. Thetford academy, Thetford, Vermont. Seventy-fifth anniversary and reunion. Thursday, June 28, 1894. HON. HALSEY J. HON. FREDERICK HATES. 149 Under the Confederate Substitute law of 1863, Mr. Bates fur-nished a substitute, and then returned to Macon, and tookcharge of a warehouse belonging to his company; but in July,1863, Jeff Davis wrote to the governors that there were 170,000substitutes in the army, and urged that all those who furnishedsubstitutes be called out for state service. Governor Brown ofGeorgia responded with his state order, mustering all substitutesin his states s
. Thetford academy, Thetford, Vermont. Seventy-fifth anniversary and reunion. Thursday, June 28, 1894. HON. HALSEY J. HON. FREDERICK HATES. 149 Under the Confederate Substitute law of 1863, Mr. Bates fur-nished a substitute, and then returned to Macon, and tookcharge of a warehouse belonging to his company; but in July,1863, Jeff Davis wrote to the governors that there were 170,000substitutes in the army, and urged that all those who furnishedsubstitutes be called out for state service. Governor Brown ofGeorgia responded with his state order, mustering all substitutesin his states service, which, Mr. Bates saw, meant Braggs army,and its subsequent bloody battles. He, not feeling equal to thetask, as he observed, on the 23d of July, 1863, secured a passfrom the mayor of Macon to go to Rome, Ga., for the benefit ofhis health. Here he and the hotel keeper apparently were theonly men in citizens dress, so full was the town of provost marshal passed him and his family down Coosariver to Cedar Bluff, and gave them a letter to the hotel keeper,asking him to protect them from Yankee raids. In Al
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