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Official printed booklet of the Third Confederate Conscription Act, which was passed on February 17, 1864, six pages, 5.5 x 8.5, entitled “An Act to Organize Forces to Serve During the War.” This third act, unlike its two predecessors, enabled all men between “the ages of seventeen and fifty” eligible to be in the “military services of the Confederate States for the war.” The second section begins: “That all the person aforesaid, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, now in service, shall be retained, during the present war with the United States, in the same regiments, battalions and companies to which they belong at the passage of this act.” In very good to fine condition, with stains to the corners and hinge.
The Conscription Act of February 1864 ‘radically changed the whole system’ of selection by abolishing industrial exemptions and placing detail authority in President Jefferson Davis, who, by late 1864, was calling for more troops. ‘Our ranks are constantly diminishing by battle and disease, and few recruits are received; the consequences are inevitable.’ All exemptions were abolished and regiments were assigned to recruit conscripts ages 17–50, recover deserters, and repel enemy cavalry raids. Ultimately, conscription was a failure, and its main value was in goading men to volunteer. The Third Confederate Conscription Act represented the increasing desperation of the Confederate government to sustain its war effort in the face of mounting Union pressure and dwindling resources.
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