[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Y., to serve for two years, and it was while it was stationed there that Jeremiah Murden, one of the Peekskill members of Company "A," was brutally murdered. He was the first soldier from the town of Cortlandt who was killed-This event happened June 26, 1861. Murden was one of a company of five sent out to seek deserters from the regiment. He saw one of the men he was looking for in a saloon on Rail-road Street, and entering, laid his hand upon him and informed him he was under arrest. A companion of the deserter instantly whipped out a knife and stabbed Murden so savagely in the breast that he died almost immediately. He was only nineteen years of age and bore a good character. His remains were brought to Peekskill and escorted to their last resting-place by the fire companies of the village in procession. The first captain of the company was Joseph J. Chambers, editor of the Sing Sing RepvbUcfin, whose term of office extended from April 30, 1861, to June 20, 1861, when he was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel. William M. Bleakley, of Verplanck's Point, was then captain until February 8, 1862, and after him came Edwin D. Comstock, of Binghamton, N. Y., who retained the office until the regiment was mustered out, May 21, 1863. The company partici-pated with the regiment in the following battles : Rull Run, Gaines' Mill, Seven Days' Battle, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks-burg and Marye's Heights.