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Box 5

 Container

Contains 40 Results:

Draft avoidance, December 28, 1863

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Commutation Money receipt for avoiding the Union draft by paying a $300 fee. Yonkers, NY. Rudin # M-60

Dates: December 28, 1863
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

Draft avoidance: certificate of substitution, August 20, 1864

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Form used when one person paid another to take their place in the Military Service during the Civil War. Newton Green pays Asathus A. Hart $400 to act as his substitute. Rudin # M-61

Dates: August 20, 1864
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

Draft avoidance, October 1, 1863

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Certificate certifies that H.C. Gregerson is entitled to be paid $300 as a substitute for a drafted NY Policeman. Additional document acknowledges receipt of the $300. Rudin # M-62

Dates: October 1, 1863
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

Substitute soldier bounty payment, December 11, 1863

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Certificate names a substitute soldier with a bounty payment of $300. Additional document releases NY Substitute Committee of claim. Rudin # M-63

Dates: December 11, 1863
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

Substitute broker card

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Business card for Haynes, Webb and Co. General Substitute Brokers - Bounties paid to Substitutes and Volunteers to fight in Civil War. Rudin # M-63A

Dates: 1861-1865.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

New York Draft Exemptions, October 16, 1863

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Commutation Money Receipt indicating commutation money received from 18 men exempting them from the Federal Draft. Rudin # M-64

Dates: October 16, 1863
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

Drummer boy discharge, July 17, 1862

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Certificate of Discharge for a 13 year old drummer boy by reason of a physical disability. Rudin # M-65

Dates: July 17, 1862
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

General Orders No. 3, February 6, 1865

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Act to provide for the appointment of a General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. Rudin # A-139

Dates: February 6, 1865
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

General Orders No. 4, January 4, 1964

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Accused of desertion, Pvt. George Hoffer receives a sentence of 10 years at hard labor with a ball of 24 pounds attached to his leg by a chain four feet long. Rudin # M-73A

Dates: January 4, 1964
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

General Orders No. 24, February 21, 1865

 unspecified — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

The restoration of the Union flag at Fort Sumter. Rudin # A-13B

Dates: February 21, 1865
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4696, Gail and Stephen Rudin Civil War collection / Series III. Documents

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