The Civil War and Rockland County

Brian Clay JenningsLocal History Librarian, New City Library

Presentation for Leadership RocklandOctober 9 2014

Population of Rockland in 1860 was 22,492

That number had doubled since 1840 yet the County was

still largely made up of small farmers

Harper’s Weekly October 3 1860

Politics and the War

Rockland Companies

• 17th NY Infantry

– Company G (Nyack); Company D (Stony Point); Company F (Haverstraw); Company I (Ramapo)

• 95th NY Infantry

– Company F (Haverstraw) October 1861

– Company B (Haverstraw) November 1861

• 6th NY Heavy Artillery Company M (Clarkstown) Sept./Oct. 1862

• 127th NY Infantry, Companies A & B (Nyack)

Steamboat advertisementMay 11 1861

Rockland County Journal

The Waldron Brothers

4 Brothers served in the 17th NY: Towt age 19, Edgar age 21, Carroll 23, and William who at age 33 left a wife and two young daughters.

Recruiting the Irish immigrant

Rockland County

Messenger

October 17 1861

General Louis Blenker and Germans in Rockland County

The Pathfinder:

General John C. Frémont

General Daniel Ullman

1810-1892

The Draft and Rockland County

Harpers Weekly, August 1 1861

Lincoln Boulder dedication June 13, 1908

Letterfrom Robert

Lincoln (President

Lincoln’s son)

May 8, 1911

Silliman Post 172 GAREstablished July 1880

Mount Moor Cemetery