642 Series III Volume III- Serial 124 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
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number of names to be drawn. It will be seen upon computation that the number of conscripts required is 20 per cent. of the persons enrolled, less the credit for excess of volunteers. The names drawn include 50 per cent. upon the number of conscripts required, the additional draft being to supply vacancies caused by exemptions.
In the first two tables I have placed the nine districts comprising the islands which line the bay of New York, Manhattan, Long, and Staten Islands by themselves, styling them the metropolitan districts. There are some marked features in the enrollment for most of these districts, which can be more easily seen by a separate classification.
District Counties Number Allowance Number Number
first for cons- names
class excess of script to be
enrolled volun- s drawn
teers requi-
red
METROPOLITAN 11,812 150 2,212 3,318
DISTRICTS.
First Suffolk, 21,483 150 4,146 6,219
Queens, and
Richmond
Second Part of 14,241 151 2,697 4,046
Brooklyn and
Kings County
Third Part of 30,160 151 5,881 8,822
Brooklyn
Fourth Wards 1, 2, 3, 17,703 150 3,390 5,085
4, 5, 6, 8 New
York
Fifth Wards 6, 7, 23,447 151 4,538 6,808
10, 13, New
York
Sixth Wards 9, 15, 18,013 150 3,452 5,178
16, New York
Seventh Wards 11, 17 25,212 150 4,892 7,338
New York
Eighth Wards 18, 20, 13,359 150 2,521 3,782
21, New York
Ninth Wards 12, 19, 175,430 150 33,729 50,596
22, New York
Total 1,353
INTERIOR
DISTRICTS
Twelfth Dutchess and 10,818 150 2,013 3,019
Columbia
Thirtee- Orange and 10,784 150 2,006 3,009
nth Green
Fiftee- Rensselaer and 12,602 150 2,370 3,555
nth Washington
Sixtee- Clinton, 7,965 100 1,493 2,239
nth Essex, and
Warren
Sevente Saint 9,843 150 1,818 2,727
e-nth Lawerence and
Franklin
Eithte- Fulton, 12,305 151 2,310 3,466
enth Hamilton,
Montgomery,
Saratoga, and
Schenectady
Nineteen Otsego, 12,690 151 2,387 3,581
th Chenango, and
Delaware
Twentiet Jefferson, 12,995 151 2,448 3,672
h Herkimer, and
Lewis
Twenty- Oneida 9,484 150 1,746 2,620
first
Twenty- Oswego and 11,093 150 2,068 3,102
second Madison
Twenty- Onondage and 11,195 151 2,088 3,132
third Cortland
Twenty- Cayuga, Wayne, 12,063 150 2,262 3,393
fourth and Seneca
Twenty- Ontario, 10,445 153 1,936 2,905
fifth Livingston,
and Yates
Twenty- Broome, 11,260 100 2,152 3,227
sixth Tompkins,
Tioga, and
Schuyler
Twenty- Steuben, 12,850 151 2,419 3,629
seventh Chemung, and
Allegany
Twenty- Monroe and 11,007 150 2,051 3,076
eighth Orleans
Twenty- Niagara, 9,332 100 1,767 2,649
ninth Genesee, and
Wyoming
Thirtiet Erie 13,195 100 2,539 3,808
h
Thirty- Chautauqua and 9,519 150 1,753 2,630
first Cattaraugus
Total 211,445 2,658 39,626 59,439
Grand total 386,875 4,011 73,355 110,035
The enrollment for the Tenth District-Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland Counties; the Eleventh-Orange and Sullivan, and the Fourteenth-Albany and Schoharie, is not yet completed, and consequently no quota has yet been apportioned to nor has a draft been ordered in those districts. They are, therefore, omitted from all the tables in this report.
It will be seen by a glance at the above table that the burden of the conscription upon the nine metropolitan districts is nearly equal to that upon the other nineteen districts. This gross inequality is more conclusively shown by the following table, in which the enrollment for the first class, begin the basis of the draft, is contrasted, by districts with, first, the total population by the census of 1860; second, number of males between twenty and thirty-five years of age, between
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