[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Va., near Appomattox Court-House, on April 9, 1865, the day upon which Lee surrendered. The Nineteenth Regiment of Militia of the State of New York was ordered out for three months from May until August, 1862, and was accompanied by a number of Peekskillers. It was mustered into the service of the United States at Newburgh, from Jan-uary 23, 1863, to February 11, 1863, as the One Hun-dred and Sixty-eighth Regiment New York Volun-teers, to take the field for nine months. The first I company for this regiment was raised in the town of Cortlandt, and contained sixty-six members, sixty-three of whom were residents of the town. It became Company " A." Its officers were as follows : Cap-tain, Bennett Gilbert; First Lieutenant, Janus H. Scarles; Second Lieutenant, Andrew J. Gilbert; Ser-geants— Orderly, Wright Gilbert; Second, Robert S. Hancock; Third, Anson L. Gilbert; Fourth, James Sparks, John Q. A. Hubbell, Charles YV. Coleman and John Pentreath. The regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac. The company par-ticipated in but one engagement, which took place at YYalkerton, Va., June 5, 18(53, and resulted in the capture of Elias G. McChain and Pierre L. Paul-