A bill to be entitled An act to amend the existing acts for the exemption of persons from military service
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Draft; Recruiting, enlistment; History; Manpower; Confederate States of America. Army; Confederate States of America
Other titles: Mr. Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs; Act to amend the existing acts for the exemption of persons from military service; True and candid compositions : the lives and writings of Antebellum students in North Carolina.
Description: Bill to exempt a white male from military service when he was the only means of support and protection for 10 to 20 women and children living on neighboring farms and dependent on him.
Notes: Title from electronic caption title (viewed June 24, 2005)

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Transcribed from: A bill to be entitled An act to amend the existing acts for the exemption of persons from military service. [Richmond : The House, 1862] 3 p. ; 24 cm. Caption title. At head of title: Mr. Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs. Crandall, 252. Parrish and Willingham, 523.

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