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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] $192,776; tax collected in 1862, $17,000; paid by individuals towards procuring substitutes, $52,500; expended in relieving families of soldiers, $5700 — total, $267,976. On the last call the sum expended was $60,930, making the total expenditure $328,906. The State gave to the town to pay the expenses of the last call, $68,550, which being deducted from the previous amount, leaves $260,356, which was the actual cost of the war to the town. In the following regiments were companies com-posed wholly or to a considerable extent of men who enlisted from the town of Cortlandt: The Twenty-seventh Regiment New York State Volunteers, the Ninth New York Volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves), the Forty-eighth New York Volunteers, the Fifty-ninth New York Volunteers, the Ninty-fifth New York Volunteers, the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery and Harris Light Cavalry. There were numbers of other regiments containing soldiers from the town of Cortlandt in smaller numbers, the names of the chief of which have been mentioned in previous portions of the article. As has been stated before, the first body of men to leave the town of Cortlandt for the war departed from Peckskill on the 27th of April, 1861, being six-teen in number, and joined a company at White Plain", which became Company " A " of the Twenty-seventh Regiment. This regiment was organized at Elmira, N.