58 



of red trousers, blue shirt, blue jacket, red cap and white 

 leggings- He has some sugar and coffee, but the sugar looks 

 like a piece of coal, he said as it was mixed with the coffee 

 and was down in the cellar 18 years. The men used to take 

 hardtack and make it into pancakes with lots of sugar put 

 over them. So Lieut. Col. Warren said he would fix them. 

 So he mixed the sugar and coffee and if they wanted any sugar 

 they had to take the coffee too. Private Carroll said : " I got 

 my discharge on the nth of September, 1864. All the boys 

 got their rifles nickel-plated when we organized into the asso- 

 ciation, but I didn't. We had 160 men in first, now we have 

 49. My rifle is a breech loader. Only two companies used 

 the Sharp's rifles. In '62 we got the Springfield rifles. I 

 clean my rifle every year and I get a lot of pleasure out of it. 

 I served 16 months in the 5th and then was transferred to the 

 Veterans and served 8 months in that. The way the uniform 

 came to be adopted was this : Capt. Cambreleng, after whom 

 Cambreleng avenue in The Bronx is named, had a brother 

 in the French Army. One day he visited Capt. Cambreleng 

 here and showed him his uniform. Capt. Cambreleng thought 

 it was fine and through him it was adopted." 



He said that the old veterans don't like to parade any more 

 because they do not like the remarks people pass about them. 

 One day when he was walking through the streets, a woman 

 said : " Oh, look at the new woman," and some boys called him 

 a Turk. 



He said he wanted to put his few treasures somewhere 

 where they would be preserved, as he couldn't expect to live 

 much longer and he didn't want them thrown in the street. 

 He said it wasn't likely that any one else would think any- 

 thing of them, anyway not as much as he does, so he would 

 like to see them in the Museum. 



Mr. Carroll has not yet presented the relics. 



Mr. Reginald Pelham Bolton is this afternoon exhibiting 

 some of the relics which he has loaned to the Society at the 

 unveiling of a tablet erected by the Daughters of the Revolu- 



