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While these factions, despite their disagreements, were making valiant efforts to carry on the war, other factions were stealthily cutting the ground from under them. There were two groups of men ripe for disaffection original Unionists unreconciled to the Confederacy and indifferentists conscripted against their will. History has been unduly silent about these disaffected men.
And that is why I find them at the journey's end. But why did I bring them? For now they seem to be exactly what I would avoid they look like toil. And work, as these years have taught the observant, is but for slaves and the conscripted. It is never admired, except with a distant and haughty sententiousness, by the best people.
An official announcement was also made that the Bolsheviki government had decided to undertake without delay the reduction of the Russian armies, beginning with the release from their military duties of all citizen soldiers conscripted in 1899. The second "Liberty Loan" of the United States war bond issues was largely oversubscribed by the patriotic citizens of the country.
We had followed the successes and reverses of the flag of the Lost Cause through all these years of blood and strife. I was simply one of hundreds of thousands in the same fix. The tale is the same that every soldier would tell, except Jim Whitler. Jim had dodged about, and had escaped being conscripted until "Hood's raid," he called it.
They were from North Carolina, born and rais'd there, and had folks there. The elder had been in the rebel service four years. He was first conscripted for two years. He was then kept arbitrarily in the ranks. This is the case with a large proportion of the secession army. They thought of getting transportation away to Missouri, and working there; but were not sure it was judicious.
To appear at an assembly without a blooming tuft at the corsage or in the hair is to indicate that the family is in mourning, the mother sick or the lover conscripted. "With an exquisite natural sense, Bettina, daughter of a gardener, would never wear any flowers but wild ones.
Conscription is the product of a very old form of civilization, for if in China, for instance, you are conscripted to be hung or be beheaded, you are at liberty to hire a substitute. Conscription thus bears very heavily on the poor, while the idle rich can always escape service. With national service, rich and poor, prince, priest and pauper have to serve alike without exemption.
To have waived this privilege without first indicating that she knew La Fleur would acknowledge her possession of it, would have been damaging to Miss Panney. Upon the features of La Fleur, which were inclined to be bulbous, there now appeared a smile, which was very different from that with which she encouraged and soothed her conscripted assistants.
"Sire," said the poor woman between her sobs, "I am the mother of three children, whose father is conscripted by your Majesty; the children and the mother are in the deepest distress." "Monsieur," said his Majesty to some one of his suite, "make a note of this man's name; I will make him an officer."
This widow was quite bitter towards the Confederacy on account of her son having been conscripted, and she left alone, with no one to work her little farm or care for her children.
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