[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Yorktown also lost a great number of men in the same way, no mention of them being found in the official records of the two years' volunteers; and of other towns there is still less trace in any documents by which official proof can be furnished of the facts. The whole history of the two years' volunteers, in Westchester County, is one of men pressing their services on the government, which seemed not to want them; and it cost more trouble, in the months of April and May, 1861, to get into the army at all than it afterwards did to get out of the draft. The 5th New York Volunteers, known as Colonel Duryea's Zouaves, received a goodly number of Westchester County men, especially from Yonkers. In this regiment Ralph E. Prime (afterward nominated by the president to be brevet brigadier-general) was a captain. John (1. Peene, another well-known citizen of Yonkers (subsequently mayor of the city), was among the first to enlist. The original demand for two-years' men was soon modified so as to require a service of three years. From August 10 to November 15, 1861, the 4th New York Cavalry was mustered in, comprehending three companies (B, C, and F) from Yonkers. The 5th Independent Battery, mustered in November 8, 1861, included several privates from Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and Peekskill, and in the 1st Regiment Mounted Pities, mustered in all the way from August 31, 1861, to September 0, 1862, there were volunteers from Tarrytown, Mount Pleasant, and Harrison. "This," says Mr.