anson K. Tower, Commissary ; David B. VanSlyck, Surgeon; Patrick McShane, Assistant-Surgeon.
SECOND MOUNTED RIFLES.
Quite a number of men enlisted in this organization near the close of 1863. The regiment was organized at Buffalo, and its men were drawn principally from the counties of Erie, Niagara, Wyoming, Orleans, Allegany and Wayne.
Jacob Stever, of Arcadia, was active in the work of enlist- ing men for this regiment. The catalogues of soldiers here- after given by towns will show the localities from which the men were obtained.
The regiment was mustered into the service variously from October, 1863, to February, 1864. It was mustered out of the service August 10, 1865.
The Adjutant-General's report of 1868, assigns to this regiment the honor of participating in the battles of Cold Harbor, Petersburgh, Bethesda Church, Weldon Rail- road, Pegram's Farm, Hatcher's Run, and Poplar Spring Church.
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THE NINTH HEAVY ARTILLERY.
This regiment had been changed from infantry to artillery early in this year, and was authorized to fill up its ranks to a much higher standard than before. It was stationed in the defences of Washington, and it was supposed that it would be employed in the forts rather than in active field work. It presented many attractive features to those who were willing to enter the army, but who had an undoubted right to select that arm of the service which they preferred. Accordingly several hundred joined this regiment in the fall of 1863; so that in the final muster out rolls it showed more men from Wayne county than any other single regiment.
Enlistments in these various organizations were undoubt- edly hastened by the urgent necessity of filling the quotas of the several towns required by a new call of October 17, 1863. Immense efforts were required as in the year before. Official action was taken. Large bounties were paid, and as a result the draft which was set down for January 5, 1864, never took place. The required 606 men were secured. The quota by towns and a general statement of the work being done appear in the following article from the Lyons Republican of December 18, 1863 :
THE QUOTA OF WAYNE COUNTY.
" We present below a statement procured from the Provost- Marshal's Office, in Auburn, of the apportionment for the sev- eral towns in this county, under the recent call for troops. As we understand it, the apportionment is made upon the basis of the original enrollment of men in the first class. This apportionment, as stated below, is final, and will be adhered to in case of a draft :
Arcadia 68
Palmyra. 50
Butler
31
Rose .. .
25
Galen.
66
Savannah. 29
Huron
24
Sodus.
69
Lyons. .
46
Walworth. 28
Macedon
43
Williamson 30
Marion
26
Wolcott. 37
Ontario2. Total
34
606
"We are gratified to be able to state that recruiting in this county is progressing satisfactorily, and that there is every
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reason to believe that the quota will be raised before the 5th day of January. Some towns have already raised the required number, and in all, so far as we can hear, there is manifested a very commendable activity in the work of enlistments. Lyons has, it is estimated, already furnished more than thirty-five men.
" In every town are found men who had not heretofore thought of enlisting, who are now induced to do so by the princely Bounties offered by the General Government, the State and the County ; and there is no doubt the work is stimulated in a good degree by the almost certain increase by Congress of the pay of the soldiers. The threatened repeal of the $300 commutation, which is now regarded as inevitable, is also an important consideration. In that event a poor man,-who could not purchase a substitute at the exorbitant rates at which they will be held,-being posi- tively unable to send another in his place, would have no alternative; he must forego Bounties, leave his family in perhaps destitute or at best straitened circumstances, and shoulder his musket as a conscript. Now, if he enlists, and goes into the service voluntarily, he obtains in advance a large sum of money to leave with his family, and becomes entitled to all the present and prospective privileges and emoluments which are and will be afforded by the Federal Government.
" The work goes bravely on. Let every patriotic citizen lend his influence to the work in hand, and there is no doubt that the quota of this county will be filled by the fifth of January."
The official action of the Board of Supervisors may appropriately close this chapter.
At the annual session of 1863, Mr. Center, of Butler, chairman of a special committee, his colleagues being Messrs. Evans, of Savannah, and Redfield of Galen, offered the following resolutions :
Resolved, That the Board of Supervisors, of Wayne county, respectfully request his Excellency, Horatio Seymour, Governor of the State of New York, without delay to call an extra session of the Legislature, for the purpose of passing a law increasing the State bounty to be paid to each volunteer who shall enlist into the service of the United States, to $300.00 or to adopt some means to raise recruits under the last call of the President, or to take the responsibility as Governor, of offering a bounty of $300.00, pledging ourselves to sustain him in such action,
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and believing that he will be so sustained by the people of this State.
