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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 ...
These draft resisters hoped that their public civil disobedience would help to bring the war and the draft to an end. Many young men went to federal prison as part of this movement. [ 126 ] [ 129 ] According to Cortright, the draft resistance movement was the leading edge of the anti-war movement in 1967 and 1968.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Young workers were not immediately exempt, as, for example, a blacksmith would become exempt at the age of 25, and an unmarried mining or textiles worker would become exempt at the age of 30. Married men had a lower age before they became exempt. By 1915, 1.5 million men were in reserved occupations and by November 1918 this reached 2.5 million ...
The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced Senate Bill 482, which would create one of the broadest ever public records exemptions for state government. It was approved a party-line 6-2 ...