[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] dred and Sixty-eighth Regiment New York State ii.— 35 Volunteers); 12 in the Excelsior Regiment, Sickles' brigade, and others in the Fifty-third Regiment, the Thirteenth Regiment of New Jersey, Swain's Cavalry, the Ironside Regiment, the New York City Regi-ment and other regiments. October 17, 1863, a call was issued by the Presi-dent for 3(10,000 men. The quota assigned to the town of Cortlandt was 116 men. The town expended $14,000 in procuring volunteers, and a committee ap-pointed for the purpose assessed upon individuals drafted such additional sum as they thought each one able to pay, to assist in procuring substitutes. The cost of filling the quota was thus considerably in ex--cess of $14,000. The bounty paid to each volunteer was $300. February 1, 1864, a call for 500,000 men was is-sued, but the former call for 300,000 men of October 17, 1863, was included in it, and the actual number of new men required was 200,000. The additional quota of the town of Cortlandt was 73 men. The town raised $35,000, for which it issued its bonds, and paid a bounty of $300 to each volunteer. The whole amount was consumed. Another call for two hundred thousand men was made March 14, 1864. The quota of the town of Cortlandt was seventy-two, but as the two former quotas had been too large by twenty-three, the number required to be furnished under this call was only forty-nine.