From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Mar 10 09:27:30 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2AGRUjb027267; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:27:30 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2AGRSjG015371 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:27:28 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2ADvCFI017901 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:57:12 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2ADvCNo017900 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:57:12 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2ACmwFI017728 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:48:58 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2AFJ2pR018502 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:19:02 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Patscga@aol.com Fri Mar 10 08:19:02 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2AFJ2jb018491 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:19:02 -0700 Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com (imo-m21.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.2]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2AFIYBI017297 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:18:34 -0700 Received: from Patscga@aol.com by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.2bf.66c360e (39329); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:18:15 -0500 (EST) From: Patscga@aol.com Message-ID: <2bf.66c360e.3142f2b7@aol.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:18:15 EST Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Civil War To: Bkiller8224@wmconnect.com, ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com In a message dated 3/10/2006 10:02:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Bkiller8224@wmconnect.com writes: I am not a Civil War historian so maybe someone out there answer this question. I have heard that if a person was drafted during the Civil War, he could pay another person to take his place. I have an ancestor who is supposed to have done this. Does anyone know if in fact this was true and if records were kept by the government of such transactions? Yes, people could hire substitutes. A google search will tell you all you need to know. I doubt there would be any record of your ancestor who hired someone to take his place except perhaps at the State level. Michigan, for example, has such records.