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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Six hundred Dollars reward. (search)
The people of the Confederate States are little aware of the extent to which the country has been imposed upon in the matter of details and exemptions. From good authority, we learn that an immense army — an army which, if enrolled, disciplined, and led by proper officers and a proper general, would be able to plant the Southern cross on the spires of Philadelphia before the ides of November--an army of one hundred and fourteen thousand men — seeks, and has secured, exemption from service as agriculturists — sneaking under that plea out of the defence of their country — leaving under that plea others to fight their battles for them — good Confederates, brave patriots, worthy citizens, delighted to hear of the brave deeds of our gallant army, provided they be not called on to share in the glory, willing to be free, provided it cost them nothing. One hundred and fourteen thousand men detailed as agriculturists, and all these of conscript age, in a population of five millions!