Ma. CoVEit. —Noticing in the
aid last week an urtie'e in which my
name was brought before tin public
in rather an unfavorable light in
which 1 ton tu-' u- i <.f voting h r Mc-
Lellan, ol being incompetent toper
form tlie duties of County Superin
tendent, of dodging the draft an 1
of trying to evade th< laws of mx
country during tl.. Gyin. mrmd of
the rebellion, 1 felt it a duty which 1
owe to my seii and to my friends in
Grant county, to coinc out with at;
article in the column- of ti e Herald
defining my position uml replying to
all these accusations :
First. I would say in relation to
dodging the draft, that when the war
broke out in til 1 was residing in
Chenango county. New York.—
\\ hen the second call was made Mr
troop-, in hi. 1 enlisted in the 89lb
New Yor.v Reg t., which went into
camp.it Elmira. Nov Yoik. I wa
rejected on accouutof my Mot. which
I cut several year- before 1 returned
home and shortly a.ter mv r*m >vt»!
to Grant county, Wisconsin, where 1
nave lived ever m*. In Aug’ l ;
1’62 I again enl st.-d in <’>>. 1). .2 '
\ Reg t.. \\ i>. \ 01.. ( 'apt. W. S. i’.arii
| hart and Lieut. W. I’. Briggs, a com
pany raised on Blake’s Prairie.Graut
county, \\ iseonsin, and was again
rejected 1 >r the same reason as be
fore.
In Fcbruaiy, 1863, 1 went to Pra
rie du Chien, on a call from Provcst
Marshall John G Clark’, for all m ;ii
not liable to the draft, to r. port at
that place and be exempted and their
names st ricken from the enrollment.
