Certification that Samuel Gingerich/Gingerick paid a legal "commutation" and is "exempt from all liability to military duty for the term of the present draft."
"The Rebellion the Cause of my
Traveling adventures to the north
Samuel A. Rhodes was born
near Harrisonburg
Rockingham County Virginia
in the year of Our Lord July
the 19 1841
When this rebellion first broke out
I had my residence in...
Includes both the original and typed copies of statements by the Mennonite Amish Church of Somerset County and Samuel D. Guengerich regarding his religious conviction to oppose military service.