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Report of the Joint Select Committee appointed to investigate the condition and treatment of prisoners of war

Confederate report defending the treatment of Union prisoners in Confedederate prisions, and attacking Northern treatment of Southern prisoners.

GLC08979.10

A bill to be entitled an act to amend the existing acts for the exemption of persons from military service

Confederate act detailing possible exemptions from military service, the purpose being "to secure the proper police presence."

GLC08980.01

A bill to be entitled an act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service

Confederate act making all men between eighteen and forty-five not serving in the government eligible for military service.

GLC08980.02

A bill to be entitled an act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service

Conferate act listing all person and professions exempted from military service, with amendments at the end.

GLC08980.03

A bill to be entitled an act to increase and strengthen the army of the Confederate States.

Confederate act granting the President the power to call slaves "to serve as teamsters, cooks, laborers and hospital nurses" in the Confederate Army.

GLC08980.04

A bill to be entitled an act in relation to substitutes in the army.

Repealing an act allowing for substitutes in the Confederate Army.

GLC08980.05

A bill to be entitled an act amendatory of an act entitled, "An Act to put an end to the exemption from military service of those who have heretofore furnished substitutes," approved January 5, 1864

Confederate act allowing farmers producing "grain and provisions" to continue to send substitutes to fight for them, even though subsititutes have been banned for other men.

GLC08980.06

A bill to be entitled an act to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia of the Confederate States, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Confederate States, and for calling them forth to execute the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.

Confederate act enrolling all able bodied men of in the army, except those that have special exemptions. Also details the organization and hierarchy of the Confederate army, lists those who are exempted from service, gives the President the power to...

GLC08980.07

An act to provide for the more efficient execution of conscription, and for the arrest of deserters and absentees from the armies

Confederate bill presented by the minority of a Congressional Committee on conscription, with a request that this bill be passed, instead of the bill propossed by the majority of the committee. Bill would order a Bureau of Conscription formed at...

GLC08980.08

A bill to be entitled an act to regulate the business of conscription

Confederate act ordering that "the bussines of conscription" be overseen by each state individually, reporting back to the President. Also details conscription process and abolishes the Bureau of Conscription.

GLC08980.09