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- GLC#
- GLC08980.07-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- December 24, 1864 circa
- Author/Creator
- Confederate States of America. Congress
- Title
- A bill to be entitled an act to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia of the Confederate States, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Confederate States, and for calling them forth to execute the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 14 p. : Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 15 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Confederate act enrolling all able bodied men of in the army, except those that have special exemptions. Also details the organization and hierarchy of the Confederate army, lists those who are exempted from service, gives the President the power to call the militia.
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