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On April 16,1862, to effectively cope with the enormous superiority in numbers the northern population could put at disposal of the Union armies, the Confederate Congress passed the first Law on Conscription ever voted in America. Several amendments were approved on September 27, 1862, followed by the presidential proclamation. Based upon these acts, all free males aged from 18 and 45 years were mobilized for the military service in the Confederate Army.

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