(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) Certificate issued to a Memphis man wh

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Certificate issued to a Memphis man who hired a Black substitute to avoid the draft. 2 pages, each about 10 x 8 inches, signed by various officers; folds, minor wear. Memphis, TN, 28 January and 15 February 1865

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In this document, a white Prussian-born cotton merchant named Bernard Bowling (1834-1900) presents his military substitute to gain exemption from the draft: "Henry Porter, age 22 years, black eyes, black hair, dark complexion . . . assigned to the 88th Regiment of U.S. Col. Infantry." It is accompanied by Bowling's "Certificate of Non-Liability" "by reason of having furnished a substitute."