July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Confederate imprint “AMENDMENT To the Bill offered by Mr. J.M. SMITH, to amend the Act to Organize Forces to Serve During the War.” 4pp. octavo, c. late 1864 or early 1865, and reads in part: “...The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, all white men, residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, shall be in the military service of the Confederate States for the war....That all persons aforesaid between the ages of seventeen and eighteen shall be placed in service in the field with those between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, and shall have thirty days to choose the arm of service and the organizations they may prefer to enter: Provided, That they shall be required to enter organizations from the States in which they respectively reside...That all State cadets or students in military schools, over the age of sixteen years, be organized into companies, and required to perform military service whenever the President, General-in-Chief, or the General commanding the Department in which they may be situated, may require their services...” “Rebel Archives” stamp, else Fine.
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