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April 1863 - What was the conscript law?

Otago Daily Times (newspaper) 15 April 1863 page 5
A refugee from Arkansas states that three hundred jayhawkers who defy the rebel conscript law are in the mountains of Clark County, while a thousand more were in Montgomery, openly defying the Rebels. They have been supplied with powder and lead by one of their number formerly engaged in the Rebel ordnance service.

What was the rebel conscript law?
Who was their leader?

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