October 1 - Lincoln’s “Substitute” In both the North and South many men who were drafted hired substitutes to take their place for a going rate of $200 to $275. President Lincoln was well over the age to be eligible for the draft. But on October 1, 1864 he sponsored a soldier, 19-year-old J. Summerfield Staples from Pennsylvania, through a program known as “representative recruits.” Staples has come to be known as Lincoln’s “substitute.”
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October 1 - Lincoln’s “Substitute”

In both the North and South many men who were drafted hired substitutes to take their place for a going rate of $200 to $275. President Lincoln was well over the age to be eligible for the draft. But on October 1, 1864 he sponsored a soldier, 19-year-old J. Summerfield Staples from Pennsylvania, through a program known as “representative recruits.” Staples has come to be known as Lincoln’s “substitute.”

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