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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 189 (part 2)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was at-tached to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles fought with the Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth Corps of that army. In August, 1804, the regiment was ordered to Washington for garrison duty, and were stationed there five weeks, this being the only duty of the kind in which they were engaged during the war. They were then placed under Gen-eral Sheridan's command, and participated in the fierce fights of the Shenandoah Valley campaign. Company " I " was mustered out with the rest of the regiment June 27, 1865, and arrived in Sing Sing July 3, 1805. The follow ing day being the celebra-tion of American Independence, a procession and for-mal welcome to the veterans constituted an interest-ing and important portion of the proceedings of tin-day. During the summer of 1864 nine residents of Sing Sing entered the naval service and were stationed on the gunboat " Nyack." They were Dennis Norton, G. W. Romaine, Curtis Delanoy, Charles E. Lewis, Daniel G. Clark. Sylvester Flewellyn, Samuel Patte-son, Robert^ McCaskey and W. A. McKain. They