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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
was, very unceremoniously and severely applied a cowhide to the person of Mr. Geer. Thomas Simms, the slave who was returned to his master, applied for exemption on the ground that he was between 35 and 36 years of age, and married. He was exempted. Five deserters, who had received their $300 bounty, were caught at South Berwick on Friday morning by the City Marshal of Portland; $300 was found on each man. Mr. Benj. Johnson, a colored man, was drafted last week in the town of Scio, Alleghany county. He reported promptly at the office of the Provost Marshal and offered a white man as his substitute, who was accepted and sworn into the service. The Newburyport Herald, in alluding to the large per cent. of exemptions granted by the enrolling officers, says: One of two things is true — there is either much perjury, or we are the most sickly people that ever had an existence. If it be true that the young men from twenty to thirty five are so diseased and debil