Certificate of Exemption on Account of Having Furnished a Substitute. We the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of the Second District of the State of Illinois provided for in section 8, Act of Congress "for enrolling and calling out the national forces, approved March 3, 1863, hereby certify that Christian Volz of Deerfield, of Lake County, State of Illinois, being properly subject to do military duty as required by said act, and the act approved Feb'y 24, 1864, is exempt from its performance, by reason of having furnished an acceptable Substitute* not liable to draft. *M[?] Lieut John D Hauty[?] ... for two years. Christian Volz age 29, 5 feet, 5 inches. Complexion, Florid? Eyes gray, Hair brown. He was drafted on Sept. 30, 1864 in Deerfield by Capt A B Coon[?]...for one year. Signed and dated October 12, 1864.
