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The Enrollment Act of 1863 (12 Stat. 731, enacted March 3, 1863) also known as the Civil War Military Draft Act, [1] was an Act passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War to provide fresh manpower for the Union Army. The Act was the first genuine national conscription law. The law required the enrollment of every male ...
In order to sustain a civil society as well as maintain production of munitions of war, an act of April 21, 1862 [11] exempted persons in a number of reserved occupations from the draft. Among those exempted were confederate and state officials, Christian Ministers , professors and teachers, druggists , hospital attendants , mine, foundry ...
One Million Men: The Civil War Draft in the North (1971). Perri, Timothy J. "The Economics of US Civil War Conscription." American Law and Economics Review 10#2 (2008), pp. 424–53. online; Shankman, Arnold (April 1977). "Draft Resistance in Civil War Pennsylvania". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 101 (2): 190–204. JSTOR ...
By the time this exemption was granted, the number of slaves necessary to qualify had been reduced from 20 to 15. The "Twenty Negro Law", also known as the "Twenty Slave Law" and the "Twenty Nigger Law", [1] was a piece of legislation enacted by the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
The Selective Service Act of 1917 was carefully drawn to remedy the defects in the Civil War system by allowing exemptions for dependency, essential occupations, and religious scruples and by prohibiting all forms of bounties, substitutions, or purchase of exemptions. In 1917 and 1918 some 24 million men were registered and nearly 3 million ...
On April 14, Senator William Lowndes Yancey, a fire-eater of Alabama 1862–1863, proposed exemptions from the Confederate draft. It was termed "over generous" by one scholar, in a system of "class exemptions" related to the physically unfit, the politically connected, several service-related categories such as preachers, teachers and social ...
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
Conscription is controversial for a range of reasons, including conscientious objection to military engagements on religious or philosophical grounds; political objection, for example to service for a disliked government or unpopular war; sexism, in that historically men have been subject to the draft in the most cases; and ideological ...