. The Norwich memorial; the annals of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, in the great rebellion of 1861-65 . ut ofan enrollment of but twenty-one. Most of those drafted,however, either were exempted, or else paid commutation,or provided substitutes, so that very few of them were per-sonally held to service. On October seventeenth, the President called for an an-ditional force of three hundred thousand men, to serve forthree years, or the war. The Legislature had just addedthree hundred dollars to the large bounty offered by theNational Government, making such inducements for volun-teerin
. The Norwich memorial; the annals of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, in the great rebellion of 1861-65 . ut ofan enrollment of but twenty-one. Most of those drafted,however, either were exempted, or else paid commutation,or provided substitutes, so that very few of them were per-sonally held to service. On October seventeenth, the President called for an an-ditional force of three hundred thousand men, to serve forthree years, or the war. The Legislature had just addedthree hundred dollars to the large bounty offered by theNational Government, making such inducements for volun-teering as were never held out by any nation before. TheState was called on to furnish five thousand four hundredand thirty-two volunteers before the fifth day of January, orelse be subjected to a draft for nearly twice that quota of Norwich was two hundred and six. Our citi-zens now roused themselves to secure the requisite numberof recruits, and going to work with a will, they soon foundthat their efforts could be made successful. In spite of adriving rain-storm, a war-meeting was held in Breed Hall, I. u H- GREAT DISTRICT WAR-MEETING. lOI Tuesday morning, November seventeenth, which was fullyattended. Hon. David Gallup, of Plainfield, was chosenchairman, who made a brief statement of the objects of themeeting, and urged the prompt and wise devising of meas-ures likely to insure the filling up of the quota of the dis-trict, which was eleven hundred and three. Hon. J. T. Waitthen addressed the assembly with much earnestness, allud-ing to the fact, that the exigencies of the case admitted ofbut two alternatives. Men must either come forward andenlist, or we must inevitably submit to a draft for double thenumber asked for by volunteering. When we consider ourwealth and our teeming millions of population in compari-son with the resources of our fathers, we ought to humbleourselves in the dust, if we cannot come forward and fullyrespond to the demands of the country. H. H. St
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