[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] as deserters, they proved they had left the regiment with the knowledge and approval of the captain, who was punished for his error by imprisonment. On the 3d of Ju'y, 1864, the Eighteenth Regiment of Militia were ordered out for thirty days, to aid in resisting Lee's advance into Pennsylvania. Company "F" of this regiment was raised in I Vck>k 1 1 1, and consisted of those members of the Jefferson Guards and Bleakley Rifles who had not already gone to the war. James Ryder, who lived near Croton Falls, was colonel, but John H. Hvatt, of Peekskill, the lieutenant-colonel, was actually in command. The company were not in any battle, but spent most of their time in garrison duty at F<»rt Marshall, at Balti-more, Md. They were mustered out at Yonkers August 17, 1863, having been in service forty-five days. The Naval Service. — John McLuckey, Austin Fink, Pierre L. Paulding, Cornelius Bodine, Henry Helliker, Francis Smith and Robert S. Hancock, resi-dents of the town of Cortlandt, enlisted for the naval service August 12, 1864, and were placed on the " Isomnia,'' under command of Captain Edward Simp-son, afterwards rear admiral. He was succeeded by a volunteer captain. This vessel was not in any en-gagement, but was chiefly employed in chasing blockade-runners. In August, 1864, thirty-two men from Peekskill, mostly soldiers who had served out their time in the army, enlisted for the navy.