NP, RSTD 2/8/1865

From the Raleigh Standard
 
February 8, 1865
 
Number of Exempts
   Mr. Miles, of the military committee of the House of Representatives, stated a few days since that the exempts are as follows in the States this side of the Mississippi river:
Physical debility 61,167
State officers exempted by Governors 18,785
Ministers 3,086
Insane asylum managers and nurses 185
Editors and employees of newspapers 686
Apothecaries 399
Physicians 3,718
Teachers and professors 1,557
Under the fifteen negro clause 3,645
Quakers, Dunkards, &c 893
Mail contractors 479
Railroad employees 4,982
99,611

Home