Delia and others. Although a person was drafted, he could hire a substitute to go in his stead. Perhaps that' is what happened here. Sylvia -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nedra Dickman Brill" <ndbrill@comcast.net> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:37 PM To: <nygreene@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Civil WAr Soldier > > > Delia, > Using Ancestry's index, I do not find any name that was close, even > using > the soundex system, in either New York or Illinois, of a solder serving > under this name. > DeWitt C. Clinton, a resident of Windham, aged 44, farmer, is on the > draft > list of Ulster County. > I am certainly not an expert on why those drafted might not have > served--that would take some further investigation--but the men on this > list > are all in their late 30s and 40s. > Nedra Brill, CG > At 12:13 PM 4/15/2011 -0400, crosdd@localnet.com wrote: > > Hi Sylvia. Have you come across a Dewitt (Clinton) Hinman in your > Civil War soldier search. He was my fathers grandfather. I have a > copy of his draft from a book but hard to read. It looks like he was > drafted June 18?3 into the 13th Congressional District County of > Greene > under Joshua Furo? Jr., Ulster Co. NY. When he was older, he had a > farm on the hill just south of Maplecrest via of East Jewett. > According to a report I had found some time ago he was in Co. C. 86th > regiment but that was in Illinois. Delia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message