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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: !! Gazette; Davenport, Scott, Iowa; Sept 20, 1864
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:03:41 -0500


The Davenport Daily Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
September 20, 1864

THE DRAFT - The draft began yesterday morning and was an occasion long
to be remembered, not for any disturbance, but for the quiet and orderly
manner in which the people submitted to the severest test of patriotism. As
the hour for drawing approached, the people began to collect in the office
of the Provost Marshal, in Metropolitan Hall. The arrangements made by Capt.
Philo E. Hall, the District Provost Marshal, were admirable, and were
systematically carried out by his corps of able assistants, General Baker,
Major Duncan, Capt. Davis, the officers of the Board of Enrollment and other
military gentlemen were present.
At 9 o'clock Capt. Hall read the order of the Provost Marshal General,
directing the draft, and announced that the deficiency of Davenport
township, Scott county, would be first drafted. The names of those returned
on the enrollment lists were written singly on small pieces of paper, and
after they had been verified and the box examined by Messrs. D.N. Richardson
and A.F. Luse, appointed for that purpose from the bystanders, they were
placed in the box by the Provost Marshal; the whole number being 498. The
wheel was then turned by C.H. Eldridge, Deputy Provost Marshal, and the
names were drawn out one by one by Wallace Parker, a young lad blindfolded.
After each drawing the wheel was revolved twice. Each ticket was handed to
L.H. Washburn, Secretary of the Board of Enrollment, who announced the name
aloud which was recorded. In addition to the deficiency of thirty, there
were also drafted thirty others who in their order will be called upon to
take the place of any of the first class who may be entitled to exemption.
All the names in the box were taken out singly in the same manner as the
others were, to show that the whole number had been placed in it.
Below we give the names of those who were drafted. The proceedings
occupied about an hour, and at its conclusion Captain Hall announced that
the further drafting would be postponed until this morning.
But few comments were made by the spectators, and the whole scene was
impressive. Whoever witnessed this the first draft in Iowa cannot but be
satisfied of the willingness and determination of the people to sustain the
government. Our enemies rest a hope on the presumption that the North will
not submit to the enforcement of the conscript act.- Every good citizen will
assist in showing to the world that we are a law abiding people.
It cannot be known for two or three days how many of the second class
will be called upon. Some of them will be. One of the first thirty has a
wooden leg, another is deaf, a third is reported dead, and others may be
exempted for physical disability. Due notice will be given to those drafted
of the time and place of rendezvous. In the meantime they will be permitted
to furnish substitutes, if they wish. Some of the drafted men have expressed
their determination to go without making an effort to get substitutes. They
know their families will be provided for, and many cannot afford to pay the
price demanded.
1. Daniel C. Stewart
2. James Tracy
3. James Barner
4. Peter Lamp
5. Lawrence Doyle
6. John A. Eastman
7. Hans Bauderop
8. Charles Moses
9. Adolphus Herrick
10. John Beald
11. Henry Boldt
12. Wm. McMannigill
13. Henry Parmelee
14. Hans Heiss
15. George Rohlf
16. Thomas J. McHarg
17 Henry Mundt
18. C.L. Lund
19. William Rusch
20. Henry Stoltenberg
21. William J. Carroll
22. Martin B. Wallace
23. J.P. Lower
24. Thos. Martindale
25. Ralph Heath
26. Martin Conner
27. Peter B. Harding
28. _____ Lands.
29. Thos Rattigan
30. Dudley Peterson.
31. Joseph Campbell
32. Samuel Thomas
33. George Fry
34. Thomas Robeson
35. George Remer
36. Dr. Rudolph Schriber
37. Chas. Wanneboldt
38. Claus Weiser
39. Peter Hurtz
40. Henry Shoemaker
41. Henry Tilden
42. George Winfield
43. Detliff Grote
44. Daniel Schnur
45. George James
46. H. Rammersberg
47. Samuel Heath
48. Andreas Daugler
49. Ferdinand Haack
50. Godfried Bentien
51. Claus Peterson
52. William Murry
53. John Sullivan
54. Nicholas Federson
55. Michael McCarn
56. Theodore Kroeger
57. Henry Taylor
58. William Schieldt
59. John W. Alter
60. John T. Carroll


Cathy Joynt Labath
Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/





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