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Gen'l Lee's construction of the Conscript law.

Gen. Robert E. Lee having been applied to for his opinion respecting the construction of the Conscript law, replies that by its express terms it subjects all persons who may be over the age of eighteen years at the time of any call for troops made by the President, to service, and persons attaining that age, at once become subject to military duty. Although the law contains us express privation as to the discharge of persons in service upon their attaining the age of thirty-five years, Gen. Lee is of opinion that such persons will become entitled to their discharge upon reaching that age, and their places will be supplied by others between eighteen and thirty-five years.

The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 30, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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