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This article describes how it was only a matter of time before the seasons turned to McClellan's favor and he moved to invade the South. By that time the twelve month enlistments will have started to expire, and focus shifts to how more men were…

This article emphasized the need for more volunteers and the re-enlistment of soldiers in the Confederate Army.

This article glorified the Confederate Army in the Battle of Shiloh.

This article essentially called for all men of the south to sacrifice all they have to protect their homes and avoid humiliation.

This article offered news on a new regiment of volunteers. The reader was assured that this particular regiment would serve the Confederacy honorably.

This article highlighted the fact that the burden of conscription laws fell most heavily on the poor, who were also the ones that needed to stay home to work the most. It ends by calling on the wealthy to help provide for the families left behind by…

This article was published the day Jefferson Davis signed the Conscription Acts. It explained what conscription meant to the citizens of the South and highlighted the fact that it was both unconstitutional and against the principles of the…

This short article briefly mentions the passing of the Conscription Act through the Confederate Senate, and that it was expected to pass through the House of Representatives with the provisions suggested by Jefferson Davis.

This is a list provided by the Weekly Raleigh Register that lists a considerable number of troops who had been reported as absent from their ranks. Its printing probably was intended to shame the soldiers into rejoining their companies, or to…