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Do you happen to know if the person who paid to have someone take his
military duty for him was eligible for a pension or did it go to the
man who did the fighting?



On 3/11/06, Donald Hartwick <s.s.hartwick@centurytel.net> wrote:
> My great-great-grandfather was paid to take another man's place.  He was a new arrival from Germany and probably could use the money - $400.  Also, he had recently fought in a war in Germany, and was not married..  On his Discharge, a line entitled 'Bounty' is filled in '$100.'  I don't know if this meant he was still owed by the man for whom he was a sub.
> I have copies of his records from The National Archives.
>
> Sandra Shaw/Schoch Hartwick
> s.s.hartwick@centurytel.net
>
>