Scope and Contents George Price informs Abraham that he was one of 20 men drafted from his township, but his father "got one [a substitute] in my place for 900$ a Veteran Soldier[.] I would rather have went at the time but am very well satisfied at home[.]" He writes that substitutes generally cost between $700 and $1,000, and describes how "a club was organized before the Draft to raise money to buy substitutes [and] several thousand were raised[.]" He lists the names of the other men drafted, followed by the...