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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Broderick will. (search)
petitioners are advised and believe; and that was, that all persons over the age of 35 years or under 18 years, who were, on the date of the law, "enrolled in the military service of the Confederate States, " should be discharged on the 16th day of July, 1862; and this without restriction, qualification or peradventure. These were the terms of the law. They were plain, unequivocal and mandatory. Commonsense — universal public opinion, concurring military, popular and official sentiment, thusvolunteered without the least idea of the passage of any such law. That law, without their solicitation, not only revoked and annulled the act of their volunteering, but, in distinct terms, released them from all military service after the 16th day of July, 1862, as a consideration to society and the different States for the unconditional, peremptory, and mandatory draft, which the same law made indiscriminately on the community. It in express terms released all over 35 years or under 18 years