. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... THE ARREST Oif MAbUN AND ;^Lli)FLL ON THE BRITISH STEAMER TRENT. 6$^ THE CIVIL WAR. fear that the spring campaign would find theSouth without an adequate army unless morevigorous measures were resorted to. It wasexceedingly doubtful whether the troopsalready in the service would renew their en-listments, which expired in the spring of 1862., During the winter the Southern Congressadopted a law granting a furlough and a heavybounty to every soldier who would
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... THE ARREST Oif MAbUN AND ;^Lli)FLL ON THE BRITISH STEAMER TRENT. 6$^ THE CIVIL WAR. fear that the spring campaign would find theSouth without an adequate army unless morevigorous measures were resorted to. It wasexceedingly doubtful whether the troopsalready in the service would renew their en-listments, which expired in the spring of 1862., During the winter the Southern Congressadopted a law granting a furlough and a heavybounty to every soldier who would re-enlistfor the war. The furlough was to be grantedduring the winter; the bounty to be paid ata later period. Many of those who wenthome on these furloughs did so with theintention of remaining there; and the practi-. grants head-quarters near fort cal effect of the measure was to diminish thestrength of the Confederate armies. At lengththe Confederate Congress was driven by thenecessities of the situation to adopt a moststringent and sweeping measure. On thesixteenth of April, 1862, a conscription actwas passed, giving to the President of theConfederacy the power to call into the mili-tary service the entire male population of thevarious States between the ages of eighteenand thirty-five years. In September, 1862,a second act was passed extending the con-script age to forty-five years. The measure was acquiesced in by theSouthern people, but was never popular with them. It served the purpose for which it wkiintended, however, and enabled the Confed-erate Government to collect a force of severalhundred thousand men in the spring of 1862,and thus to fill up the ranks of its armies inthe field, and to retain the regiments alreadyin the service. When the spring opened, General Halleck,whose headquarte
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