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Attention, Substitutes. We have now several principals on hand and can pay the highest cash bounties for one or three years substitutes. Apply early to Lindauer & Co., 438½ Broadway, over the shoe store.

A Notice to Drafted Men. We are Now Prepared to furnish either one or three years substitutes and procure exemption papers on the most reasonable terms, at the shortest possible notice, for any ward or district In the city. Lindauer & Co., 438½ Broadway, over the shoe store.

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Attention, Substitutes. We have now several principals on hand and can pay the highest cash bounties for one or three years substitutes. Apply early to Lindauer & Co., 438½ Broadway, over the shoe store.

A Notice to Drafted Men. We are Now Prepared to furnish either one or three years substitutes and procure exemption papers on the most reasonable terms, at the shortest possible notice, for any ward or district In the city. Lindauer & Co., 438½ Broadway, over the shoe store.

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438½ Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York (40.7200055,-74.0032171)

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"[In] 1863 Congress passed the Enrollment Act, the first genuine national conscription law, setting up under the Union Army an elaborate machinery for enrolling and drafting men between twenty and forty-five years of age. Quotas were assigned in each state, the deficiencies in volunteers required to be met by conscription. Still, men drafted could provide substitutes, and until mid-1864 could even avoid service by paying commutation money. Many eligible men pooled their money to cover the cost of any one of them drafted. Families used the substitute provision to select which member should go into the army and which would stay home. The other popular means of procuring a substitute was to pay a soldier whose period of enlistment was about to expire - the advantage of this method was that the Army could retain a trained veteran in place of a raw recruit. Of the 168,649 men procured for the Union Army through the draft, 117,986 were substitutes, leaving only 50,663 who had their personal services conscripted. There was much evasion and overt resistance to the draft, and the New York City draft riots were in direct response to the draft and were the first large-scale resistance against the draft in the United States." (Source: Conscription in the United States in Wikipedia)

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