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866 Series III Volume V- Serial 126 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

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When the quota of any sub-district has been filled persons enlisting to the credit thereof in excess of the quota receive no bounty from these sources.

The bounties in sub-districts, the quotas of which have been filled, having ceased, persons residing or enrolled therein have no inducement to enlist to the credit thereof, and if they are not permitted to enlist to the credit of localities where the quotas have not been raised, and when bounties are still being offered, they will remain out of the service, and it will thereby suffer.

And if persons enrolled in one sub-district should, after the quota thereof had been filled, enlist to the credit of another, their names would then be stricken from the enrollment list and no injury could be done to the sub-district in which they were enrolled in assigning quotas under future calls.

I have no suggestions to make in regard to the regulations and orders in addition to these already expressed in preceding portions of this report.

RESULTS OF DRAFT UNDER THE DIFFERENT CALLS.

Call of March 14, 1864, and deficiencies under former calls.

Credits:

By white volunteers .................................... 86

By colored volunteers .................................. 2

By veterans ............................................ 69

By seamen .............................................. 43

By draft ............................................... 1,245

By substitutes for enrolled men ........................ 8

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Total .................................................. 1,453

Call of July 18, 1864.

Credits:

By surplus under former calls ........................... 191

By reconstruction of quotas--by revision of enrollment .. 226

By naval enlistments .................................... 621

By white volunteers ..................................... 239

By colored volunteers ................................... 203

By seamen ............................................... 81

By marines .............................................. 27

By regulars ............................................. 3

By representative recruits .............................. 1

By drafted men .......................................... 120

By substitutes for drafted men .......................... 166

By substitutes for enrolled men ......................... 169

By veteran volunteers ................................... 80

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Total ................................................... 2,127

Call of December 19, 1864.

Credits:

By white volunteers ..................................... 906

By colored volunteers ................................... 21

By enlistments in the Regular Army ...................... 3

By seamen ............................................... 67

By drafted men held to service .......................... 42

By drafted men who paid commutation ..................... 24

By substitutes for drafted men .......................... 48

By substitutes for enrolled men ......................... 373

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Total ................................................... 1,484

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Whole number of men credited ............................ 5,064

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HENRY C. NAILL,

Captain and Provost-Marshal, Fourth District of Maryland.


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