Alan J. Pitts
Great stuff!
Wed Feb 14 14:45:49 2001


At first glance I'd say the Confederacy could've placed more men in the ranks by forcing all attorneys to enlist. Without a good lawyer to defend them, many more of our ancestors would have been able to sing:

"I was a plow boy in the field,
A gawky, lazy dodger,
When came the Conscript officer
And took me for a sojer.
He put a musket in my hand,
And showed me how to fire it:
I marched and countermarched all day.
Lord, how I did admire it."

I must dust off my copy of Moore's book. It's now available in paperback:

Albert Burton Moore, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy (New York: Macmillan, 1924; reprint Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996).

I'm helping friends pack and move, so it will late this evening before Ill be able to reply to your queries about Moreland's Cavalry and the 3rd Reserves.






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