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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ital. The Board of Enrollment in the New Bedford (Mass.) district out of 1,286 drafted men. "passed" into the U. S. army 121. The Orleans (N. Y.) Republican gives some incidents of the draft in that district. It says: The enrolling officers had put down the names of all that they could see or hear of, including the lame, blind, deaf, and dead. This swelled the enrollment list, and of course the quota to be drawn. Among the names put in the wheel for this town we noticed that of Geo. K. Mason, who died in the United States service nearly a year since, and W. A. Shelden, who has not resided in this town in four years. Among the drawn in this town are Joseph Belgard and Henry Webber, neither of whom have ever walked without artificial aid. There is one clergyman, Rev. Mr. Reddy, drawn. The editor of this paper and the junior editor of the American both took prizes. So also did the foreman of this office and two compositors in the American office. The firms of Bedell &