Substitute soldier certificate for Siebert, Phillip (showing attachment)

Title:Substitute soldier certificate for Siebert, Phillip

Date Original:1864-03-24

Description: This is a substitute soldier certificate, whereby a man (Siebert) has agreed to fight in the civil war for a sum of $300 in the place of another man who was drafted. This demonstrates the policy of the time whereby one could pay $300 or supply a substitute soldier to get out of going to war.One half page—the actual certificate; half typed and half hand written, with “New York County Substitute Committee” across the top; One legal-sized yellow sheet of paper on which Siebert signs that he has received the $300 and agrees to serve in the army. Signed by Seibert, a Captain C. F. Wagner, and various others, including a witness.

Creator:New York County (N.Y.); Siebert, Phillip

Subject(s):New York County (N.Y.)

Siebert, Phillip

New York (N.Y.)

Alternative Title: 070428-22

Publisher: Wofford College

Contributor:

Date Digital: 2009-02-25

Type: Text

Format [medium]: Manuscript

Format [IMT]: image/jpeg

Digitization Specifications: 800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with

an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a

TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View software.

Resource Identifier:070428-22

Source: The original, accession number 070428-22, from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The

Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College,

located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Language:En-us English

Relation [is part of]:The

Littlejohn Collection

Rights Management: This digital representation has been

licensed under an Attribution

- Noncommercial- No Derivatives Creative Commons license.

Contributing Institution: Wofford College

Web Site: http://www.wofford.edu/library/littlejohn-home.aspx

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