Summary:
Union Provost Marshal George Eyster writes James B. Fry in June, 1863, concerning resistance to the draft in Bedford County. Eyster reports that one enrolling officer was shot and that many others wished to resign out of intimidation. Eyster says that he resolves to use citizen guards to help enforce enrollment.

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Col. JAMES B. FRY:

CHAMBERSBURG,

June 11, 1863.

Your dispatch received. Bedford County continues disturbed. An enroller shot yesterday. Assailant not know. Very little open resistance. Demonstrations confined to this assassination and act of incendiarism intended to intimidate. An exhibition of force could do little besides quiet public apprehension. I have permitted resignations only because I believed officers effectually intimidated. I shall direct the employment of special citizen guards.

GEORGE EYSTER,
Provost-Marshal Sixteenth District.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 3, Volume 3, Serial No. 124, Pages 341, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.