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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Tennessee. (search)
"five hundred thousand Coffins Wanted — get your mourning Clothes." Under this rather funereal heading, the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Democrat has the following wail over Lincoln's last call for 500,000 men. The following is the article: Lincoln has called for five hundred thousand more victims ! On the 5th of September half a million men are to be drafted to fill up the ranks of the army to fighting dimensions — to get soldiers for the sunny South. Get ready. Get your house in order. Make arrangements to secure your fall crops by proxy, and get ready to join the throng of the hundreds of thousands who have gone before. Let the women buy mourning goods now, for in a month or so there will not be money enough in the country to use for the purpose. The draft comes, No one wants to go to war. Patriotism is sick ! The nation is discouraged. Half the men sent before have been lost to us and the country. The 75,000 Wide Awakes, who were to sweep the rebels into the Gulf of