which his instinct would prompt him to exercise.

With Doct. BLOOD we have no acquaintance but judging from the other appointments,
we take it for granted that it is a good one. There are no surgeons residing in this vicinity except
Doct. Simons, (who has been appointed) Doct. Schenke, and an illiterate Homeopathist quack.

Doct. BLOOD is doubtless proof against temptation to commit fraud, and being like Capt.
Marschner, a stranger here, will of course deal impartially.

Doct. SIMONS is so well known as an educated and skillful Physician and Surgeon that
we need hardly take the trouble to vouch for him. His professional character is above suspicion,
his courtesy proverbial and his integrity without stain. Educated in a school where quackery and
empiricism are unknown, and humbugs are not tolerated, where men earn their diplomas by hard
study, and an established character before they get them, he combines the courtesy of the
gentleman with more than ordinary skill as a physician. Knowing him as we do, we feel confident
that no one will be able to decetve him by pretended disabilities, nor will real physical defects
escape his practised penetration. The Doctor has a practice as extended as that of any physician
in the State, and he has been more than ordinarily successful in his treatment.

Capt. Marschner desires us to say to those who are really suffering from disability, that it
is advisable they should secure their exemption before the draft 1s made, as by so doing they will
save trouble and expense both to themselves and the State.

The object of the examination is to secure ablebodied soldiers, not cripples or diseased
men, and those who are really disabled should see to it that they are properly exempted.

Gov. Salomon has exhibited in connection with this affair not only patience and industry,
but an amount of judgement almost as rare as it is creditable. All classes unite in universal
comendation of his unflinching course, and if we have failed hitherto in awarding the praise to
which he has on more than one occasion shown that he was entitled, we do not propose to with
hold it on this occasion.”

Commissioner Graves, with 153 of the drafted men in this county, left by boat on
Thursday noon last, for rendezvous at Racine. The balance of the men did not report themselves
here as required. The government will send a force to take them, if they do not voluntarily come
forward and if they cannot be found, the ward or town must again be drafted for the deficiency.“

On the morning of the 11th of November [1862], Governor Salomon received a despatch
stating that the militia rolls of Ozaukee County had been seized and destroyed by a mob, and that
several citizens had been injured, and their property destroyed. The Governor immediately gave
orders for the march of a military force to the scene of disturbance.

It appears the Commissioner, Mr. Pors, was just prepared to begin the draft, when he was
unceremoniously crowded upon by the mob, who seized him, dragged him to the door, and

 

** Uncited newspaper clipping found in scrapbook titled "Correspondence of Wisconsin
Volunteers 1861 - 1865, Vol. 6: 16th - 29th Regiments Infantry" at Library of State Historical
Society of Wisconsin, call number F9022 / Q7c, p. 303.

“Evergreen City Times, Sheboygan, Nov. 11, 1862, p. 3/1.

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