https://totallyhistory.com/enrollment-act-of-1863/ Facts About Famous Events & Records of the Past Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://totallyhistory.com/enrollment-act-of-1863/#comment-701049 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:25:25 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=38412#comment-701049 In the western New York, rural Town of Sweden, the Town Board levied taxes in the amount of 43.3 times the typical annual budget at the time–over 54,000–to pay bounties for the men of draft age who volunteered. Also, if a man was called by the draft, he had 24 hours to volunteer and collect the bounties (national, state, county, and town) which were very substantial. Late in the war they amounted to the equivalent of $150,000 today or seven years of wages for the common laborer.Thus, only two men were actually drafted in Sweden.

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