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gladium et scutum

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5. There were other connections

Reply to puffy socks (Reply #1)

Mon May 16, 2016, 08:14 PM

May 2016

In 1862, the Confederate Government decreed that your enlistment contract for a set number of years with your home state was null and void. Hence forth you served in the Confederate army until the war was over. Also in 1862, you, as a free bourn man could be drafted into the Confederate army, regardless of your state, the sole exception was if your owned 20 slaves, you were exempt from conscription to support the Confederate cause.

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