[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] being the first of the thirty-nine old regiments to report for duty:" The number of men lost by the regiment at the second Bull Run was almost half the whole number who went into the battle. 590 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Mr. Frederick Wkittaker, author of the article on the Civil War in Scharfs History, after giving the particulars of the organization of the Port Chester company (he docs not mention the Yonkers com-pany), says: The Town of Cortlandt, almost at the same time, sent out sixty men, raised by Mr. Ben-jamin R. Simpkins. For the want of the money that kept the Port Chester company to-gether, tins tine body of young men became lost in the great City of New York, and drifted into different regiments, so that not a man of the sixty was ever credited to the county, and not a few of them returned home. Another party of sixteen went off to White Plains, under the command of Mr. William M. Bleakly, of Verplanck's Point. On the roll of Company A, 27th Regiment, they appear as credited to Elmira, of all places in the world. Mr. Bleakly afterwards became Captain Bleakly in the 27th, and was discharged in February, 18G2. The company of Mr. Joseph J. Chambers is another instance of the same state of affairs; for, though the men undoubtedly hailed from White Plains, they are likewise credited to Elmira, their°captain being made lieutenant-colonel on the 21st of May.