Mr. Redfield offered the following additional resolution :
Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board be requested to furnish copies of the foregoing resolution to the Boards of Supervisors of other counties now in session, and desire their concurrence in the request of this Board.
The report of the Treasurer gives the amount of the Bounty Bonds falling due with interest added March 15th, 1864, as follows: Arcadia, $4,823.27 ; Butler, $$1,548.30 ; Huron, $1,380.25 ; Lyons, $3,096.22 ; Macedon, $2,157.39 ; Marion, $1,390.00 ; Palmyra, $3,079.07 ; Sodus, $2,559.00 : Walworth, $1,467.25 ; Williamson, $2,044.25. Total, $23,- 546.00.
Under date of November 21st, 1863, the following resolu- tion was adopted by the Board then in session :
Resolved, That the Chair appoint two members of this Board to act with the Chairman, and to serve as a com- mittee to meet the Supervisors Committees of Seneca and Cayuga counties, at Seneca Falls, on Tuesday next.
The Committee as constituted therefore consisted of James M. Servis, R. W. Evans, H. S. Flower.
This session was continued by adjournment to November 26th and 27th, when a committee appointed as above made a verbal report, the substance of which does not appear in the published proceedings.
A special session of the Board of Supervisors was called and met December 1, 1863, at two o'clock P. M.
A committee to draft resolutions upon the subject of boun- ties was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Lakey, Flower and Evans.
The committee reported immediately as follows :
Whereas, The President of the United States has recently called for 300,000 volunteers, and at the same time given notice that unless the volunteers are furnished on or before the 5th day of January, next, a draft will be made; and whereas, by the recent order of the Provost-Marshal-Gen- eral, telegraphed to the Chairman of this Board, that Wayne county will be credited with the Volunteers raised, if the men are reported and mustered as forming the quota of Wayne county without regard to other counties of the District.
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Resolved, That the County of Wayne will pay the sum of $300 to each and every person who may have volunteered since the 26th day of November, 1863, or who may here- after volunteer into the service of the United States for the term of three years, or during the war, and be mustered into the service to the credit of Wayne county, until the whole quota (under the late call for 300,000 men) of the county be filled, or until the draft takes place.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of Wayne county be and is hereby authorized to issue the Bonds of the county from time to time, as the case may require, in sums of not less than $100, nor more than $1,000, with annual interest; said Bonds to be divided into five equal classes, payable in one, two, three, four and five years from and after the 15th day of February, 1864, for a sum not to exceed $225,000; that the money received for said Bonds be paid into Treasury of said county and constitute the fund from which said vol- unteers shall be paid, and be paid out under the direction of this Board ; and that no Bond shall be sold or disposed of by the Treasurer for less than its actual amount.
Resolved, That Miles S. Leach be, and he is hereby appointed the Committee of this Board to direct the pay- ment of the above specified Bounties; and that said Com- mittee shall not make any order or draft upon the Treasurer of this county for the purpose of paying to any volunteer said bounty, or any part thereof, until a certificate from the proper officer has been presented to him, showing that such volunteer has been accepted and mustered into the service of the United States as a volunteer, from the County of Wayne, and credited to said county as forming part of its quota under the present call of the President for 300,000 men.
ยท Resolved, That in case towns that have not filled their quota before the draft takes place, shall be drafted from to make up such deficiency in their quotas, said towns shall only be required to pay in proportion to the volunteers raised in and credited to said town.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this county shall not pay out any of the money hereby provided to be raised, except upon an order duly signed by said Miles S. Leach.
A motion to amend by making the bounty five hundred dollars instead of three hundred dollars, was lost by the fol- lowing vote : Ayes - Messrs. Hyde, Redfield, Leach, Flower, Wood, -- 5. Nayes-Messrs. Center, Mead, Lakey, Williams, Valentine, Evans, Wilcox, Everett, Hance,-9. Absent, Mr. Sours.
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The resolutions were then unanimously adopted reported.
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At this time the Legislature had not authorized Boards of Supervisors to levy taxes for the payment of Bounties, and therefore the following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That the Board of Supervisors of Wayne County request the Senator from this district, and the members of Assembly from this couuty to use their best efforts for the speedy passage of a law, legalizing the action of this Board and other Boards of Supervisors in this State in relation to County Bounties.
