After the first year or two of the war the number of men volunteering for the war dropped so much the government had to resort to the draft to fill the ranks of the military. One of the unique aspects of the Civil War draft was that a person could buy their way out of the draft. The law was this - It permitted a man to hire a substitute to take his place if he was drafted. How much money was paid out was determined by market value (supply and demand). The following men hired substitutes from Rochester, NH to go into the military and thus avoid the military. On the left is the person who paid for the substitute On the right is the Rochester man who went into the military as a substitute |
AVOIDED DRAFT | SUBSTITUTE |
James Richards | Henry J. Armstrong |
S.F. McDufee | Robert Bennet |
George W. Chesley | Moses D. Brackett |
Lewis J. Smith | Charles Brown |
Thomas Hall | John Browning |
Peter Donlay | James Bryant |
George S. Hussey | Patrick Caine |
John W. Hall | John Chesley |
Edwin Wallace | Charles Crockett |
Simon L. Horne | George Curtis |
David Ham | William Damzen |
George Clark | John Davis |
Enos Hussey | Patrick Donahue |
Seth T. Hurd | F. Foslin Fourin |
John Young | Michael Gilligan |
Dudley W. Hayes | William Hedrick |
George Springfield | John Hinckley |
E. G. Wallace | H. Hunter |
G. F. Falls | Stephen Jenness |
John B. Dame | Robert Johnson |
Nathaniel Cross | William Johnson |
Edward B. Mills | Hosea B. Knox |
M.V.B. Wentworth | Patrick McCormack |
Dudley B. Waldron | James Morrison |
Jeremiah Randall | James Morse |
Joseph McDuffee | John Murray |
William Abbott | Charles Parker |
Charles Hayes | Charles Patterson |
William Toben | Nathaniel Perkins |
William Rand | Henry Pitchenger |
John W. Tebbets | William Rosier |
John F. Low | James Russell |
Noah Jenness | Walter Shurhan |
G.H. Tilton | Harlow Somonds |
Charles Bickford | Samuel Simonds |
George Nye | Joseph Smith |
J.W. Ham | Henry Stansbury |
Edward Hurd | Edward Stanton |
Joseph Hurd | Lyman Stone |
Charles Willey | William Thomas |
Hiram S. Osborne | Robert Watson |
John Avery | Roland Whicher |
George W. Wentworth | Patrick White |
Dyer P. Hall | George Whitefield |
John Twombly | John Wilson |