Thanks Alan, I was hoping you might answer this question. "Prior service did not exempt a former soldier or officer from conscription." That is what I was wanting to know. By any chance would you have the references or citations to this? If not it's no big deal.

I too have found an officer, who in this case, was not re-elected when the regiment was reorganized only to volunteer for Provost Marshal duty within his own State as an enlisted man. In this case he was from North Carolina.

If I understand this correctly the 3rd Confederate Conscription Act on February 17, 1864 took men from agers 17 to 50 however those who were 17 and those over 45 were required to do duty within their own State.

I am assuming that if a soldier who was say 39 in 1862 and had enlisted for one year in 1861 that he could not be conscripted because of the 1st Confederate Conscription Act of April 16, 1862 but could volunteer to serve again in the same unit even if he was over the age limit.