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Exemptions from Service

Summary

Efforts of many to secure draft exemption for medical reasons has inspired a poem (quoted) parodying Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade."


Article Source

Newspaper: The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light

Publication Date: October 15th, 1862

Page/Column: 2C

Town: Hagerstown, MD

County: Washington

Subjects

  • Home Front / Effects of War
  • Poetry / Literature

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