Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (John M. Sacher - CA) Section - 1st Day each with its own stories

each with its own stories that became part of the Western Maryland Railway story

Often summarily dismissed as a detested policy that violated states’ rights and forced nonslaveholders to fight for planters

Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural

taken from regimental histories

and incredible luck—both good and bad

Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (John M. Sacher - CA) Section - 1st Day each with its own storiesby 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