Summary Information

Title: United States. Selective Service System. Grant County Draft Board (Wis.): Records of the Draft Board
Inclusive Dates: 1917-1919

Creator:

• United States. Selective Service System. Grant County Draft Board (Wis.)

Call Number: Grant Series 29

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records including correspondence, memoranda from state headquarters, and many lists of men prepared by the local board. There are also a few records of the Council of Defense and the Liberty Loan Committee. County draft boards registered eligible men and administered the draft under state legislation of May 9, 1917, and federal legislation passed May 18, 1917. Wisconsin used the regular election machinery for the first registration, June 5, 1917. All registrants received serial numbers. A lottery held July 20, 1917 determined the order of call up. Local boards supervised registrations, classified registrants, filled quotas for draftees, and sent men off to training camps. There was also a system of district appeal boards and local legal and medical advisory boards appointed by the Governor.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gran0029

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