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The draft for Jersey City was commenced at Newark yesterday, and the first two wards completed. The Third and Fourth will be drawn to-day. Hoboken was also drafted yesterday.
Gen. Townsend writes to Mayor Gunther of this city that, for the present, men enlisted within the County of New York for the Regular Army, will be reported for that county only.
An important order regulating the payment of bounties has been issued from the Adjunct-General’s office at Albany. The State henceforth pays all bounties.
Lovelaceville and Hopkinsville, Ky., were visited this week by McDougald’s band of guerrillas, who robbed stores and shot Union men at their pleasure.
Gen. Grierson is to have charge of all the cavalry in the Department of the West.
Citation: New York Semi-Weekly Tribune. 3 March1865. Gift of Steven and Susan Raab.