Contributed for use in Adams County USGenWeb Project by John Mummert and transcribed by Kathy Mummert Francis.

-- Gettysburg Compiler, July 11, 1864

THE DRAFT ­ The additional drawing for the deficiencyof the recent draft under the calls for 700,000 men, was madeat Chambersburg on Tuesday last. The following is the list ofpersons drafted in the several sub-districts of this county:

Berwick Twp. ­ Abraham Sowers, John Kinnaman.

Berwick Bor. ­ Henry Mollison, John T. Pfeiffer,John Hoffheins, Joseph B. Hafer.

Butler ­ Aaron Wisler, Eli Stanower.

Conowago ­ Jacob Swooveland, David Eline, SamuelSmith, Wm. Bledner.

Cumberland ­ Wm. J. Snyder, Chas. Yeatts.

Franklin ­ George Gory, Amos Noel.

Freedom ­ Andrew J. Weikert, Daniel J. Hesson, IsaacR. Golden, Samuel S. Moritz, Isiah Stultz.

Germany ­ Jacob Wolf, Ephraim Menchey, Elias Rites,Ephraim Wintrode.

Hamiltoban ­ Geo. Sanders, Geo. Herring, Lewis Bumbaugh.

Huntington ­ David Clever, John Deardorff.

Liberty ­ Geo. W. Hardman, Wm. C. Seabrooks, CasperMyers, James H. Taylor, Lewis Whitmore.

Menallen ­ George Warren, Solomon Hartman, AbrahamHoffman, Cornelius Rice, Oliver C. Smith.

Mountpleasant ­ Adam Hartlaub, George Yohe, DavidBievenour, Jeremiah Carbaugh, Jacob J. Smith, Wm. H. Houck, Wm.Fink, Peter A. Strasbaugh, John Wagaman, William Nace (colored),Samuel Wolf, Agideous Noel, Jacob Hornberger, Joseph Smith, HenryOlinger, William Lilly.

Mountjoy ­ Jacob Jacoby, Robert G. Young, JacobS. Baker, John Tawney, Jr., Josiah Bowers, John Karns, JosephStockslager, Jos. W. Trostle, James McSherry, John B. Sheaffer.

Oxford ­ Michael McCaddin, John Emmert.

Reading ­ Jacob Fissel, John L. Brenizer.

Straban ­ John Wertz, Joseph A. Wolf.

Tyrone ­ John Yohe, John Eckenrode, John Delap,Peter Miller, Franklin H. Ebert, Ephraim Bream, Jacob E. Spangler.

Union ­ Adam Nailor, John Messinger, John Spangler,Jr., John Allen.