Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-15

ment Record, which we are allowed
to copy below
WAR DEPARTMENT.;
ADJUrAhT GENERALS 0FPrcE
Washington, d, G.. October 5th 1857
Cspt.JozN G. CLARK
date Provost Marshall 81 Dist Wisc)
Lancaster, Wisconsin.
sIS; In reply to your communication Of 18th ut
requesting information as to the enrolment of Il i
brooks of Tatton, Grant county Wise am directed hy
the Adjutant General TO inform you that the records
OF 81 DIST Wise. now in this Office show that
THOMAS J. BROOKS Age % whito Teacher Single Born
IN England claims TO he under 20 years hut has voted
was enrolled in Taton Township Grant County Rolls
lated June SOth 1868 Also that the name Of Thnmss
j. Brooks, same description above stricken from
the enrolment of Tafton Township, Grant CO. Wis for
manifest permanent physical disability on rolls dated
June ], 1864 Corrections for May 1864
am, Sir, Very Respectfully,
Your 0bedient Servant
(Sgned) GEO T.. SCOTT
Capt. 2ath Iuf'ty, Brvt Mai. U. S. A.
In charge Enrolment Branch.
1t is but proper to add that the
Enrolment Branch of the war ser,
vice is just the place to detect the
draft shirks and skedadIers. 1t was
here that all the shifts were made by
Copperheads and also by those Re-
publicans like Mr. Brooks, who dread
ed the sacrifice yet yeal ned for the
fame of him who was willing but
couldn't, who wasn't old enough but
was, who was an alien, only he
wasn't.
1t will be seen above that Mr..
Brooks reported himself to the En-,
rolling Officer on the Both of June63.
as then under 20 years old, and as
born in England The Enrolling of
ticer, Mr.. G. Blandford of Wyalusing,
a man of the strictest integrity and
official fidelity, suspecting that Mr..
Brooks was classifying his age, went
and learned to his satisfaction that
MIR. Brooks had voted and for rea.
sons which seemed Just, enrolled
him as being % years old.
The Enrolment books. we have
| alw avs known, contained the names
Of thousands of young men reporting
themselves under 20 and rs being
aliens-the reason, at that time, the
papers were reporting decisions that
all persons born in foreign countries
could not be drafted, unless having
taken the naturalization oath, or hav-
ing voted which was subsequently
construed into bona tide citizenship
qualifying one such for the draft.
The intents of Mr.. Brooks were
therefore plainly Swallowed Under
draft age be may have proven him>
self this could only clear him for
the present But his alien record
was designed in all human probabili-
ty for the future, when transcript
thereir0m might be the means Of
saving him from future draft.
In view Of finding out more Of this
pretender, we called at the County
Superintendents Office and consulted
the record as to his age and certificate
in his own hand writiug--as follows :
Examination in Spring of 1866, IT.
J, Brooks, aged %, native of New
York, and same for fall Of 1866. Mr..
Brooks is therefore now % years old
and was born in New York, provid>
ed his word may be taken, which
may be doubted in any one of such
equivocal record.
1t will be seen from the above of
fetal record, that the name of Mr.
Brooks was stricken from the roll,
June l, 1864, ''for Manifest Perma :
nent Physical Disability" At no
time after that date had be any right
to go into the army, or even to offer
the like--which explains his subse>
quent clustering about offering to
volunteer and being refused.
As to Mr.. Brooks politics, it must
be seen he possessed early in the war
some very strong symptoms Of cop
perhead democracy.
We are sorry to present such
record OF any young man; we tried
to avoid it as shown by Mr.. Brooks
statement. But his article in the
Heratd this week, being continuous
mess OF low stuff and manifest false
hood meant for our injury, is offered
As an apology for doing this thing.
Mr. Brooks is playing the old game
OF Stop thiet by fabricating and charg
ing us with evil practices in order to
elude, those who are after him, Just
AS the fox resorts to dog barking and
other tricks to elude the chase, aud
just as the thief cries out Justify,
thieves, when the policemen are
alter time. This is low and contempt,
ible in him.