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The Union and the Confederacy armies instituted the first federal military draft in American history during the Civil War. In the wake of military losses and a shortage of soldiers, the Union resorted to a federal draft in March 1863, almost a year after the Confederacy. President Lincoln signed The Enrollment Act on March 3, 1863, requiring the enrollment of every male citizen and those immigrants who had filed for citizenship between ages twenty and forty-five. Federal agents established a quota of new troops due from each congressional district.

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well, the laws differ from the Union (North) and the Confederate States of America (south). Mostly on either side you could pay a substitute to go to war for you. In the south, if you owned 15 or more slaves, you did not have to go to war. in the north, free blacks were drafted as equal men, but of corse in the south slaves were not allowed guns, in fear they might revolt! Hope this helps! :)

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