Chester County and its people .. . ompany, raised within the limits of the county, wascalled the Union Guards, which had the following officers: Cap-tain, John W. Newlin; first lieutenant, George Silvers, and secondlieutenant, William Bailey. This company was named the Ander-son Light Artillery. On April 20 a company was fully organized at Kennett Squarecontaining sixty members. This district was inhabited largely bymembers of the Society of Friends, and the company was namedthe Kennett Rifles, or the Quaker Company. Its officers were:Captain, C. F. Taylor; first lieutenant, Chandler Hall, and
Chester County and its people .. . ompany, raised within the limits of the county, wascalled the Union Guards, which had the following officers: Cap-tain, John W. Newlin; first lieutenant, George Silvers, and secondlieutenant, William Bailey. This company was named the Ander-son Light Artillery. On April 20 a company was fully organized at Kennett Squarecontaining sixty members. This district was inhabited largely bymembers of the Society of Friends, and the company was namedthe Kennett Rifles, or the Quaker Company. Its officers were:Captain, C. F. Taylor; first lieutenant, Chandler Hall, and secondlieutenant, Evan P. Dixon. They were equipped with blankets,etc., by the people of their section of the county, .|4,000 beingquickly raised for this purpose on the day they were the 30th of the month a company of home guards was raisedat Milltown, of which Jesse Matlack was the captain, WilliamB. Hoopes first lieutenant and Eli S. Moore second lieutenant. Acompany was raised at Kennett Square called the Kennett. - X t u s v: f J If i h ti t i /^^ ? k 2: 2 1—1 Q J i—1 —1 ^ 2 1—1 ^ < AND ITH PEOPLE. 283 Square Home Guards, to which a large cannon was presented byBayard Taylor, to protect the town from invasion. At Coatesville two companies were raised, one of infantry andone of cavalry, the officers of the infantrv being J. T. Minster, cap-tain; Samuel Greenwood, first lieutenant, and Eobert Kussell,second lieutenant. On the 22d of April there was a meeting atUnionville, in the hall, at which were present many citizens ofEast and West Marlborough, Pocopson and Xewlin townships, forthe purpose of forming a company of home guards. One hundredand fifty men enrolled their names and elected William S. Colliercaptain and D. M. Taylor lieutenant. On this same day there wasa meeting at Amity schoolhouse to form a volunteer rifle corps. The Phffinixville artillerists about the same time offered theirservices to the Government, their officers being captain, J
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