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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Uprising in the West--Salt manufacture — the Conscript law. (search)
lance, we discovered the beard on her face, and saw it was a man in disguise. They took him to Blacksburg, and he owned up that he was disguised so that he might pass the guard at that place, who have in custody some conscripts. He said he was bound to Giles county to see his brother. As he passed through town he pretended to open his bosom and suckle the baby. His name is Adams, from the lower part of Montgomery county, about five miles from Allegheny Springs, and is no doubt a deserter. He was taken in custody by the guard, and will be sent to Christiansburg. The Conscript law is not half executed in this section. I have been at the different Springs, where I saw men from all the States, who had left home to avoid the Conscript act; and unless the idea of Senator Wigfall is carried out, and all men from all the States made to show that they are not conscripts, thousands will evade the law. In Richmond there are more than two thousand conscripts not enrolled. Accomack.