Towns. Volunteers. Militia. Total.
Blooming Grove 37 .. 37
Chester 31 2 33
Cornwall 36 .. 36
Crawford 11 5 16
Deer Park 104 .. 104
Goshen 30 .. 30
Greenville 3 .. 3
Hamptonburgh 2 .. 2
Highlands 1 .. 1
Minisink 17 .. 17
Monroe 25 .. 25
Montgomery 109 79 188
Mount Hope 9 .. 9
Newburgh 493 429 922
New Windsor 26 2 28
Southfield 12 .. 12
Wallkill 447 .. 447
Warwick 100 .. 100
Wawayanda 12 .. 12
______ ____ ______
1,505 517 2,022
In addition to the numbers tabulated there were in the 71st Militia
four hundred and twenty-nine from Newburgh, seventy-nine from Mount
Hope, five from Deer Park, two from Chester and two from Southfield.
The totals tell their own story of patriotic zeal.
Company B, Third Regiment, before referred to as the first to be
recruited and ready for muster in the State, was mustered out at the
end of its two years' service, but reorganized and was mustered out
the second time after the close of the war, on August 28, 1865. It
was in many fights, including those of Big Bethel, Fort Wagner,
Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, Fort Gilmer, Chapin's Farm, Fort Fisher
and Wilmington. Its first captain, Stephen W. Fullerton, appointed
April 20, 1861, died in Newburgh, September 11, 1861, and was
succeeded by Ervine A. Jones, first lieutenant, September 25, 1861,
who was dismissed August 16, 1862. Alexander Mann, second and then
first lieutenant, was promoted to captain, June 10, 1861, and
discharged August 31, 1864. Jeremiah D. Mabie, who was promoted from
first sergeant to second lieutenant, and then to first lieutenant of
Co. B, was made captain of Co. F, June 15, 1863, and discharged
September 18, 1864. James H. Reeve was advanced from fourth sergeant
to first sergeant and then to second lieutenant of Co. B, was made
captain of Co. I, October 3, 1864, lost a leg at Fort Fisher, and was
discharged June 26, 1865.
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