[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] W. Morell, who commanded the Filth Corps, under General Fit/.-John Porter. The Post had hut seven-teen members at the time of its organization. Powell Post, No. 24, Sons of Veterans was organ-ized, December 15, 1888, with Joseph K. Swain as Commander. It began with eleven members; within six months it increased to twenty-five. The Soldiers' Monument. — Shortly after the close of the War of the Rebellion a Ladies' Monu-ment Association was formed by a number of the ladies of Sing Sing, for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the soldiers who had gone forth from the village and fallen in the struggle. About :?.'{f>0 were raised by solicitation. The corner-stone of the monument was laid with great ceremony on the Fourth of July, 1872. The sum obtained not being sufficient to erect a suitable monument, a meet-ing of veterans of the war was called in the year 1872, and the Monumental I )ramatic Association was formed, for the purpose of raising funds for the completion of the monument. The first entertainment was the performance of a play called " The Scout of Tennes-see; or, the Battle of Chattanooga," and was received