Many a conscript lay down supperless night after night beside the fire of his bivouac, to sleep away his hunger as best he could.
Nor did the knowledge that the general of his division was feasting upon sterlet and champagne make the hard, insufficient fare of the conscript more palatable.
It was natural that the young conscript should remember the old Guardsman who had befriended him in his hour of need far better than the Guardsman could remember the conscript.
No more singular sight was presented by all the war than the conscript depot at Richmond.
So the faro-banks flourished and the gamblers waxed fat like Jeshurun, the ass, and kicked never so boldly at the conscript man.
At first the border states, or those overrun by the enemy, gave few additions to the conscript camps.
None stayed behind but those really needed there by the Government, or that refuse class which had determined to dodge duty, but now failed to dodge "the conscript man.
Conscript fathers, matters are come to this, that we Campanians must be the property either of friends or enemies.
Can I be surprised," says he, "if your authority is of little weight, conscript fathers?
Conscript Fathers, let the consuls remonstrate with the tribunes to withdraw their prohibition.
Conscript Fathers," he said, "I call for a vote on the question of martial law.
Conscript Fathers, will you not consider the mild offers of Cæsar?
A conscript may have to suffer punishment although in the right, and is not allowed to protest his innocence against an officer until after he has completed his punishment.
The life of a conscript is more agreeable than most people in the Argentine Republic imagine it to be, although it has its disadvantages as well as its advantages.
Job's" amusing sketch on page 126 of the arrival of a rich conscriptat the caserne, adopts the evident and plausible view of the situation.
If an unworthy soldier procured admission, so soon as the mistake was discovered he was sent under guard as a conscript to the regular service.
He has chosen well, for this county is so cleaned of men it won't pay to send the conscript officers here.
The conscript camp was at Brookhaven, and every man had been ordered to report there or to be treated as a deserter.
In conscript armies, training for war is carried out with undeviating rigour.
This may be less in a hard-worked conscript army than in one which depends upon the attractions of the service to induce recruits to join.
At all events, we need only examine military history to find that with conscript armies wholesale shirking is far from unknown.
Even the youngest of such men are capable of good service, while the veterans are probably better soldiers than any to be found in conscript armies.
Hence the voluntary soldier must serve longer than a conscript in order to attain the same proficiency.
In a country in which recruiting is by voluntary enlistment the classification is, of course, very different from that prevailing in a conscript army.
In some countries, to be called a conscript or drafted man was considered a stigma, but not so in the South.
Walker was permanently disabled at Savage Station, returned home, was appointed in theconscript bureau, and never returned to active duty.
Many of the wounded had returned, and large bodies of men had come in from the conscript camps since the reorganization.
In that case they ran the risk of being shot by some bushwhacker or "stay outs," who avoided the conscript officer on one side and recruiting officer on the other.
These men would often go into hiding in the caves and gorges of the mountains, and defy all the tact and strategy of the conscript officers for months, and sometimes for years.
President Davis still clung to the delusion that by pressing the conscript act and bringing out all absentees, they could yet prolong the struggle, even if they had to cross the Mississippi and join with Kirby Smith.
The Conscript Act had been passed, making it obligatory on all, between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, to enter or remain in the army.
The Conscript Act was condemned in unmeasured terms in many places at the South, but its necessity and expediency was never doubted.
A great many companies volunteered in a body, not knowing at the time that the Conscript Act soon to be enacted would retain in service all between certain ages in the army, even after their time had expired.
The ranks had greatly diminished in numbers, and there was no expectation of their being recruited except from conscript camps and the return of absentees.
The conscript law of the Confederate government was in full force, and Bragg received from this source quite an accession to his army.
I was marching by the side of a soldier by the name of James Galbreath, and a conscript from the Mt.
A law had been passed by the Confederate States Congress called the conscript act.
Some of the rebels said he was a damned conscript that had run away from Forrest.
I have only described him so closely to make it very clear that he was driven to enlistment, that a less promising recruit never joined up, that he was a conscript in every real sense of the word.
I don't know how Gazaway got command of the conscript camp where he has been for the last year.
True it is, conscript fathers, that we have raised Sejanus from obscure, and almost unknown gentry" Sen.
If you, conscript fathers, with your children, be in health, it is abundantly well: we with our friends here are so.
Your wisdoms, conscript fathers, are able to examine, and censure these suggestions.
True it is, conscript fathers, that we have raised Sejanus from obscure, and almost unknown gentry Sen.
This code contains 193 regulations with numerous explanatory notes, with all of which the ordinary workman, who is a conscript in the fullest sense of the word, is presumed to be familiar.
No conscriptlegions flogged to arms Have yet flogged Volunteers!
Napoleon and the Conscript There is a well-known story told of Napoleon the First's time.
In one of the conscriptions, during one of his many wars, a man was balloted as a conscript who did not want to go, but he had a friend who offered to go in his place.
Owing to illness, and to business arising from the attainment of his majority, he came home in 1863, and, hiring a substitute when the conscript law was passed, went to work at the Passport Office in Atlanta.
The system practiced by the Romans after the conquest of a country was to conscript the young men into the army and send their legions to a distant frontier.
In the presence of a hostile people, speaking a foreign tongue, the raw conscript found his only safe course to be a faithful adherence to the Roman eagles.
They were informed that they would now come under theConscript Act, and that every man of them who was subject to service under that Act would be summarily conscripted unless he chose to re-enlist.
I'll conscript them as fast as a provost guard can catch them.
Even, if they re-enlisted under the provisions of the Conscript Act, how much better would they be than conscripts while bearing the name of volunteers?
Her reserves in men who could approach the continental field in, say, the first year, even under the most vigorous efforts, would never reach anything like the numbers that could be afforded by a conscript nation.
