The New York herald., 1863-10-29
the NEW CALL FOR TROOPS.
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OPERATIONS OF THE RECENT DRAFT.
The Quota Of This City Eighteen
Thousand Men,
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Thousand Men,
90. &C.. da.
Letter OF Provost Marshal Gencrai
Fry 20 Secretary Stanton.
PRovosr MARSHAL GENERALS OprCx,
WASHINGTON. D. G., Oct 10, 1853.
SsR-I hsve Tho honor report for your Information
general connected with the dras,
by reports made Up 70 this time.
Tho machinery for executing the Enrolment act rs in
complete working ORDER Tho law ii stands cannot be
made 70 develop the entire military strength Of the
nation and the execution Of has rendered
ngy difficult BY the Efforts made IN various ways 70 re-
sist or evads it, or to escape from its operation.
Its fruits, therefore, abundant they will
be from perfect law and thoroughly established
system Of executing it. All the advantages however,
which could reasonably have been expected from the
accrung.
It's general principles distribute the burdens Of ilita
ry service fairly among those liable them but
there perhaps generosity than ustness
its humane provisions With certain notifications which
readily made by Congress, the military strength
Of the country may the direct and indirect operations
OF this act be surely and cheapy brought into the field
Several Of the Western States have not been subjected
70 the draft account Of the Of volun
teers heretofore furnished from the tho
quotas other Western States rendered quite sma
The present draft therefore but partial one, and
specific total established as the quota for il.
VI those drawn u the draft including the ny
per cent additional eighty per cent have reported
In accordance with the orders Of the boards or the
twenty per cent who have not reported many not
wilfu deserters, being unavoidaby absent, and
the like. Tho deserters being arrested.
or all examined about thirty per cent have been ex
empted account OF physical disability, about thirty
per cent been exempted undor the provisions Of tho
second section Of the act found not liable TO military
duty account Of aenage, unsuitabeDess Of age
residents &c. Those who liable TO military duty
and form part Of the national orces and therefore
been erroneousy enrolled appear the general
ports Of the boards among exempted because their
nonabisy could be established until they
before the boards. The number OF the exemptions
10 thus made appear much larger than il really 10.
About forty per Of the men examined have been
held TO service and entered the army person,
furnished substitutes, or paid Communication
About eha OF those held 70 service have paid
mutation OF tho remainder about third have gone
person thirds have furnished substitute al
except few transit and small proportion of desert
ers from among tho earlier substitutes accepted
10 the ranks Of their regiments IN frost
Of the enemy. II is fair 70 suppose that most Of
those who wifuy fail 70 rcrort, and thus become de-
amiued the proportion exempted for physical disability
would been reduced about twenty Eve per
The proportion OF exemptions would be sin further
duced by purgipg the lists before draft Of all
Of manifest unftnees and Of aliens and others
liable TO military duty, may DO done where this sys
tenn Of raising troops is we'll established.
The proportions above gwen based upon the reports
up this time the seventy three Congressional dis
t,cts where the draft been completed has most
nearly approached completion.
Since the present rebellion began about 200 900 sol.
diers, after entering been discharged
surgeons certificate Of disability 1t probable that at
least one-haf Of Them unfit for service when
ceived. may be safely said that forty mlbous OF
ney useiessy expended IN bringing them into the
field, say nothOg Of their subsequent expense the
government
In Great Britain, the system o. voluntary enlist
ments, the reiectops average twenty seven per
cent In France from 1881 To ls4 the average number
Of exemptions annually - SEQ that the
contingent Of 600 ia $50 coDscrpls annually
examined.
or the recruits Who presented themselves for enlist
regular army 1852, seventy per cent
rejected for physical nnrmties exclusive OF age sta
ture Between January aud LIST July last
one half were rejected These who desired to
be accepted. These proportions OF interest in con
drafted who desire accepted have been
empted account Of physical un1tness.
There have been but few Of incompetency,
fraud, oeglect abuse in the examination Of
drafted men. These men have, however, In many
ways been swinilcd by rogues having con-
peci.on with the boards Of enrolment as, for
ample, the drafted byscally
unit for has become knswn these sharpers,
when perhaps known 10 the themselves,
and they have iar imposed upon the ignorance
duity Of The drafted men TO get from them Of
money 10 secure exemption TO which the rogues
they were entitled and would surely receive and the
drafted men, finding themselves exempted. promised
have sometimes thought and given that they secured
exemption by bribery Of drafting ocers whereas they
legally entitled TO exemption, have themselves
been swindled by ebarpers.
All has been done that seemed proper under existing
laws TO check these evils, and TO meet properly the few
cases Of criminality and incompetency which have
Cured among the onncers Of this bureau.
All the expenditures up This time OF this
bureau, including the enrolment dra aud pay Of officers
and persons connected with Il, but little
q, 200 600 These expenditures include all made
count OF the machinery which has produced the arrest
and retnrn Of twenty thousand deserters. ~
The amount Of money received from the draft up 10
this date times great all the expenses
incurred account Of the Enrolment Those resulting
from The New York riots are not hswever included 10
this statement, a. they are properly attributable to
other and other persons the drat the
officers Of this bureau.
am, very respectfully, your obsd'ens servant,
JAnES b. FRY, Provost Marshal General
Hon T. H. srArros, Secretary Of War.
Letter from Provost Marshsl General
Fey Co Governor Seymour.
Ills Exceileucy HoRAno srIxocn Governor Of New York.
Albany. N. y