[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Meetings of the Association were held weekly through-out the war, and large supplies of lint, bandages, clothing and other articles were prepared and sent away by them. May 8, 1861, a company of twenty volunteers, un-der command of Benjamin B. Finch, a young man residing in Peekskill, left the village for New York. This company became disintegrated in the city, and its members joined various regiments. During a portion of the year 1861, and early in 1862, James Hart Purdy, of Yorktown, enlisted in Peekskill a number of volunteers for the Fifty-ninth Regiment, and in the early part of 1862, James L. Paulding, of Peekskill, a descendant of John Pauld-ing of Revolutionary fame, and afterwards interested in the Peekskill Plow Works, raised a full company for the same regiment, which became known as Com-pany I. Under the calls of the President, in 1862, for 600,-000 soldiers, half to serve for three years and a half to serve for nine months, the quota of the town of Cort-landt was 311 men. A subscription was started for the purpose of giving a bounty of $25 to each volun-teer. The sum of $2114.50 was collected, and ninety-four volunteers were obtained. As it was apparent that greater efforts must be put forth in order to se-cure the rest of the quota, it was resolved, at a meet-