Yes, that happened in the Civil war
You don't pay money. You play in the Draft Combine and then you might get drafted.
In the North, you could pay a substitute to do your service for you. This was a bad law. It caused resentment of better-off families. And the substitutes were obviously people who were too young or too old to be drafted themselves.
Under the Draft Act of 1863, it was legal to hire a "substitute" who had not been drafted. A man could also pay $300 (a large sum at the time) to avoid conscription.
In the North, a draftee could pay a substitute to do his service for him - a terrible law that brought in sub-standard recruits supplied by unscrupulous brokers. And the young man who could afford to stay out of the war was a hated figure in the ranks. In the South, of course, it was the slaves who were not drafted - until the very end, when it was too late to make any difference.
I believe they drafted to the age of 32
50,000 per game
Yes they could put you in jail or the stockade, Military prison depending on where you were at the time
Yes, unless the farmer could show significant hardship would be caused by being drafted.
He had to pay another man to take his place. The only problem was, you could get drafted again, so you'd better have alot of money...to pay the next man, and the next man, etc. Bottom line: Rich men had it made!
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no he first played for the Oklahoma sooners and then was drafted by the vikings
after taking my draft physical and being 1A in 1969 with a lottery number of 16 wondering why I had not been drafted I was classified 4Y it said I could only be drafted in time of war or extreme emergency...Vietman was not a declared war...so I was not drafted...I have no idea why I was classified 4Y