Chester County and its people .. . n willing to fight for their coun-try, and took them to the new camp mentioned above on the newrailroad, the camp being on the farm of Abraham Williams. OnJuly 14 Frederick Douglas delivered an address in the Horticul-tural Hall in West Chester for the purpose of encouraging enlist-ments on the part of members of his race. In the draft which began in West Chester August 4, 1863, andwhich was conducted throughout the county at different places atdifferent times until early in October, there were drawn 1,789, ofwhich nvimber 1,640 procured exemption from servic
Chester County and its people .. . n willing to fight for their coun-try, and took them to the new camp mentioned above on the newrailroad, the camp being on the farm of Abraham Williams. OnJuly 14 Frederick Douglas delivered an address in the Horticul-tural Hall in West Chester for the purpose of encouraging enlist-ments on the part of members of his race. In the draft which began in West Chester August 4, 1863, andwhich was conducted throughout the county at different places atdifferent times until early in October, there were drawn 1,789, ofwhich nvimber 1,640 procured exemption from service in oneway or another, either because they were the only support of awidowed mother, from physical disability, from furnishing a sub-stitute, or from the payment of the amount reqiiired by the Gov-ernment as an equivalent. Under the call of February 1, 1864, by the President of theUnited States, for 500,000 men, Chester County filled her quota inlarge part by re-enlisted men and volunteers. Each man enlisting ?-o*.^ ^^^j^^/^^xi. ^^-^^:¥>^ 1. MARY DOD BROWN LINCOLN HALL. 3. CRESSON HALL. 4. HOUSTON HALL. 5. UNIVERSITY HALL. AXD ITS PEOPLE. 301 uuder this call became entitled to a count}- bounty of |350, thispolicy being determined on by the county commissioners imme-diately after the Presidents call. One hundred dollars of themoney was paid in cash, and |250 was given in county bonds. Ifanyone preferred all cash, be was paid . in that way, a dis-count of five per cent, being charged for the payment of the | entire amount of the bounty paid reached somewhere betweenP50,000 and |400,000. Quite a number of colored men joined theranks under this call, and were highly pleased at the receipt of theGreenbacks, so large a pile of which they had never before commissioners said, after experimenting with tliis method ofIaisiug the countys quota, Chester County is the first in the Stateto fill her quota, and of course it was said with no little satisfac
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