Before the war, finding people employment in other dimensions was relatively easy.  With the one the slaves called Sad Lang transporting escaping slaves through the “magic wagon” to Newgate, all that was needed once they reached the town was to shift them to other dimensions.  They were found to be hard-working and ready to learn.  They proved to be more than two-legged animals as their former owners believed they were. 

At the beginning of the war, a few outsiders made their way to the Adirondacks.  But after the war, many who were physically disabled came into the region because they were considered unemployable.  If they were too proud to beg, sometimes they entered the region to die.  If they weren’t torn apart by wild animals, they would die and their decayed bodies wouldn’t be found for years if they were deep enough in the forest. 

Many outsiders discovered Newgate by accident.  They had no idea the city existed.  But within two months of the end of the war, the trickle of outsiders became a near steady stream of people who viewed Newgate as their last choice for starting a new life. 

Former soldiers with missing legs and arms or mental problems would enter the city and receive stares from the citizens.  The police force would find the men and bring them to the station for processing.  Afterwards, they would be sent to the Newgate Community Hospital for help.  It might be the creation of new arms and legs that were either biosynthetic or cloned appendages that were like the limbs that were lost.  But there was one stipulation.  They couldn’t leave Newgate to tell the world what happened.  If they told the world that there was a hospital that could replace missing limbs, hundreds of thousands of people would flood the hospital and overwhelm the staff. 

Many chose to have their memories erased and have them replaced by false memories.  Often it required going back a year or more to make the men believe they were never disabled.  Being prisoners of war was a simple explanation of what happened to them.  Just as long as people who knew them after they lost the limbs didn’t meet them later, they could live out normal lives wherever they wanted to live.