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• “Posner contends, “Conscription could be described as a form of slavery, in the sense that a conscript is a person deprived of the ownership of his own labor.””

  Slavery is (Only) Taxation?

• “The best tactic for a new conscript is to challenge the old soldiers the first time they attack.”

  A Russian Soldier’s Story

• “In some countries, to be called a conscript or drafted man was considered a stigma, but not so in the South.”

  History of Kershaw's Brigade

• “A law had been passed by the Confederate States Congress called the conscript act.”

  "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show

• “The conscript might be a captain, a colonel, a general, before the Austrian or Prussian soldier could be a corporal.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845

• “The new senators were at first called conscript, and in the process of time the name was extended to the entire body.”

  Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.

• “[11] The senators were called conscript fathers, (patres conscripti,) either from their being enrolled on the censor's list, or more probably from the addition made to their numbers after the expulsion of the kings, in order to supply the places of those who had been murdered by Tarquin.”

  Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.

• “Veteran troops had a low enough opinion of the "conscript" as a genus; but they failed not to evince, by means more prompt than courteous, their thorough contempt for the "substitute.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “And Private Bunthrop, the despised "conscript," slung his bayoneted rifle over his wounded shoulder and commenced to scramble up out over the front of the broken parapet.”

  Action Front

• “But as time passed, and the great armies of the North were formed, it became necessary to force men into the ranks, to "conscript" them; and in 1862 an act of the Confederate Congress made all males from eighteen to thirty-five subject to military duty.”

  A School History of the United States

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