| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| November 5, 1864 |
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| The Conscription in Alabama |
| We find some interesting statistics in the
consolidated return of the registration law of Alabama, just completed under orders of the Conscript Bureau. It appears that
there are in that State 14,200 men who are fit for duty who are not in
the field. There are, besides these, 4,487 who are physically
disabled, and who we leave out of the statistics altogether. Of those
who are fit for the field, there are 5,099 exempted by law of
Congress, including 1,164 State officers, 1,315 overseers and
agriculturists, 585 ministers, 684 physicians, 291 school teachers,
163 newspaper employees, 445 railroad
employees, and a few others. The detailed men in the State number
2,547, and those in Government service 2,794; and in addition to
these, there is a list of "miscellaneous" details or
exemptions, numbering 971, in which we find that 492 men are put down
as "unclassified." *** |
| None of these statistics have reference to
the reserve forces, and only refer to the men between eighteen and
forty-five who were called out by the act passed two years ago by
Congress. |
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