Civil War Draft Wheel
date: label: associated date
content: 1861-1865
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden draft wheel used during the Civil War. The names of men eligible for the draft were written on slips of paper and dropped into this wheel. An official pulled out names to fill the ranks of the Union army.
label: Description
content: Transfer from the War Department, 1919
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. War Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.025222
label: catalog number
content: 25222
label: accession number
content: 64127
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lottery wheel
label: Object Name
content: draft wheel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 ft; 1.8288 m