At the same meeting the resolutions in relation to bounties were directed to be published in all the papers of the county, the expense in each not to exceed the sum of five dollars.
The Treasurer was also required to give an additional Bond of Fifty Thousand Dollars in view of the large sums of money to be entrusted to his care under these resolutions, and the opinion of the Board was embodied in a resolution that the Treasurer ought to be allowed a reasonable com- pensation for the extraordinary labor and responsibility growing out of the recruiting service.
CHAPTER VI.
1864. - CALLS FOR FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN RECEIVED - QUOTA OF WAYNE COUNTY - SUPERVISORS MEET - BOUNTIES OFFERED-EFFORTS TO AVOID A DRAFT - THE ERA OF SUBSTITUTES.
D URING the winter large detachments continued to be secured as recruits to the Ninth Heavy Artillery. Doubtless the supposition that it was to remain as Heavy Artillery in the forts that constituted the defences of Washington, may have tended to draw recruits. For more than a year there was a steady enlistment in the ranks of the Ninth.
The attention of the people had been concentrated upon filling the quotas required by the call of October, 1863. The movement was successful and the draft avoided.
The following article from the Lyons Republican of January 29th, 1864, shows very fully the result as well as the unre- mitting labor by which it was reached It also gives credit richly due to the county officers who had been in charge of the matter. Doubtless the commendation therein expressed of the Provost Marshal and his assistants at Auburn, was also deserved. It remains true, however, that many cases of hardship had arisen in the execution of their difficult and unpleasant duties. Decisions were sometimes made that seemed harsh. Sick men who should have been exempted, were sometimes passed by the surgeons, and compelled to pay or go. It is believed that when injustice of this kind was done, it was due to " busybodies in other men's matters" at home, who filled the ears of the officers in charge, that men were feigning the sickness.
THE QUOTA FILLED-BOUNTY BONDS.
" As we announced last week, the quota of the Twenty- Fourth Congressional District, under the recent call of the President, has been filled-the District being the first in the State to clear itself from the impending draft. And Wayne county, we believe, was the first of the three composing the
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District, to furnish the number of men for which she was called upon.
" This result has not been brought about without hard, earnest, unremitting labor. While one or two towns have been disgracefully laggard, others have taken hold of the work in the right spirit, and have not only cleared their own localities from danger of draft, but have performed a like service for their delinquent neighbors. The people have been thoroughly aroused ; and although the well-remem- bered excitements of similar occasions in 1862 were want- ing, there was no lack of deep and hearty interest in the work and in the cause. And the result is before us-as gratifying as it is almost unexpected.
" A goodly portion of credit for the speedy filling of our county quota is due to the Supervisor's Committee, Mr. M. S. Leach, and to Mr. Dewey, the County Treasurer. They have been prompt and efficient; and their promptness and efficieny have no doubt done much toward inspiring the confidence of hesitating recruits who had a doubt of the ability or disposition of the county to pay its offered Bounty. We have had occasion to know since about the 20th of December, something of the labor which the payment of the County Bounty to volunteers has imposed upon the Treasurer. Within a period of about fifteen days he paid out nearly $135,000, in sums of $600 to $23,000 a day This he did at all hours and in all places ; and to enable him to do so, he was compelled to raise money, wherever he could do so, in sums of from $50 to $10,000. This, at times, was up-hill work, owing to the persistent efforts of a certain few to cry down the credit of the county, hoping thereby to impoverish the Treasury and check volunteering ; but those efforts were of no avail, and latterly more money was offered than was needed, and to-day the County Bonds can hardly be purchased at par. Few men could have dis- played more zeal than our County Treasurer has done, or have been more faithful and efficient.
" We cannot close this article without at least a passing notice of the admirable manner in which their official duties under the recent call for men have been discharged by our worthy Provost-Marshal and his assistants. Under the new arrangement, the duties and labors of their positions have been increased and augmented, but the people are greatly relieved thereby, and have occasion for commendation as well as satisfaction. Captain Knapp has brought to his position the requisite ability, judgment and humanity, and his associates and assistants, Hon. James M. Servis and Dr. Davis, have proved themselves competent and efficient men.
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