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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
, has been set to chopping wood for the stoves in Camp Washburn. Hon. William Bigler has written a letter declining to become a candidate for the United States Senatorship from Pennsylvania, and proposing a plan for the adjustment of the national troubles. The following important decision has been elicited by the gentleman to whom it is addressed: War Department, Washington, D. C., Nov. 1, 1862. Hon. Silas Livermore, Guthrieville, Pa.:Sir: --In reply to yours of the 27th ult., desiring to be informed on certain question appertaining to the draft, the Secretary of War directs me to say that, when a drafted man furnishes a substitute that is accepted, the two change places. The principal is liable to another draft, if made, just as he would be if he had not been drafted at first, and the substitute is bound by the first draft of the principal just as if he had been drafted himself. Very respectfully, C. P. Buckingham, Brigadier-General and A. A. G.