[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] places. The names of our forty-two officers and soldiers who lost their lives to sustain the Union are in-scribed on the Soldiers' Monument, and will be found in the section of this sketch which is devoted to that memento of the War of the Rebellion. Several other soldiers of our town have since died, from the effects of diseases which were contracted during the war. A "Ladies' Union Relief Association" was formed in Sing Sing almost as soon as the war began. Mrs. C. F. Maurice was elected first directress; Mrs. William A. Pentz, second directress; and Mrs. C. E. Van Cortlandt, secretary. This association did a large amount of very excellent and valuable work during the whole period of the war. It was an aux-iliary branch of that great national benevolent and humane organization, the United States Sanitary Commission. Grand Army of the Republic. — A Post of the Grand Army of the Republic was instituted at Sing Sing in the year 1800, under the designation of Powell Post, No. 5]. The name was selected in honor of the two brothers, Bartow W. Powell, Jr., and George W. Powell, both former residents of this vil-