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The Confederate Congress made several more amendments over the course of the war to address losses suffered in battle as well as the North's greater supply of manpower. In December 1863, they abolished the practice of allowing a rich drafted man to hire a substitute to take his place in the ranks. Substitution had also been practiced in the Northern states, leading to similar resentment from the lower classes. [17]

Challenges to the subsequent acts came before five state supreme courts; all five upheld them. [18]

17. ""Civil War Conscription Laws": November 15, 2012 by Margaret Wood."

18. Mississippi Law Journal (2000). "'Necessity Knows No Law': Vested Rights and Styles of Reasoning in the Confederate Conscription Cases" (PDF). Mississippi Law Journal. Mississippi..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army

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A 24 page chapter is devoted to this subject in

Albert Burton Moore's
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy,
Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1996

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