When Governor Morgan's proclamation of April, 18, 1861, was published, Wallace W. Wood, a manufacturer of lumber at Wood's Falls, stated to his employees in the mill that he intended to organize a company under the call, and that he would take as many single men as chose to join the company. Forty at once volunteered. He then traveled through the adjoining towns, obtaining the maximum number to organize a company. These men met at West Chazy on May 1st, and elected Wallace W. Wood, Captain; John McFadden, First Lieutenant; Henry J. Carlton, Second Lieutenant; with a full complement of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, whose names appear in the Company K roster, Sixteeth New York. The Captain telegraphed to the Adjutant-General at Albany that he had organized a company and asked for instructions and transportation; but no orders having been received on the morning of the 3rd, he took his company to Plattsburgh by rail, and by the evening boat to Whitehall; thence by rail to Albany, where it arrived on the 4th, and took quarters in an unused church. The company was accepted on the 7th.

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