July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Confederate imprint “A BILL To amend an Act to organize Forces to serve during the War.” 3pp. octavo, February 14, 1865, and reads in part: “...Whereas it has become necessary to revoke and prohibit all details of men under the age of forty, except of artisans, mechanics and scientific persons, and to repeal all exemptions of agriculturists: And whereas the reduced numbers of the existing organizations in the army has rendered consolidation an unavoidable military necessity, which in most instances will operate to change the relations between soldiers and their officers: And whereas the safety of the country requires that all men absent without leave, or liable to military service, shall at all hazards, and by every means practicable, be brought into the field at the earliest possible moment, and existing laws have not proved efficient for that purpose: Therefore, ...The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact. That soldiers in the reserve corps over forty-five years of age, whose sole pursuit at the time of enrollment was agriculture, shall be discharged from the military service of the Confederate States within thirty days next after the date of the passage of this act...” More. “Rebel Archives” stamp. Fine.
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