2437
Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 September 1864
(4 inches)
~ See original
p.4, col.5
~ View at ChronAm
2437 - L. Sept. 3:4/5 - "After laboring with the people of the ward (Fourth)
for some two weeks and finding that nearly one-half of the enrolled men
of the ward have been called upon in vain; and entirely refuse to contrib-
ute, it was determined to suffer the ward to be drafted for the small
number of men lacking."
At a meeting held at the engine house, on Sept. 2, a resolution was
adopted "that any person, who has contributed to the ward fund, under the
recent call for five hundred thousand men, may take any number of shares
at ten dollars each, in an association, this evening, formed for mutual
protection of any who shall be drafted from said association."
The shares will be ready for delivery Sept. 10. (4)
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