Conscription

by John M. Sacher

Systems of conscription operated in the North and South

If you can read only one book:

Geary, James W., We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.; Moore, Albert Burton, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy. New York: Macmillan, 1924.

Books:

  • Bernstein, Iver, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  • Mitchell, Memory F., Legal Aspects of Conscription and Exemption in North Carolina, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.

  • Murdock,Eugene C., Patriotism Limited 1862-1865: The Civil War Draft and the Bounty System., Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1967.

  • Murdock,Eugene C., One Million Men: The Civil War Draft in the North. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971.

  • Carlson, David, “’The ‘Loanly Runagee’: Draft Evaders in South Georgia,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (winter 2000), 589-615.

  • Cashin, Joan E., “Deserters, Civilians, and Draft Resistance in the North,” in Joan E. Cashin, ed., The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton, 2002), 262-285.

  • Levine, Peter, “Draft Evasion in the North during the Civil War, 1863-1865,” Journal of American History 67 (March 1981), 816-34.

  • Sacher, John M., “‘A Very Disagreeable Business’: Confederate Conscription in Louisiana,” Civil War History 53 (June 2007), 141-169.

  • ————. “The Loyal Draft Dodger? A Reexamination of Confederate Substitution,” Civil War History 57 (June 2011), 153-178.

  • ————. Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021.

  • Shaw, William L., “The Confederate Conscription and Exemption Acts,” The American Journal of Legal History 6 (1962), 368-405.

  • Shelden, Rachel A., “Measures for a ‘Speedy Conclusion’: A Reexamination of Conscription and Civil War Federalism,” Civil War History 55 (December 2009), 469-498.

  • Van Zant, Jennifer, “Confederate Conscription and the North Carolina Supreme Court,” The North Carolina Historical Review 72 (1995), 54-75.

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