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From: "Lila C. Eubanks" <>
Subject: Fw: Paid to go into Union Army
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:00:39 -0600

-----Original Message-----

>Shortly after my Great-grandfather got off the boat from England in 1864
and
>went to Schuylkill Co. Pa where relatives lived, he was approached by a man
>who paid him to take his place in the Union Army. My great-grandfather was
a
>British
>Subject, but took the money and went to war. We have a copy of his
discharge
>certificate, a picture of him in his uniform and the name of the soldier
who
>paid him.
>
>
>

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