Circular no. 6
By: Head-quarters Conscript Department
Contributors: South Carolina. Conscript Department; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Draft; History
Other titles: Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

Addressed from the South Carolina headquarters of the Conscript Dept., this circular includes some directives specifically for South Carolina and is signed by C.D. Melton, Major, Commandant of Conscripts for South Carolina.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

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Transcribed from: Circular no. 6 / Head-quarters Conscript Department. Columbia, S.C. : [s.n.], 1864. 19 p. Caption title. "April 1, 1864." Note at end: "[Approved April 14, 1863.]."

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Table of contents: title: Registration and enrolment; title: Exemptions; title: Details; title: Details for government service; title: Investigation of applications; title: Medical examination of conscripts; title: Miscellaneous instructions; title: Form of Bond - no. 1 for exemption of "overseer," or "owner and manager" of fifteen field hands; title: Form of Bond - no. 2 for detail of "overseer" or "manager" of two or more farms; title: Form of Bond - no. 3 for detail of "overseer" or "manager" of farm of less than five hands; title: An act to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Confederate States, and the drivers of post-coaches and hacks, from military service.