. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . ody of a Confederate enrolling officer persons who hadbeen conscripted under the law of Congress.^ A test case was car-ried to the state supreme court, which decided that a person who hadconscientious ^^cruples against bearing arms might pay for a substi-tute in the state-militia and claim exemption from state service, but 1 Act, Aug. 29, 1863. 2 Dec. 13, 1864. This was a measure of obstruction, since the Confederate laws didnot exempt millers. The legislature elected in 1863 contained many obstructionists. 3 Act, Aug. 29, 1863. 4 Resolution, Dec. 4,
. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . ody of a Confederate enrolling officer persons who hadbeen conscripted under the law of Congress.^ A test case was car-ried to the state supreme court, which decided that a person who hadconscientious ^^cruples against bearing arms might pay for a substi-tute in the state-militia and claim exemption from state service, but 1 Act, Aug. 29, 1863. 2 Dec. 13, 1864. This was a measure of obstruction, since the Confederate laws didnot exempt millers. The legislature elected in 1863 contained many obstructionists. 3 Act, Aug. 29, 1863. 4 Resolution, Dec. 4, 1863. * Ex parte Hill, In re Willis et al. vs. Confederate States —38 Alabama Reports(1863), 429. All over the state at various times men sought to avoid conscription orsome certain service under every pretext, sometimes even resorting to a habeas corpus ■before an ignorant justice of the peace, -n\io had no jurisdiction over such cases. SeeO. R., Ser. I, Vol. XXVI, Pt. II, p. 139; also Governor Shorter to General Johnston,Aug., The First Confederate State Capitol, Montgomery. Montgomery Residence ofPresident Davis.
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