Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (John M. Sacher - CA) 5th Mass Drawing on previously overlooked sources

Drawing on previously overlooked sources

by Bradley Gottfried

And nowhere was the fracture more apparent than in the raging debates between Illinois's Stephen Douglas and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis

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CIVIL WAR 1850 ARMY

Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (John M. Sacher - CA) 5th Mass Drawing on previously overlooked sourcesby John M. Sacher In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the Union army was threatening on all sides, and the twelve month enlistment period for original volunteers would soon expire. In response to these circumstances, the Confederate Congress passed the first national conscription law in United States history. This initiative touched off a struggle for healthy white male bodiesboth for the