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The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Incident at the care --It is the practices of the Provost Marshal to detail deposition of his force at each railroad depot daily on the departure of the cars, to see that no improper or suspicious characters leave city. Yesterday morning while Detective Burke was at the Fredericksburg Repot an old gentleman accompanied by two man, sought a passage, and they were asked for their passports as usual. They proved to be all right, when the officer asked the two young man for their exemption papers. They repeated that they had none, when the old man up spoke up and said they were both over conscript age, one being 47 and the other the rise of 45 that they had sworn to a statement to that effect in Savannah Ga. where all three bailed from and that he, gentleman, was then taking them to the army as substitutes to relieve two relatives. The detective remarked that their cath might be all right but that they were the youngest looking old men he had ever seen. The conversation close