The story of the Napoleonic campaigns is familiar to all, how in the early wars a man was drafted in France, and being unable to go to the field himself hired a substitute and paid a good price for him, who went to the war, and fell on one of the battlefields.
In a subsequent draft the same man was drafted again. He went to the recruiting office and produced his papers, proving he had hired and paid for a substitute, who had died on the field; and entry was accordingly make against his name: "Died in the person of his substitute on the battlefield of Rivoli."
A.T. Pierson, page 26-27 in One Thousand Evangelistic Illustrations, edited by Webb, A. (1924). New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
In a subsequent draft the same man was drafted again. He went to the recruiting office and produced his papers, proving he had hired and paid for a substitute, who had died on the field; and entry was accordingly make against his name: "Died in the person of his substitute on the battlefield of Rivoli."
A.T. Pierson, page 26-27 in One Thousand Evangelistic Illustrations, edited by Webb, A. (1924). New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
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