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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
t constituted, with the co-operation of a physician and a commissioner, a revising board. A provost-marshal-general was established at Washington for the purpose of centralizing all the labor through the medium of assistant provost-marshals-general, directed to take post at State capitals. Principal cities.—Ed. Exemptions could only be decided upon by the revising board. The new census—which for this reason admitted of no exceptions—was made to serve as the basis of conscription from July 2, 1863, whenever, to complete the levies voted by Congress, a deficiency in the number of volunteers rendered drafting necessary. It will be remembered that up to this time these levies could only take effect through voluntary enlistments. The quota of each State had been fixed in proportion to its entire population. At first, the required number of these contingents had been exceeded, but such was not the case in regard to the great levies of 1862. Certain States, although fully credited wi<