In a message dated 4/19/99 4:21:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << 5. Were able-bodied men required, at some point in the war, to serve in the Union Army or pay a substitute? >> I don't have any specific information about this subject regarding residents of West Virginia, but do have ancestors who, according to their enlistment records, were "drafted" into the Union Army in Pennsylvania. Does anyone have any information about how the draft was organized and instituted at state or local levels? Thanks, Jan Slater