Excerpt from A Political History of the State of New York, Vol. 3: 1861-1882 Of the regiments called for New York's quota was seven teen. Governor Morgan immediately communicated it to the Legislature, which authorised in a few the enlist ment of volunteers for two years. Drill room and armory in the State became a scene of great activity, and by April 19, four days after the call, the Seventh New York, each man carrying forty-eight rounds of ball cartridge, received an enthusiastic ovation as it marched down Broadway on its way to Washington. There after, each day presented, somewhere in the State, a similar pageant. Men offered their services so much faster than the Government could take them that bitterness followed the fierce competition.14 By July 1 New York had despatched to the seat of war men - an aggregate that was swelled by December 30 to Loans to the govern ment, offered with an equally lavish hand, approximated in three months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.