The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-24
The New Call for troops


| The following is the proclamation of the
President, extending the call under the Con-
scrption Act, to embrace all residents of the
Confederacy, between i 8 and As years, not le-
gally exempt. Under the terms of the procla-
nation and rulings of the Confederate Courts,
foreigners, who are actual residents, will be
called upon to do military service in defence
of the country in which they reside:
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT
Whereas, it is provided by an act of Con-
gress, entitled San act to further provide for
the public Defence" approved on the 10th day
of April, 1853, and by another act of Congress
approved on the 9th September, 1862, enti-
tied can act to amend an act entitled and act
to provide further for the public defence, ap-
provide 10th April, 1862" that the President
be authorized to call out and place in the mil
itarv service ofthe Confederate States, for three
years, unless the war shall have been sooner
ended, all white men who are residents of the
Confederate States, between the ages of cigh
teen and forty-fvc years, at the time the cali
legally exempted from military service, or such
part thereof as in his judgement may be neces-
sary to the public defence.
And whereas, in my judgment the necessi-
ties of the public defence require that every
man capable of bearing arms, between the ages
aforesaid, should now be called out to do his
duty in the defence of his country and in dri-
wing back the invaders now within the limits of
the Copfederacy:
Now, therefore, |, Jefferson Davis, President
of the Confederate States of America, do, by
virtue of the powers vested in me aforesaid,
call out and place in the military service of the
Confederate States, all white men residents of
said States between the ages Of eighteen and
forty five years, not legally exempted from mil
itary service; and do hereby order and direct
that all persons subject to this call and not now
the military service, do, upon being enrolled,in
forthwith repair to the conscript camps estab.
lshed in their respective States of which they
may be residents, under pain Of being held and
punished as dcserters in the event of their fail
ure TO obey this call, as provided in said laws.
And do further order, and direct, that the
enrolling officers of the several States proceed
at once to enroll all persons embraced within
the terms of this proclamation, and not hereto
fore enrolled.
And do further order, that it shall be law
tu for any person embraced within this call to
volunteer for service before enrolment, and
that persons so volunteering be allowed to Sc
lect the arm ofservicc and the company which
they desire to Join, provided such company be
deficient in the full number of men allowed by
law for its organization.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Confcd-
crate States of America, at the city of
[SEAL Richmond, this fifteenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sxty-three.
(SigncD JEFFERSON DAVIS,
BY the President:
(SigneD
j. p. BENJAMIN, Secretary OF State.
GENERAL GRANr.-Gen, Grant is described
as about five feet nine inches high, has sandy
hair and whiskcrs, blue eyes, a firm and de-