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The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
a quiet one, with Captain Schultz, the Provost-Marshal, and Francis W-Blackford, the Commissioner, in charge, and the blind man drawing cut the names, one after another, as the box containing them was from time to time shaken up. Though the scene was quiet, it was a hot and anxious one, by reason of the temperature of the day and the deep personal interest felt by many in the result. As a guard for the occasion, a company of the 153d Regiment New York Volunteers, under command of Capt. C. F. Putnam, was in attendance to preserve order, and sentinels were stationed at the doors of the room, and at the passages leading thereto. The drawing of the first ward (or first sub district) commenced at 9 o'clock, and was finished at about 2½ o'clock. The names were written upon cards, as returned by the enrolling officers, to the number of 3,842, from which 1,180 were drawn, the quota of the ward. The men drawn were 874 white and 306 colored. Among those drawn are Capt. W. R. Hutton,