Board of Commissioners v. Hammond

Bicknell, C. C.

The President of the United States, on the 17th of October, 1863, had called for 300,000 soldiers; and the county board of Vermillion county, in order to fill its quota by volunteers and avoid a draft, made an order on the 23d of November, 1863,'offering $100 bounty to every able-bodied male citizen of said county, who should enter into the service of the United States as a soldier, to fill the quota, being 104 men, of volunteers apportioned to said county under said call, the bounty to be paid by an order of the county auditor, on presentation to him of a certificate that the…