(CIVIL WAR) SUMNER CHARLES Fragment of an Autograph Manuscri

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EXEMPTION CLAUSE FROM THE CONSCRIPTION BILL (CIVIL WAR.) SUMNER, CHARLES. Fragment of an Autograph Manuscript, with holograph docketing Signed, written vertically at left edge: "draft of amendment moved to conscription-bill by C.S." The fragment, 10 lines. 5x9 inches; upper and lower edges trimmed, short separations at folds, minor smudging to text near lower edge. Np, circa February 1863

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"That all persons conscientiously opposed to the bearing of arms, who shall be drafted, may be treated as non-combatants & shall be assigned by the Sec'y of War to duty in the hospitals or the care of freedmen or, in lieu thereof, they shall pay the sum of $300 . . . ."
The Conscription Bill was passed by the House of Representatives on March 2, 1863.